William Julius Wilson is an American sociologist,a professor at Harvard University,and an author of works on urban sociology,race,and class issues. Laureate of the National Medal of Science,he served as the 80th President of the American Sociological Association,was a member of numerous national boards and commissions. He identified the importance of neighborhood effects and demonstrated how limited employment opportunities and weakened institutional resources exacerbated poverty within American inner-city neighborhoods.
Giovanni Sartori was an Italian political scientist who specialized in the study of democracy,political parties,and comparative politics.
Steven Muller was a German-American professor of political science,author,and the president of the Johns Hopkins University,serving from 1972 to 1990.
Juan JoséLinz Storch de Gracia was a German-born Spanish sociologist and political scientist specializing in comparative politics. He was Sterling Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Political Science at Yale University and an honorary member of the Scientific Council at the Juan March Institute. He is best known for his work on authoritarian political regimes and democratization.
The School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) is the international affairs and public policy school of Columbia University,a private Ivy League university located in Morningside Heights,Manhattan,New York City. It is consistently ranked as one of the leading graduate schools for international relations in the world. SIPA offers Master of International Affairs (MIA) and Master of Public Administration (MPA) degrees in a range of fields,as well as the Executive MPA and PhD program in Sustainable Development.
Guillermo Alberto O'Donnell Ure was a prominent Argentine political scientist who specialized in comparative politics and Latin American politics. He spent most of his career working in Argentina and the United States,and who made lasting contributions to theorizing on authoritarianism and democratization,democracy and the state,and the politics of Latin America. His brother is Pacho O'Donnell.
Ira I. Katznelson is an American political scientist and historian,noted for his research on the liberal state,inequality,social knowledge,and institutions,primarily focused on the United States. His work has been characterized as an "interrogation of political liberalism in the United States and Europe—asking for definition of its many forms,their origins,their strengths and weaknesses,and what kinds there can be".
Richard Rose is a political scientist,author,and academic whose comparative studies in social science have significantly influenced political science and public policy in both practice and theory. He is a Professor and Director of the Centre for the Study of Public Policy at the University of Strathclyde (UOS) in Scotland,and is a Visiting Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre of the European University Institute and the WZB Berlin Social Science Center.
Alfred C. Stepan was an American political scientist specializing in comparative politics and Latin American politics. He was the Wallace S. Sayre Professor of Government at Columbia University,where he was also director of the Center for the Study of Democracy,Toleration and Religion. He is known for his comparative politics research on the military,state institutions,democratization,and democracy.
Steven R. David is Professor of International Relations at Johns Hopkins University. He specializes in international politics and security issues.
Lee D. Baker is an American cultural anthropologist,author,and Duke University faculty member. He is the Mrs. A. Hehmeyer Professor of Cultural Anthropology,African &African-American Studies,and Sociology. He served as Duke's Dean of Academic Affairs and Associate Vice Provost from 2008 to 2016. He taught at Columbia University from 1997 to 2000. Baker has authored two books and more than sixty academic articles,reviews,and chapters related to cultural anthropology,among other fields.
Beverly Wendland is the Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at Washington University in St. Louis.
David Rueda is professor of comparative politics at Nuffield College,University of Oxford who researches comparative political economy,the welfare state and labour market policy. He is an editor of the Socio-Economic Review.
Stephen Lawrence Morgan is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Education at the Johns Hopkins University School of Arts and Sciences and Johns Hopkins School of Education. A quantitative methodologist,he is known for his contributions to quantitative methods in sociology as applied to research on schools,particularly in models for educational attainment,improving the study of causal relationships,and his empirical research focusing on social inequality and education in the United States.
Denis Wirtz is the vice provost for research and Theophilus Halley Smoot Professor of Engineering Science at Johns Hopkins University. He is an expert in the molecular and biophysical mechanisms of cell motility and adhesion and nuclear dynamics in health and disease.
Seymour Michael "Mike" Miller (1922–2021) was an economic-political sociologist,activist,and emeritus professor of sociology at Boston University.
Jenny Pribble is an Professor of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Richmond.
Stephen Gange is an American statistician,epidemiologist,and academic administrator of Johns Hopkins University. He is a professor of epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and has a joint appointment in the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
Evan S. Lieberman is the director of the Center for International Studies (CIS) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,the Total Professor of Political Science and Contemporary Africa,and the faculty director for the MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives (MISTI) and the Global Diversity Lab (GDL). Lieberman is an E-GAP network member,a Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) fellow,and co-coordinator of the Boston-area Working Group on African Political-Economy (BWGAPE).
