Frederick Boehmke is a Professor of Political Science, Marvin and Rose Lee Pomerantz Chair in Political Science, and Director of the Iowa Social Science Research Center in the Public Policy Center. His research focuses on the effect of direct democracy on interest groups.

Douglas Dion is an Associate Professor of Political Science. He is primarily interested in the intersection of formal models, democratic theory and American political history.

David Greenwood-Sanchez is a Postdoctoral Research Scholar at the University of Iowa, and recently completed his Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Tim Hagle is an Associate Professor of Political Science and political expert. He provides insight into how the caucuses work and how Iowans are responding to candidates and their campaign strategies.

Kelly Kadera is an Associate Professor of Political Science and studies conflict processes and dynamic modeling.

Nicholas Martini is a Lecturer and Director of Undergraduate Studies. His research focuses on the intersection of international relations and political behavior.

Ron McMullen is the University of Iowa’s Ambassador in Residence and teaches a variety of courses on comparative politics, diplomacy, and international politics.

Sara McLaughlin Mitchell is the F. Wendell Miller Professor of Political Science and the College of Law (courtesy appointment) at the University of Iowa.

Tracy Osborn is an Associate Professor of Political Science. Her research focuses on women and politics in U.S. state legislatures, Congress, and political behavior.

Julianna Pacheco is a Professor of Political Science. Her research explores political behavior, public opinion, state and local politics, and health policy.

Elise Pizzi is an Associate Professor of Political Science. Her primary research focuses on public goods provision in developing countries, specifically the local politics of drinking water provision in rural China.

William M. Reisinger is Professor of Political Science. His research concerns politics in the former communist states, especially Russia.

Rene Rocha is a Professor of Political Science and a leading scholar of race, ethnicity, and politics in the United States. His primary areas of specialization are immigration policy and voting rights.

Frederick Solt is an Associate Professor of Political Science. His primary research interests are in comparative politics and focus on the consequences of economic inequality for political attitudes and behavior.

Caroline Tolbert is a Professor of Political Science and University Distinguished Chair. She is the author/coauthor of eight books, as well as dozens of articles in scholarly journals. Her research explores voting, elections, public opinion and representation widely defined.

Marina Zaloznaya joined the University of Iowa's Political Science department in 2021, but she has been on the Sociology faculty since 2012. Dr. Zaloznaya’s research explores public sector corruption, political behavior, and gender in non-democratic regimes from a range of methodological perspectives, including ethnography, survey methods, comparative-historical, and network analyses.