The faculty of the UVM political science department are nationally and internationally recognized scholars in their fields. Not only do they regularly publish in academic outlets, but their expertise is also recognized more broadly, by the national and international media, by think tanks and research institutes, and by the U.S. government. Among other accomplishments, UVM faculty members have been quoted in The New York Times and interviewed on NPR, appeared on the News Hour on PBS, and testified before Congressional committees.
Just since 2009, department members have published over two dozen books, along with numerous articles in scholarly journals, journals of opinion, and newspapers. These books demonstrate both the productivity of the department and the breadth of topics covered in its research and teaching.
Ellen Ann Anderson
Out of the Closets and into the Courts Legal Opportunity Structure and Gay Rights Litigation - University of (Michigan Press) January 20, 2009
Brad Bauerly
The Agrarian Seeds of Empire: The Political Economy of Agriculture in US State Building - (Brill Academic Pub) September 22, 2016
Caroline Beer
Electoral Competition and Institutional Change in Mexico (University of Notre Dame Press) November 11, 2003
Matthew Carlson
Political Corruption and Scandals in Japan, (Cornell University Press) March 15, 2018
Michele Commercio
Polygynous Marriages among the Kyrgyz: Institutional Change and Endurance - (University of Pittsburgh Press) December 20, 2022
Alec C. Ewald
The Way We Vote: The Local Dimension of American Suffrage (Vanderbilt University Press,), 2009.
Jan Feldman
Citizenship, Faith, and Feminism (Brandeis University Press), 2011
Anthony Gierzynski
The Political Effects of Entertainment Media: How Fictional Worlds Affect Real World Political Perspectives (Lexington Books) July 8, 2020
Deborah Guber
The Grassroots of a Green Revolution: Polling America on the Environment (Mit Pr) January 3, 2003
Peter S. Henne
Religious Appeals in Power Politics (Religion and Conflict) - (Cornell University Press) October 15, 2023
Lisa M. Holmes
Judicial Process in America (CQ Press) March 22, 2022
Bob Pepperman Taylor
Lessons from Walden: Thoreau and the Crisis of American Democracy, (University of Notre Dame Press) March 30, 2020
Leigh Raymond
Reclaiming the Atmospheric Commons: The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative and a New Model of Emissions Trading - The (MIT Press) September 9, 2016
E. Thomas Sullivan
Complex Litigation (Carolina Academic Press) January 1, 2019
Peter VonDoepp
Judicial Politics in New Democracies: Cases from Southern Africa (Lynne Rienner Publishers), 2009
Melissa Williard-Foster
Toppling Foreign Governments: The Logic of Regime Change - (University of Pennsylvania Press) November 19, 2018
Alex Zakaras
The Roots of American Individualism: Political Myth in the Age of Jackson - (Princeton University Press) October 11, 2022