Political Science Faculty

Alejandra Teresita Gimenez Aldridge - Assistant Professor

BA, Brigham Young University, 2016
MA, Stanford University, 2018
PhD, Stanford University, 2022

Lisa P Argyle - Assistant Professor

BA, Brigham Young University, 2008
MA, University of California-Santa Barbara, 2011
PhD, University of California-Santa Barbara, 2016

Douglas Bryan Atkinson - Assistant Professor

BS, BA, Utah State University, 2010
MS, Utah State University, 2012
PhD, University of Georgia, 2018

Michael Jay Barber - Assistant Professor

BA, Brigham Young University, 2008
MA, Princeton University, 2011
PhD, Princeton University, 2014

Celeste Elizabeth Beesley - Assistant Professor

AB, Princeton University, 2002
MA, University of California, San Diego, 2007
PhD, University of California, San Diego, 2013

Adam Robert Brown - Associate Professor

BA, Brigham Young University, 2004
MA, University of California, San Diego, 2006
PhD, University of California, San Diego, 2008

Ethan Craig Busby - Assistant Professor

BA, Brigham Young University 2013
MA, Northwestern University 2015
Ph.D., Northwestern University 2018

Scott B Cooper - Associate Professor

BA, Brigham Young University, 1992
MA, Duke University, 1996
PhD, Duke University, 1999

Ryan W Davis - Assistant Professor

BA, Arizona State University, 2005
MA, Princeton University, 2007
MA, Harvard University, 2012
PhD, Princeton University, 2011

Sean Driscoll- Visiting Assistant Professor

Rebecca Dudley - Assistant Professor

BA, Brigham Young University, 2016
MA, Duke University, 2020
PhD, Duke University, 2023

Adam Michael Dynes - Assistant Professor

BA, Brigham Young University, 2005
MA and MPhil, Yale University, 2012
PhD, Yale University, 2015

Jay Goodliffe - Professor

SB, Massachuesetts Institute of Technology, 1992
MA, University of Rochester, 1996
PhD, University of Rochester, 1998

Joshua R Gubler - Associate Professor

BA, Brigham Young University, 2002
MA, University of Utah, 2005
PhD, University of Michigan, 2011

Ralph C Hancock - Professor

BA, Brigham Young University, 1977
MA, Harvard University, 1980
PhD, Harvard University, 1983

Darren Greg Hawkins - Professor

BA/BS, University of Utah, 1990
MA, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1991
PhD, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1996

Kirk Andrew Hawkins - Professor

BA, Brigham Young University, 1993
MA, Brigham Young University, 1995
MA, Duke University, 1998
PhD, Duke University, 2003

Christopher F Karpowitz - Associate Professor

BA, Brigham Young University, 1994
MA, Brigham Young University, 1996
Certificate of Graduate Studies, Duke University, 1998
MA, Princeton University, 2000
PhD, Princeton University, 2006

Christopher Newell Krewson - Assistant Professor

BA, Brigham Young University, 2012
MA, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2014
PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2018

Robert Quinn Mecham - Assistant Professor

BA, Brigham Young University, 1997
MA, Stanford University, 1999
PhD, Stanford University, 2006

Elizabeth Mcguire - Assistant Professor

BA, Brigham Young University, 2013
MA, Yale University, 2018
MPhil, Yale University, 2018
PhD, Yale University, 2021

J Quin Monson - Professor

BA, Brigham Young University, 1996
MA, Brigham Young University, 1996
MA, Ohio State University, 1999
PhD, Ohio State University, 2004

Chad Elkins Nelson - Assistant Professor

BA, Brigham Young University, 2000
MA, Columbia University, 2002
PhD, University of California, Los Angeles, 2014

Kelly D Patterson - Professor

BA, Brigham Young University, 1982
MA, Brigham Young University, 1984
PhD, Columbia University, 1989

Jeremy Pope - Associate Professor

BA, Brigham Young University, 1997
MA, Stanford University, 2002
PhD, Stanford University, 2004

Jessica R Preece - Assistant Professor

BA, Brigham Young University, 2003
MA, University of California, Los Angeles, 2006
PhD, University of California, Los Angeles, 2010

David Alexander Romney - Assistant Professor

BA, Brigham Young University, 2013
PhD, Harvard University, Cambridge, 2020

Darin Sanders Self - Assistant Professor

BA, Brigham Young University, 2011
PhD, Cornell University, 2022

Joel Sawat Selway - Assistant Professor

BA, Brigham Young University, 2002
MA, University of Michigan, 2006
PhD, University of Michigan, 2009

Kendall Wayne Stiles - Professor

BA, Brigham Young University, 1982
MA, Brigham Young University, 1983
PD, Johns Hopkins University, 1987

Sven Eric Wilson - Professor

BA, Brigham Young University, 1989
MA, University of Chicago, 1992
PhD, University of Chicago, 1997

Ricardo Vernet- Visiting Assistant Professor