Full-Time Faculty

Alemán, Eduardo

Associate Professor
ealeman2@uh.edu 
Phone:713.743.3933
Office: 394 PGH

Archer, Allison

Assistant Professor
amarcher3@uh.edu  
Phone:713.743.2258
Office: 436 PGH

Badas, Alex

Associate Professor
abadas@uh.edu 
Office: 431 PGH

Bagashka, Tanya

Associate Professor
tbagashka@uh.edu 
Phone:  713.743.9657
Office: 403 PGH

Basinger, Scott J.

Associate Professor
sjbasinger@uh.edu 
Phone:  713.743.3911
Office: 447E PGH

Casellas, Jason P.

Associate Professor
jcasellas@uh.edu 
Phone:  713.743.8714
Office: 427 PGH

 

Chatagnier, Tyson

Associate Professor 
jtchatagnier@uh.edu 
Phone:  713.743.9439
Office: 413 PGH

Church, Jeffrey

Chair
jchurch@central.uh.edu 
Phone: 713.743.3914
Office: PGH 447A

Clark, Jennifer

Associate Professor
jclar2@central.uh.edu 
Phone: 713.743.3302
Office: 432 Philip G. Hoffman Hall

Cole, J. Bryan

Instructional Associate Professor
PGH 381
713-743-3904
jbcole@Central.UH.EDU 

Contractor, Cyrus

Instructional Associate Professor and
Director of Undergraduate Studies
ccontractor@uh.edu 
Phone: 713.743.7027
Office: 373 PGH

Cortina, Jeronimo

Associate Professor
jcortina@central.uh.edu 
Phone: 713.743.3894
Office: 447C PGH

Fumurescu, Alin

Associate Professor
afumures@central.uh.edu 
Phone: 713.743.2546
Office: 407 PGH

Heinrich, Tobias

Associate Professor
theinrich@uh.edu 
Phone: 713.743.5082
Office: 421 PGH

 

Jenke, Libby

Assistant Professor
ljenke@uh.edu 
Phone:713.743.1259
Office: 389 PGH

Jung, Jae-Hee

Assistant Professor
jjung26@central.uh.edu 
Phone:713.743.7424
Office: 447D PGH

Khator, Renu

Professor and President of UH
Office of the President
president@uh.edu 

Kistner, Michael

Assistant Professor
mkistner@central.uh.edu 
Phone:713.743.2523
Office: PGH 366

Littlepage, Kelley

Instructional Assistant Professor
kglittle@central.uh.edu 
Phone: 713.743.0146
Office: 373 PGH

Ollerenshaw, Trent

Assistant Professor
tolleren@central.uh.edu 
Phone: 713-743-0936
Office: 395 PGH

Rottinghaus, Brandon

Professor
bjrottinghaus@uh.edu 
Phone: 713.743.3925
Office: 393 PGH

Scarrow, Susan

Professor
sscarrow@uh.edu 
Phone: 713.743.3915
Office: 416 PGH

Shor, Boris

Associate Professor 
bshor@central.uh.edu 
Phone: 312.283.4599
Office: 396 PGH

Soules, Michael J.

Assistant Professor
msoules@uh.edu 
Phone: 713.743.5326
Office: PGH 434

Tiede, Lydia B.

Professor
lbtiede@uh.edu 
Phone: 713.743.1538
Office: 414 PGH

Zhu, Ling

Professor
Director of Graduate Studies
lzhu4@central.uh.edu 
Phone:  713.743.2649
Office: 402 PGH

Zwald, Zachary

Instructional Assistant Professor
zjzwald@central.uh.edu 
Phone: 713.743.0409
Office: 383 PGH

Affiliated Faculty

• Daniel Engster, Professor of Public Policy and Director, Elizabeth D. Rockwell Center on Ethics and Leadership at the Hobby School of Public Affairs
  Expertise: Political Philosophy, Ethics, Family Policy, Early Education, Care Work
• Jessica Gottlieb, Associate Professor of Public Policy, Hobby School of Public Affairs
  Expertise: Political Economy of Development, Experimental Methods, Government Accountability, State and Fiscal Capacity, Partisan Polarization
• Asher Lubotzky, Israel Institute Teaching Fellow and Scholar in Residence. 
  Expertise: Israeli politics and international relations; African politics and geopolitics; intelligence studies; race and international relations.
• Pablo Pinto, Distinguished Professor of Public Policy, Hobby School of Public Affairs and Director, Center for Public Policy
  Expertise: Political Economy, Globalization of Production, Fiscal Policy and Taxation, Political Representation, Quantitative Methods

Professors Emeriti

• Robert Carp
• Richard Murray
• Joseph Nogee
• John Sloan
• Alan Stone
• Philip B. Taylor, Jr.
• Kent L. Tedin
• Robert Thomas