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Robert Bird

Robert Bird

Eversource Energy Chair in Business Ethics

Robert Bird is an expert in corporate compliance, employment law, legal strategy, business ethics, and corporate governance.

Corporate GovernanceEmployment LawBusiness LawCorporate ComplianceBusiness Ethics
Jennifer Necci Dineen, Ph.D.

Jennifer Necci Dineen, Ph.D.

Associate Professor In-Residence, School of Public Policy | Associate Director, UConn Center for Advancing, Research, Methods, and Scholarship in Gun Injury Prevention (ARMS)

Jennifer Dineen is a survey methodologist who focuses on stakeholder attitudes as mechanism for intervention uptake and policy change.

Gun Violence PreventionGun Injury PreventionEducation PolicyPolitical Attitudes and BehaviorQualitative Research Methods
Lindsay Distefano, Ph.D

Lindsay Distefano, Ph.D

Professor, Department of Kinesiology, and Associate Vice President for Research Development

Lindsay DiStefano works to promote safe physical activity in children through physical literacy development and sport-injury prevention.

ACLYouth AthletesInjury PreventionMotor DevelopmentPhysical Literacy
Felicia Pratto, Ph.D.

Felicia Pratto, Ph.D.

Professor of Psychological Sciences

Psychology expert, specializing in race and sex discrimination and intergroup dynamics

Terrorism and counter-terrorismXenophobiaPrejudice, tace- and sex- discrimination in hiringHomophobia Violations of International Humanitarian Law in war-time
Paul Herrnson, Ph.D.

Paul Herrnson, Ph.D.

Professor of Political Science

Paul Herrnson's interests include political parties and elections, money and politics, and voting systems and election administration.

Political BehaviorAmerican Institutions and PoliticsElection AdministrationVoting SystemsPublic Opinion
Fred Carstensen, Ph.D.

Fred Carstensen, Ph.D.

Professor

Professor Fred Carstensen is an expert in the areas of public policy, economic history and economics.

FinancePublic PolicyEconomic HistoryEconomics
Rigoberto A. Lopez, Ph.D.

Rigoberto A. Lopez, Ph.D.

Professor

Professor Lopez is an expert in food systems, marketing, and industrial organization.

Food SystemsMarketingIndustrial OrganizationPublic Policy
James Waller, Ph.D.

James Waller, Ph.D.

Christopher J. Dodd Chair in Human Rights Practice

Dr. Waller is an expert in Holocaust and genocide studies, perpetrator behavior, and genocide awareness and prevention

Social PsychologyGenocide and Genocide PreventionHuman RightsGenocide StudiesHolocaust Studies
Thomas Craemer, Ph.D.

Thomas Craemer, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Public Policy

Thomas Craemer is an expert on slavery reparations, racial bias and the psychology of racism.

Slavery ReparationsDiversity and InclusionRace Related PoliciesRace RelationsPsychology of Race
Rebecca Puhl, Ph.D.

Rebecca Puhl, Ph.D.

Deputy Director, Rudd Center for Food Policy and Health; Professor, Human Development and Family Sciences

Clinical psychology expert, specializing in the study of bullying and weight stigmatization

Weight DiscriminationWeight StigmaWeight-based bullying
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