Professor emeritus of history
William Chafe is a historian of the U.S. specializing in civil rights, women's history, and politics. He is the author of many books, including the forthcoming volume “Hillary and Bill: The Clintons and the Politics of the Personal.” He is former president of the Organization of American Historians and co-founder of both the Duke Oral History Program and the Center for Documentary Studies.
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Dirk Philipsen
Associate Research Professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy
Expertise: Politics and Public Policy
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Professor emeritus of history
Expertise: American Politics > Politics and Public Policy
William Chafe is a historian of the U.S. specializing in civil rights, women's history, and politics. He is the author of many books, including the forthcoming volume “Hillary and Bill: The Clintons and the Politics of the Personal.” He is former president of the Organization of American Historians and co-founder of both the Duke Oral History Program and the Center for Documentary Studies.
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Assistant professor of public policy and of psychology and neuroscience; faculty affiliate of the Center for Child and Family Policy
Expertise: Employment > Politics and Public Policy
Her research focuses on low-wage work, family life, and the effects of welfare and employment policy on child and maternal well-being in low-income families.
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Professor of history
Expertise: North Carolina and the South > Southern History
She studies legal history and women’s history, with an emphasis on gender and the law in the 19th century, particularly in the U.S. South. She is the author of books about Southern women in the Civil War era and a legal history of the Civil War and Reconstruction.
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Professor of political science
Expertise: American Politics > Politics and Public Policy
He specializes in American politics and political institutions. He has served as co-editor of the American Journal of Political Science and as president of the American Political Science Association. He is author of the book "Why Parties?" and co-author of "Change and Continuity in the 2012 and 2014 Elections."
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Assistant professor of public policy and political science
Expertise: Political Representation > Politics and Public Policy
His research focuses on American politics, economic and social class inequality and political representation. He is the author of "White Collar Government: The Hidden Role of Class in Economic Policy Making."
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Professor of political science
Expertise: Politics and Public Policy > Regulation and Markets
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Associate professor of the practice of public policy
Expertise: North Carolina and the South > Politics and Public Policy
He has served as an issues consultant to political candidates, state governments and various organizations for the last two decades. Since starting McCorkle Policy Consulting in 1994, he has worked for state and federal candidates in North Carolina as well as 28 other states.
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Associate professor of political science and African and African-American Studies; director of the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Social Sciences
Expertise: North Carolina and the South > Politics and Public Policy > Race, Ethnicity and Gender
His research and teaching interests are in race and ethnic politics, legislative processes, state-level politics, Southern politics and comparative urban politics.
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Expertise: Civic Participation > Politics and Public Policy
Lecturer in the Sanford School of Public Policy
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