Government Faculty

Government Faculty

Podlich Family Professor of Government and George R. Roberts Fellow

B.A., Williams College; M.A., Stanford University; Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania

Teaching:

Russian & East European Politics, EU and NATO Enlargement, International Political Economy, Democratic Transitions, Theories of Ideology, Comparative Political Economy

Research:

Russian and East European Politics, EU and NATO Enlargement, Capitalist Transition in Eastern Europe, Democratic Institution Building, Corruption and Politics, Ideology and Politics, International Financial Institutions

Phone: (909) 607-1491
Donald C. McKenna Professor of Government and Economics

B.A., University of Michigan; M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale University

Teaching:

Public policy of economic development, natural resources, and the environment

Research:

Economic development and resource policy in developing countries; environmental policy process; policymaking in international organizations; political psychology

Phone: (909) 607-3071
Fletcher Jones Professor of Political Philosophy

A.B., Ph.D., Harvard University

Phone: (909) 607-3232
Weinberg Associate Professor of International Relations and the Middle East and George R. Roberts Fellow
Associate Professor of Government

B.A., Stanford University; M.A. and Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

Phone: 909-607-0490
Professor of Government, Dr. Jules L. Whitehill Professor of Humanism and Ethics

Ph.D., Political Science, University of Southern California

M.A., Political Science, University of Southern California

B.A., Philosophy, Santa Clara University

B.S., Political Science, Santa Clara University

Teaching:

Political Philosophy; American Political Thought; African American Political Thought; Politics & Film

Research:

American Political Thought; African American Political Thought; Politics & Film

Phone: 909-607-3392
Alice Tweed Tuohy Professor of Government and Ethics

B.A., Grinnell College; M.Sc., London School of Economics & Political Science; A.M., Harvard University; Ph.D., Harvard University

Phone: (909) 607-2110
Pamela B. Gann Associate Professor of Government and George R. Roberts Fellow

B.A., Emory University; M.A. and Ph.D, Harvard University

Teaching:

American Politics, Urban Politics and Policy, Racial and Ethnic Politics, Crime, and Punishment

Research:

African American Politics, Crime and Crime Policy, Identity Politics, Urban Political Theory, Class and Economic Inequality, American Political Development

Phone: 909-607-3868
Dengler-Dykema Distinguished Professor of Government
A.B., A.M., Ph.D., Harvard University
Phone: (909) 607-3984
Associate Professor of Government

B.A. from Boston College; Master of Public Policy from University of Michigan; Ph.D. in Political Science from University of Michigan

Phone: (909) 607-3798
Rose Professor of State and Local Government & Director of the Rose Institute

B.A., Pomona College; J.D., Harvard Law School; Ph.D, University of California at Berkeley

Teaching:

American politics; California politics; Constitutional law

Research:

State politics and policy; constitutional law; direct democracy (initiative, referendum, recall); polarization

Phone: (909) 607-7575
Assistant Professor of Government

Ph.D., Global Governance and Human Security, University of Massachusetts Boston

M.S., International Studies, Sciences Po Bordeaux

B.S./M.S., Politics and International Cooperation, University of the West Indies

B.S., Political Science, Université des Antilles

Phone: (909) 607-3228
Associate Professor of Government

B.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of Chicago; Assistant, Associate Professor, Trinity College; Research Fellow, La Fondation Saint-Simon, Paris, France; Visiting Professor, University of Kiev-Mohyla, Ukraine.

Phone: (909) 607-1950
Associate Professor of Government

B.A., Claremont McKenna College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Virginia

Teaching:

Introduction to American Politics, American political history, American political institutions, political leadership

Research:

American Political Development, patriotism, 19th century statebuilding

Tom and Margot Pritzker '72 Professor of Government and George R. Roberts Fellow

B.A., Shanghai International Studies University; M.A. and Ph.D, Harvard University

Teaching:

Comparative Politics,Chinese Politics,Democracy in Developing Countries

Research:

Chinese Foreign Policy,Politics of Economic Reform,Political Institutions and Governance in China,Democratization,U.S.-China Relations

Phone: (909) 607-4225
Roy P. Crocker Professor of Politics

B.A., Union College; M.A., M. Phil., Ph.D., Yale University

Teaching:

American politics: Congress, presidency, parties, public policy, media politics, political leadership (Nixon).

Research:

Congress, presidency, political organizations and parties, autism policy, popular culture and mass media.

Phone: (909) 607-4224
Alice Tweed Tuohy Associate Professor of Management and Government

B.A., Swarthmore College; Ph.D., Harvard University

Teaching:

American politics, public policy, research methods

Research:

Federalism, budget policy, health policy, social welfare policy

Phone: (909) 607-3387
Professor of Government

B.A., University of California, Santa Barbara; Ph.D., University of Virginia

Teaching:

American Politics, American Culture Wars, Free Speech on Campus

Research:

American Conservatism, Politics of Higher Education, Religion and Politics

Phone: (909) 607-7070
Wagener Family Professor of Comparative Politics and George R. Roberts Fellow

B.A. Lady Shri Ram College (New Delhi, India), M.A. JNU (New Delhi, India), M.Phil. JNU, (New Delhi, India); Ph.D Cornell University, USA.

Teaching:

India; South Asia; India's Rise in the Global System; Social Movements; Comparing India and China; Development; Introduction to Comparative Politics

Research:

Comparative Politics; Political Economy of Development; India-China Comparisons; Subnational Development; Federalism; International Organizations; Globalization and Emerging Powers.

Phone: (909) 607-3856
Associate Professor of Government and International Relations

B.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles.

