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Jane Harris Aiken
 William M. Van Cleve Professor of Law

Aiken is well known for her work in clinical legal education and violence. She teaches evidence for the Federal Judicial Center, training federal judges on developments in evidence. She has worked on women's rights and policy issues in Ethiopia as a State Department Senior Specialist and in Nepal ...

Expertise: clinical legal education, evidence, domestic violence, domestic law, child abuse

Direct contact: (314) 935-8583
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aiken@wustl.edu

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Iver Bernstein
 Professor of History in Arts & Sciences

He is the author of "The New York City Draft Riots: Their Significance for American Society and Politics in the Age of the Civil War," Oxford University Press. The 1990 book is considered the definite authority on this time in American history. Bernstein was awarded the George Washington Eggleston ...

Expertise: 19th-century U.S. history, Civil War, Reconstruction, American political culture

Direct contact: (314) 935-5401
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icbernst@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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Renee Cunningham-Williams
 visiting associate professor of social work

Cunningham-Williams' expertise centers on the comorbidity of mental health disorders, particularly those relating to behavioral addictions, risk taking, and antisocial behaviors.

Expertise: gambling addiction, substance abuse, risk taking, antisocial behaviors, crisis intervention

Direct contact: (314) 935-4563
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williamsr@wustl.edu

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Gerald L. Early
 Merle Kling Professor of Modern Letters

Early is a noted essayist and American culture critic. A professor of English, of African & African American studies and of American culture studies, all in Arts & Sciences, Early is the author of several books, including The Culture of Bruising: Essays on Prizefighting, Literature, and Modern American ...

Expertise: American literature, African-American culture 1940-1960, Afro-American autobiography, non-fiction prose, baseball, jazz music, prizefighting, …

Direct contact: (314) 935-5576
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glearly@wustl.edu

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Clifton Emery
 Assistant Professor

Clif Emery's is available to speak about domestic violence and its effects on children, quantitative methods and social theory. Among his current projects are secondary data analysis of the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods data and research on domestic violence in South Korea. ...

Expertise: Effects of domestic violence on children, deviance, trauma, causes of domestic violence

Direct contact: 314-935-7954
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cemery@wustl.edu

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Wayne Fields
 Lynne Cooper Harvey Distinguished Chair in English

Fields is a nationally known expert on American literature, non-fiction prose, rhetoric and American political argument. His book, "Union of Words: A History of Presidential Eloquence" (1996) examines the use of rhetoric in presidential speeches, from declarations of candidacy to nomination acceptances, ...

Expertise: Presidential speechmaking, American political argument, American literature, rhetoric, non-fiction prose, rhetoric, Mark Twain, …

Direct contact: (314) 935-5216
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wdfields@artsci.wustl.edu

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Marilyn Friedman
 Professor of Philosophy

Friedman's interests include ethics and political philosophy, especially topics of women's issues and multiculturalism. Her most recent book is titled Autonomy, Gender, Politics and defends the importance of autonomy for women, with a focus on social issues such as domestic violence and women's situation ...

Expertise: ethics, feminist theory, political philosophy, social philosophy, women's issues

Direct contact: (314) 935-6640
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friedman@artsci.wustl.edu

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Sebastian Galiani
 Associate Professor of Economics


Direct contact: (314) 935-9278
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galiani@wustl.edu

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James Gibson
 Sidney W. Souers Professor of Government in Arts & Sciences

Gibson has research interests comparative politics (especially processes of democratization), American politics (including political parties, public opinion, and especially courts and legal processes), and all areas of quantitative research methods (especially survey research). He currently is working ...

Expertise: judicial politics, democratization, political psychology, political tolerance, survey research, quantitative research methods, Russian politics, …

Direct contact: (314) 935-5897
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jgibson@artsci.wustl.edu

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David Gillespie
 Professor of Social Work

David Gillespie studies the areas of organizational dynamics, disaster preparedness and mitigation, and social measurement. The Federal Emergency Management Agency, National Science Foundation, AmerenUE, and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services have funded his research. His projects focus ...

Expertise: disaster preparedness and mitigation, organizational theory, social measurement

Direct contact: (314) 935-6674
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davidg@wustl.edu

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Debra Haire-Joshu
 Professor

Debra Haire-Joshu is an internationally renowned scholar of health behavior who develops population wide interventions to reduce obesity and prevent diabetes, particularly among underserved youth.

Expertise: Health policy, obesity and diabetes prevention in underserved populations, public health

Direct contact: 314-362-9554
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djoshu@wustl.edu

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Melissa Jonson-Reid
 Associate Professor of Social Work


Expertise: domestic violence, family violence, child abuse and neglect, public school system, child welfare system outcomes, social work evaluation and practice

Direct contact: (314) 935-4953
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jonsonrd@wustl.edu

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Shanti Khinduka
 George Warren Brown Distinguished University Professor

Shanti Khinduka's primary professional interests are social work education and international social development. He has written extensively on social work education, international social work, and ethnic diversity. He served as dean of the George Warren Brown School of Social Work for 30 years.

Expertise: Social work education, comparative social welfare, interethnic relations, international social development, social policy

Direct contact: (314) 935-6693
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khinduka@wustl.edu

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Jack Knight
 Sidney W. Souers Professor of Government in Arts & Sciences

Knight's research interest are modern social and political theory; law and legal theory; political economy; and philosophy of social science. Publications include Institutions and Social Conflict (Cambridge University Press, 1992) and Explaining Social Institutions (with Itai Sened) (The University ...

Expertise: modern social and political theory, formal theory, legal theory, political economy, political science, government, social thought and analysis

Direct contact: (314) 935-4343
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knight@artsci.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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Edward Lawlor
 Dean and the William E. Gordon Professor

Edward Lawlor is a nationally-recognized expert in healthcare policy, particularly in the areas of medical indigence, health-care reform and administration, and policy for the aged and poor.
His groundbreaking work in Medicare policy is recognized for its originality and insightful analysis. Lawlor's ...

Expertise: health care policy, medical indigence, health care reform, health care administration, policy for the aged, policy for poor, Medicare

Direct contact: (314) 935-6693
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elawlor@wustl.edu

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Stephen Legomsky
 John S. Lehmann University Professor

Dr. Stephen H. Legomsky, an internationally renowned immigration law expert, is the author of Immigration and Refugee Law and Policy (now in its 3rd edition), which has been adopted as the required text for immigration courses at more than 140 American law schools. He has testified before Congress ...

Expertise: immigration, refugees, international criminal law, international human rights, international law, torts, international legal process, …

Direct contact: (314) 935-6469
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legomsky@wulaw.wustl.edu

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Carolyn Lesorogol
 Assistant Professor of Social Work

Carolyn Lesorogol's main interests are in international social development and the dynamics of social change processes. She has studied these issues among African pastoralists in Kenya where she has conducted long term fieldwork examining the political and economic processes resulting in privatization ...

Expertise: international social development, capacity building and participatory development, institutional change, political economy, ethnographic research

Direct contact: (314) 935-8232
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clesorogol@wustl.edu

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