Faculty and Staff
An Accomplished and Accessible Faculty
The Department’s stature in political science is reflected in the quality and reputation of its faculty. The Department's faculty have extensive records of producing high impact, theoretically and methodologically rigorous research. Faculty have published nearly 40 books, more than 100 book chapters, and over 200 articles in scholarly journals. More than a third of the articles are in journals ranked among the top 25 in Political Science.
Faculty
Philip Arena
Assistant Professor. International Politics
PhD, Penn State University
parena@buffalo.edu
716-645-8444
James Coleman Battista
Assistant Professor. American Politics.
Ph.D., Duke University
jbattist@buffalo.edu
716-645-8445
Assistant Professor. International Politics.
Ph.D., Claremont Graduate School
716-645-8448
Assistant Professor. Public Law.
Ph.D., Washington University, St. Louis
716-645-8439
James E. Campbell
Professor. American Politics.
Department Chair
Ph.D., Syracuse University
jcampbel@buffalo.edu
716-645-8452
Associate Professor. International Politics.
Ph.D., University at Buffalo, SUNY
vesna@buffalo.edu
716-645-8443
Dinissa S. Duvanova
Assistant Professor. Comparative Politics.
Ph.D., Ohio State University
duvanova@buffalo.edu
716-645-8437
Joshua J. Dyck
Assistant Professor. American Politics.
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Ph.D., University of Maryland
jdyck@buffalo.edu
716-645-8435
Professor. Comparative Politics.
Ph.D., University of California, Irvine
eagles@buffalo.edu
716-645-2711
Stephen Halpern
Professor. Public Law.
Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
shalpern@buffalo.edu
716-645-8446
Gregg B. Johnson
Assistant Professor. Comparative Politics.
Ph.D., Arizona University
gbj2@buffalo.edu
716-645-8438
Charles M. Lamb
Professor. Public Law.
Ph.D., University of Alabama
clamb@buffalo.edu
716-645-8441
Research Professor and Professor of Law.
Ph.D., University of California, Irvine
lmather@buffalo.edu
716-645-5541
Franco Mattei
Associate Professor. American Politics.
Ph.D., Florence
mattei@buffalo.edu
716-645-8451
Harvey D. Palmer
Associate Professor. American and Comparative Politics.
Director of Graduate Studies
Ph.D., University of Rochester
716-645-8449
Jason Sorens
Assistant Professor. Comparative and International Politics.
Ph.D., Yale University
jsorens@buffalo.edu
716-645-8436
Claude E. Welch, Jr.
SUNY Distinguished Service Professor. Comparative Politics.
Ph.D., Oxford University
cwelch@buffalo.edu
716-645-8434
Frank C. Zagare
UB Distinguished Professor. International Politics.
Ph.D., New York University
fczagare@buffalo.edu
716-645-8442
Instructors
Kristin L. Campbell
Voluntary Adjunct
kcampbel@buffalo.edu
716-645-8447
Bryan Dettrey
716-645-8430
Tasha Lavey
716-645-8450
Fait Muedini
716-645-8431
Diane Oyler
716-645-8447
Lisa K. Parshall
Voluntary Adjunct
lkp@buffalo.edu
lparshal@daemen.edu
716-645-8447
Visiting Scholar
Mark J. Chadsey
Spring 2010
Associate Professor, SUNY College at Brockport
Emeritus Faculty
Richard H. Cox
Professor Emeritus
Ancient and Modern Political Philosophy, the relationship of Political Philosophy to poetry and history, American Constitutionalism.
Ph.D., University of Chicago
Paul R. Diesing
Professor Emeritus
Political Philosophy, Social Science Research Methodology, Empirical Political Processes, Hegel's Political Philosophy, Marxism since 1920.
Ph.D., University of Chicago
Frederic J. Fleron, Jr.
Professor Emeritus
Comparative Politics, Politics of the USSR and Russia, Political Culture and the Politics of Technology.
Ph.D., Indiana
ffleron@buffalo.edu
John C. Lane
Professor Emeritus
Western European Politics, Comparative Political Institutions, Comparative Constitutional Law, Maltese Elections.
Ph.D., Columbia University
Donald B. Rosenthal
Professor Emeritus
American Politics, Urban Politics, Public Policy, Federalism.
Ph.D., University of Chicago
Jerome Slater
Professor Emeritus
International politics, American Foreign Policy, and International Security.
Ph.D., Princeton University
jnslater@buffalo.edu
Robert H. Stern
Professor Emeritus
Constitutional Law, Civil Liberties, American Political Thought.
Ph.D., Harvard University
Staff
Senior Staff Assistant
For a roster of the Department's faculty since its creation in 1962, see the Department's history page.