Politics, government, public policy :: UW

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

Letters & Science Nancy Obin Sukenik Professor; Associate Professor, Communication Arts

Expert on U.S. presidential rhetoric, political communication, and foreign policy

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.

Joshua Braver