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Department

David Broockman

David Broockman

Dept of Political Science

political representation, elections, public impact research/scholarship, community-engaged research / scholarship, research practice partnership, community-based research partnerships

Hunter Rendleman

Dept of Political Science

American political institutions, political behavior, identity politics, organizations, group dynamics

Sarah Anzia wearing brown blazer in outside environment

Sarah Anzia

Dept of Political Science

Goldman School of Public Policy

American politics, public policy, interest groups, state politics, local politics, election timing, voter turnout, public pensions, public sector unions, collective bargaining

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

Pradeep Chhibber

Pradeep Chhibber

Dept of Political Science

political parties, South Asia, electoral politics, politics of India

Henry Brady

Dept of Political Science

Goldman School of Public Policy

comparative politics, public policy, electoral politics, political participation, survey research, program evaluation, statistical methods in the social sciences, social welfare policy, Soviet Union, inequality in America

Professor David C. Wilson on stage

David C. Wilson

Goldman School of Public Policy

political psychology, politics, race and public policy, race, racial justice, public opinion research, survey research methods

Charles Hirschkind

Charles Hirschkind

Dept of Anthropology

Islam, anthropology, religious practice, media technologies, political community, Middle East, Europe

David Montejano

David Montejano

Dept of Ethnic Studies

social change, historical sociology, political sociology, community studies, race & ethnic relations

Ann Swidler

Dept of Sociology

religion, culture, Africa, AIDS, political sociology, theory, development, NGOs, public impact research/scholarship, community-engaged research / scholarship, research practice partnership, community-based research partnerships, social justice research

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

Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz

Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz

Dept of Sociology

race and ethnicity, sociology of knowledge and culture, Latinx politics and identify, political sociology, Du Boisian sociology, ethnographic methods, qualitative methods, public impact research/scholarship, community-engaged research / scholarship, community-based research partnerships, social justice research

Dept of Energy & Resources Group

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

political economy of development, historical and feminist political ecology, critical food and agrarian studies, Science and Technology studies, feminist theory, African studies, Tanzania, critical ethnography, participatory research, community-engaged research / scholarship, gender, intersectionality, agriculture, environmental justice

Dept of City & Regional Planning

environmental planning, climate planning, sustainability and resilience, environmental and climate justice, geographic and spatial analysis, urban policy and political economy, global environmental governance, community engagement

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

Lisa Garcia Bedolla

Lisa Garcia Bedolla

School of Education

Dept of Political Science

politics, immigration, race, gender, inequality, community-engaged research / scholarship, community-based research partnerships

Dept of English

community-engaged research / scholarship, research practice partnership, community-based research partnerships

Daniela Cammack

Daniela Cammack

Dept of Political Science

history of political thought, democracy, ancient Greece, ancient Rome

Gerónimo Barrera de la Torre

Dept of Geography

geospatial representation, political economy, critical environments, social mapping, political ecology, historical and political geography, environmental history, indigenous/campesino ontologies and epistemologies, Latin American geographies, videography

photo of Susan Hyde

Susan Hyde

Dept of Political Science

election fraud, democracy promotion, elections, election violence, international norms, field experiments, foreign aid, public impact research/scholarship, community-engaged research / scholarship, research practice partnership

Dept of Anthropology

disability, Japan, disability studies, queer studies, LGBTQ communities, social cultural anthropology, medical and psychiatric anthropology, community-engaged research / scholarship, community-based research partnerships

Louise Fortmann

Louise P. Fortmann

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

natural resource sociology, political ecology, rural development, gender

Karen Trapenberg Frick

Karen Trapenberg Frick

Dept of City & Regional Planning

political polarization, politics of infrastructure, transportation policy and planning

Professor Bolden speaking to the 2026 California Journalism Philanthropy Summit in Los Angeles.

Michael D. Bolden

School of Journalism

community-engaged journalism, media transformation, press freedom, equity in journalism, local news reporting

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