Teaching:

International Relations, U.S. Foreign Policy, Security Studies, War, Identity and IR

Research:

U.S. foreign policy as related to both military action and anticipated outcomes, balancing behaviors internationally, stability operations, identity and international relations

Phone: x73599
Burnet C. Wohlford Professor of American Political Institutions

B.A., University of Utah; Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Assistant Professor, Williams College.

Teaching:

American Constitutionalism, Comparative Constitutionalism, American Political Thought and Development

Research:

American Constitutionalism, Constitutional Theory, American Political Thought and Development

Phone: (909) 607-2911
Professor of Government

Ph.D. in Political Science, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, University of Geneva, Switzerland; Course certificate, International Graduate School, University of Stockholm, Sweden; Licence in Political Science, University of Ghent, Belgium; Licence in Diplomatic Science, University of Ghent, Belgium

Phone: (909) 607-8031
Assistant Professor of Government

Visiting Faculty

Visiting Assistant Professor of Government
Associate Professor of the Practice

M.A., Ph.D. Government, University of Virginia, 2008 B.A. Government, Claremont McKenna College, 1999

Teaching:

Public policy, American citizenship, American democracy, American political parties.

Research:

Public policy, democracy, political parties, American constitutionalism

Phone: (909) 607-6724
Visiting Professor of Government
Phone: 909-607-0348
Visiting Lecturer of Government

B.A., Pomona College; Knight-Wallace Fellow, University of Michigan (one year); Kiplinger Fellow in Digital Media and Public Policy, Ohio State University (six months)

Visiting Professor of Government
Teaching:

Paul Manuel has over twenty-five years of experience with college-level teaching, student advising, program management, and development. He has taught a wide range of undergraduate and graduate courses in comparative politics, comparative public policy, international relations, and leadership, and supervised many graduate-level capstone projects.

Research:

Manuel’s scholarship has contributed to the democratization literature in Portugal, with a focus on religion and politics. He has authored, co-authored, or edited twelve books and numerous scholarly articles. Manuel has also participated in the Varieties of Democracy Project and served on the National Screening Panel for the Graduate Fulbright Competition in Spain and Portugal (Iberia).  

Visiting Assistant Professor of Government
Phone: 909-607-3184

Emeritus Faculty

Alice Tweed Tuohy Professor Emeritus of Government and Ethics

B.S., Boston College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Chicago

Teaching:

Presidency and the Constitution, Crime and public policy, Ethics and American democracy

Research:

Presidency and the Constitution, Capital punishment, Deliberation and democracy

Phone: (909) 607-3989
Philip M. McKenna Professor Emeritus of the Pacific Rim

B.A., M.A., George Washington University; Ph.D., University of Arizona

Teaching:

Mexican Politics, Religion and Politics in Latin America, Civil-Military Relations in Latin America, Comparative Elites

Research:

Survey Research in Democracy in Mexico and the United States, Civil-Military Relations in Mexico, Mexican Leadership and Elites, Mexican Politics, Religion and Politics in Mexico

Phone: (909) 607-4138
CMC President Emerita and Trustee Professor of Legal Studies Emerita
A.B., Mathematics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; J.D., Duke University, LL.D., Claremont McKenna College
W. M. Keck Foundation Professor Emeritus of International Strategic Studies

A.B., A.M. Stanford University; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University

Research:

International security and general foreign policy issues, including arms control, great power relations, U.S.-European relations, U.S. policy in the Middle East, terrorism.

Bank of America Professor Emeritus of Pacific Basin Studies and Professor of Government
B.A., Seoul National University; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Roy P. Crocker Professor Emeritus of American History and Politics
A.B., A.M., Ph.D., Stanford University
Teaching: American Constitutional History; Recent American Politics; Introductory U.S. History
Research: War, Foreign Relations, and the U.S. Constitution; the Constitutional History of Race in the United States
Phone: (909) 607-2931
Associate Professor of Government

B.A., University of Michigan; M.A., University of Missouri; Ph.D., University of California, Riverside

Teaching:

Organization of Health Care, Inequality and Public Policy, Political and Social Movements, Juvenile Delinquency and Public Policy

Research:

Aging and public policy Politics of health care, Medicare and Social Security; Inequality and the middle class; Occupational structure and workplace trends; The Next American Dream

Phone: (909) 607-3799
Edward S. Gould Professor Emeritus of Humanities

A.B., Columbia University; M.A., Ph.D., Ohio State University; Ph.D., Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute

Teaching:

Politics in America, Crises in Presidential Leadership, Law and Literature, Politics and Literature, American Literature, in Claremont Graduate University, Pragmatism: Dewey to the Present, Ethics and Leadership

Research:

Biography, Literature, Psychoanalysis, American Government, Globalism

Phone: (909) 607-3184
Professor Emeritus of Government, Dr. Jules L. Whitehill Emeritus Professor of Humanism and Ethics

B.A., Yale College, 1966; study in Paris, 1969-1970; Ph.D., Cornell University, 1971. Andrew Dickson White Fellow; Earhart Fellow; Danforth Fellow.

Teaching:

Political Philosophy. Freshman Humanities Seminar. Political Economy, Foreign Policy, Rhetoric.

Research:

Ancient political philosophy. The relationship of philosophy and history, for example in the case of Tacitus. Political economy. International relations and foreign policy.

Phone: (909) 607-3453
Salvatori Professor Emeritus of American Constitutionalism

B.A., Concordia College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Chicago

Teaching:

Constitutional Law, The American Founding, Federalism, Federal Indian Law, Criminal Procedure

Research:

Currently working on "Samuel Alito and Judicial Minimalism: An Appellate Court Judge on the Supreme Court."