Politics and public policy | Expert Topics

Vinod Aggarwal

Professor of business and public policy

International political economy, trade, world markets, recession, debt, finance, supply chains, impact of disease pandemics on global economy.

Henry Brady

Professor of political science and public policy, dean of the Goldman School of Public Policy

Areas of expertise: Elections, politics, government.

Linda Burton

Dean of the School of Social Welfare

lburton@berkeley.edu

Poverty and child welfare in rural and urban U.S., welfare reform, intergenerational family structures, social determinants of health, ethnography

Jack Citrin

Professor of political science

Areas of expertise: U.S. politics, public opinion and elections. The Jack Citrin Center for Public Opinion Research conducts research on important long-term issues facing California and the nation.

Steven Fish

Political science professor

Politics in Russia, Central Asia, Eurasia and Eastern Europe.

Bruce Fuller

Professor of education and public policy in the Graduate School of Education

Areas of expertise: education and public policy, diverse forms of schooling such as charter schools, early learning, socialization of Latino children.

Carole Galante

I. Donald Terner Distinguished Professor in Affordable Housing and Urban Policy; faculty director of the Terner Center for Housing Innovation;

Served in the Obama Administration for over five years as the Assistant Secretary for Housing/Federal Housing Commissioner at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Multifamily Housing

Lisa García Bedolla

UC Berkeley's vice provost for graduate studies, dean of the Graduate Division, professor of education

Areas of expertise: Elections, race and politics in the U.S., Latinx politics and community issues/organizing
Spanish-speaking

Jack Glaser

Professor

Areas of expertise: Social psychology; criminal justice, including police "implicit bias" and police reform; political psychology; stereotyping; prejudice and discrimination. Author of "Suspect Race: Causes & Consequences of Racial Profiling" (Oxford University Press, 2014).

Amy Gurowitz

Lecturer in political science, director of education programs in the Institute of International Studies

Areas of expertise: international relations, international ethics, human rights, immigration politics, foreign policy.

Mike Hout

Professor emeritus of sociology and demography

mikehout@berkeley.edu

Expertise: Socio-economic class, demographics, inequality, politics of religion.

David Kirp

Professor of the Graduate School, emeritus professor of public policy

Areas of expertise: children, youth and families, education, race and ethnicity, law, politics, ethics, early childhood education, higher education, community.

George Lakoff

Emeritus professor of linguistics and cognitive science, director of the Center for the Neural Mind and Society

lakoff@cogsci.berkeley.edu

Areas of expertise: language and conceptual systems, research into metaphorical thought and how thought is embodied.

Stephen Menendian

Assistant director, Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society

steve.menendian@gmail.com

Expertise: Diversity and inclusion, immigration, civil rights, LGBT issues, race relations.

Mahmood Monshipouri

Lecturer in global studies and international and area Studies

International relations in Middle East, North Africa and Iran. Muslim world politics.

G. Cristina Mora

Associate professor of sociology, co-director of the Institute of Governmental Studies

cmora@berkeley.edu

Areas of expertise: Politics, politics and race, immigration, Latino migration
Spanish-speaking

Michael Nacht

Thomas and Alison Schneider Professor of Public Policy

Areas of expertise: international relations and public policy, national security policy, public management.

john a. powell

Professor of Law and of African American Studies, Director of Othering and Belonging Institute

japowell@law.berkeley.edu

Civil rights, racism, poverty, inequality, democracy.

Xiao Qiang

Adjunct professor, research scientist in the School of Information

Expertise: Technology and human rights, China, censorship, surveillance, digital activism, information politics.

Eric Schickler

Professor of political science

Areas of expertise: Congress, American political development, political parties, politics and voting.

Harley Shaiken

Professor of education, chair of the Latin American Studies Center

Areas of expertise: labor and the global economy, role of schooling and skills in the global economy, immigration and Latin America.

Jonathan Simon

Lance Robbins Professor of Criminal Justice Law

Areas of expertise: criminal law, sociology of law. Author of "Poor Discipline: Parole and the Social Control of the Underclass" (University of Chicago 1993); "Governing through Crime: How the War on Crime Transformed American Democracy and Created a Culture of Fear" (Oxford University Press 2007); and "Mass Incarceration on Trial: A Remarkable Court Decision and the Future of Prisons in America" (New Press 2014).

Laura Stoker

Professor of political science

Expertise: American politics, political behavior, political psychology, public opinion, voting and elections.

Richard A. Walker

Professor of geography, emeritus

walker@berkeley.edu

Areas of expertise: race, environment, urbanism, politics, geography, resources, economic geography, regional development, cities, California, class.

Steven Weber

Professor of political science, School of Information

Areas of expertise: International politics and business; the information economy; cybersecurity; behavioral economics in Information systems.

Immigration