Erica Frantz

Associate Professor - Department of Political Science

Erica Frantz (Ph.D., UCLA, 2008) is an associate professor in Political Science at Michigan State University.  From 2011 to 2015, she was an assistant professor in Political Science at Bridgewater State University, and from 2008 to 2011 she worked as an analyst at the Institute for Physical Sciences. Her research and teaching interests include authoritarian politics, democratization, conflict, and development. She is particularly interested in the security and policy implications of autocratic rule.

Erica Frantz is Angie Torres-Beltran's mentor.