Wendy Schiller is the Howard R. Swearer Interim Director of the Thomas J. Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, professor of political science, professor of international and public affairs and director of the Taubman Center for American Politics and Policy at Brown University. 

Schiller did her undergraduate work in political science at the University of Chicago, served on the staffs of Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Governor Mario Cuomo, and then earned her Ph.D. from the University of Rochester. After fellowships at the Brookings Institute and Princeton University, she came to Brown in 1994. She teaches popular courses, including The American Presidency, Introduction to the American Political Process, and Congress and Public Policy.

Among the books she has authored or co-authored are "Inequality Across State Lines: How Policymakers Have Failed Domestic Violence Victims in the United States" (Cambridge University Press), "Electing the Senate: Indirect Democracy before the Seventeenth Amendment" (Princeton University Press), "Gateways to Democracy: An Introduction to American Government" (Cengage), "The Contemporary Congress" (Thomson-Wadsworth) and "Partners and Rivals: Representation in U.S. Senate Delegations" (Princeton University Press). She has also published articles in the American Journal of Political Science, Legislative Studies Quarterly, Studies in American Political Development and the Journal of Politics.

Schiller has contributed to MSNBC, NPR, CNN.com and Bloomberg News. She provides local political commentary to the Providence Journal, WPRO radio and RIPBS's "A Lively Experiment" and is the political analyst for WJAR10, the local NBC affiliate in Providence.