Faculty & Staff Directory

Colin Achiles

Colin
Achilles

Associate Director, Center for Effective Lawmaking

Colin Achilles is the Associate Director of the Center for Effective Lawmaking (CEL), a joint partnership between the Batten School and Vanderbilt University. He is the manager of day-to-day operations at CEL. 

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Shawn Anderson

Shawn
Anderson

Associate Director of Student Services & Community Engagement
Garrett Hall L002B

Shawn Anderson is the Batten School's Associate Director of Student Services & Community Engagement, and is responsible for advising undergraduate and graduate students in their co-curricular and service-related endeavors, as well as organizing school-wide student programming. Anderson is currently working towards a doctorate in Higher Education Administration at UVA, where his key focus is student development.

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Maura Austin

Maura
Austin

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Maura Austin is a postdoctoral researcher at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy. She studies person perception, motivation, social judgment and decision making, and moral character judgment. 

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Natalie Baumeister1

Natalie
Baumeister

Lab Manager, JADE and SoBaD Labs

Natalie Baumeister is the Lab Manager for the Judgments and Decisions Experimental (JADE) Lab and the Social Behavior and Decisions (SoBaD) Lab in the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy. 

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Xanni Brown

Xanni
Brown

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Xanni Brown is a postdoctoral fellow at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy at the University of Virginia. She is a social and political psychologist studying hierarchy, inequality, and democracy in the U.S., with a focus on how people react to shifting demographics in various contexts. 

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