Faculty & Staff

Expertise Areas: American political institutions, congressional policymaking and oversight, the presidency, bureaucratic administration, congressional and presidential elections, research methodology

Expertise Areas: International political economy, development studies, global finance, and food and farming systems.

Expertise Areas: Environmental policy and politics, animal and earth rights, U.S. judiciary, U.S. Constitution, U.S. legal system, media and politics.

Expertise Areas: Early political thought, modern political thought, American political thought, political psychology, practical utopias, youth empowerment, children's voices in politics

Expertise Area: My research examines various aspects of gender and politics in India including micro-credit, informal economy, women's movements, Panchayati Raj (local elected bodies in the rural areas), and violence.

Expertise Areas: International Relations, Middle East Politics, International Security

Minsun is the Director of the Center for New Directions in Politics and Public Policy program , in the Political Science Department at the University of Colorado Denver. She was the founder and long-time executive director of a worker center in Denver, Colorado, El Centro Humanitario para los Trabajadores (Humanitarian Center for Workers), organizing immigrant day laborers and domestic workers. She was also a labor union organizer with Service Employees...

Expertise Areas: armed conflict, global norms, international humanitarian law

Expertise Areas: international politics; international justice; political theory; international law; peace-building and transitional justice; refugee and forced migration studies; democracy and social movements; and religion and politics

​Expertise Areas: Indigenous Peoples; Race & Gender in Law and Policy; Civil Liberties and Constitutional Law; Indigenous Peoples, United Nations, and International Law; Human Rights; Ethnic Conflict

Expertise Areas: American political institutions Poverty and politics Urban politics American political thought CU in the Capitol Grassroots empowerment and social movements.

Expertise Areas: Affect; Ordinary Life; Biopolitics; New Materialisms and Vitalisms; The Human; Ecology; Intimacy; Queer Theory and Queer of Color Critique; Asian American Studies; Settler Colonialism; Hawaiʻi

​Expertise Areas: International and Comparative Politics, Security Studies, State Socialization and Compliance, Foreign Policy Analysis

​Expertise Areas: Dr. Stefes' areas of specialty are political development (authoritarianism and democratization) with a regional focus on the former Soviet Union, esp. the South Caucasus and Central Asia. He has done research on corruption and informal institutions. He also teaches courses on European governments and European integration/EU studies. Finally, Dr. Stefes works on the political of renewable energy in Germany and the United States.

​Expertise Areas: Chinese politics, Chinese economic development, Chinese financial reforms since 1978, Chinese economic development in historical perspective, East Asia Foreign Relations, The role of sovereignty in economic development, The East Asian Miracle Countries

​Expertise Areas: Labor and Immigration History/Politics; Social Movements in the U.S.; Irish American History; Community Theater; Community Organizing.

​Expertise Areas: International Security, US Foreign Policy, National Security, International Arms Control

Minsun is the Director of the Center for New Directions in Politics and Public Policy program , in the Political Science Department at the University of Colorado Denver. She was the founder and long-time executive director of a worker center in Denver, Colorado, El Centro Humanitario para los Trabajadores (Humanitarian Center for Workers), organizing immigrant day laborers and domestic workers. She was also a labor union organizer with Service Employees...

Expertise Areas: Social Media, Content Creation & Curation, Adobe Creative Suite, Communications and Public Relations

Spring 2018 Office Hours: Tues. 8:45-10:45am

Spring 2018 Office Hours: Mon./Weds. 10:45-11:45am