Biography Professor Brighouse regularly teaches classes in applied ethics, political philosophy, and ethics; and he teaches a class for the First Year Interest Group program on Children and the Family, every 3 years. His research interests include all those topics, as well as philosophy of education; and he has an abiding interest in education (including higher …
Biography Franciska Coleman is an interdisciplinary scholar whose work draws upon political theory, critical discourse analysis, and First Amendment Law. Professor Coleman is deeply interested in exploring the changes to our constitutional framework that would be needed to facilitate the U.S.’s transition from a somewhat dysfunctional liberal democracy into a well-functioning multiracial, interclass democracy. She is …
Biography During his long and distinguished career at UW–Madison, Donald Downs was the Alexander Meiklejohn Professor of Political Science, Law, and Journalism at UW-Madison, and the Glenn B. and Cleone Orr Hawkins Professor of Political Science. He directed and co-founded the University’s Wisconsin Center for the Study of Liberal Democracy (CSLD) from 2007 to 2015. …
Biography Associate Professor of Computer Science, Psychology, and Industrial Engineering, and the director of the People and Robots Lab. Professor Mutlu’s research builds human-centered principles and methods to enable effective and intuitive interactions between people and robotic technologies and facilitate the successful integration of these technologies into human environments.
Biography John Sharpless is an emeritus professor in the Department of History at UW-Madison. He has BA and BS in Economics from the University of Minnesota as well as a PhD in History from The University of Michigan. His areas of research are social and demographic history, public policy and recent political history. He is …
Biography Alexander Tahk (Stanford Ph.D., 2010) is an associate professor of political science. His research and teaching interests are in political methodology, judicial politics, and mass behavior. His articles have appeared in the American Political Science Review, Political Analysis, and Public Opinion Quarterly, among others. His current research includes projects studying the behavior of the judiciary through the statistical analysis …
Biography Susannah Camic Tahk serves as the Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development at UW Law. She also researches and teaches tax law and policy and supervises UW Law’s Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program. She is currently the Rowe Faculty Fellow in Regulatory Law as well as an affiliate of UW-Madison’s Institute for Research …
Biography Professor Yackee’s research centers on international investment law, international economic relations, foreign arbitration, and administrative law and politics. He teaches Contracts, International Investment Law, International Arbitration, and International Business Transactions. Professor Yackee graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Pittsburgh, earned an M.A. and Ph.D. in political science (International …