Political Science Department Experts

To reach these experts, please contact Associate Director of Communications and Media Relations Kristen Magda at 508-565-1628; kmagda@stonehill.edu or Director of Communications and Media Relations Martin McGovern at 508-565-1070; mmcgovern@stonehill.edu.  

Richard B. Finnegan

Political Science Department Chair/Professor of Political Science

Areas of expertise: Ireland- North and South politics and economics; History; War; Politics; Education; Author of Ireland: Historical Echoes, Contemporary Politics and Irish Women and Irish Public Policy: A Documentary History Since 1922.

James Millikan

Associate Professor of Political Science

Areas of expertise: Congress and the Presidency; American national government and politics; State and urban politics; Environmental policy and politics; Parties; Elections; Interest groups.

Peter Ubertaccio

Director of the Joseph W. Martin Jr. Institute for Law and Society/Associate Professor of Political Science

Areas of expertise: American political development; The American presidency; Constitutional Law; American political thought and culture; Political parties and interest groups; Public policy; Network marketing tactics of American political parties; President George W. Bush.

William Henry Ewell

Assistant Professor of Political Science

Areas of expertise: National and state politics; Executive and legislative institutions; Education policy and politics; American political institutions; Budgetary and distributional politics; Politics of social and economic inequality.

Anna Ohanyan

Assistant Professor of Political Science

Areas of expertise: Transnational politics; Global public policy; Ethnicity and international conflict management; Post-conflict regions of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, and Afghanistan; Author of NGOs, IGOs, and the Network Mechanisms of Post-Conflict Global Governance in Microfinance.

Robert R. Rodgers

Assistant Professor of Political Science

Areas of expertise: Politics of local open space preservation; Law.

Bettina Scholz

Assistant Professor of Political Science

Areas of expertise: Political theory; Contemporary theories of global justice.