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List of the most influential people in Political Science,

#3551

Jayantanuja Bandyopadhyaya

#174668

Overall Influence

1933 - Present (92 years)

Jayantanuja Bandyopadhyaya was a former Bengali diplomat and scholar of International relations. He is best known for his classic study The Making of Indian Foreign Policy , which is considered a classic in Indian scholarship in International Relations.

#3552

Chris Beasley

#184261

Overall Influence

Chris Beasley is an Australian researcher whose interdisciplinary work crosses the fields of social and political theory, gender and sexuality studies and cultural studies. She is Emerita Professor in the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Adelaide. She is an elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Social Sciences. In 2018, Beasley was named the leading researcher in feminism and women's studies in Australia based on major journal publications in the field. Beasley was the founder and inaugural co-Director of the Fay Gale Centre from 2009 to 2013.

#3553

Gloria Bromell Tinubu

#140295

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (72 years)

Gloria Bromell Tinubu is an applied economist, educator, and political figure. She served on the Atlanta City Council and as a member of the Georgia State Assembly, as well as running as a candidate for Mayor of Atlanta.

#3554

Geert Lovink

#184784

Overall Influence

#3555

Vincent A. Mahler

#89612

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (76 years)

Vincent A. Mahler is a professor of Political Science at Loyola University Chicago, where he serves as the Undergraduate Program Director. Academic history Mahler received his B.A. and M.A. from Loyola University Chicago and his PhD from Columbia University. He lives in Park Ridge, Illinois.

#3556

Bruno Musarò

#181527

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (77 years)

Bruno Musarò is an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who worked in the diplomatic service of the Holy See from 1977 to 2023, with the rank of archbishop and apostolic nuncio from 1994. In retirement, as is customary, he retains the title "Apostolic Nuncio".

#3557

Katy Hayward

#107542

Overall Influence

Katy Hayward is a Northern Irish academic and writer based at Queens University, Belfast. Academic career Hayward is a professor of Political Sociology in the School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work at Queens in Belfast, with a specialism in the politics of Brexit, conflict resolution and borders. She completed her undergraduate degree in Peace and Conflict Studies at Magee College in 1999. She was awarded a PhD in 2002 by University College, Dublin on the impact of European integration on cross-border relations in Ireland.

#3558

Carol Johnson

#183184

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (70 years)

Carol Johnson is an Emerita professor at the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Adelaide, known for her work on Australian politics and her new book Social Democracy and the Crisis of Equality: Australian Social Democracy in a Changing World. She has also done research into sexuality, gender and feminism.

#3559

Patrick H. DeLeon

#172045

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (82 years)

Patrick Henry DeLeon is an American psychologist, former chief of staff for United States Senator Daniel Inouye and past president of the American Psychological Association . He became an aide for Senator Inouye in 1973, when Inouye served on a committee investigating the Watergate scandal, and remained on the senator's staff for 38 years. After DeLeon's daughter survived meningitis in 1984, he was involved in the establishment of the Emergency Medical Services for Children program. DeLeon helped to create the nursing and pharmacy schools at the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo.

#3560

Mario Tronti

#87454

Overall Influence

1931 - 2023 (92 years)

Mario Tronti was an Italian philosopher and politician, considered one of the founders of the theory of operaismo in the 1960s. An active member of the Italian Communist Party during the 1950s, he was, with Raniero Panzieri, amongst the founders of the Quaderni Rossi review from which he split in 1963 to found the Classe Operaia review. This evolving journey progressively distanced him from the PCI, without him ever formally leaving, and engaged him in the radical experiences of operaismo. Such experience, considered by many to be the matrix of Italian Autonomist Marxism in the 1960s, was ...

#3561

Sharon Gaber

#69769

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (61 years)

Sharon Gaber is the chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Prior to that, she served as the first female president of the University of Toledo, selected to the post on March 12, 2015. Before serving as president of The University of Toledo, she was the provost and the Vice-Chancellor of Academic Affairs at the University of Arkansas from May 1, 2009, to 2015.

