Past Research Speakers

Mar
15
Faculty Research Speaker Series

Efrén Pérez

Professor of Political Science and Psychology, UCLA
CANCELED Mar 15, 2024

Cosponsored by the UVA Department of Politics

Efrén Pérez is Professor of Political Science and Psychology at UCLA. His research centers on political psychology, with specific interests in intergroup politics, group identity, language and political thinking, implicit political cognition, and psychometrics.

 

Feb
23
Faculty Research Speaker Series

Alisha Holland

Associate Professor of Government, Harvard University
Feb 23, 2024, 12:15 - 1:30 PM

Alisha C. Holland, Associate Professor of Government at Harvard University, studies the comparative political economy of development with a focus on Latin America. She will speak on "Inhibitory Institutions: The Bureaucratic Politics of Public Goods Quality” in a talk hosted in the Politics department, jointly sponsored with the Karsh Institute of Democracy LEAD working group.

Oct
27
Faculty Research Speaker Series

Dan Hopkins

Professor, Political Science Department, University of Pennsylvania
Oct 27, 2023, 12:00 PM

Cosponsored by the UVA Department of Politics

Dan Hopkins is a professor in the Political Science Department at the University of Pennsylvania, with a secondary appointment at the Annenberg School for Communication. He assists with the coordination of the Philadelphia Behavioral Science Initiative. Hopkins' research centers on American politics, with a special emphasis on racial and ethnic politics, state/local politics, political behavior, and research methods. 

Oct
20
Faculty Research Speaker Series

Tim Layton

30th Anniversary Associate Professor of Health Care Policy, Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School
Oct 20, 2023, 12:00 PM

Timothy Layton is the 30th Anniversary Associate Professor of Health Care Policy in the Department of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School, a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and an affiliated researcher at J-PAL at MIT. His research focuses on the economics of health insurance markets, with a particular focus on markets and social health insurance programs for low-income households. 

Oct
06
Faculty Research Speaker Series

Brian Jacob

Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Education Policy; Professor of Public Policy, Economics, and Education, Ford School, University of Michigan
Oct 06, 2023, 12:00 PM

Cosponsored by EdPolicyWorks

Brian A. Jacob is the Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Education Policy and professor of economics at the Ford School, and is co-director of the Youth Policy Lab. He is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His primary fields of interest are labor economics, program evaluation, and the economics of education. Brian's current research focuses on urban school reform, with a particular emphasis on standards and accountability initiatives.

Sep
22
Faculty Research Speaker Series

Laurel Harbridge-Yong

Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University
Sep 22, 2023, 12:00 PM

Cosponsored by the Center for Effective Lawmaking

Laurel Harbridge-Yong’s teaching and research focuses on partisan conflict and the lack of bipartisan agreement in American politics. Her research examines why Congressional parties prioritize partisan conflict, focusing on both institutional changes and public preferences for bipartisanship.

Apr
28
Faculty Research Speaker Series

John Friedman

Professor of Economics, Brown University
The Economic Impacts of COVID-19: Evidence from a New Public Database Built Using Private Sector Data
Apr 28, 2023 12:00 PM

John N. Friedman is a Professor of Economics at Brown University, as well as a founding co-Director of Opportunity Insights. His studies the causes and consequences of inequality for kids, as well as policies to improve opportunity for children from disadvantaged backgrounds.

Apr
21
Faculty Research Speaker Series

John Sides

Professor and Chair, Department of Politics, Vanderbilt University
TBD
Apr 21, 2023, 10:30 AM

John Sides studies political behavior in American and comparative politics. He is an author of Identity Crisis: The 2016 Presidential Campaign and The Battle for the Meaning of America, The Gamble: Choice and Chance in the 2012 Election, and Campaigns and Election: Rules, Reality, Strategy, Choice. He has published articles in various scholarly journals, including the American Political Science ReviewAmerican Journal of Political ScienceBritish Journal of Political Science, and Journal of Politics. His current book project focuses on fiscal politics in the U.S.

Apr
14
Faculty Research Speaker Series

Erdal Tekin

Professor, Department of Public Administration and Policy, American University
TBD
Apr 14, 2023 12:00 PM

Erdal Tekin is an economist with primary research interests in the fields of health economics and demographic economics. Within these fields, the main theme of his research is the economic analysis of risky behaviors and the consequences of prenatal and postnatal conditions and risk factors on the short and long-term outcomes of individuals on a multitude of domains including health, human capital, labor market, and crime.

Apr
07
Faculty Research Speaker Series

Antoine Banks

Professor and Associate Chair, Department of Government and Politics, University of Maryland
TBD
Apr 07, 2023 12:00 PM

Antoine Banks is a professor in the Department of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland. He is also the associate chair and director of the Government and Politics Experimental Lab. His research interests include racial and ethnic politics, emotions, political psychology, and public opinion.