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Search Watson faculty expertise by region and topic to find scholars whose research can inform reporting, policy conversations and public understanding.
John Hay Professor of International Studies and Political Science
Research Interests: Criminal Justice, Immigration, Displacement & Borders, Law Enforcement & Policing
+1 401 863 9839
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in International and Public Affairs
Research Interests: Children & Families, Education, Labor, Social and Economic Policy
Dean's Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Faculty Fellow in International and Public Affairs
Research Interests: Education, Race, Identity & Ethnicity
+1 401 863 1375
Postdoctoral Research Associate in International and Public Affairs
Research Interests: Law Enforcement & Policing, Political Economy, Race, Identity & Ethnicity, Social Movements
Arkadij Eisler Goldman Sachs Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs
Research Interests: Democracy & Elections, Ethnic Conflict & Civil War, Human Rights, International Institutions, Law Enforcement & Policing, Political Economy
+1 401 863 9728
Faculty Director of the Online Master of Public Policy Program, Associate Professor of the Practice of International and Public Affairs
Research Interests: Bureaucracy, Race, Identity & Ethnicity
+1 401 863 7698
Professor of International and Public Affairs
Research Interests: Global Finance & Banking
+1 401 863 1567
Associate Teaching Professor of International and Public Affairs
Research Interests: Cybersecurity, Democracy & Elections, Ethnic Conflict & Civil War, Social Movements
Annenberg Assistant Professor of Education and Economics
Research Interests: Children & Families, Criminal Justice, Education, Inequality & Poverty, Labor
Harmon Family Professor of Sociology and International & Public Affairs
Research Interests: Cybersecurity, Global Health, International Institutions, Technology & Innovation
+1 401 863 7698
Director of Climate Solutions Lab, Richard Holbrooke Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs
Research Interests: Energy & Environment, Energy Security, International Institutions, Political Economy, Trade, US Foreign Policy
+1 401 863 9721
Senior Fellow in International and Public Affairs
Research Interests: Bureaucracy, Democracy & Elections, Energy & Environment, Entrepreneurship, Global Finance & Banking, Immigration, Displacement & Borders, Political Economy
Watson Family University Associate Professor of Sociology and International and Public Affairs
+1 401 863 2809
Professor of the Practice of Computer Science
Research Interests: Cybersecurity, International Institutions, US Foreign Policy
+1 401 863 9768
Research Associate in International and Public Affairs
Research Interests: International Economics, Politics, and Security, International Development, Social and Economic Policy, Technology and Policy, Bureaucracy, Energy & Environment, Environmental Justice, Inequality & Poverty, Labor, Political Economy, Supply Chains
Vascellaro Family Dean, The Thomas J. Watson Jr. School of International and Public Affairs, Briger Family Distinguished Professor of Economics and International and Public Affairs
Research Interests: Inequality & Poverty, International Institutions, Political Economy, Race, Identity & Ethnicity, Social Movements, Urban Policies & Politics, Urbanization
+1 401 863 9590
Professor of the Practice in International and Public Affairs
Research Interests: Law Enforcement & Policing, Rights and Democracy
+1 401 863 2809
Charles Evans Hughes Associate Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs
Research Interests: Energy & Environment, Environmental Justice, Social Movements
+1 401 863 3523
Director, Saxena Center for Contemporary South Asia, Interim Director, Ph.D. Fellows Program, Lyn Crost Professor of Social Sciences, Professor of International and Public Affairs and Sociology
Research Interests: Democracy & Elections, Inequality & Poverty, International Development, Labor, Political Economy, Rights and Democracy, Social Movements, State & Municipal Policy, Urban Policies & Politics, Urbanization
+1 401 863 5357
Director of Population Studies, Professor of Sociology
Research Interests: Children & Families, Education, Food Policy, Inequality & Poverty, State & Municipal Policy
+1 401 863 3192
Director of the Africa Initiative
Research Interests: Democracy & Elections, Global Health, Political Economy, Science & Technology Policy
Postdoctoral Research Associate in International and Public Affairs
Research Interests: Inequality & Poverty, Labor, Political Economy, Social and Economic Policy, Technology & Innovation, Technology and Policy
Watson School Associate Professor of China Studies, Assistant Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs
Research Interests: Bureaucracy, US Foreign Policy
+1 401 863 2827
Director, Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies, Watson Family University Professor of International Security and Anthropology
