
Effective Fall 2024: Applications for the IERQM听program will no longer be accepted, as the curriculum is integrated into a听reimagined degree beginning in Fall 2025. These changes will not affect current students who will complete the program as expected.
Department Chair

Research interests
- Comparative democratization
- Political and economic听institutions
- Authoritarianism in Africa
Department Director of Graduate Studies
Jennifer Poole Associate Professor SIS | Politics, Governance & Economics
Research interests
- Global integration on local labor markets
- Information transfer in trade听
- Labor institutions
Core Faculty

Daniel Bernhofen Professor SIS | Politics, Governance & Economics
Research interests
- Applied microeconomics
- Global economic history
- Market integration in听Japan and China

Claire Brunel Associate Professor SIS | Politics, Governance & Economics
Research interests
- Environmental economics
- International trade
- Effects of environmental regulation

Derrick Cogburn Professor SIS | Environment, Development & Health
Research interests
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Global information听technology and policy听听
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Sociotechnical infrastructure
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Computational text mining听

Keith Darden Associate Professor SIS | Politics, Governance & Economics
Research interests
- Politics of Eurasia
- National loyalties and state-building
- Insurgency

Austin Hart Associate Professor SIS | Politics, Governance & Economics
Research interests
- Democratic accountability
- Quantitative statistical methods
- Data analysis in IR

Randall Henning Professor SIS | Politics, Governance & Economics
Research interests
- Politics of economic policymaking
- International regime complexity
- Comparative political economy

Robert Koopman Hurst Senior Professorial Lecturer SIS | Politics, Governance & Economics
Research interests
- Applied economic research
- Global economy and trade
- Comparative economic systems听

Research interests
- Time series econometrics
- Monetary and fiscal听policies
- Analysis of economic survey data
Research interests
- Development economics
- Natural resource management issues
- Applied micro-econometric
Affiliated Faculty


Anna Amirkhanyan Professor SPA | Public Administration

Frank Armour Assistant Professor KSB | Information Technology & Analytics

Olga Cordero-Brana Senior Professorial Lecturer CAS | Math and Statistics



Meagan Snow Adjunct Professorial Lecturer SIS | General Academics & Research
