Affiliated Faculty

IGS has an interdisciplinary core faculty from political science, sociology, public policy, law, business, and history. Our faculty members lead seminars, organize conferences, and implement their research with the support of the Institute.

Dan Schnur

Continuing Lecturer

Department of Political Science

UC Berkeley

Jasjeet Sekhon

Robson Professor of Political Science and Statistics

Department of Political Science

Director, Center for Causal Inference and Program Evaluation

UC Berkeley

Research Interests:

Program Evaluation, Statistical and Computational Methods, Causal Inference, Elections, Public Opinion, American Politics

Jonathan Simon

Adrian A. Kragen Professor of Law

Director, Center for the Study of Law and Society

BerkeleyLaw

UC Berkeley

Sarah Song

Professor of Law and Faculty Director

Kadish Center for Morality, Law and Public Affairs, BerkeleyLaw

Associate Professor of Political Science

Department of Political Science

UC Berkeley

Research Interests:

contemporary political and legal philosophy, the history of American political thought, and immigration & citizenship law

Shannon Stimson

Professor Emerita

Department of Political Science

University of California, Berkeley

Website:

http://polisci.berkeley.edu/people/person/shannon-stimson

Laura Stoker

Associate Professor

Department of Political Science

University of California, Berkeley

Research Interests:

National Elections, Public Opinion, Research Design, Statistical Methods

Website:

http://polisci.berkeley.edu/people/person/laura-stoker

Professor Stoker received her Ph.D. in 1990 from the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on the development and change of political beliefs, attitudes, and behavior, and employs data drawn from surveys and experiments. Specific topics include the moral, group, and self-interested basis of citizens' opinions on public policies; sources of short- and long-run change...

Robert Van Houweling

Associate Professor

Department of Political Science

University of California, Berkeley

Research Interests:

Congress, Political Parties, Voting Behavior, Spatial Models of Candidate Competition, Experimental Methods

Professor Van Houweling studies political behavior and legislative institutions in the United States. Both aspects of his research are driven by an interest in better understanding the representational linkages between electorates and officeholders. He received his B.A. in political science from the University of Michigan in 1993 and his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2003....