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Cheryl Block
 Professor of Law

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Cheryl Block is an expert in tax law and policy. Author of a leading book on corporate taxation, she has also written numerous articles on taxation, public policy relating to federal bailouts, legislative voting rules, social choice theory, federal budget process, and the interplay between tax and ...

Expertise: federal budget, tax law and policy, corporate taxation, federal bailouts

Direct contact: (314) 935-6444
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cblock@wulaw.wustl.edu

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Michele Boldrin
 Joseph Gibson Hoyt Distinguished Professor in Arts and Sciences and chair of the Department of Economics

Professor Boldrin is an economist with a broad range of interests. His work includes research in business cycles and asset pricing; growth and demographic change; innovation and intellectual property; and public policy and the welfare state. Boldrin is a fellow of the Econometric Society. He is also ...

Expertise: Public policy, foreign policy, economic crisis, economic growth, innovation, business cycles, intellectual property, …

Direct contact: (314) 935-5636
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mboldrin@artsci.wustl.edu

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Howard Brick
 Professor of History in Arts & Sciences

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Brick is an expert on the history of the United States since 1865, including a special focus on the history of labor, socialist and radical protest movements. His interests include U.S. intellectual, cultural, social and political history. He has written extensively about the relationship of capitalism ...

Expertise: protest movements, anti-war demonstrations, 20th-century America, history of labor, socialist and radical movements, disruptive protest since the 1930s, American intellectual, …

Direct contact: (314) 935-4251
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hbrick@wustl.edu

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Ross Brownson
 Professor

A leading expert in chronic disease prevention and an expert in the area of applied epidemiology, Ross Brownson is regarded as one of the great intellectual, educational, and practice leaders in the field of evidence-based public health.

Expertise: Chronic disease prevention, evidence-based public health, policy effects on physical activity and obesity

Direct contact: 314-362-9641
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rbrownson@wustl.edu

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Nicholas Dopuch
 Hubert C. and Dorothy R. Moog Professor of Accounting

Professor Dopuch was a member of the University of Chicago's faculty for 22 years. He serves as chairperson of the Olin School's Ph.D. Committee and is a referee for many professional journals.

Expertise: accounting, auditing, managerial accounting, regulation, financial reporting

Direct contact: (314) 935-4564
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dopuch@olin.wustl.edu

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Tonya Edmond
 Associate Professor of Social Work

Tonya Edmond's research and teaching interests include violence against women and practice effectiveness. Her current projects involve examining the theoretical and intervention preferences of domestic violence and sexual assault service providers, the treatment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) ...

Expertise: violence against women, sexual assault, domestic abuse, trauma, practice effectiveness, women's studies, direct pratice

Direct contact: (314) 935-8131
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tee1@gwbmail.wustl.edu

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Steven Gunn
 Associate Professor of Law

Gunn, an expert on American Indian law, has extensive experience in public interest litigation and has written numerous articles on Indian law and on the intersection of poverty and law and economics. Prior to becoming a professor, Gunn was a staff attorney for the Volunteer Lawyers Project of the ...

Expertise: American Indian law, Federal Indian law, tribal courts, tribal law

Direct contact: (314) 935-6413
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sjgunn@wulaw.wustl.edu

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Ronald King
 Senior Associate Dean and Myron Northrop Professor of Accounting

Professor King's research interests are primarily focused on investigating how legal institutions affect the production and use of information. His principal research method is experimental economics, a methodology that allows for the controlled investigation of economic theories. He uses the Taylor ...

Expertise: accounting, auditing, financial reporting, regulation, law and economics, experimental accounting

Direct contact: (314) 935-6385
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rking@wustl.edu

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Matthew Kreuter
 Professor

Matt Kreuter is a leading national public health expert in the field of health communications.

Expertise: Health communication, cancer prevention and control, health disparities

Direct contact: 314-935-3701
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mkreuter@wustl.edu

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Gregory Magarian
 Professor of law

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Magarian is a leading expert in the areas of election law, the electoral system, free speech, the First Amendment and constitutional law. He is the author of a number of articles including the forthcoming "Substantive Media Regulation in Three Dimensions" (George Washington Law Review).

