

Our Faculty
Our Faculty
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Christine Wade
Professor of Political Science and International Studies; Program Director, International Studies; Curator of Louis L. Goldstein ’35 Program in Public Affairs, Faculty Advisor for the Peace and Conflict Studies Minor and Latin American Studies Minor- 410-778-7764
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- Daly 203
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- jprudhomme2@washcoll.edu
- Dunning Decker N102
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- Goldstein 206A

Tahir Shad
Associate Professor of Political Science and International Studies; Director, Near Eastern Studies minor- (800) 422-1782, ext. 7779
- tshad2@washcoll.edu
- Goldstein 229
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- fhickel2@washcoll.edu
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Faculty in the News:
Melissa Deckman, Chair and Professor of Political Science, is quoted in Business Insider in a story about how younger Americans who are part of Gen Z see climate change as a predominant social and political issue.
Political Science Professor and Chair Melissa Deckman brings her political analysis chops to the fore in this story in The Conversation about a new survey that shows young LGBT Americans are more politically engaged than the rest of their Gen X peers.
Melissa Deckman, Chair and Professor of Political Science and a scholar with the nonpartisan Public Religion Research Institute, is quoted in the Morning Consult about a new survey that examines the conflict over abortion and its root causes in the status and rights of a fetus at differing stages of pregnancy. Deckman says that while abortion has always been a thorny political and cultural issue, it has never been this divisive.