Department Chair


Sara Wallace Goodman
  • Department Chair and Professor
    Ph.D., Georgetown University, 2009

  • citizenship, immigrant integration, identity

  •  SSPB 5257 | 949-824-0642

  • swgood@uci.edu
  • Website

 

Graduate Program Director


Daniel Brunstetter
  • Professor & Graduate Program Director
    Ph.D., University of California, Davis, 2005

  • just war, early modern thought, otherness/identity, new world discovery, montaigne, rousseau, french immigration

  •  SSPB 5289 | 949-824-9752

  • dbrunste@uci.edu
  • Website

 

Graduate Admissions Director


Robert Uriu
  • Graduate Admissions Director and Associate Professor

  • international relations, international political economy, international politics of east asia/japan, u.s. foreign policy toward east asia

  •  SSPB 2275 | 949-824-1868

  • rmuriu@uci.edu
  • Website

 

Director of Undergraduate Honors Program


Davin Phoenix
  • Undergraduate Honors Director and Associate Professor
    Ph.D., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 

  • Black politics, race and political behavior, political affect, political communication

  •  SSPB 5201 | 949-824-5698

  • dphoenix@uci.edu

 

Director of Undergraduate Studies


Matthew Beckmann
  • Professor and Undergraduate Director
    Ph.D., University of Michigan 

  • American governing institutions, presidency, executive leadership

  •  SSPB 2253 | 949-824-6219

  • beckmann@uci.edu
  • Website

 

Graduate Advisor


Jennifer Gerson
  • Director, Graduate Affairs
    Ed.D., University of Southern California, 2020

  • educational counseling, graduate student exceptions/petitions, teaching assistant applications and assignments

  •  5210 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway | (949) 824-4074

  • jennifer.gerson@uci.edu
  • For any administrative questions concerning the graduate application process, financial award opportunities, and/or other pre-enrollment matters, please contact the Graduate Studies Office.

 

Department Manager


Connie Dahl

 

 

Administrative Staff


Michelle Meza
  • Department Analyst

  •  5231 Social Science Plaza B | (949) 824-1491

  • mezam3@uci.edu
Ron Rothstain

 

GENERAL INFORMATION

Mailing Address
Department of Political Science
5229 Social Science Plaza B
University of California-Irvine
Irvine, CA 92697-5100

Telephone: (949) 824-5361

Email: psdept@uci.edu

Direction (UCI Campus)
The Department Administrative Suite is located on the 5th floor of the Social Science Plaza Building B.
See: SSPB Building (213)

Directions to the campus can be found here.

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