The University of New Mexico is a public research university in Albuquerque,New Mexico. Founded in 1889 by the New Mexico Territorial Legislature,it is the state's second oldest university,one of the two flagship university in the state,and the largest by enrollment,with over 25,400 students in 2021.
Comparative politics is a field in political science characterized either by the use of the comparative method or other empirical methods to explore politics both within and between countries. Substantively,this can include questions relating to political institutions,political behavior,conflict,and the causes and consequences of economic development. When applied to specific fields of study,comparative politics may be referred to by other names,such as comparative government.
Theda Skocpol is an American sociologist and political scientist,who is currently the Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology at Harvard University. She is best known as an advocate of the historical-institutional and comparative approaches,as well as her "state autonomy theory". She has written widely for both popular and academic audiences. She has been President of the American Political Science Association and the Social Science History Association.
Giovanni Sartori was an Italian political scientist who specialized in the study of democracy,political parties,and comparative politics.
Jon Elster is a Norwegian philosopher and political theorist who holds the Robert K. Merton professorship of Social Science at Columbia University.
The New Mexico Lobos are the athletic teams that represent the University of New Mexico,located in Albuquerque. The university participates in the NCAA Division I in the Mountain West Conference (MW) since 1999,after leaving the Western Athletic Conference. The university's athletic program fields teams in 16 varsity sports.
Jocelyn Benson is an American academic administrator,attorney,and politician serving as the 43rd Secretary of State of Michigan since 2019. A member of the Democratic Party,she is a former dean of Wayne State University Law School,a co-founder of the Military Spouses of Michigan,and a board member of the Ross Initiative in Sports for Equality. Benson is the author of State Secretaries of State:Guardians of the Democratic Process.
Suzanne Doris Berger is an American political scientist. She is the Raphael Dorman and Helen Starbuck Professor of Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and director of the MIT International Science and Technology Initiative. A leading authority in comparative politics and political economy,she has pointed to the centrality of politics in mediating and redirecting ostensibly transcendent forces,such as economic modernization and globalization.
Rena Torres Cacoullos is an American linguist known for her work on language variation and change,as well as her research on processes of grammaticalization and the linguistic outcomes of language contact. She is currently Professor of Spanish Linguistics in the Department of Spanish,Italian,and Portuguese at the Pennsylvania State University.
F. Chris Garcia is an educator,scholar,researcher,author,public opinion pollster and higher education administrator. From 2002-2003,he served as the president of University of New Mexico. Garcia was the first native New Mexican Hispanic to serve as a college dean,academic vice-president and president at the University of New Mexico.
Lynn Vavreck is an American political scientist and columnist. She is the Marvin Hoffenberg Chair in American Politics and Public Policy at University of California,Los Angeles and a contributing columnist to The New York Times.
Krista Eileen Wiegand is an American political scientist. She is a full professor of Political Science and Director of the Global Security Program at the Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy at the University of Tennessee. She also was the Co-Editor-in-Chief of the journal International Studies Quarterly until the end of 2023.
Elizabeth N. Saunders is an American political scientist. She is a professor of political science at Columbia University,a non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution,and an editor of The Washington Post's Monkey Cage blog. She is known for her research examining the domestic politics of U.S. foreign policy and the foreign policy behavior of leaders.
Tracie C. Collins is an American academic,physician,and government official serving as the Secretary of Health of New Mexico. Prior to her confirmation by the New Mexico Senate on February 19,2021,Collins was the dean of the University of New Mexico College of Population Health.
Cecilia Hyunjung Mo is currently an associate professor of Political Science at the University of California - Berkeley. She focuses her work and research on a number of issues including American Politics,Comparative Politics,Political Behavior,as well as Public Policy. A majority of her work is focused on the research methods and models surrounding bounded rationality,and other models of decision making.
Jasjeet "Jas" Singh Sekhon is a data scientist,political scientist,and statistician at Yale University. Sekhon is the Eugene Meyer Professor at Yale University,a fellow of the American Statistical Association,and a fellow of the Society for Political Methodology. Sekhon's primary research interests lie in causal inference,machine learning,and their intersection. He has also published research on their application in various fields including voting behavior,online experimentation,epidemiology,and medicine.
Edl Schamiloglu is an American physicist,electrical engineer,pulsed power expert,inventor,and distinguished professor in the department of electrical and computer engineering at the University of New Mexico. He has been known in public media for his expertise in the design and operation of directed-energy weapons. He is also known for his assessment on the possible origins of alleged health damages presumably caused on U.S. embassy personnel in Cuba in 2016 as part of the Havana syndrome incident. He is the associate dean for research and innovation at the UNM School of Engineering,where he has been a faculty since 1988,and where he is also special assistant to the provost for laboratory relations. He is also the founding director of the recently launched UNM Directed Energy Center. Schamiloglu is a book author and co-editor,and has received numerous awards for his academic achievements. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the American Physical Society.
Keren Yarhi-Milo is an American political scientist specializing in the study of interstate communication,crisis bargaining,reputation and credibility,and the psychology of leaders and decision makers. She is the dean of the School of International and Public Affairs,Columbia University and the Adlai E. Stevenson Professor of International Relations at Columbia University. She is also a former director of the Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies at Columbia.
Robert S. Erikson is a political scientist who specializes in American politics. He is a professor of political science at Columbia University.
