James Davis
Professor of Political Science in Arts & Sciences
Direct contact: (314) 935-5828 / davis@artsci.wustl.edu
Expertise: presidency, campaigns, budget battles, American politics, military history, politics of war on terrorism, U.S. intelligence operations
Sobel specializes in the politics of international finance with a focus upon domestic explanations of international behavior. His books include Domestic Choices, International Markets (1994), which examines the politics underpinning the liberalization and globalization of national securities markets in Japan, the UK, and US.
Murray Weidenbaum
Edward Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor
Direct contact: (314) 935-5662 / moseley@wustl.edu
Expertise: economy, government, public policy, President Reagan, Federal Trade Deficit Review Commission, economic policy, taxes, government spending, government regulation
Weidenbaum is honorary chairman of the Weidenbaum Center and Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor at Washington University. He is known for his research on economic policy, taxes, government spending, and regulation.
Howard Brick
Professor of History in Arts & Sciences
Direct contact: (314) 935-4251 / hbrick@wustl.edu
Expertise: protest movements, anti-war demonstrations, 20th-century America, history of labor, socialist and radical movements, disruptive protest since the 1930s, American intellectual history
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.
Frank Flinn
Adjunct Professor of Religious Studies
Direct contact: (314) 935-7752 / fkflinn@artsci.wustl.edu
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
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 programs and the display of religious symbols in schools, courtrooms and other public places.
Edward Lawlor
Dean of the George Warren Brown School of Social Work
Direct contact: (314) 935-6693 / elawlor@gwbmail.wustl.edu
Expertise: health care policy, medical indigence, health care reform, health care administration, policy for the aged, policy for poor, Medicare
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.
Mark Rank
Herbert S. Hadley Professor of Social Welfare
Direct contact: (314) 935-5694 / markr@gwbmail.wustl.edu
Expertise: poverty, social welfare, social stratification, family, social policy, demography, research methodology
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.