#3562

Ian Kemish

#169084

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (64 years)

Ian Kemish, is an Australian author, international relations specialist and not-for-profit chair. He is a former senior diplomat and business executive. During his career with the Australian Government he served as Australian High Commissioner to Papua New Guinea, Australian ambassador to Germany, head of the consular and Southeast Asia Divisions of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, and head of the Prime Minister's International Division. As of 2023 he is co-founder of international strategic advisory firm Forridel, adjunct professor in History at the University of Queensland, and an expert associate of the ANU National Security College.

#3563

Lyn Ossome

#179003

Overall Influence

Marilyn Ossome is an academic, specialising in feminist political theory and feminist political economics. She is currently Senior Research Associate of at the University of Johannesburg and a member of the advisory board for the Strategic Initiative for Women in the Horn of Africa, amongst other accolades. She is an editorial board member of Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy, and in 2021, she co-edited the volume Labour Questions in the Global South. She serves on the executive committee for the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa . She is the author o...

#3564

Roy L. Austin

#109807

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (86 years)

Roy Leslie Austin is a former United States Ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago from December 2001 to December 2009. Biography Born in Kingstown, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, he moved to the United States to study and later became a U.S. citizen. He attended Yale University and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in sociology. While there he befriended future U.S. President George W. Bush and both were inducted to the secret society Skull and Bones. He earned a Master of Arts and Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Washington.

#3565

Okechukwu Ibeanu

#181958

Overall Influence

Okechukwu Ibeanu is a Professor of Political Science and was also Dean, Faculty of the Social Sciences at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. He was also special rapporteur of the United Nations Human Rights Council on the adverse effects of illicit movement and dumping of toxic waste on human rights.

#3566

Mahdi Ahouie

#175925

Overall Influence

1977 - Present (48 years)

Mahdi Ahouie is an Iranian political scientist and assistant professor of international politics and head of the Department of Iranian Studies at the University of Tehran. He has also been Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the Foundation for Interreligious and Intercultural Research and Dialogue in Geneva. Ahouie is known for his research on Israel's foreign policy, Middle Eastern politics and Iranian foreign relations.

#3567

Phyllis E. Oakley

#108091

Overall Influence

1934 - Present (91 years)

Phyllis Elliott Oakley was an American diplomat who served as U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees, and Migration and Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research . She was married to former Ambassador Robert B. Oakley and was a member of the American Academy of Diplomacy and the Council on Foreign Relations. Oakley was a graduate of The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, at Tufts University.

#3568

Gábor Kósa

#119296

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (54 years)

Gábor Kósa is a Hungarian historian of religions, an associate professor at the Faculty of Humanities of the Eötvös Loránd University, Department of Chinese Studies. Career Born in Budapest, Gábor Kósa holds MA degrees in English from the School of English and American Studies of the Faculty of Humanities of the ELTE, Chinese and religious studies . In 2006 he defended his doctoral dissertation entitled ʻThe Terminological Analysis of Chinese Texts Related to Manichaeism’ .

#3569

George Klosko

#88417

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (75 years)

George Klosko is an American philosopher and Henry L. and Grace Doherty Professor at the University of Virginia. He is known for his works on political theory. Klosko received his B.A. and Ph.D. from Columbia University.

#3570

Luise Drüke

#181964

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (77 years)

Luise Druke, DPhil, MPA is a German scholar and practitioner in the fields of International Relations, United Nations, and Refugee protection. Besides her academic work, Dr. Druke has headed offices and missions of the UNHCR in Europe, South East Asia and Central Asia, Latin America, and Africa for nearly 30 years.

#3571

Peter Lange

#113848

Overall Influence

Peter Lange is an American academic and the former Provost of Duke University, serving three terms from 1999 to 2014. As Provost, Lange oversaw the creation of Duke Kunshan University in China, and two five-year strategic plans. His tenure included building interdisciplinary institutes and new library and arts facilities. Lange was the university's longest-serving provost, and also served as a professor of political science.

