Our academic staff

Dr Sergio Ascencio

Lecturer, Department of Government

Dr David Axelsen

Senior Lecturer, Department of Government

Dr Nicole Baerg

Senior Lecturer, Department of Government

Dr Zorzeta Bakaki

Senior Lecturer, Department of Government

Research interests: International Relations; The quantitative and qualitative analysis of conflict management and resolution; International cooperation; Environmental politics

Dr Ryan Bakker

Reader, Department of Government

Professor John Bartle

Professor, Department of Government

Research interests: Public opinion; Voting behaviour; British politics; British political parties; The British judiciary.

Dr Allyson Benton

Faculty Dean Postgraduate (Social Sciences) - Reader, Department of Government

Research interests: Political Budget Cycles; International Political Economy; Economic Voting; Comparative Political Economy

Professor Tobias Bohmelt

Professor, Department of Government

Dr Diane Bolet

Lecturer, Department of Government

Professor Paul Bou-Habib

Professor, Department of Government

Research interests: contemporary theories of distributive justice; the just distribution of resources between age groups; the role of the concept of dignity in normative political theory

Professor Royce Carroll

Director of Summer Schools and Short Courses - Professor (R), Department of Government

Research interests: Political Institutions; Political Parties; Quantitative study of ideology and political attitudes

Dr James Christensen

Senior Lecturer, Department of Government

Research interests: Analytic political theory; Global justice; Trade justice; The ethics of the arms trade

Professor Han Dorussen

Professor, Department of Government

Research interests: The relationship between trade and conflict; the use of economic policies in international politics; peacekeeping operations and the governance of post-conflict societies; policy convergence in the European Union.

Professor Lawrence Ezrow

Professor, Department of Government

Research interests: political representation; parties' election strategies; political institutions

Professor Carolina Garriga

Professor, Department of Government

Research interests: International Political Economy; Comparative Political Economy; Central banks; Foreign direct investment; International cooperation/International institutions

Professor Faten Ghosn

Head of Department - Professor (R), Department of Government

Professor Ismene Gizelis

Professor, Department of Government

Research interests: International conflict and cooperation; Empirical study of peacekeeping and post-conflict reconstruction; Social institutions and conflict management; Empirical study of gender and conflict

Professor Kristian Gleditsch

Professor, Department of Government

Research interests: International Conflict and Cooperation; Intrastate Conflict, Protest, and Mobilization; Mathematical and Statistical Models; Democratization;

Professor Jason Glynos

Professor, Department of Government

Research interests: political philosophy; Lacanian and post-Marxist discourse theory; philosophy and methodology of social science; post-structural approaches to political and policy studies; theories of democracy and ideology; grammars of freedom and equality in contemporary political discourse; cultures and discourses of the economy

Dr Alexandra Hennessy

Senior Lecturer, Department of Government

Professor David Howarth

Professor, Department of Government

Dr Sotirios Karampampas

Lecturer, Department of Government

Research interests: Political Violence; Social Movements; Contentious Politics; Protest Politics; Political Sociology; Radicalisation

Dr Florian Kern

Reader (R), Department of Government

Research interests: comparative politics; mixed methods inference; formal theory; field research design; Sub-Saharan Africa; indigenous governance; public goods provision

Dr Prabin Khadka

Lecturer, Department of Government

Dr Filip Kostelka

Senior Lecturer, Department of Government

Research interests: Democratisation; Political Behaviour; Party systems; Elections

Dr Seonghui Lee

Senior Lecturer, Department of Government

Professor Natasha Lindstaedt

Professor, Department of Government

Research interests: Authoritarian Regimes; International Development; Third World Politics

Professor Moya Lloyd

Professor, Department of Government

Research interests: The politics of the human; The work of Judith Butler; The politics of the body; Agency and resistance; Human Rights

Dr Rabia Malik

Lecturer, Department of Government

Professor Shane Martin

Dean of Postgraduate Research and Education - Professor (R), Department of Government

Research interests: Legislative Politics; Comparative European Politics; Public Policy; Irish Politics

Dr Akitaka Matsuo

Lecturer, Department of Government

Dr Laura Montanaro

Senior Lecturer, Department of Government

Research interests: political representation; social theory; contemporary political thought; critics of liberalism; democratic theory

Dr Brian Phillips

Reader (R), Department of Government

Research interests: Civil conflict; Terrorism; Organised crime

Dr Sara Polo

Senior Lecturer, Department of Government

Research interests: Terrorism; Civil Conflict; Political Violence; Spatial Analysis of Conflict; Peacekeeping

Dr Tom Quinn

Senior Lecturer, Department of Government

Research interests: UK party leadership elections; the Labour Party, including links with trade unions; party organisation and intra-party democracy; strategic positioning of British political parties; UK party system

Dr Marius Radean

Senior Lecturer, Department of Government

Research interests: Comparative Politics.; International Relations.

Professor Gina Yannitell Reinhardt

Professor, Department of Government

Research interests: DrReinhardts work examines how decision-making under uncertainty affects the distribution of wealth in society.; She focuses her work on the political economy of foreign aid, economic and social development, and the political and policy implications of disasters. This pursuit has drawn her inquiry in fascinating directions.; She has studied race, trust, and migration; the construction of trust by the media across levels of government; and how the allocation of foreign aid conditions its performance effectiveness.; DrReinhardt also researches political methodology, and applies established models to new problems and topics.; Her work on survey measures, experimental design, and signalling games has been seen inPolitical Analysis,theJournal of Risk Research, and the Journal of Theoretical Politics.

Dr Nelson Ruiz

Senior Lecturer (R) (Leverhulme Early Career Fellow), Department of Government

Dr Daniele Saracino

Lecturer (DAAD), Department of Government

Julius Schneider

Lecturer, Department of Government

Dr Miranda Simon

Senior Lecturer, Department of Government

Dr Martin Steinwand

Senior Lecturer, Department of Government

Dr Laura Sudulich

Reader, Department of Government

Dr Isabella Trifan

Lecturer, Department of Government

Dr Brenda Van Coppenolle

Lecturer, Department of Government

Dr Jimena Vazquez Garcia

Lecturer, Department of Government

Dr Ximena Velasco Guachalla

Lecturer, Department of Government

Professor Reed Wood

Professor, Department of Government

Dr Roi Zur

Lecturer, Department of Government

Dr Patricia Danahey

Senior Research Officer, Department of Government

Dr Patrick Lown

Senior Research Fellow (EssexLab Manager), Department of Government

Research interests: Public Opinion of Social Welfare Politics; Meritocratic Beliefs and Ideology; Empathy; Survey and Experimental Research Methodology; Envirionmental values and behavior

Victor Porto Almeida

Research Officer, Department of Government

Dr Dragana Vidovic

Senior Research Officer, Department of Government

Dr Lasma Kokina

Fixed Term Teacher, Department of Government