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Research Expertise and Interest

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Department

Dept of African American Studies

Atlantic slave trade, historical demography, African history and political economy, oil and gas policy

Bethany L. Goldblum

Dept of Nuclear Engineering

applied nuclear physics, neutron detection, scintillation physics, machine learning applications, nuclear weapon policy

School of Social Welfare

family policy, child and family poverty, child abuse and neglect, foster care, kinship care, Child welfare services

ARE PhD students and Sofia Villas-Boas

Sofia Villas-Boas

Dept of Agricultural & Resource Economics

economics, industrial organization and applied econometrics, agricultural & resource economics, consumer behavior and decision making

Peter S. Menell

intellectual property, property law, environmental law & policy, entertainment law, law and economics, federal courts

Ann Keller

School of Public Health

political science, health politics, public policy, public administration, disaster response, expertise in public decision-making

Alison Post

Dept of Political Science

regulation, infrastructure, water and sanitation, urban politics, urban politics and policy, comparative political economy, community-engaged research/scholarship, impact evaluations requested by governments/NGOs

James Robinson, Professor of Health Economics

School of Public Health

industrial policy in the life sciences, pharmaceutical pricing, regulation of medical devices, comparative health systems

Dept of Political Science

School of Information

political science, international security, international political economy, information science

Dept of Geography

climate change, endangered species, rangelands, political ecology, pastoralism, ranching, environmental history, suburbanization, human-environment interactions, environmental geography, range science and management, Southwestern US, scale, community-based conservation

Ayelet Shachar in office with book titled "The Shifting Boarder" on table in foreground

law and religion, citizenship and immigration law and policy, comparative and international law, legal theory, anti-discrimination law

Dept of City & Regional Planning

Affordable housing, homelessness, access to credit, community development, the Community Reinvestment Act, neighborhood change, homeownership and mortgage finance (with a focus on low-income and minority households)

Kristine Madsen

Kristine Madsen

School of Public Health

health disparities, children, schools, policy, nutrition, physical activity, obesity, accelerometers, physical education

Amy Lerman

Dept of Political Science

Goldman School of Public Policy

American government, public opinion, civic engagement, criminal justice, public impact research/scholarship, community-engaged research/scholarship, research practice partnership

Sarah Song portrait

Sarah Song

Dept of Political Science

political theory, citizenship and migration studies, feminist theory, American immigration law and policy, democratic theory, First Amendment law

Laura C. Nelson

Dept of Gender and Women's Studies

gender and medicine and politics, breast cancer in South Korea, cultural impacts of ultra-low fertility, demographic undertow, structures on cultural temporality and anti-poverty policies in the U.S. and South Korea

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Dept of Political Science

political science, social policy, comparative political economy, West European politics, French politics, relationship between partisanship and welfare reform in contemporary Western Europe

Hidetaka Hirota

Hidetaka Hirota

Dept of History

US immigration history, American immigration law and policy, Race and Ethnicity in the United States, 19th century United States, Asian American history, U.S. and the world, Global Migration, Transnational History

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

carbon removal, climate change mitigation, nature based climate solutions, forest management, biofuels, plantation agriculture, land use planning, land use policy, biodiversity conservation, ecosystem services, tropical ecology, environmental economics, public impact research/scholarship, research practice partnership, community-based research partnerships

Sylvia Guendelman

Sylvia Guendelman

School of Public Health

public health, maternal & child health, health and social behavior, health policy and management, specialty area in multicultural health

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

transportation economics, transportation planning, transportation systems analysis, aviation policy and planning, urban and regional planning, air transportation

Joan Bloom

School of Public Health

health policy and management, cancer prevention, early detection and long term survival, public healthreducing disparities in access to health care

Sean Darling-Hammond

School of Public Health

K-12, education policy, exclusionary discipline, school policing, restorative practices, social and emotional learning, student mental health, health equity, implicit bias, intergroup contact

Pamela Samuelson

Pamela Samuelson

public policy, intellectual property law, new information technologies, traditional legal regimes, information management, copyright, software protection and cyberlaw, AI govenance

Dept of Italian Studies

Renaissance Europe, early modern Europe, Atlantic History, History of Books and Reading, colonialism, history of science and technology