#3572

Aleksander Surdej

Aleksander Surdej

#89575

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (64 years)

Aleksander Surdej is a Polish economist and scientist who since 2023 serves as an Ambassador to Vietnam; previously he was permanent representative to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development . His research interests focus on the methodology of policy analysis, labour market policies and policies of social regulations.

#3573

Peter Lewis Allen

#125773

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (68 years)

Peter Lewis Allen is an American former academic, whose research concerns included culture, history, and sexuality. Education and career Allen earned a B.A. in classics and English from Haverford College, and a Ph.D. in comparative literature from the University of Chicago. He taught literature for a time at institutions including Princeton University, the University of Southern California, and Pomona College. He went back to earn an M.B.A. from the Wharton School in 2000, at which time he left academia for the business world. He has held positions at McKinsey & Company, at Google Universi...

#3574

Alana Mann

#94631

Overall Influence

Professor Alana Mann is a food activist and interdisciplinary scholar researching the power relations between media, governments, institutions and citizens, in the field of food politics. She is co-founder of FoodLab Sydney, a business incubator to address issues around local food insecurity, based on the model pioneered by FoodLab Detroit. Mann is Professor and Head of Discipline at the University of Tasmania. She led the Department of Media and Communications at University of Sydney and was a key researcher in the Sydney Environment Institute; the Charles Perkins Centre and Sydney Democrac...

#3575

Elizabeth Wilson

#69637

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (89 years)

Elizabeth Wilson is a British independent researcher and writer best known for her commentaries on feminism and popular culture. She was a professor at London Metropolitan University and the London College of Fashion and is the author of several non-fiction books and fiction books. In particular, she writes on feminist politics and policy; the history of fashionable dress and dress as cultural practice; the cultures of urban life; and high culture and popular culture, especially architecture and film. Her novels The Twilight Hour, War Damage and The Girl in Berlin are published by Serpent’s Tail.

#3576

David Renz

#74219

Overall Influence

David O. Renz is a professor of public policy and the director of the Midwest Center for Nonprofit Leadership at the Henry W. Bloch School of Management at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. He was the former executive director of the Metropolitan Council and the assistant commissioner of Minnesota Department of Labor and Industry.

#3577

Pete Hatemi

#185281

Overall Influence

Peter K. Hatemi is an American political scientist and Distinguished Professor of Political Science, co-fund in Microbiology and Biochemistry at Pennsylvania State University. He is known for his research on the relationship between genetic factors and political attitudes and ideologies, the influence of narcissism on political attitudes as well as the underpinnings of violent behavior. He has also studied the relationship that other factors have to political orientations, finding that an individual's personality traits or moral foundations have no causal role in one's political orientations,...

#3578

Peter Kaim-Caudle

#109178

Overall Influence

1916 - 2010 (94 years)

Peter Kaim-Caudle was Emeritus Professor of Social Policy at Durham University and a recognised expert on the provision of social services. Life and career Peter Robert Kaim was born in Breslau to a middle-class German Jewish family on 14 December 1916. In 1933 he left the increasingly anti-semitic German Reich for England, where he studied economics at the LSE. He graduated in 1939 and went to work in business.

#3579

Christopher B. Krebs

#57928

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (25 years)

Christopher B. Krebs is the Gesue and Helen Spogli Professor of Italian Studies, Professor of Classics, and, by courtesy, of German Studies and Comparative Literature Stanford University. Krebs' principal research interests are Greek and Roman Historiography, Latin Lexicography and the Classical tradition.

#3580

Matthias Basedau

#177172

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (57 years)

Matthias Basedau is a German political scientist and director of the GIGA Institute for African Studies in Hamburg. Biography Professional career Basedau studied political science, sociology and psychology at the University of Heidelberg. After the Doctorate in Heidelberg he became aresearch fellow at the GIGA Institute for African Studies in 2002. There he was responsible for southern Africa , West Africa and the Sahel . Since 2013 he has been teaching as a Professor at the University of Hamburg . In 2014 he was a visiting professor at the Peace Research Institute Oslo. Since 2018 he has b...

