Research Speakers

Mar
24
Faculty Research Speaker Series

Wojciech Kopczuk

Professor of Economics and International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
Accounting for Business Income in Measuring Top Income Shares: Integrated Accrual Approach Using Individual and Firm Data from Norway
March 24, 2023 12:00PM

Wojciech Kopczuk is a professor at the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) and the Department of Economics at Columbia University. Kopczuk's research focus is on issues related to tax policy and income and wealth inequality. 

Mar
31
Faculty Research Speaker Series

Mary Kroeger

Assistant Professor of Political Science, UNC Chapel Hill
TBD
Mar 31, 2023, timing TBD

Mary Kroeger is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She received her Ph.D. in Politics and Social Policy from Princeton University, and holds a B.A. from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Her research interests are in U.S. state politics, American political institutions, bureaucratic-legislative interactions, policy diffusion, and quantitative methods.

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.

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
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
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.

Jun
01
Faculty Research Speaker Series

Naseemah Mohamed

Postdoctoral Research Associate, Global Policy Center
Educational Policies, Politics, and Propaganda during the Zimbabwe Liberation Struggle (1965-80)
To be scheduled at a future date

Naseemah Mohamed is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy and the Global Policy Center at the University of Virginia. Her research is focused on the relationships amongst education, media, race, global politics, and violence in decolonial movements in Southern Africa in the 20th century.

Jun
01
Faculty Research Speaker Series

Logan Stundal

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Global Policy Center/Humanitarian Collaborative
TBD
To be scheduled at a future date

Logan Stundal is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Global Policy Center/Humanitarian Collaborative at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy at the University of Virginia. His research focuses on political violence, armed conflict, and the intersection of public health and conflict including the spread of disease in war zones.