Omar G. Encarnación, program chair
Professsor of Political Studies, Ph.D., Princeton University

Teaching and Research Interests: Comparative democratization; especially authoritarian legacies, political economy, and civil society; Iberian and Latin American politics, and U.S.-Latin American Relations.
Office: Aspinwall 209
Office hours:Tue. 4:00-6:00 PM
Phone: 845-758-7230
E-mail: encarna@bard.edu

Sanjib Baruah,
Professor of Political Studies, Ph.D., University of Chicago 

Teaching and Research Interests: National and sub-national conflicts in India; politics, history and culture of India’s northeast frontier region; transnational ties in the border region across India, Burma and China
Office: Aspinwall 105
Office hours:Tue. 1:30-3:30
Phone: 845-758-7204
E-mail: baruah@bard.edu

Jonathan Becker,
Associate Professor of Political Studies, Ph.D., Oxford University  

Teaching and Research Interests: Soviet, Russian, and East European politics and history;US/Russian relations; comparative politics; media and politics; comparative media systems.
Office: Annandale 110
Office hours:Fri. 9:30-10:30 and 11:30-12:30
Phone: 845-758-7378
E-mail: jbecker@bard.edu

Roger Berkowitz,
Assistant Professor of Political Studies and Human Rights, Ph.D. University of California-Berkeley; J.D., University of California-Berkeley 

Teaching and Research Interests: Political theory, law and human rights with an emphasis on the ethical activity of justice.
Office: Seymour 102
Office hours:Tue. 3:00-4:00, Wed. 2:00-4:00
Phone: 845-758-7413
E-mail: berkowit@bard.edu

Jonathan Cristol,
 Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Studies, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Bristol

Teaching and Research Interests:  International Relations; Middle Eastern politics.

David Kettler,
Research Professor, Ph.D., Columbia University 

Teaching and Research Interests: Political theory and history of political and social thought: Eighteenth-century Scottish Enlightenment; Weimar German legal and political thought; theory of ideology; Karl Mannheim and sociology of knowledge; the political theory of labor regimes; rule of law and selected problems in legal theory; constitutional politics

For more information visit this site: http://www.bard.edu/contestedlegacies/kettler/

Office: Fairbairn 306
Office hours:by appointment
Phone: 845-758-7294 (office); 845-876-5293 (home)
E-mail: kettler@bard.edu

Mark Lindeman,
Assistant Professor of Political Studies, Ph.D., Columbia University 

Teaching and Research Interests: American politics, particularly: public opinion and "American values", democratic responsiveness, public deliberation on policy issues, environmental politics, anti-poverty policy, U.S. religious politics, prejudice and tolerance, U.S. foreign and military policy
Office: Aspinwall 212
Office hours:Tue. 10:00-12:00, Thu. 10:00-12:00, and by appointment
Phone: 845-758-7284
E-mail: lindeman@bard.edu

Pierre Ostiguy,
Assistant Professor of Political Studies, Ph.D., University of California-Berkeley 

Teaching and Research Interests:

Party systems, political cleavages; Latin American politics; populism; political culture, popular culture; democratic theory; social classes; political sociology, political economy, research methodology

E-mail: ostiguy@bard.edu

Elaine Thomas,
Assistant Professor of Political Studies, Ph.D., University of California-Berkeley 

Teaching and Research Interests:

European politics; comparative politics; immigration and citizenship; ethnic relations in international perspective; development and challenges to the nation-state; European political and social thought

E-mail: ethomas@bard.edu