Badi H. Baltagi
Distinguished Professor of Economics
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1979
Econometrics

William C. Banks
Professor, Public Administration and Law
Director, Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism
Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor for Teaching Excellence
J.D., University of Denver, 1974
Comparative legal systems, domestic and international terrorism,
emergency powers, covert war powers, problems of official corruption,
civil/military relations, appropriations powers

Michael Barkun
Professor, Political Science
Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1965
Millenarian and utopian movements, radical right, international law

Subho Basu
Assistant Professor, History
Ph.D., University of Cambridge, 1994
Modern South Asian history, labor history, history of contemporary social movements, nationalism and post colonial politics

Jacob Bendix
Associate Professor, Geography
Ph.D., University of Georgia, 1992
Biogeography, geomorphology, human impacts on environmental systems, media coverage of environment

David H. Bennett
Professor, History
Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor for Teaching Excellence
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1963
Political extremism in America, 20th-century American history, modern military history

James P. Bennett
Associate Professor, Political Science
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1978
International relations theory and methodology

Pablo Beramendi
Assistant Professor, Political Science
Ph.D., Nuffield College, University of Oxford, 2003
Federalism, income inequality

Catherine Ann Bertini
Professor of Practice, Public Administration
B.A., State University of New York at Albany, 1971
International and nonprofit organizations, humanitarian relief, economic and social development, hunger and food policy

Guthrie S. Birkhead
Professor Emeritus, Political Science and Public Administration
Ph.D., Princeton University, 1951
Metropolitan studies, comparative administration, ethics, intergovernmental relations

Dan A. Black
Trustee Professor, Economics
Ph.D., Purdue University, 1983
Labor economics, public economics, applied econometrics

Lloyd A. Blanchard
Assistant Professor, Public Administration
Ph.D., Syracuse University, 1999
Public finance, budgeting, education policy, urban policy

Edwin A. Bock
Professor Emeritus, Political Science and Public Administration
B.A., Dartmouth College, 1943
Political and administrative leadership, executive politics, national planning, government, mass media, the arts

Robert C. Bogdan
Distinguished Professor, Sociology and Cultural Foundations of Education
Ph.D., Syracuse University, 1971
Qualitative methodology, disability studies, visual sociology

G. Matthew Bonham
Professor, Political Science
Chair, International Relations Program
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1967
International relations, foreign policy decision-making, international negotiation, methodology, discourse analysis, e-government

Susan R. Borker
Associate Professor, Sociology
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1971
Quantitative methods, sex and gender, work and labor force issues, health care

Mehrzad Boroujerdi
Associate Professor, Political Science
Ph.D., American University, 1990
Middle East, comparative politics, international relations

Richard G. Braungart
Professor Emeritus, Sociology
Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, 1969
Political sociology, political psychology, collective behavior and social movements

Steven R. Brechin
Professor, Sociology
Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1989
Environmental sociology, natural resources, environmental policy

Stuart I. Bretschneider
Professor, Public Administration
Director, Center for Technology and Information Policy
Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor for Teaching Excellence
Ph.D., Ohio State University, 1981
Quantitative methods, computers, information management

John W. Briggs
Associate Professor, History and Education
Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1972
American immigration history, history of education

Arthur C. Brooks 
Associate Professor, Public Administration
Ph.D., RAND Graduate School of Policy Studies, 1998 
Nonprofit sector economics and management, cultural policy, policy modeling

Stuart S. Brown
Professor, Economics and International Relations
Ph.D., Columbia University, 1985
International economics, macroeconomics, emerging markets, political economy

Hans C. Buechler
Professor, Anthropology
Ph.D., Columbia University, 1966
Culture change, migration, urban problems, political anthropology, Andes, Latin America, Spain, Switzerland

John S. Burdick
Associate Professor, Anthropology
Director, Program on Latin America and the Caribbean
Associate Director, Program on the Analysis and Resolution of Conflicts
Ph.D., City University of New York, 1990
Religious movements, politics, gender, medical, African Americans, Brazil, Latin America

Joan N. Burstyn
Professor, History and Education
Ph.D., University of London, 1968
History of women in British and American education, history of higher education

Keith J. Bybee
Associate Professor, Political Science
Michael O. Sawyer Chair in Constitutional Law and Politics
Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, 1995
Public law, American politics, the politics of race, legal theory, and political philosophy

Horace Campbell
Professor, Political Science and African American Studies
Ph.D., Sussex University, 1979
Comparative politics of Africa and the Caribbean, African international relations, armaments culture, pan Africanism, peace studies, political economy

Linda Carty
Associate Professor, Sociology
Associate Professor and Chair, African American Studies
Ph.D., University of Toronto, 1989
Race, class, and gender studies; comparative sociology; international development post-colonial discourse; third world feminism

A.H. Peter Castro
Associate Professor, Anthropology
Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara, 1988
Applied anthropology, rural development policy and planning, environmental conflict management, forestry, food security, refugees, East Africa

Craige B. Champion
Associate Professor, History
Ph.D., Princeton University, 1993
Hellenistic Greece, Greek democracy and republican Rome, ancient imperialism, ethnic identity formation in classical antiquity, the politics of culture in ancient Greece and Rome, classical historiography

Matthew R. Cleary
Assistant Professor, Political Science
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2004
Latin American politics, comparative political economy, democratization

Andrew Cohen
Associate Professor, History
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1999
Legal history, American labor history, 20th century American history