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Susan Appleton
 Lemma Barkeloo and Phoebe Couzins Professor of Law

Susan Appleton, a nationally known expert on family law, has been a member of the Council of the American Law Institute since 1994. She has served as an adviser for the ALI's Principles of the Law of Family Dissolution and as a consultant to the New Jersey Bioethics Commission, assisting that agency ...

Expertise: conflict of laws, family law, criminal law, reproductive control

Direct contact: (314) 935-6449
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appleton@wulaw.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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F. Brett Drake
 Associate Professor of Social Work

Brett Drake's scholarship focuses on issues in child welfare including initial assessment, reporting, prevention, and child protective interventions. He is particularly interested in studying early intervention in cases of child maltreatment and understanding linkages between environmental factors, ...

Expertise: at-risk children, child abuse and neglect, child protective services, child welfare, early intervention in maltreatment, environmental factors on abuse and neglect, substance abuse

Media assistance: (314) 935-5251 / jessica_martin@wustl.edu

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Rebecca Dresser
 Daniel Noyes Kirby Professor of Law

Dresser's book, "When Science Offers Salvation: Patient Advocacy and Research Ethics", was published in 2001. Dresser is also co-author of "The Human Use of Animals: Case Studies in Ethical Choice" and "Bioethics and Law: Cases, Materials, and Problems". She is one of the "At Law" columnists for ...

Expertise: patient advocacy, research ethics, bioethics and law, biomedical research, dementia, embryo research, stemcell, …

Direct contact: (314) 935-8769
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dresser@wulaw.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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Frank Flinn
 Adjunct Professor of Religious Studies

Flinn, a consultant in forensic theology, is an expert on religion and the law, including issues related to the separation of church and state, government funding of faith-based social program and the display of religious symbols in schools, courtrooms and other public places. He also is an expert ...

Expertise: separation of church and state, legal rights of religious groups, public display of religious symbols, federal funding of faith-based organizations, religious splinter groups, cults, paramilitary organizations, …

Direct contact: (314) 935-8677
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fkflinn@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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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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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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Monica Matthieu
 Research Assistant Professor

Matthieu's expertise centers on mental health services. She is available to discuss suicide prevention, mental health in the aftermath of disasters, the mental health impact of trauma as well as the mental health of veterans. Her current research focuses on provider and organizational change required ...

Expertise: mental health services, trauma, veterans, suicide prevention and disaster
mental health

Direct contact: 314-935-7516
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mmatthieu@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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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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Linda Nicholson
 Director, Women and Gender Studies Program


Expertise: feminism, gender studies, relationships, women, men, social identity

Direct contact: (314) 935-7479
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lnichols@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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