University of Wisconsin–Madison
Biography Stav Atir is an Assistant Professor studying behavioral science at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She studies topics at the intersection of gender and communication in professional and organizational contexts. These include gender effects on the way people talk to famous professionals and about them, and the way scholars cite and acknowledge relevant scholarship. She …
Biography Mariel Barnes is an Assistant Professor at the Robert M. La Follette School of Public Affairs. Her research primarily explores how social policies impact domestic and intimate partner violence in highly industrialized countries. Mariel received her Ph.D. in Government from Cornell University in 2021, and previously, a M.A. (Hons) from the University of Chicago, …
Biography I am a sociologist of housing and I have published widely on topics such as real estate agents’ role in the housing market, discrimination in housing and consumer markets, and how people make housing decisions after a climate-related disaster. I have a BA in Sociology from UC Berkeley and a PhD in Sociology from …
News and Publications Lauren Bishop Biography Lauren Bishop, PhD, MSW, is an associate professor at the Sandra Rosenbaum School of Social Work and investigator at the Waisman Center and the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her National Institutes of Health-funded program of research focuses specifically on autistic adults and how …
Biography Dr. Markus Brauer is the Executive Director of the Institute for Diversity Science, and a professor in the Department of Psychology, with secondary appointments in the Wisconsin School of Business and the School of Medicine and Public Health (all UW–Madison). In addition to his roles at UW–Madison, Brauer is a team scientist with the …
Biography Stephanie Budge (she/her) is a Professor in the Department of Counseling Psychology and is also the Director of the Advancing Health Equity and Diversity program in the Collaborative Center for Health Equity at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She founded the Trans CARE Collaborative in 2014—the collaborative is a group of scholars and community advocates …
Biography Research areas Culture, socioecology, firearms
Dr. Angela Byars-Winston is the inaugural chair of the Institute for Diversity Science. She is also a tenured faculty member in the Division of General Internal Medicine within the Department of Medicine, associate director in the Collaborative Center for Health Equity, and faculty lead in the Center for the Improvement of Mentored Experiences in Research. Dr. Byars-Winston’s research examines cultural influences on academic and career development, especially for women and individuals from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups in the sciences, engineering, and medicine with the aim of broadening their participation in STEM fields. In 2011, Dr. Byars-Winston was selected as a Champion of Change by the White House through President Obama’s Winning the Future initiative for her research efforts to diversify science fields. She received the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s 2014 Outstanding Woman of Color Award. Dr. Byars-Winston is a member of the STEM Equity Pipeline National Advisory Board and the National Academy of Sciences’ Board of Higher Education and Workforce (BHEW) through which she served as chair of the 2019 consensus study on Effective Mentoring in STEMM. Publications View Dr. Angela Byars-Winston’s publications at NCBI My Bibliography
Biography Toby Campbell’s expertise is in facilitating complex conversations such as breaking bad news, family meetings, and high risk decision making. His work on communication crosses a variety of disciplines and he has published in major medical, surgical, sociological, and communication-oriented journals. Dr. Campbell is the recipient of numerous awards related to both his research …
Biography Websites Department of Psychology Department of Gender & Women’s Studies Personal Bio Dr. Chadwick is a feminist social psychologist who uses diverse methods (surveys, interviews, experiments, national databases) and interdisciplinary approaches from Psychology, Gender and Women’s Studies, and Public Health to study gender, coercion, orgasm, sexual desire, and other aspects of sexuality. Her research focuses on …