Research Interests: Criminal Justice, Human Rights, Immigration, Displacement & Borders, Law Enforcement & Policing, Rights and Democracy
+1 401 863 2451
Director of the Williams R. Rhodes Center for International Economics and Finance, Williams R. Rhodes Professor of International Economics, Schreiber Family Professor of Economics
Research Interests: Global Finance & Banking, International Development, International Economics, Politics, and Security, Supply Chains, Trade, US Foreign Policy
Postdoctoral Research Associate in International and Public Affairs
Research Interests: US Foreign Policy
Professor of Sociology and International and Public Affairs
Research Interests: Democracy & Elections, Education, Ethics, Religion & Politics, Social Movements
+1 401 863 6990
Perri Peltz and Eric Ruttenberg Professor of the Practice of Human Rights
Research Interests: Global Health, International Development, Technology & Innovation, Technology and Policy
+1 401 863 7732
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Research Interests: Labor, Social and Economic Policy, Tax Policy
John Hazen White Professor of Public Policy, Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs, Chair, Department of Political Science
Research Interests: Bureaucracy, Democracy & Elections, Education, Health & Welfare, Rights and Democracy, Social and Economic Policy
+1 401 863 9335
Postdoctoral Research Associate in International and Public Affairs
Research Interests: Immigration, Displacement & Borders
SRS Assistant Professor of Sociology and International and Public Affairs
Research Interests: Education, Immigration, Displacement & Borders, Race, Identity & Ethnicity, Social and Economic Policy
Thomas J. Watson, Jr. Family Professorship in International Studies and the Social Sciences
Research Interests: International Economics, Politics, and Security, International Development
Vice Director of Undergraduate Studies, Assistant Teaching Professor
Research Interests: Race, Identity & Ethnicity, Urbanization
Director, A. Alfred Taubman Center for American Politics and Policy, Julis-Rabinowitz Professor of Public Policy, Professor of Political Science
Research Interests: Democracy & Elections, Health & Welfare, Social and Economic Policy
+1 401 863 6428
Dean's Assistant Professor of Nuclear Security and Policy
Research Interests: International Economics, Politics, and Security, Nuclear Weapons, Technology and Policy, US Foreign Policy
+1 401 863 2827
Professor of the Practice in International and Public Affairs
Research Interests: Energy & Environment, Ethnic Conflict & Civil War, International Economics, Politics, and Security, Global Health, Humanitarian Response, Technology & Innovation
+1 401 863 6789
Joukowsky Family Assistant Professor of International and Public Affairs
Research Interests: Bureaucracy, Energy & Environment, Environmental Justice, Political Economy, Social Movements
+1 401 863 5872
Associate Professor of Sociology and International and Public Affairs
Research Interests: Criminal Justice, Gender, Human Rights, Law Enforcement & Policing, Political Economy, Social Movements
+1 401 863 7424
Postdoctoral Research Associate in International and Public Affairs
Research Interests: Bureaucracy, Criminal Justice, Ethics, Law Enforcement & Policing, Urban Policies & Politics
Olive C. Watson Professor of Sociology and International and Public Affairs, Director, Watson Ph.D. Fellows Program
Research Interests: Bureaucracy, Entrepreneurship, Labor, Science & Technology Policy, Supply Chains, Technology & Innovation
+1 401 863 2326
Mahatma Gandhi Associate Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs, Associate Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences
+1 401 863 6350
Faculty Director of the Master of Public Affairs Program, IJC Assistant Professor of Economics and International and Public Affairs
Research Interests: Children & Families, Education, Gender, Global Health, Health & Welfare, Inequality & Poverty
+1 401 863 5443
Nancy Donohue and Diane Elam Assistant Professor of International and Public Affairs and Economics
Research Interests: Inequality & Poverty, Labor, Tax Policy
+1 401 863 9735
Sol Goldman Professor of International Studies and the Social Sciences
Research Interests: Bureaucracy, Democracy & Elections, Ethnic Conflict & Civil War, Inequality & Poverty, Political Economy, Race, Identity & Ethnicity, State & Municipal Policy, Urban Policies & Politics, Urbanization
+1 401 863 6059
Wilson Professor of International and Public Affairs and Political Science
Research Interests: Inequality & Poverty, Labor, Social Movements, State & Municipal Policy, Urban Policies & Politics
+1 401 863 9652
Young Family Assistant Professor of Sociology and International and Public Affairs
Research Interests: Bureaucracy, Cybersecurity, International Economics, Politics, and Security, International Institutions, Rights and Democracy, Science & Technology Policy, Social Movements, Technology and Policy
+1 401 863 2766