Affiliated Scholars

William Aceves, Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at California Western School of Law
Areas of expertise: Human rights, civil liberties, international law
Anne L. Alstott, Jacquin D. Bierman Professor of Taxation, Yale Law School
Areas of expertise: Federal income taxation, corporate taxation, international taxation, social welfare policy, family policy
Alan Bersin, Former Secretary of Education for California
Areas of expertise: Education
Nicholas K. Bromell, Professor of English and American Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Areas of expertise: Antebellum U.S. literature, U.S. culture, intellectual history, and popular culture

Aldo Civico, Director for the Center for International Conflict Resolution, Columbia University
Areas of expertise: International conflict resolution

Dalton Conley, University Professor and Sociology Department Chair, New York University, Adjunct Professor of Community Medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Areas of expertise: Race and assets, education, family structure, perinatal health issues

Michele Landis Dauber, Associate Professor of Law and the Bernard D. Bergreen faculty scholar at Stanford Law School
Areas of expertise: Social policy, social security


Martha Fineman, Woodruff Professor of Law, Emory University Law School
Areas of expertise: Family law, women's rights, welfare and social policy, international human rights, and children's rights

Jacob Hacker, Professor of Political Science, Yale University; Resident Fellow, Institution for Social and Policy Studies
Areas of expertise: Health care, retirement security, family income, and social insurance

Doug Harris, Assistant Professor of Educational Policy Studies at University of Wisconsin-Madison Affiliate, Institute for Research on Poverty, WCER
Areas of expertise: Education policy

Darrick Hamilton, Assistant Professor at Milano—The New School for Management and Urban Policy, an affiliated faculty member in the Department of Economics at The New School for Social Research
Areas of expertise: Economic policy

Lisa Heinzerling, Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center, Vice President, Center for Progressive Regulation
Areas of expertise: Environmental law


Obery M. Hendricks, Professor of Biblical Interpretation, New York Theological Seminar
Areas of expertise: Theology


Robert Jones, Author of Liberalism’s Troubled Search for Equality: Religion and Cultural Bias in the Oregon Physician-Assisted Suicide Debates
Areas of expertise: Religion and progressive politics

Mark A. R. Kleiman, Professor of Policy Studies, UCLA School of Public Policy and Social Research; Chairman, BOTEC Analysis Corporation
Areas of expertise: Drug and crime policy


Jeff Madrick, Editor, Challenge Magazine; Visiting Professor of Humanities, The Cooper Union; Director of Policy Research, Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis, The New School
Areas of expertise: Economic policy

Kevin Mattson, Connor Study Professor of Contemporary History, Ohio University; Faculty Associate, Contemporary History Institute
Areas of expertise: Political history


Suzanne Nossel, Chief of Operations for Human Rights Watch.
Areas of expertise: Foreign policy


Thomas O. McGarity, Professor of Law, University of Texas; President, Center for Progressive Regulation
Areas of expertise: Environmental law


Stephen Metcalf, Critic at Large, Slate
Areas of expertise: Cultural critique

Ruth O'Brien, Chair of the Ph.D./M.A. Program in Political Science and Professor of Government, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Areas of expertise: American political development, disability policy, worker's rights

Paul Pierson, Professor of Political Science and Avice Saint Chair in Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley
Areas of expertise: United States politics, social policy

Catherine Powell, Associate professor or law, Fordham Law School
Areas of expertise: International human rights

Jedediah Purdy, Assistant Professor, Duke Law School
Areas of expertise: Property and Constitutional law

William N. Rom, Director, Division of Pulmonary and Clinical Care Medicine, Program Director, General Clinical Research Center, and Sol and Judith Bergstein Professor of Medicine, New York University School of Medicine
Areas of expertise: Infectious diseases, health policy

Leon V. Sigal, Director, Northeast Asia Cooperative Security Project, Social Science Research Council
Areas of expertise: North Korea, nuclear proliferation

Ted Widmer, Director of the John Carter Brown Library, Brown University
Areas of expertise: Presidential and American history

Janelle Wong, Assistant Professor of Political Science and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California
Areas of expertise: Race, ethnicity, and politics; political participation; political mobilization; and public opinion research