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Political Science

Von KleinSmid Center 327
(213) 740-6998
FAX: (213) 740-8893
Email: posc@usc.edu
www.usc.edu/dept/polsci

Chair: Howard Gillman, Ph.D.*

Email: gillman@usc.edu

Faculty

USC Associates Chair in Social Science: Mark E. Kann, Ph.D.*

Professors: Terry Cooper, Ph.D. (Policy, Planning and Development); Ann Crigler, Ph.D.; Richard H. Dekmejian, Ph.D.; Mary Dudziak, J.D. (Law); Susan Estrich, J.D. (Law); James Ferris, Ph.D. (Policy, Planning, and Development); Elizabeth Garrett, J.D. (Law); Tom Gilligan, Ph.D. (Marshall School of Business); Howard Gillman, Ph.D.*; Elizabeth Graddy, Ph.D. (Policy, Planning and Development); Harlan Hahn, Ph.D.; Nora Hamilton, Ph.D.; Thomas Hollihan, Ph.D. (Annenberg School for Communication); Sheldon Kamieniecki, Ph.D.*; John Matsusaka, Ph.D. (Finance and Business Economics); Dan Mazmanian, Ph.D. (Policy, Planning, and Development); Edward McCaffery, J.D. (Law); Glenn Melnick, Ph.D. (Policy, Planning, and Development); Michael B. Preston, Ph.D.*; Alison D. Renteln, Ph.D.*; Stanley Rosen, Ph.D.*; Eliz Sanasarian, Ph.D.*; Edwin Smith, J.D. (Law); Matthew Spitzer, J.D. (Law); Shui Yan Tang, Ph.D. (Policy, Planning, and Development); Priscilla Wohlstetter, Ph.D. (Rossier School of Education)

Associate Professors: Sharon Lloyd, Ph.D. (Philosophy); Juliet Musso, Ph.D. (Policy, Planning and Development); Leland Saito, Ph.D. (Sociology); Marita Sturken, Ph.D. (Annenberg School for Communication)

Assistant Professors: John E. Barnes, Ph.D.; Ricardo Ramirez, Ph.D.; Jefferey M. Sellers, Ph.D.; Apichai Shipper, Ph.D.; Janelle Wong, Ph.D.

Adjunct Assistant Professor: Robin Romans, Ph.D.

Emeritus Professors: Herbert E. Alexander, Ph.D.; Carl Q. Christol, Ph.D., L.L.B., L.L.D. (Hon.)*; John R. Schmidhauser, Ph.D.; George O. Totten III, Ph.D.; C. Sylvester Whitaker, Ph.D.

Emeritus Associate Professor: Joseph L. Nyomarkay, Ph.D.*

*Recipient of university-wide or college teaching award.

The Department of Political Science divides political science into four broad fields: American politics, political thought, comparative politics, and law and public policy. The department offers regional specialization in six areas: Latin America, East Asia, Western Europe, Russia and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. The Jesse M. Unruh Institute of Politics provides local internships for students as part of their course work or as independent study (see page 403).

Degree Programs

The Department of Political Science offers the B.A., minors in political science, law and society and race, ethnicity and politics and, under the jurisdiction of the Graduate School, M.A. and Ph.D. degrees. In addition, the department offers a dual degree with the USC Gould School of Law.