In addition to teaching, JMC faculty members are scholars and experts who are actively involved in research and are widely published.
Madison faculty offer a broad spectrum of expertise. From land and human rights in Southeast Asia to Holocaust studies to drug trafficking to the collapse of the Soviet Union and more.
Sejuti Das Gupta, Shouvik Chakraborty and Taposik Banerjee, Editors (2026). Contradictions of Democracy, Development and Inequality. Routledge.
Kirstin Brathwaite. (2025) Symbols and Sacrifice in War: National Identity and the Will to Fight. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press.
Cameron G. Thies, Editor. (2025) Handbook of International Relations. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar.
Sherman Garnett. (2025) The Reluctant Political Thinker: Czesław Miłosz on Crisis, the Poetic Life, and the Cold War Political. Berlin, DE: De Gruyter.
Norman A. Graham and Suhnaz Yilmaz. (2024) Energy, Environment and Geopolitics in Eurasia: Search for Security in the Water-Energy-Food Nexus. New York, NY: Routledge.
Jordan Cash. (2023) The Isolated Presidency. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
Amy Simon. (2023) Emotions in Yiddish Ghetto Diaries: Encountering Persecutors and Questioning Humanity. New York, NY: Routledge.
Susan Stein-Roggenbuck. (2023) Caring for Mom and Dad: Parent Dependency and American Social Policy. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
Guido Parietti. (2022) On the Concept of Power. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
Simei Qing. (2022) From Allies to Enemies: Visions of Modernity and Identity in the U.S.–China Diplomacy, 1945-1960. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, (new digital and audio edition).
Anna Pegler-Gordon. (2021) Closing the Golden Door: Asian Migration and the Hidden History of Exclusion at Ellis Island. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press.
Suleyman O. Altiparmak and Cameron G. Thies (forthcoming). Navigating Interrole Conflicts and Maneuvering Sovereignty in the Foreign Policy of Buffer States. Foreign Policy Analysis.
Russell Lucas, Justin Gengler and Mark Tessler (2026). Putting the ‘Public’ Back into Middle East Public Opinion Research: Evidence from Qatar. Middle East Law and Governance. https://doi.org/10.1163/18763375-bja10010
Siddharth Chandra and Gaurav Doshi (2025). Substitution and Complementarity in the Consumption of Alcohol, Cannabis, and Opium. Health Economics, 34: 827-854. https://doi.org/10.1002/hec.4938
Stephanie Nawyn, Linlang He, Jiquan Chen, Mark Axelrod, Furqan Irfan, Fahad Ahmed, and Mary Anne Walker (2024). Mapping the Future of Migration and Climate Change Science. International Migration Review 58(4):1913-36. https://doi.org/10.1177/01979183241272470
Jordan Cash (2024). Escaping Isolation: Harry Truman and the Sources of Modern Presidential Authority. Presidential Studies Quarterly 54, no. 4 (December 2024): 436-457. https://doi.org/10.1111/psq.12891
Norman A. Graham, Rachael Lee, Maren Nicolaysen, and Eleanor Pugh (2024). Cross-border river sharing challenges and sustainable fisheries: A salute to the impact of William Taylor. Aquatic Ecosystem Health & Management, 27 (4): 28–31. https://doi.org/10.14321/aehm.027.04.28
Myunghee Lee (2024). Protectors of liberal democracy or defenders of past authoritarianism?: authoritarian legacies, collective identity, and the far-right protest in South Korea. Democratization, 31(3), 638–658. https://doi.org/10.1080/13510347.2023.2301330
Linda Sayed, Mohammed Alanazi, and Kristine J. Ajrouch (2023). Self-Reported Cognitive Ageing and Well-Being among Older Middle Eastern/Arab American Immigrants during the COVID-19 Pandemic. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 20(11): 5918. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20115918
Anna Pegler-Gordon (2023). Wong Kim Ark’s children: immigrant citizenship under Chinese exclusion. Citizenship Studies, 28(2), 201–221. https://doi.org/10.1080/13621025.2024.2336933
Brianne Wolf (2023). Tocqueville and the Moral Economy of Bankruptcy in Nineteenth-Century America. Political Science Reviewer 47 (2): 161-198.
Kirstin Brathwaite and Margarita Konaev (2022). War in the City: Ethnic Geography and Combat Effectiveness. Journal of Strategic Studies, 45(1): 33-68. https://doi.org/10.1080/01402390.2019.1672159
Matt Zierler, "Trump aims to reset war powers clock with controversial bid to bypass Congress," Fox News (May 2026)
Russell Lucas, "Netanyahu's Approval Among Americans Plunges to Record Low—Poll," Newsweek (July 2025)
Jordan Cash, "Special Book Edition: Congressional Deliberation: Major Debates, Speeches, and Writings, 1774-2023," Understanding Congress Podcast (May 2025)
Myunghee Lee (with Sungik Yang). “South Korea shook a presidential power grab – failure to impeach now risks damaging democracy," The Conversation, (December 2024)
Matt Zierler, "Has WWIII Already Begun?," Newsweek (December 2024)
Guido Parietti, "On the Concept of Power: Possibility, Necessity, Politics (book roundtable)," Theoria: A Journal of Social and Political Theory (November 2024)
Russell Lucas, "What increased Middle East tensions could mean for the region and US," MSUToday (October 2024)
Daniel Kramer, "New Michigan law requires homeowners associations to allow rooftop solar," WKAR (July 2024)
Brianne Wolf, "'Living Better Together' — On Women and the Family," Hayek Program Podcast (March 2024)
Russell Lucas, "Will US efforts to de-escalate the Israel-Hamas conflict be effective? Experts weigh in," ABC News (October 2023)
Prof. Dan Kramer was one of 10 scholars who assessed the state of global hydropower governance as thousands of new dams are in development across the global south.
JMC Prof. Brianne Wolf helped mark 250 years since the publication of Adam Smith's "Wealth of Nations" with a perspective essay that explores his lasting relevance.
JMC Prof. Mark Axelrod was part of an international team of researchers who developed a comprehensive framework to close gender data gaps in small-scale fisheries.
Prof. Kirstin Brathwaite released her first book, "Symbols and Sacrifice in War: National Identity and the Will to Fight."
A new collection of essays co-edited by Prof. Jordan Cash offers a tribute to the career of David K. Nichols.
Prof. Sejuti Das Gupta co-edited a new book exploring cultural identity and economic inequality in India’s democracy.
In "Caring for Mom and Dad," Prof. Susan Stein-Roggenbuck analyzes public policies for aging parents.
A new book by Prof. Sherman Garnett examines the political philosophy of Nobel Prize-winning poet and writer Czesław Miłosz.
In a recent article, Prof. Anna Pegler-Gordon explored birthright citizenship and immigration under Chinese exclusion.
Collaborative scholarship is central to the residential college experience. Faculty and students often participate in research together and or engage in cross-college partnerships with faculty and students in other colleges or units on campus.
Often, these projects continue beyond students’ undergraduate experiences. Past and current collaborative research include JMC’s Living Archive, Mekong Culture WELL, Human Rights Data Science Lab and the Equitable Development Collaboratory.