Georgetown University has a long tradition of excellence in the study of comparative politics, with faculty who receive national and international acclaim and who regularly publish in the discipline’s top journals and presses.
The comparative faculty cover a wide array of substantive topics, with particular strengths in political economy (Gustafson, Klašnja, Looney, Rudra, Simmons, Weaver), contentious politics, conflict, and political violence (Balcells, Berman, Girod), political regimes and institutions (Banchoff, Berman, Brumberg, Kapiszewski, King, Klašnja, Langenbacher) and nationalism and citizenship (Anderson, Balcells, Howard, King, Smith). The faculty study these questions in virtually every corner of the world and do so using a comprehensive methodological toolkit.
Georgetown’s comparative politics faculty is well-integrated with other subfields and has frequent intellectual engagement with colleagues situated elsewhere in the university, such as the Walsh School of Foreign Service, the McCourt School of Public Policy, and the McDonough School of Business.
Along with the Mortara Center for International Studies, the comparative subfield hosts the Current Research on Issues and Topics in Comparative Scholarship (CRITICS) speaker series.
For more information about our Comparative Government Ph.D., please contact the Field Chair or the Graduate Program Officer.