Meet Us
Department Leadership
James Cox, Ph.D.
Professor, Department Chair

- Location: Tahoe Hall 3104
- Phone: (916) 278-6202
- jhcox@csus.edu
David Andersen-Rodgers, Ph.D.
Professor, Graduate Coordinator

- Location: Tahoe Hall 3119
- Phone: (916) 278-7095
- david.andersen@csus.edu
Jaime Jackson, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Internship Coordinator & Director of Sacramento Semester Program

Advisors/Full-Time Faculty
Mark Brown, Ph.D.
Professor

- Location: Tahoe Hall 3124
- Phone: (916) 278-6430
- mark.brown@csus.edu
- Website
- Areas of Advisement: Political Science Major
Patrick Cannon, Ph.D.
Professor

- Location: Tahoe Hall 3113
- Phone: (916) 278-4529
- pcannon@csus.edu
- Areas of Advisement: International Relations Major
Brian DiSarro, Ph.D.
Professor

- Location: Tahoe Hall 3115
- Phone: (916) 278-3572
- disarrob@csus.edu
- Areas of Advisement: Political Science Major
Andrew Hertzoff, Ph.D.
Associate Professor

- Location: Tahoe Hall 3009
- Phone: (916) 278-3495
- ahertzof@csus.edu
- Areas of Advisement: Political Science Major
Wesley Hussey, Ph.D.
Professor

- Location: Tahoe Hall 3120
- Phone: (916) 278-3849
- whussey@csus.edu
- Areas of Advisement: Political Science Major
Nancy Lapp, Ph.D.
Professor

- Location: Tahoe Hall 3116
- Phone: (916) 278-7254
- nlapp@csus.edu
- Areas of Advisement: Political Science & International Relations Majors
Young-Im Lee, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

- Location: Tahoe Hall 3008
- Phone: (916) 278-7090
- young-im.lee@csus.edu
- Areas of Advisement: International Relations Major
Danielle Joesten Martin, Ph.D.
Associate Professor

- Location: Tahoe Hall 3110
- Phone: (916) 278-6380
- danielle.martin@csus.edu
- Website
- Areas of Advisement: Political Science & Political Science-Journalism Majors
Kimberly Nalder, Ph.D.
Professor

- Location: Tahoe Hall 3121
- Phone: (916) 278-6693
- klnalder@csus.edu
- Website
- Areas of Advisement: Political Science Major
Robert Stanley Oden, Ph.D.
Professor

- Location: Tahoe Hall 3112
- Phone: (916) 278-7099
- rso@csus.edu
- Areas of Advisement: Political Science Major
James DeShaw Rae, Ph.D.
Professor

- Location: Tahoe Hall 3123
- Phone: (916) 278-7866
- rae@csus.edu
- Website
- Areas of Advisement: International Relations Major
Sahar Razavi, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Director of Iranian and Middle Eastern Studies Center

- Location: Tahoe Hall 3101
- Phone: (916) 278-6098
- razavi@csus.edu
- Areas of Advisement: International Relations Major
Christopher Towler, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

- Location: Tahoe Hall 3117
- Phone: (916) 278-4012
- towler@csus.edu
- Areas of Advisement: Political Science Major
Monicka Tutschka, Ph.D.
Professor

- Location: Tahoe Hall 3114
- Phone: (916) 278-6330
- tutschka@csus.edu
- Areas of Advisement: Political Science Major
Kristina Victor, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

- Location: Tahoe Hall 3118
- Phone: (916) 278-3678
- kristina.victor@csus.edu
- Areas of Advisement: Political Science Major