#3581

Ndella Paye

#164844

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (51 years)

Ndella Paye Diouf is a militant French Afro-feminist and Muslim theologian who was born in Senegal. She has fought against the requirement for young Muslim women to wear the hijab in French schools but has above all sought full equality between the races and between men and women. She has been particularly intent on ensuring a successful future for her three daughters, giving them self-confidence through a good education and convincing them that black skin and afro hair are features of beauty.

#3582

Stan Greenberg

#170265

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (80 years)

Stanley Bernard Greenberg is an American pollster and political strategist affiliated with the Democratic Party. Greenberg is a founding partner of Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research and Democracy Corps, political consulting and research firms headquartered in Washington, D.C.

#3583

Nick Anstead

#107728

Overall Influence

Nick Anstead is a lecturer in the Department of Media and Communication at the London School of Economics, focusing on political communication. He was previously a politics lecturer at the University of East Anglia.

#3584

Marcos Prado Troyjo

Marcos Prado Troyjo

#173932

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (59 years)

Marcos Prado Troyjo is a Brazilian political economist, entrepreneur, social scientist, diplomat and writer. He is currently a Transformational Leadership Fellow at the University of Oxford’s Blavatnik School of Government and a Distinguished Fellow at INSEAD’s Hoffmann Global Institute for Business and Society.

#3585

Lynette Mitchell

#84071

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (59 years)

Professor Lynette Gail Mitchell is Professor in Greek History and Politics at the University of Exeter. Mitchell is known for her work on ancient Greek politics and kingship. Career Mitchell obtained her BA at the University of New England and then moved to the UK on a Commonwealth Scholarship in 1991. Mitchell completed her PhD at the University of Durham in 1994 and published her thesis as Greeks Bearing Gifts: the public use of private relationships 435-323 BC in 1997. Mitchell held a British Academy Post-doctoral Fellowship and Junior Research Fellowship at Oriel College, Oxford.

#3586

Andrew Batavia

#129005

Overall Influence

1957 - 2003 (46 years)

Andrew I. Batavia was a disability rights activist, health policy researcher, author, and associate professor at Florida International University who, at the age of 16, sustained a spinal cord injury. He earned a JD from Harvard Law School and an MS in health services research from Stanford University Medical School, and as a White House Fellow worked under Attorney General Dick Thornburgh to draft regulations for the Americans with Disabilities Act. In 2002, he co-founded Autonomy, Inc., to represent persons with disabilities who wanted choices and control over their lives, including the c...

#3587

Giuseppe Nazzaro

Giuseppe Nazzaro

#73972

Overall Influence

1937 - 2015 (78 years)

Giuseppe Nazzaro, OFM was an Emeritus bishop of the Apostolic Vicariate of Aleppo, Custodian of the Holy Land and a polyglot. Life Giuseppe Nazzaro was born on 22 December 1937 in San Potito Ultra in the Campania. In 1950 he enrolled in the Franciscan College of the Holy Land in Rome. Nazzaro continued his studies in Emmaus in Israel. His novitiate in the Order of Friars Minor began on 4 October 1956 in Bethlehem. His perpetual profession was filed on 18 December 1960. Nazzaro studied philosophy and theology at Bethlehem and Jerusalem in the Studium Theologicum Jerosolimitanum. On 29 June 196...

#3588

Lauren Davenport

#181948

Overall Influence

Lauren Davenport is an American political scientist. She is Associate Professor of Political Science at Stanford University. Her research focuses on American politics with a particular focus on race and ethnicity.

#3589

Alison Dagnes

#181363

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (56 years)

Alison Dawn Dagnes is an American professor, author, and commentator on American politics. Her work focuses on politics and the media, politics and humor, and political scandal. She is a Professor of Political Science at Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania.

