2026-27 Faculty Affiliates
Paulo Barrozo
Paulo Barrozo currently serves as Associate Dean of Faculty and Global Programs. He works on public law and legal theory. He offers new understandings of rights, punishment, cruelty, structural mercy, legal education, distribution, institutionalization, the nature of the political realm, the nature and evolution of law, and the history of legal thought. Before joining Boston College Law School, he was a lecturer in social thought at Harvard University, where he was the first recipient of the Stanley Hoffman Prize for Excellence in Teaching. Barrozo received an S.J.D. from Harvard University and a Ph.D. in political science from the Rio de Janeiro University Research Institute. In his pro bono activities, Barrozo advocates for the rights of children and the neurodiverse. His work is available at SSRN and on his website paulobarrozo.bc.edu.
Jennifer Erickson
Jennifer L. Erickson joined the Political Science Department and International Studies Program at Boston College in 2010. Her research interests include international security and arms control, conventional and nuclear weapons, and the laws and norms of war. Her current book project explores the historical and contemporary cases of new weapons technologies and the creation of new laws and norms of war. She has additional ongoing research projects dealing with sanctions and arms embargoes.
Her book, Dangerous Trade: Conventional Arms Exports, Human Rights, and International Reputation (Columbia, 2015), explains states' commitment to and compliance with new humanitarian arms trade norms, articulated in the UN Arms Trade Treaty and related multilateral initiatives. It is the winner of the APSA Foreign Policy Section's 2017 Best Book Award (for books published in 2015 and 2016) and has been reviewed in Perspectives on Politics, Humanity, and an H-Diplo International Security Studies Forum Roundtable (ISSF Roundtable 9-14). Her articles have been published or are forthcoming in the European Journal of International Relations, Journal of Peace Research, Political Science Quarterly, and International Studies Perspectives.
She teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on international relations theory, global governance, globalization and national security, and EU foreign affairs.
Previously, Erickson was the inaugural holder of the White Family Sesquicentennial Assistant Professorship at Boston College. She has also been a Nuclear Security Fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University and a faculty affiliate at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University. She has conducted extensive fieldwork in the United States and Europe, where she was a research fellow at the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP) and the Wissenschaftszentrum (WZB) in Berlin. She was also a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Dickey Center for International Understanding at Dartmouth College. She has a B.A. in Political Science from St. Olaf College and a Ph.D. in Government from Cornell University.
Hannes Kerber
Hannes Kerber is an Assistant Professor of Political Philosophy at Boston College, where he studies and teaches primarily 18th century political thought. Prior to joining 天美传媒app, he was the academic program director at the Carl Friedrich von Siemens Stiftung and a lecturer in philosophy and religious studies at the University of Munich, Germany. In 2022/2023 he held a position as a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University and in 2024 as a visiting professor at the Universit脿 degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy. His first book, Die Aufkl盲rung der Aufkl盲rung: Lessing und die Herausforderung des Christentums, was published in 2021 by Wallstein Verlag and was awarded the first Chodowiecki Prize by Interdisziplinary Centre for European Enlightenment Studies in Halle-Wittenberg, Germany. He has co-edited Leo Strauss on Plato鈥檚 鈥淓uthyphro鈥�: The 1948 Notebook, with Lectures and Critical Writings (2023) and Die Praktiken der Provokation. Lessings Schreib- und Streitstrategien (2024).
Florence (Flo) Madenga
Florence Zivaishe Madenga is an Assistant Professor in the Communication Department and the African and African Diaspora Studies program at Boston College. Her core area of study is in journalistic practices, specifically how journalists and peripheral media-makers challenge or are affected by state censorship. Her most recent research focuses on iterations of humor and journalism in tricky political contexts, satire journalism鈥檚 affordances and limitations as a liberatory practice in Zimbabwe, journalism in the United States, and popular culture in the African diaspora. She is currently working on her first book tentatively titled Black Satire Journalism: Dark Humor and Play in a Military Dictatorship. Her commentary and scholarship has been published in Information, Communication & Society, Media, Culture & Society, Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience, the International Journal of Communication and other journals. She holds a doctoral degree in Communication from the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania.
