Tag politics, government, public policy
Lucas Graves
Assistant professor, journalism & mass communication
Expert on new media and fact-checking in journalism and politics
Sara McKinnon
Associate professor, communication arts; affiliate faculty, gender & women's studies; affiliate faculty, global studies
Expert on US refugee and asylum law, immigration, gender violence, and women's human rights. I also work on experiences of transgender youth in schools.
Aleksandra Zgierska
Assistant professor, School of Medicine and Public Health
Board-certified family medicine and addiction medicine physician whose research focuses on opioid-treated chronic pain and addiction, especially involving opioids.
Kris Saha
Assistant professor, biomedical engineering; Faculty member, Wisconsin Institute for Discovery
Expert on human biotechnologies, gene editing, CRISPR, stem cell biology, tissue engineering, science policy, human disease modeling and bioethics
Laura Albert
Associate professor, industrial and systems engineering
Expert on operations research, mathematical modeling, and analytics.
Bill Rizzo
Local government specialist, UW Extension Local Government Center
Expert on civility in local government, and community dialogue and deliberation.
Eric Sundquist
Managing director, State Smart Transportation Initiative (Center on Wisconsin Strategy)
Expert on transportation policy focused on sustainability, contemporary solutions, and social equity.
Martha ("Meg") Gaines
Director, Center for Patient Partnerships; Distinguished Clinical Professor, Law School
Expert on issues related to consumer health advocacy, health care policy advocacy and interdisciplinary health care education.
Yang Sao Xiong
Assistant Professor, Social Work, Asian American Studies
Expert on social movements, Hmong, Asian and Hmong Americans, refugee and immigrant communities, English Learners, American political institutions and whiteness
Lawrence Berger
Professor, School of Social Work; Director, Institute for Research on Poverty
Expert on the economic resources, sociodemographic characteristics, and public policies affecting parental behaviors and child and family well-being
Satya Rhodes-Conway
Senior associate, COWS; Managing director, Mayors Innovation Project
I work with local government to implement innovative policy that promotes the high road of sustainability, equity and democracy.
Eleanor Powell
Assistant professor, political science
Expert on Congress, money in politics, and political parties.
Kathryn Moeller
Asst. professor, Educational Policy Studies; affiliate, Gender & Women's Studies/Latin American, Caribbean, Iberian
Expert on gender equity and feminism and on philanthropy and corporate social responsibility in the fields of education and international development
Steven Wright
Instructor, law
Expert on voting rights, civil-rights law enforcement, and wrongful convictions.
Thomas (Tom) O'Guinn
Professor, marketing; Arthur C. Nielsen, Jr. Chair in Marketing Research
Expert on branding, consumer behavior, advertising, social class and consumption, and institutional responses by marketers to social disruption such as wars, recessions, oil spills,
Lindsay Palmer
Assistant Professor, School of Journalism and Mass Communication
Former journalist, current professor of global media ethics. Focuses on the safety of journalists in the field.
David O'Connor
Professor, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine; Associate Director, Wisconsin National Primate Research Center
Study the interplay of genetics, immunology, and viral pathogenesis. Focus on HIV/AIDS and novel viral pathogen emergence in human populations.
Lewis Friedland
Journalism and Mass Communication, Sociology (affiliated)
Lew Friedland studies the role of civil society in democracy and how our social relations and cleavages affect our politics.
Carolina Sarmiento
Assistant professor, Civil Society and Community Studies, School of Human Ecology; affiliate faculty, Urban and Regional
Expert on community based planning, urban development, governance, and cultural spaces in working class communities
Noah Williams
Juli Plant Grainger Professor of Economics
Expert on macroeconomics, monetary policy, tax policy, and the Wisconsin economy. Can comment on national and state-level economic policy.
Robert Yablon
Assistant Professor of Law
Expert on the Supreme Court, the federal judicial system, and political/election law (including voting rights and campaign finance)
Timothy Smeeding
Lee Rainwater Distinguished Professor of Public Affairs and Economics, Robert M. La Follette School of Public Affairs
Expert on social and economic mobility across generations; inequality of income, consumption and wealth; and poverty in national and cross-national contexts.
Yunji Kim
Asistant Professor, Planning & Landscape Architecture; Extension Specialist, Local Government Center
Expert on local government fiscal stress, local government revenues, local government services, and community wellbeing
Ramzi Fawaz
Assistant Professor of English
I study the relationship between popular culture and radical social movements.
Ed Jalinske
UW-Madison Office of Cybersecurity
Expert on Cybersecurity education, training, awareness, and policy
Marie Hicks
Assistant Professor, History (History of Science Unit)
Expert on women in computing, history of technology, gender and sexuality in STEM
Alex Wiedenhoeft
Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Botany
Specialist in the anatomy and function of wood, forensic wood science, and forensic botany
Jo Handelsman
Director, Wisconsin Institute for Discovery
Vilas Research Professor, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor, and Director, Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, University of Wisconsin – Madison.
Lisa Rand
A. W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Research in the Humanities
Expert on the past and present of space technology and space junk, history of gender and technology, planetary analogs