Ten professors begin appointments in the Department in the 2006-2007 academic year.

Professor Timothy Frye (Ph.D. Columbia University, 1997) is a specialist in comparative politics and political economy with a focus on the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. He is the author of Brokers and Bureaucrats: Building Markets in Russia, (Michigan Press 2000), which won the 2001 Hewett Prize from the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies.

Professor Frye has published articles on property rights, the rule of law, protection rackets, economic reform, presidential power, and trade liberalization in journals such as the American Political Science Review, World Politics, The American Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, Europe-Asia Studies, Post-Soviet Affairs, the American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings (co-authored), the Journal of Law, Economics and Organization (co-authored), and The British Journal of Political Science (co-authored). Current projects include a book manuscript on the politics of economic reform in 25 postcommunist countries from 1990-2002, and articles on property rights and the rule of law drawing on surveys of business elites and the mass public in Russia.

Professor Frye received an MIA degree from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, and a BA in Russian language and literature from Middlebury College.

Professor Andrew Gelman, a member of Columbia's Statistics Department since 2000, has accepted a joint appointment in the Department of Political Science.  Professor Gelman is the founding director of Columbia's Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences program.  Professor Gelman received the Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1990.  His research focuses on public opinion and voting, public policy, public health, multilevel models, Bayesian statistics, sample surveys, and statistical graphics.  He is the author of Data Analysis Using Regression and Multilevel/Hierarchical Models (forthcoming, Cambridge University Press); Bayesian Data Analysis (with Carlin, Stern and Rubin); and Teaching Statistics: A Bag of Tricks (with Nolan).  His recent and forthcoming papers include "Average Predictive Comparisons for Models with Nonlinearity, Interactions and Variance Components" (with Pardoe); "Voting as a Rational Choice: Why and How People Vote to Improve the Well-Being of Others" (with Edlin and Kaplan); "An Analysis of NYPD's Stop-and-Frisk Policy in the Context of Claims of Racial Bias" (with Fagan and Kiss); and "Weighted Classical Variogram Estimation for Data with Clustering" (with Reilly).

Professor Fredrick C. Harris will assume residence at Columbia in January 2007. He will establish and direct a new Columbia research center on African American Politics and Society. His research interests include American Politics with a focus on political participation, social movements, religion and politics, political development, and African-American Politics. His publications include Something Within: Religion in African-American Political Activism (Oxford University Press, 1999), which was awarded the V.O. Key Award for the Best Book on Southern Politics by the Southern Political Science Association, the Distinguished Book Award by the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, and the Best Book Award by the National Conference of Black Political Scientists; Countervailing Forces in African-American Civic Activism, 1973-1994, with Valeria Sinclair-Chapman and Brian McKenzie (Cambridge University Press, 2006), which received the 2006 W.E.B. DuBois Book Award from the National Conference of Black Political Scientists; and Black Churches and Local Politics: Clergy Influence, Organizational Partnerships, and Civic Empowerment with R. Drew Smith (Roman and Littlefield, 2005).

Recently published articles include “The Macro Dynamics of Black Political Participation in the Post-Civil Rights Era” with Valeria Sinclair-Chapman and Brian McKenzie in the Journal of Politics; “It Takes a Tragedy to Arouse Them: Collective Memory and Collective Action during the Civil Rights Movement” in Social Movement Studies: Journal of Social, Cultural, and Political Protest; and “Black Leadership and the Second Redemption” in Society. He is co-editor with Cathy Cohen of the Oxford University Press book series "Transgressing Boundaries: Studies in Black Politics and Black Communities." His current book project is on black activism in the wake of the death of 14-year-old Emmett Till in 1955, which is tentatively titled Blood on the Fields: The Lynching of Emmett Louis Till and the Rise of Black Insurgency.

Professor Harris received the Ph.D. from Northwestern University and has been a Visiting Scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation and a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C.

Assistant Professor Kimuli Kasara received the Ph.D. in Political Science from Stanford in 2006. Her dissertation focused on ethnic politics in Africa and on African political economy. Her current work concerns colonialism in East Africa, electoral irregularities, communal violence, and political parties.