Chandra Mallampalli
Chandra Mallampalli is a historian of modern South Asia with interests in religious pluralism, nationalism, and the secular state. At the Clough Center, his research examines challenges facing India鈥檚 multi-religious democracy, especially in light of the surging Hindu nationalism and violence against religious minorities. His scholarship and teaching span the fields of modern India, British Empire, World History, and Global Christianity. His recent book with Oxford University Press (New York), , describes how the lives of Roman Catholics, Syrian Christians, and Protestants have been shaped by centuries of interactions with Hindus and Muslims of the Indian subcontinent. Mallampalli鈥檚 new project, 鈥淭he Virtues of Mixture: Religion, Labor Migrants, and Cosmopolitanism in the Indian Ocean,鈥� explores the role of religious institutions in the lives of South Indian migrants to the Persian Gulf and Southeast Asia since the late 19th century, and whether religion either facilitated cultural mixture and engagement or contributed to sharper boundaries and accommodations to ethnic nationalism.听Mallampalli was the Clough Center's first Senior Research Fellow. He returns this year as a Faculty Affiliate and Editorial Consultant.
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Mary Murphy
Mary C. Murphy joined Boston College in Fall 2024. Her main research and teaching interests include: Ireland/Northern Ireland and the EU, peace and conflict in Northern Ireland, and the politics of Brexit on the island of Ireland. Her current research focuses on post-Brexit Northern Ireland and relations with the EU and US. In addition to being a member of the Political Science Faculty, she is the Director of the Irish Institute at Boston College.
Her latest book, co-authored with Jonathan Evershed, A Troubled Constitutional Future: Northern Ireland after Brexit, Agenda/Columbia University Press 2022, won the UACES Best Book Prize in 2023. The book examines the factors, actors and dynamics that are most likely tobe influential, and potentially transformative, in determining Northern Ireland's constitutional future after Brexit. It offers an assessment of how Brexit and its fallout may lead to constitutional upheaval, and includes a cautionary warning about the need to prepare for it.
She is also the author of Europe and Northern Ireland鈥檚 Future: Negotiating Brexit鈥檚 Unique Case, Agenda/Columbia University Press 2018 which was one of the first book-length studies of Northern Ireland and Brexit. Her previous book, Northern Ireland and the European Union: The Dynamics of a Changing Relationship, was published by Manchester University Press in 2014. She has guest edited special issues of Irish Political Studies, Administration and Irish Studies in International Affairs (forthcoming) and her work has also been published in leading academic journals including The British Journal of Politics and International Relations, International Political Science Review and Territory, Politics, Governance.
Before joining the faculty at Boston College, she was Head of the Department of Government and Politics at University College Cork, Ireland. She is the former President of the Irish Association for Contemporary European Studies, has twice been awarded an Erasmus+ Jean Monnet Chair award and holds a fellowship with the Centre on Constitutional Change at Edinburgh University. She was also previously a Fulbright-Schuman scholar and has won the Political Studies Association of Ireland (PSAI) Teaching and Learning Prize.
Elias Opongo
Elias Omondi Opongo, SJ is a Senior Lecturer at the Hekima University Institute of Peace Studies and International Relations, in Nairobi, Kenya. He is a peace practitioner with a focus on conflict resolution, reconciliation, community peacebuilding, humanitarian assistance, transitional justice, post-conflict reconstruction, and state-building. Most recently he is the co-editor of Elections, Violence, and Transitional Justice in Africa (2023) and has published many books, chapters, and articles on the complex causes of conflict today, especially in Africa. He received a Ph.D. in Peace and Conflict Studies from the University of Bradford (UK).
