Madhavi McCall, Associate Vice President

Dr. Madhavi McCall joined the San Diego State University Political Science department in 2001. She earned her Ph.D. in Political Science from Washington University in St. Louis, her Masters from The University of Akron and her B.A from Case Western Reserve University. McCall served as Department Chair from 2010-2014 and Associate Dean, College of Arts and Letters, 2015-2021. In addition to serving as Chair and Associate Dean, she has served on numerous university and college committees, as the University Pre-law Advisor, on the Senate, as interim director for the Program on Brazil, as Associate Editor for the Social Science Journal and as a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Judicature.  Dr. McCall’s research interests center on the voting behavior of state supreme court justices and members of the United States Supreme Court and she teaches classes in public law, concentrating on examining the relationship between politics and society to the development of legal principles.