Associate Professor Isabela Mares (Ph.D., Harvard University, 1999) specializes in comparative political economy and comparative social policy. She is the author of The Politics of Social Risk: Business and Welfare State Development (Cambridge University Press 2003), which won the Gregory Luebbert Award of the American Political Science Association for the best book in comparative politics. Her book Taxation, Wage Bargaining and Unemployment (Cambridge University Press, 2006) explores the consequences of the growth of the fiscal burden on employment outcomes in advanced industrialized economies. Professor Mares is currently writing a book titled The Great Divergence in Social Protection, which examines health and pension reforms in Latin America and East Asia.

Prior to joining the Columbia Political Science Department in 2006, Professor Mares was Assistant and then Associate Professor of Political Science at Stanford University.

Professor Thomas Pogge (Ph.D., Harvard, 1983) is renowned for his work in moral philosophy and ethics. He has written extensively on global justice, justice in health care, John Rawls and Immanuel Kant. Professor Pogge has received honors, awards and grants from organizations including All Souls College (Oxford), the Carnegie Council for Ethics and International Affairs, the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and the Norwegian Academy of Science. He serves on the editorial boards of several professional journals and is a member of the board of directors of Columbia's Center for the Study of Human Rights and the International Association of Bioethics.

Assistant Professor Tonya Putnam (A.M., Harvard, 1993; J.D., Harvard, 2002; Ph.D., Stanford, 2005) will join the Department in January 2007. Professor Putnam's recent research identifies and explains the circumstances under which U.S. federal courts have regulated extraterritorially and explores the implications of patterns of extraterritorial regulations initiated by private actors for global governance and international regulatory convergence.

Associate Professor Melissa Schwartzberg (Ph.D., NYU, 2002) is a political theorist whose research centers on the relationship between democracy and the rule of law. Her first book, Democracy and Legal Change, is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press (Cambridge Studies in the Theory of Democracy). In this work, she retrieves and defends the historically salient view that democracies regularly change their laws, while exploring the circumstances under which democracies have enacted immutable rules. She is writing a second book, Qualifying the Many, which analyzes the historical origins and normative justifications of supermajority rules. She has published articles in the American Political Science Review, Political Studies, and PS: Political Science and Politics. From 2002-2006, she was an assistant professor of political science at The George Washington University.

Assistant Professor Anna Stilz (Ph.D. Harvard, 2005) is a political theorist whose work focuses on the relation between democracy and citizen solidarity. Additional research and teaching interests include history of modern political thought (Hobbes, Rousseau, Kant, Fichte, Hegel); political authority; nationalism; contemporary democratic theory; theories of rights. Professor Stilz's dissertation reconstructs and defends Rousseau’s account of freedom in the democratic state, an account that contains a controversial condition: in order to legislate for one another in a manner that is not dominating, democratic citizens must share a form of solidarity sufficient to motivate them to take one another’s interests into account. The dissertation examines the question of what could provide such solidarity, evaluating contemporary defences of cultural nationalism and constitutional patriotism, and concludes by sketching a view about how democratic unity might be grounded solely in the practice of citizenship. Professor Stilz spent the 2005-2006 academic year as a postdoctoral fellow in the Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin.

Assistant Professor Dorian T. Warren (Ph.D., Yale, 2005) holds a joint appointment with the School of International and Public Affairs and is a faculty affiliate of the Institute for Research in African-American Studies. Professor Warren specializes in the study of inequality and American politics, focusing on the political organization of marginalized groups. His research and teaching interests include race and ethnic politics, labor politics, urban politics, American political development, social movements and social science methodology.

Professor Warren's work has been published in several journals and edited volumes including the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Labor and Employment Law, New Labor Forum, Du Bois Review, National Political Science Review, and Social Service Review.

Professor Warren has been a Post-Doctoral Scholar and Visiting Faculty at the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago, and has received research fellowships from the Ford Foundation, the Joseph S. Murphy Institute for Worker Education and Labor Studies and the University of Notre Dame.