University of Wisconsin–Madison
Biography I am an Associate Professor in Computational Communication at University of Wisconsin–Madison, Department of Life Sciences Communication. I am also a faculty affiliate at the Department of Political Science, the American Family Insurance Data Science Institute, the UW–Madison Robert & Jean Holtz Center for Science and Technology Studies, the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, …
Biography I am interested in how people manage the intrapersonal and interpersonal challenges associated with prejudice in our contemporary society. One main focus for recent work focused on the sources of motivation, internal and external, for responding without prejudice and the unique challenges these alternate sources of motivation create for managing the interpersonal aspects of …
Biography Janean Dilworth-Bart’s scholarship revolves around how early developmental contexts help or hinder children’s development into competent, productive members of society. She addresses this broad issue by focusing on how parents and co-parents engage with children, especially in the Black community, and how multiple environmental pollutants and social risks impact young people’s school readiness, achievement, …
Biography Jon is a scholar-practitioner. He is the Pyle Bascom Professor in Business Leadership at the Wisconsin School of Business, a Discovery Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and the Editor and Chief at the Entrepreneur and Innovation Exchange. At the University of Wisconsin, professor Eckhardt is the cofounder …
Biography Felix Elwert, PhD (Harvard 2007) is Professor of Sociology and of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He is Editor-in-Chief of Sociological Methods and Research. Elwert conducts research on problems in social stratification and develops methods of causal inference in the social sciences. Current projects include randomized field experiments on peer effects …
Biography Denia Garcia is an Assistant Professor of Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin‚ÄìMadison. She received a Ph.D. in Sociology from Princeton University. Garcia’s research examines the role of space and organizations in shaping how inequalities are experienced and reproduced. She uses qualitative and quantitative methods to study diverse neighborhoods, participatory budgeting, and skin …
Biography Eric Grodsky is Professor of Sociology and Educational Policy Studies at the University of Wisconsin- Madison. co-director of the Madison Education Partnership, a research-practice partnership between the Wisconsin Center for Education Research and the Madison Metropolitan School District, and Deputy Director of the Interdisciplinary Training Program in Education Sciences. He has written extensively on …
Biography Dan Grupe is a Research Assistant Professor at the UW–Madison Center for Healthy Minds. He received his Ph.D. in Psychology from UW–Madison in 2013, and continued on as a post-doc, scientist, and research professor at the Center for Healthy Minds. He is an avid cyclist, curler, baker, fermentationist, and community gardener. As part of …
Biography Dr. Jo Handelsman is the Director of the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, a Vilas Research Professor, and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor. She previously served as a science advisor to President Barack Obama as the Associate Director for Science at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy …
Biography Melody Harvey is an assistant professor of consumer science at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Dr. Harvey’s research focuses on how consumer, social, and K-12 education policies affect personal and household finances among economically vulnerable populations in the United States from the axis of socioeconomic status, class, and economic standing. She seeks to understand what …