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Dr Thomas Gift, CUSP Director
Associate Professor in Political Science
Thomas’s research and teaching interests include US politics, public policy, and applications of survey and experimental methods.
Dr Julie Norman, Foreign Policy Lead
Associate Professor in Politics & International Relations
Julie’s research and teaching interests include international relations, US foreign policy, security, political violence, polarization, and political protest.
Professor Gareth Davies
Professor in American History
Gareth's research has focussed variously on the history of the US welfare state, the political legacy of the 1960s, and on attempting to explain governmental growth in a persistently anti-statist political culture.
Dr Jared Finnegan
Lecturer in Public Policy
Jared's research investigates how governments, voters, and business understand and address long-term societal challenges, particularly climate change.
Dr Katie Gaddini
Associate Professor of Sociology
Katie's current research investigates the race-religion-nationalism nexus in the United States.
Dr Melanie Garson
Senior Teaching Fellow in International Conflict Resolution & Security
Melanie's research and teaching interests include international negotiation and mediation, emerging technologies and the future of conflict in a digital age, cyberwarfare, and US foreign policy.
Dr Nadia Hilliard
Associate Professor in US Politics
Nadia’s research focuses on the themes of accountability and state building in the American political development (APD) tradition.
Dr Jeffrey Howard
Associate Professor in Political Theory
Jeffrey writes and teaches about a variety of topics in contemporary political and legal philosophy, especially concerning crime and punishment, freedom of expression, and counter-terrorism.
Dr Brian Klaas
Associate Professor in Global Politics
Brian is an expert on democracy, authoritarianism, US foreign policy, American politics more generally, political violence, and elections.
Reverend Professor Keith Magee
Senior Fellow in Culture and Justice
Keith's research and teaching interests include social justice, civil rights, and voting rights and the intersection of US race, religion, and politics.
Dr Jonathan Monten
Associate Professor in Political Science
Jonathan's research and teaching interests are in the areas of international relations, international security, and US foreign policy.
Dr Michael Plouffe
Lecturer in International Political Economy
Michael's work on the US focuses on trade policy, both in the politics behind its formation and its effects across the economy.
Dr Colin Provost
Associate Professor in Public Policy
Colin’s research focuses on regulation through litigation in the American states, specifically on the role of state attorneys general in enforcing state and federal laws in consumer protection, competition (antitrust), and finance.
Dr Mitch Robertson
Associate Lecturer in US History
Mitch's research focuses on modern political history of the United States, with a particular emphasis on the role played by non-elected actors in the US political system.
Prof Andy Rudalevidge
Honorary Professor
Andy is an expert in American political institutions, especially the modern presidency, the executive branch, and interbranch relations.
Visiting Research Fellows
Dr Tom Packer
Research Fellow at Institute of the Americas
Tom's research and teaching interests include US politics, elections, US Conservatism, and US history broadly defined.