Jordan Branch

I am an Associate Professor of Government at Claremont McKenna College. 

In 2020, I was an American Council of Learned Societies Fellow. From 2012 through 2020 I was an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Brown University. In 2011-2012, I was the Hayward R. Alker Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for International Studies, at the University of Southern California. 

I received a PhD in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley, and my AB in International Relations from Stanford.

My research and teaching focus on two issues at the core of international relations: the origins, features, and consequences of the territorial system of sovereign states and the role of technology and technological change in international politics.