#3590

Norberto Bobbio

#185757

Overall Influence

#3591

Jon L. Mills

#139813

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (78 years)

Jon L. Mills is an American lawyer and former politician. Education Mills earned a B.A. from Stetson University in 1969. He went on to the University of Florida College of Law where he graduated second overall in 1972. While at the Levin College of Law, he served on the Florida Law Review, and was a member of Florida Blue Key. Before Mills became the Dean of the Levin College of Law, he served as a Professor at the University of Florida in 1995.

#3592

Ryan Maness

#142650

Overall Influence

Ryan Maness is an American cybersecurity expert and an assistant professor at the Defense Analysis Department of Naval Postgraduate School. He is the co-author of Cyber War Versus Cyber Realities: Cyber Conflict in the International System, which won widespread critical acclaim.

#3593

Miguel Civil

#29159

Overall Influence

1926 - 2019 (93 years)

Miguel Civil was an American Assyriologist and expert on Sumer and Ancient Mesopotamian studies at the University of Chicago Oriental Institute. According to his colleague, Christopher Woods, at the time of his death, Civil knew the Sumerian language better than anyone since it was last spoken 4000 years ago.

#3594

Wes Moore

#145648

Overall Influence

1978 - Present (47 years)

Westley Watende Omari Moore is an American politician, investment banker, author, nonprofit executive, and former television producer serving as the 63rd governor of Maryland since 2023. Moore was born in Maryland and raised largely in New York. He graduated from Johns Hopkins University and received a master's degree from Wolfson College, Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. After several years in the U.S. Army and Army Reserve, Moore became an investment banker in New York. Between 2010 and 2015, Moore published five books, including a young adult novel. He served as CEO of the Robin Hood Foundation from 2017 to 2021.

#3595

Tadashi Yamamoto

#177965

Overall Influence

1936 - 2012 (76 years)

Tadashi Yamamoto CBE was one of Japan's leading internationalists and a pioneering proponent of efforts to strengthen nongovernmental ties between Japan and the United States as well as between Japan and other countries. Yamamoto championed the view that civilian diplomacy and person-to-person exchanges conducted by nongovernmental organizations had a critical role to play in international relations. He was the founder and longtime president of the Japan Center for International Exchange a foreign policy think tank established in 1970 which promotes bilateral relations and exchanges between nongovernmental organizations.

#3596

Spencer J. Condie

#61517

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (85 years)

Spencer Joel Condie has been a general authority of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints since 1989. Condie previously worked as a professor at Brigham Young University and also served as a mission president for the LDS Church in Eastern Europe. In 2010, he was designated as an emeritus general authority.

#3597

Ronald van Raak

#115688

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (56 years)

Antonius Adrianus Gerardus Maria "Ronald" van Raak is a Dutch politician, non-fiction writer and former academic. A member of the Socialist Party, he has been a member of the House of Representatives since 30 November 2006. He focuses on matters of home affairs, kingdom relations, the royal house and general affairs. From 2003 to 2006, he was a Senator of the Netherlands.

#3598

Caroline Thomas

#170273

Overall Influence

1959 - 2008 (49 years)

Caroline Thomas was an international relations academic and a leading authority on the politics of development. Her work In Search of Security was an early contribution to the 'widening' debate within security studies.

#3599

Balint Vazsonyi

#130722

Overall Influence

1936 - 2003 (67 years)

Balint Vázsonyi was a Hungarian-born naturalized American pianist, educator, international recitalist/soloist with leading orchestras, and political activist and journalist. He made performance history in playing chronological cycles of all 32 piano sonatas by Beethoven over two days in New York, Boston, and London. During the last six years of his life, he became a commentator in Washington, D.C., on the state of American politics.

#3600

Olivia Milburn

#85843

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (49 years)

Olivia Milburn is a sinologist, author and literary translator who specialises in Chinese cultural history and in Chinese minority groups. Life and career Milburn is a professor at the School of Chinese, Hong Kong University.

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