Graduate Faculty

Jane E. Fountain, Distinguished Professor and Department Chair, B.Mus., Boston Conservatory, 1977; Ed.M., Harvard, 1982; M.A., Yale, 1986; M.Phil, 1988; Ph.D., 1990.

Amel F. Ahmed, Associate Professor, B.A., Dartmouth, 1996; Ph.D., Pennsylvania, 2006.

Roberto Alejandro, Professor, B.A., Puerto Rico, 1977; M.A., Princeton, 1986; Ph.D., 1989.

Sonia Alvarez, Professor, A.B., Smith, 1978; M.A., Yale, 1979; M.Phil., 1980; Ph.D., 1996.

Maryann Barakso, Associate Professor, B.A., Barnard, 1990; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001.

Angelica Bernal, Assistant Professor, B.A., Wellesley, 1998; Ph.D., Yale, 2008.

Scott Blinder, Assistant Professor, A.B., Princeton, 1993; M.A., Chicago, 1996; Ph.D., Chicago, 2004.

Brenda Bushouse, Associate Professor, B.A., Kalamazoo, 1988; M.P.A., Syracuse, 1992; Ph.D., Indiana, 1998.

Charli Carpenter, Professor, B.A., New Mexico State, 1996; M.A., 1998; Ph.D., Oregon, 2003.

Paul M. Collins, Jr., Professor and Director of the Program in Legal Studies, B.S., Scranton, 2000; M.A., New York at Binghamton, 2003; Ph.D., 2005.

Barbara R. Cruikshank, Associate Professor, B.A., California at Berkeley, 1984; Ph.D., Minnesota, 1993.

Carlene J. Edie, Professor, B.A., California at Los Angeles, 1977; M.A., 1979; Ph.D., 1984.

Alan Gaitenby, Senior Lecturer, B.S., Massachusetts at Amherst, 1987; M.B.A., 1989; Ph.D., 2000.

Sheldon Goldman, Distinguished Professor, B.A., New York University, 1961; M.A., Harvard, 1964; Ph.D., 1965.

Justin Gross, Assistant Professor, A.B., Brown, 1995; M.S., Salem State, 2004; M.S., Carnegie Mellon, 2006; M.Phil., 2007; Ph.D., 2010.

Peter M. Haas, Professor, B.A., Michigan, 1977; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1986.

Rebecca Hamlin, Assistant Professor, B.A., Chicago, 2000; Ph.D., California at Berkeley, 2009.

John A. Hird, Professor & Dean, College of SBS, B.A., Dickinson, 1980; M.A., Virginia, 1982; Ph.D., Berkeley, 1988.

Leila Kawar, Assistant Professor, A.B., Harvard, 1998; M.Sc., London School of Economics, 2000; Ph.D., New York University, 2009.

Raymond La Raja, Professor, A.B., Harvard, 1987; M.P.P., 1992; Ph.D., California at Berkeley, 2001.

Lauren McCarthy, Associate Professor, B.A., Wesleyn, 2001; Ph.D., Wisconsin at Madison, 2011.

Robert Paul Musgrave, Assistant Professor, B.A., Indiana, 2004; M.A., University College Dublin, Ireland, 2005; Ph.D., Georgetown, 2014.

Tatishe M. Nteta, Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director, B.A., Maryland, 1998; M.A., California at Berkeley, 2000; Ph.D., 2006.

Timothy Pachirat, Assistant Professor, B.A. Wheaton, Illinois, 1999; M.A., Yale, 2001;  M.Phil., Yale, 2003; Ph.D., 2008.

M.J. Peterson, Professor, B.A., Upsala, 1971; M.A., Columbia, 1973; Ph.D., 1976.

Jesse Rhodes, Associate Professor and Undergraduate Program Director, B.A., Juniata, 2003; M.A., Virginia, 2005; Ph.D., 2008.

Douglas Rice, Assistant Professor, B.A., Elizabethtown, 2005; M.A., Villanova, 2008; M.A., Pennsylvania State, 2010; Ph.D., 2013.

Dean Robinson, Associate Professor, A.B., Stanford, 1988; M.A., Yale, 1991; Ph.D., 1995.

Meredith Rolfe, Assistant Professor, B.A., Duke, 1993; M.A., Chicago, 1996; Ph.D., Chicago, 2005.

Jamie Rowen, Assistant Professor, B.A., California at Berkeley, 2004; J.D., 2009; Ph.D., 2012.

Frederic Schaffer, Professor, B.A., Bucknell, 1984; Ph.D., California at Berkeley, 1994.

Brian Schaffner, Professor, B.A., Georgia, 1997; Ph.D., Indiana, 2002.

Elizabeth Sharrow, Assistant Professor, B.A., Minnesota, 2002; M.P.P., 2009; M.A., 2010; Ph.D., 2013.

Regine Spector, Assistant Professor, B.A., Stanford, 1999; M.A., 1999; M.A., California at Berkeley, 2003; Ph.D., 2009.

Leah Wing, Senior Lecturer, B.A., Oberlin, 1984, M.Ed., Massachusetts at Amherst, 1991; Ed.D., 2002.

Nicholas Xenos, Professor, B.A., New York University, 1972; M.A., Michigan, 1974; Ph.D., Princeton, 1984.

Kevin Young, Assistant Professor, B.A., Trent, Canada, 2003; M.A., Carleton, Canada, 2005; M.Res, London School of Economics, 2006; Ph.D., 2010.

Faculty Emeriti
Dean Alfange, Jr., Professor Emeritus, (1999).
Gerard Braunthal, Professor Emeritus (1988).
Stephen P. Coelen, Professor Emeritus (2004).
Eric S. Einhorn, Professor Emeritus (2009).
Edwin Andrus Gere, Jr., Professor Emeritus (1990).
Glen Gordon, Professor Emeritus (2002).
Franklin W. Houn, Professor Emeritus (1990).
Irving Howards, Professor Emeritus (1988).
Fred A. Kramer, Professor Emeritus (2002).
Guenter Lewy, Professor Emeritus (1985). 
Lewis C. Mainzer, Professor Emeritus (1996).
Jerome M. Mileur, Professor Emeritus (2004).
Patricia Mills, Professor Emerita (2006).
Felix Oppenheim, Professor Emeritus (1983).
Karl W. Ryavec, Professor Emeritus (2002).
Robert A. Shanley, Professor Emeritus (1994).
George T. Sulzner, Professor Emeritus (2006).
Anwar H. Syed, Professor Emeritus (1997).
Howard J. Wiarda, Professor Emeritus (2004)

© 2017 University of Massachusetts Amherst • Site Policies
This page is maintained by UMass Amherst Information Technology.