About Events Batten Faculty Teach-In Batten Faculty Teach-In NOV 6, 2020 12:00 PM Online via Zoom Register Please join us for a post-election faculty teach-in featuring a panel of Batten faculty representing diverse experiences as policy practitioners. Batten students, faculty and staff are encouraged to participate in this informal dialogue and reflection. Panelists: Rick Campanelli comes to the Batten School with extensive leadership experience in private law practice, industry, the nonprofit sector and in government service at the U.S. Departments of Health & Human Services, Justice and State. In these positions he engaged in resolution of policy issues ranging from national healthcare policy, biotechnology, public health and welfare reform, privacy, national intelligence policy, human rights and religious freedom. Brad Carson has built a distinguished career in public service, law, and education. Before joining the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, he was the acting Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel & Readiness at the Department of Defense. Carson oversaw the human resources, military readiness, education and training, and health care of the nearly 5 million servicemembers, civilian employees, and their dependents within the Department of Defense and managed an internal organization of 30,000 employees. Jennifer Lawless serves as the Commonwealth Professor of Politics of the University of Virginia, and is a Batten School faculty affiliate and a faculty senior fellow at the Miller Center. Prior to joining the UVA faculty, she was a professor of government at American University and the director of the Women & Politics Institute. Before that, she was an assistant and then associate professor at Brown University. Lawless’ research focuses on political ambition, campaigns and elections, and media and politics. Rick Campanelli Rick Campanelli is a lecturer at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy. Campanelli has an extensive career in public service and the private sector as well as experience in senior leadership and management. Campanelli has been legal counsel in the areas of healthcare, information privacy and security, and civil and First Amendment rights. He is the Center for Christian Study Director of Graduate Ministries for the Law and Darden Christian Fellowships. Read full bio Jennifer Lawless Jennifer L. Lawless is the Leone Reaves and George W. Spicer Professor of Politics and professor of public policy at the University of Virginia and at the Batten School. Lawless is also a Senior Fellow at UVA's Miller Center. Her research focuses on political ambition, campaigns and elections, and media and politics. Read full bio Related Content Rick Campanelli Brad Carson Batten Professor Selected as University of Tulsa’s Next President News Brad Carson, a native Oklahoman who represented the state’s 2nd Congressional District in the House of Representatives, taught courses related to national security and public sector innovation at Batten. Hacking for Defense at the Batten School News On the last day of fall classes, while other students prepared for the onslaught of exams, seven student teams from the Batten School traveled to the Pentagon to present their semester-long projects to officials from the Department of Defense (DoD). Jennifer Lawless The Visible Hand: Race and Online Market Outcomes Research We examine the effect of race on market outcomes by selling iPods through local online classified advertisements throughout the United States. Each ad features a photograph including a dark- or light-skinned hand, or one with a wrist tattoo. Why aren't more moms running for office? One group is hoping to change that News Moms are a political force in voting but are underrepresented as candidates. In an interview with NPR, Batten School Professor Jennifer Lawless shares some ideas about that disparity. Liberal, Conservative Professors Find Common Ground in Shared Course News Mary Kate Cary and Jennifer Lawless taught a class from both sides of the political spectrum with success. Stay Up To Date with the Latest Batten News and Events Subscribe
Rick Campanelli Rick Campanelli is a lecturer at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy. Campanelli has an extensive career in public service and the private sector as well as experience in senior leadership and management. Campanelli has been legal counsel in the areas of healthcare, information privacy and security, and civil and First Amendment rights. He is the Center for Christian Study Director of Graduate Ministries for the Law and Darden Christian Fellowships. Read full bio
Jennifer Lawless Jennifer L. Lawless is the Leone Reaves and George W. Spicer Professor of Politics and professor of public policy at the University of Virginia and at the Batten School. Lawless is also a Senior Fellow at UVA's Miller Center. Her research focuses on political ambition, campaigns and elections, and media and politics. Read full bio
Batten Professor Selected as University of Tulsa’s Next President News Brad Carson, a native Oklahoman who represented the state’s 2nd Congressional District in the House of Representatives, taught courses related to national security and public sector innovation at Batten.
Hacking for Defense at the Batten School News On the last day of fall classes, while other students prepared for the onslaught of exams, seven student teams from the Batten School traveled to the Pentagon to present their semester-long projects to officials from the Department of Defense (DoD).
The Visible Hand: Race and Online Market Outcomes Research We examine the effect of race on market outcomes by selling iPods through local online classified advertisements throughout the United States. Each ad features a photograph including a dark- or light-skinned hand, or one with a wrist tattoo.
Why aren't more moms running for office? One group is hoping to change that News Moms are a political force in voting but are underrepresented as candidates. In an interview with NPR, Batten School Professor Jennifer Lawless shares some ideas about that disparity.
Liberal, Conservative Professors Find Common Ground in Shared Course News Mary Kate Cary and Jennifer Lawless taught a class from both sides of the political spectrum with success.