At IU our faculty collaborates across subfields to provide students with the skills and resources necessary to address core debates in the field. Here are some great reasons to come to IU:

If you want to study important questions in political psychology, you can work with Eileen Braman, Ted Carmines, Christopher DeSante, and Steven Webster.

If you are interested in studying contentious politics and human rights, you can work with Vanessa Cruz Nichols, Sumit Ganguly, Jun Sudduth, Lizzie Brannon, Abdulkader Sinno, Regina Smyth and Jason Wu.

If you are interested in studying the causes and consequences of civil war and political violence, you can work withs Sumit Ganguly, Ore Koren, Lizzie Brannon, Abdulkader Sinno, Lauren MacLean, Jun Sudduth, and Jess Steinberg.

If you want to combine deep area studies using cutting edge political science methods, you can work with Ore Koren, Nick Bichay, Abdulkader Sinno, Lauren McClean, Regina Smyth, Dina Spechler and Jason Wu and our faculty implementing innovative and methods across the discipline.

You want to learn how to conduct, implement, and analyze survey research, focus groups, ethnographic and interview data you can work with William Bianco, Nick Bichay, Lizzie Brannon, Eileen Braman, Ted Carmines, Vanessa Cruz Nichols, Christopher DeSante, Steven Webster, Lauren MacClean, Regina Smyth, Jason Wu, and Ore Koren.

If you want to understand race, politics, identity, and values and their effect on political attitudes and participation you can work with Ted Carmines, Vanessa Cruz Nichols, Christopher DeSante, Steven Webster, and Regina Smyth.

If you want to study political economy in different contexts you can work with William Bianco, Armando Razo, Sarah Baurle Danzman and Nick Bichay.

If you want to study state capacity, state legitimacy, and comparative institutional development you can work with Eileen Braman, William Bianco, Ore Koren, Lizzie Brannon, Nick Bichay, Lauren Morris MacLean, Regina Smyth, and Jess Steinberg.

If you want to study how liberal and democratic political theory can be used to study the ongoing crisis of democratic politics you can study with Aurelian Craiutu, Noah Eber-Schmid, Judy Failer, Jeffrey Isaac, and Bill Scheuerman.

If you are interested in understanding political moderation and political extremism from broader historical and philosophical perspectives, you can work with work of Aurelian Craiutu and Noah Eber- Schmid should be of interest to you.

Whether you are preparing for an academic career or aim at a policy career, our students have opportunities to gain hands-on research experience and learn cutting edge methods, working directly with faculty funded through external grants to shape your dissertation questions and the tools to complete your own work.