Tag politics, government, public policy
Yoshiko Herrera
Professor, Political Science
Expert on politics in Russia and other post-Soviet states, political economy in Russia, nationalism, ethnic politics, and social identities/diversity
Miriam Seifter
Professor, law
Expert on administrative law, state and local government law, executive power, federalism, and the U.S. Supreme Court
Jennifer Gaddis
Associate Professor, Civil Society & Community Studies
Expert on school food politics and systems change in local, state, national, and international contexts
Dave Schroeder
National Security Research Strategist
Subject matter expert on information technology, cybersecurity, and cyber national security issues; Army Cyber Warfare Officer and intelligence professional; former Navy Information Warfare Officer.
Sarah Halpern-Meekin
Associate Professor, Human Development & Family Studies
Social and welfare policy; poverty; romantic and family relationships
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
Robert Yablon
Associate Professor of Law; Faculty Co-Director, State Democracy Research Initiative
Expert on political and election law, federal and state constitutional law, and the federal and state court systems, including the U.S. Supreme Court
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
Assistant 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
Romnes Professor of English
I study the relationship between popular culture and radical social movements.
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.
Gina Bryan
Clinical Professor; Director, Post Graduate Psychiatry Program
Psychiatric advanced practice registered nurse; frequent state and national policy advisor on opioids, nursing scope of practice, and access to mental healthcare
Adena Rissman
Professor of the human dimensions of ecosystem management, Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology
Expert on the social and policy aspects of natural resources management and conservation, including land protection, forestry, wildlife habitat, water quality
Gavin Luter
Director, UniverCity Alliance
Expert about university/community partnerships, with an emphasis on K-12 schools, including place-based anchor institution partnership development and how to assess their impact
David Fields
Associate Director, Center for East Asian Studies
Expert on U.S.-Korean relations, U.S.-East Asian relations, and American foreign policy
Daniel Hummel
Research Fellow (UW-Madison); Director of University Engagement (Upper House)
Expert on U.S.-Israel relations, American evangelicalism, and U.S. foreign policy.
Paula Tran
Senior Health Equity Advisor
Paula’s areas of research and practice focus on topics of health equity and health equity capacity building, collective community action, power building, and health in
Nathan Seltzer
PhD Candidate, Sociology, Center for Demography and Ecology
Expert on the Demographic Consequences of U.S. Manufacturing Decline
James McMaster
Assistant Professor, Gender and Women's Studies and Asian American Studies
Expert on LGBTQ and Asian American politics and cultural production.
Rebecca Myerson
Assistant Professor, Population Health Sciences
How public policies can improve outcomes for vulnerable patients, including impacts on insurance coverage and incidence, diagnosis, and treatment of chronic conditions.
David S. Schwartz
Foley & Lardner-Bascom Professor of Law
Expert on U.S. Constitutional Law and history, and the constitutional implications of American politics; procedural and evidence law
Claus Andersen
Paul and Renate Madsen Professor of Scandinavian Studies
Hygge, Scandinavian Culture and Politics, literature, autofiction, Hans Christian Andersen, Karl Ove Knausgaard
Andrew W. Stevens
Assistant Professor, Agricultural and Applied Economics
Expert on applied agricultural and food policy with interests ranging from US agricultural production to consumer food demand and food security
Michael Childers
Professor, Department of Labor Education
Expert specializing in labor unions, collective bargaining, production standards, and labor/management relations in union environments.
Steven Deller
Professor and Community Development Specialist, Agricultural and Applied Economics
Economic growth and development with a focus on smaller more rural economics. Entrepreneurship, social capital, public finance.
Allison Prasch
Assistant Professor, Communication Arts
Expert on U.S. presidential rhetoric, foreign policy, national identity, political communication, geopolitics
Ralph Grunewald
Assistant Professor, Department of English; Center for Law, Society & Justice
Expert on criminal justice (American and comparative), juvenile justice, legal storytelling, and law and literature
Corbett Grainger
Associate Professor, Ag & Applied Economics
Expert on environmental policy, natural resource policy, and income distribution.
Douglas McLeod
Evjue Centenniel Professor
Expert on media coverage of social protest, media effects on public opinion, and strategy communication campaigns.
Erica Turner
Associate Professor
Expert on educational policy, racism & inequality in education, school district policy making and implementation, socio-political and economic contexts of public schools
Melody Harvey
Assistant professor, consumer science
Expert on K-12 financial education policy, alternative financial services use (e.g. payday loans), and consumer finances among young adults and low- and moderate-income households
Ion Meyn
Assistant Professor
Expert on criminal process, wrongful convictions, race and procedure, mass incarceration, diversion, civil rights, policing, use of force
Franciska Coleman
Assistant Professor, Law School; Associate Director, East Asian Legal Studies Center
Expert on free speech implications of cancel/consequence culture; constitutional implications of a minority-majority society; Fifteenth Amendment and political equality of racial minorities and the poor
Max Besbris
Associate Professor of Sociology
Expert on how people make economic decisions and how economic decisions reproduce inequality.