Hans Peter Schmitz
Assistant Professor, Political Science
Ph.D., European University Institute, 1999
International relations, non-state actors, human rights, regime change, Eastern Africa

Larry Schroeder
Professor, Public Administration
Maxwell Professor of Teaching Excellence
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1971
Local government finance, tax analysis, financial management in developing countries

Michael Schneider
Professor of Practice, International Relations
Director, Maxwell-Washington International Relations Program
Ph.D., The American University, 1978
Foreign policy decision-making, public dimensions of international affairs, global issues

Richard D. Schwartz
Professor Emeritus, Sociology and Law
Ph.D., Yale University, 1952
Law and society, public administration and legal process, criminal law, problems in regulation

Maureen T. Schwarz
Associate Professor, Anthropology
Ph.D., University of Washington, 1995
Native American philosophy and history, gender, ethnicity, material culture, aesthetics

Milton C. Sernett
Professor, History and African American Studies
Ph.D., University of Delaware, 1972
African American religious history, slavery and abolition

James Roger Sharp
Professor, History
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1966
American political history, early national and middle period, 1789-1860

Kenneth A. Shaw
University Professor, Social Science
Chancellor Emeritus, Syracuse University
Ph.D., Purdue University, 1966
Minority relations, organizational behavior, group dynamics

Jeremy Shiffman
Associate Professor, Public Administration
Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1999
Public health and population policy in developing countries, politics of policy-making in developing countries

Theresa A. Singleton
Associate Professor, Anthropology
Ph.D., University of Florida, 1980
Historical archaeology, African American history and culture, slavery in plantation America

Timothy M. Smeeding
Professor, Economics and Public Administration
Director, Center for Policy Research
Associate Dean for Sponsored Research
Maxwell Professor of Public Policy
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1975
Social welfare policy, income distribution, comparative social policy, health care finance

Gary Spencer
Associate Professor Emeritus, Sociology
Ph.D., Boston University, 1969
Prejudice and discrimination, ethnic inequalities, dramaturgy, qualitative sociology

David H. Stam
University Librarian Emeritus, History
Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1978
Bibliography, book history, library history, nineteenth-century England, philanthropic history

William C. Stinchcombe
Professor, History
Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1967
American diplomatic history, Revolutionary War

Jeffrey M. Stonecash
Professor and Chair, Political Science
Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1975
Political parties, electoral behavior, state politics, and intergovernmental relations

Jeffrey D. Straussman
Professor and Chair, Public Administration
Associate Dean
Maxwell Professor of Teaching Excellence
Ph.D., City University of New York, 1978
Public budgeting, public management, administration reform in developing and transitional countries

John Scott Strickland
Associate Professor, History
Ph.D., University of North Carolina, 1984
American South; African American religion and culture; United States social history, 1700-1900

Heidi J. Swarts
Assistant Professor, Political Science
Ph.D., Cornell University, 2002
Social movements, religion and American politics

Brian D. Taylor
Assistant Professor, Political Science
Ph.D., M.I.T., 1998
Comparative politics, Russian politics

Laurence Thomas
Professor, Political Science and Philosophy
Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, 1976
Political theory, foundations of moral character

Margaret Susan Thompson
Associate Professor, History and Political Science
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1979
Modern American history, government and politics, religion, women's history

Stuart J. Thorson
Professor, Political science and international science
Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1972
Information technology policy, international relations, political theory and methodology

John M. Townsend
Professor, Anthropology
Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara, 1972
Medical and psychological anthropology, theory and methodology, cross-cultural mental health, human sexuality, ethnic relations, symbolic interaction, United States, Germany

Mary Tschirhart
Associate Professor, Public Administration
Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1993
Nonprofit management and leadership, public organizations

A. Dale Tussing
Professor, Economics
Ph.D., Syracuse University, 1964
Health economics, poverty, Marxian economics

Walter Ullmann
Professor Emeritus, History
Ph.D., University of Rochester, 1961
East European history, Czechoslovakia

Margaret L. Usdansky
Assistant Professor, Sociology
Ph.D., Princeton University, 2004
Demography, single-parent families and work-family balance

Cecilia Van Hollen
Assistant Professor, Anthropology
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley and University of California, San Francisco, 1998
Cultural anthropology, medical anthropology, reproduction, gender, development, nationalism, HIV/AIDS, South Asia

David M. Van Slyke
Assistant Professor, Public Administration
Ph.D., University of Albany, State University of New York, 1999
Public and nonprofit management

Susan S. Wadley
Professor, Anthropology
Ford-Maxwell Professor of South Asian Studies
Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1973
Social change, demography, religion, folklore, performance studies, gender issues, India

Mitchel B. Wallerstein
Professor, Political Science and Public Administration
Dean
Ph.D., M.I.T., 1978
National security, international science and technology policy, transnationalism and the role of civil society, global regime change, global governance 

Hongying Wang
Assistant Professor, Political Science
Ph.D., Princeton University, 1996
East Asian politics and political economy, international relations, interactions between domestic and international politics

Michael J. Wasylenko
Professor, Economics
Senior Associate Dean
Ph.D., Syracuse University, 1975
Public finance, public finance in developing countries, urban economics

Stephen Saunders Webb
Professor, History
Maxwell Professor of History and Social Science
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1965
Early American and Anglo-American history, the Iroquois

John C. Western
Professor, Geography
Maxwell Professor of Teaching Excellence
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1978
Social, cultural, and political geography, comparative urbanization, Southern Africa, Europe

William M. Wiecek
Professor, History
Chester Adgate Congdon Professor of Law
LL.B., Harvard University, 1962; Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1968
Legal history, constitutional law

Peter Wilcoxen
Associate Professor, Public Administration and Economics
Director, Center for Environmental Policy and Administration
Ph.D., Harvard University, 1989
Natural resource and environmental economics

Janet Wilmoth
Associate Professor, Sociology
Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, 1995
Sociology of aging, demography, health

Robert M. Wilson
Assistant Professor, Geography
Ph.D., University of British Columbia, 2003
American and Canadian environmental history, historical geography, history of Western North America

Jamie L. Winders
Assistant Professor, Geography
Ph.D., University of Kentucky, 2004
Race, ethnicity, gender, migration

Douglas A. Wolf
Professor, Public Administration
Gerald B. Cramer Professor of Aging Studies
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1977
Aging and public policy, population studies, quantitative methods, microsimulation

Elaine M. Wolf
Research Associate Professor, Sociology
Ph.D., Temple University, 1984
Criminal justice system, program evaluation, chemical dependency

John M. Yinger
Trustee Professor of Economics and Public Administration
Ph.D., Princeton University, 1974
State and local government finance (especially education), urban policy (especially racial and ethnic discrimination in housing)

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