Expertise: election law, First Amendment, third parties, free speech, law and religion, church-state law, media regulation, …

Direct contact: (314) 935-3394
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gpmagarian@wulaw.wustl.edu

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Amanda Moore McBride
 Assistant Professor of Social Work

Amanda Moore McBride specializes in civic engagement and civic service, which is a type of long-term, intensive volunteering. She researches inclusive definitions and measurement of civic engagement, international service and global citizenship, youth service as youth development, and the relationship ...

Expertise: civic engagement, civic service, social development, asset development, qualitative field methods and analysis, international and comparative research

Direct contact: (314) 935-9778
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ammcbride@wustl.edu

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Timothy McBride
 Associate Dean for Public Health

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Tim McBride has been active in testifying before Congress and consulting with important policy constituencies on Medicare, insurance and rural health policy issues. He is a member of the Rural Policy Research Institute Health Panel that provides expert advice on rural health issues to the U.S. Congress ...

Expertise: Health insurance, universal health care, public health, Medicare policy, health economics, gerontology and Social Security, state health policy, …

Direct contact: 314-935-4356
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tmcbride@wustl.edu

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Carl Minzner
 Associate Professor of Law

Carl Minzner is well known for his work in Chinese law and politics. Before joining the law faculty, he served as senior counsel on the Congressional-Executive Commission on China and was an International Affairs Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. Minzner's experiences abroad while working ...

Direct contact: (314) 935-6273
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cminzner@wulaw.wustl.edu

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Yunju Nam
 Assistant Professor of Social Work

Yunju Nam is available to comment on social and economic equality, poverty, welfare policy, domestic violence, child welfare, and asset-building policy for the poor. She is particularly interested in the effect of welfare reform on poor children and women.

Expertise: welfare, welfare police, domestic violence, child welfare, asset-building policy

Direct contact: 314-935-4954
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ynam@wustl.edu

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Jackson Nickerson
 Frahm Family Professor of Organization and Strategy

Nickerson's area of expertise includes corporate strategy and policy, economic policy, microeconomics, industrial organization, organizational economics, new institutional economics, intellectual capital management, technology licensing, organizational theory, human resource management, organizational ...

Expertise: business strategy & public policy, intellectual capital management, new institutional economics, organizational economics, organizational theory, technology licensing, corporate strategy and policy, …

Direct contact: (314) 935-6374
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nickerson@olin.wustl.edu

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Ramesh Raghavan
 Assistant professor of Social Work

Ramesh Raghavan's clinical, policy and administrative expertise in public health and psychiatry fuel his research interests in mental health services and policies for children in the child welfare system. Prior to joining the faculty at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work and the School of ...

Expertise: public health, mental health services, children in the child welfare system, health policy, Medicaid

Direct contact: 314-935-4469
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raghavan@wustl.edu

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Mark Rank
 Herbert S. Hadley Professor of Social Welfare

Rank's work centers on poverty, social welfare, economic inequality and policy, including the use of welfare myths, class division and economic inequalities as political campaign issues. His recent research has explored the life course probabilities of experiencing poverty in America. His most recent ...

Expertise: social policy, poverty, social welfare, social stratification, family, demography, research methodology

Direct contact: (314) 935-5694
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markr@wustl.edu

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Will Ross
 Associate Dean and Director of the Office of Diversity

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Ross has an interest in health policy and resolving health-care disparities. He has delivered lectures, sponsored symposiums and produced educational videos on eliminating medical disparities. Over the past three years, he has served as president of the Mound City Medical Forum, a leading minority ...

Expertise: Health care policy, disparities in health care, minority health care advocacy

Media assistance: (314) 286-0126 / pattoner@wustl.edu

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Anjan Thakor
 Senior Associate Dean and the John E. Simon Professor of Finance

Professor Thakor is an expert source on tradeoffs in public vs. private ownership of companies; optimal design of corporate governance; motivation development regarding companies' dividend policies, capital structures and other financial operating decisions; and design of financial systems. He has ...

Expertise: corporate finance, financial intermediation, economics of asymetric information, managing editor: Journal of Financial Intermediation, publisher: Academic Press, Western Finance Association Programming Committee, Nobel Prize in Economics Nominating Committee

Direct contact: (314) 935-8568
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thakor@wustl.edu

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