Frederick Boehmke

Frederick J. Boehmke

Title/Position
Professor
Marvin and Rose Lee Pomerantz Chair in Political Science
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

Douglas Dion

Title/Position
Associate Professor
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

David Greenwood-Sanchez

Title/Position
Postdoctoral Research Scholar
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.
Timothy Hagle

Timothy M. Hagle

Title/Position
Associate Professor
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

Kelly M. Kadera

Title/Position
Associate Professor
Kelly Kadera is an Associate Professor of Political Science and studies conflict processes and dynamic modeling.
Brian Lai

Brian Lai

Title/Position
Department Chair
Associate Professor
Nicholas Martini

Nicholas Martini

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

Ronald K. McMullen

Title/Position
Associate Professor of Practice
Ron McMullen is the University of Iowa’s Ambassador in Residence and teaches a variety of courses on comparative politics, diplomacy, and international politics.
Elizabeth Menninga

Elizabeth Menninga

Title/Position
Associate Professor
Sara Mitchell

Sara Mitchell

Title/Position
F. Wendell Miller Professor
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

Tracy Osborn

Title/Position
Director of Graduate Studies
Associate Professor
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

Julianna Pacheco

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

Elise Pizzi

Title/Position
Associate Professor
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

William M. Reisinger

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

Tom W. Rice

Title/Position
Professor
Rene Rocha

Rene Rocha

Title/Position
Professor
Herman J. and Eileen S. Schmidt Chair
Director of Latina/o/x Studies
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

Frederick Solt

Title/Position
Associate Professor
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

Caroline J. Tolbert

Title/Position
Professor
University Distinguished Chair
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

Marina Zaloznaya

Title/Position
Associate Professor
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.