Juan Qian
Jingyuan Qian studies comparative political institutions, state-building, and political economy, with a regional focus on China and East Asia. His book project, Statebuilding by Campaign: The Making of the Modern Chinese Bureaucracy, 1949鈥�1976, examines the mechanisms employed by the Chinese party-state under Mao Zedong to manage and control subordinate bureaucrats during the first three decades of the People's Republic of China.听听Qian鈥檚 research has been published in peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes, including Comparative Politics, Studies in Comparative International Development, The China Quarterly, Ethnopolitics, and The Routledge Handbook of Anti-Corruption Research and Practice. His interviews and commentaries have been featured in global media outlets, including Bloomberg TV, The Atlantic, South China Morning Post, Made in China Journal, The Initium Media, and Azerbaijan's ARB24 News. At Boston College, Qian teaches courses in Chinese and East Asian politics, comparative politics, and formal theory. Prior to joining Boston College, Qian served as an Earl S. Johnson Lecturer in Political Science at the University of Chicago (2023鈥�25) and as an Associate in Research at the Duke-Margolis Institute at Duke University (2016鈥�18). Qian was born and raised in China. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Wisconsin鈥揗adison, a Master of Public Policy from Georgetown University, and a Bachelor's degree in Political Science and History from Macalester College.
Rana Aziz
Aziz Rana is the J. Donald Monan, S.J., University Professor of Law and Government. He joins Boston College from Cornell Law School, where he was the Richard and Lois Cole Professor of Law.
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His research and teaching center on American constitutional law and political development. In particular, Rana鈥檚 work focuses on how shifting notions of race, citizenship, and empire have shaped legal and political identity since the founding of the country.
His first book, The Two Faces of American Freedom (Harvard University Press) situates the American experience within the global history of colonialism, examining the intertwined relationship in American constitutional practice between internal accounts of freedom and external projects of power and expansion. His latest book, The Constitutional Bind: How Americans Came to Idolize a Document that Fails Them (University of Chicago Press, 2024), explores the modern emergence of constitutional veneration in the twentieth century -- especially against the backdrop of growing American global authority -- and how veneration has influenced the boundaries of popular politics.
Rana has written essays and op-eds for such venues as n+1, Dissent, The Boston Review, The Washington Post, The New York Times, New Labor Forum, Jacobin, The Guardian, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Nation, Jadaliyya, Salon, and The Law and Political Economy Blog. He has articles and chapter contributions published or forthcoming with Yale and Oxford University Presses, The University of Chicago Law Review, California Law Review, UCLA Law Review, Texas Law Review, and the Yale Law Journal Forum, among others.
Rana is an editorial board member of Dissent, The Law and Political Economy Blog, Just Security, and The Journal of American Constitutional History. He is also a Life Member of the Council of Foreign Relations and a Non-Resident Fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft.
He received his A.B. from Harvard College summa cum laude and his J.D. from Yale Law School. He earned a Ph.D. in political science at Harvard University, where his dissertation was awarded the University's Charles Sumner Prize.
Daniel Ziblatt
Daniel Ziblatt is the Eaton Professor of Government at Harvard University and Director of Harvard University鈥檚 . He also leads a research group on democracy and democratic erosion at the in Germany.
He is the author of four books, including How Democracies Die (Crown, 2018), co-authored with Steve Levitsky, a New York Times best-seller and described by The Economist magazine as 鈥渢he most important book of the Trump era.鈥� The book has been translated into thirty languages. In 2017, he authored Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy (Cambridge University Press, 2017), an account of the history of democracy in Europe, which won the American Political Science Association鈥檚 2018 Woodrow Wilson Prize for the best book in government and international relations and American Sociological Association鈥檚 2018 Barrington Moore Prize. His first book was an analysis of 19th century state building, Structuring the State: The Formation of Italy and Germany and the Puzzle of Federalism (Princeton, 2006). In Fall 2023, his newest book entitled Tyranny of the Minority (co-authored with Steve Levitsky) puts America鈥檚 contemporary transition into a multiracial democracy in comparative and historical perspective, and shows the distinctive vulnerabilities of the U.S. constitutional order.
Ziblatt maintains an active research program that is published in journals such as the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, and World Politics. In 2023, he was elected member of the American Academy for Arts and Sciences.