Data from the Weidenbaum Center Survey (Waves 6-8; May 2025, October 2025, and February-March 2026) reveal how much Americans trust political institutions and whether that trust diverges across partisanship, region, and employment status.
As the first WashU recipient of the Andrew Carnegie fellowship, Professor Strawbridge plans to study what unites Black Americans politically, and how this cohesion has been sustained across generations despite the polarization of American politics.
Taylor Carlson, Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of Graduate Studies, has received the 2026 American Association for Public Opinion Research Book (AAPOR) Book Award for "What Goes Without Saying: Navigating Political Discussion in America," which Carlson co-authored with Jaime E. Settle, Cornelia Brackenridge Talbot Professor of Government at William & Mary.
Crum says he thinks we’re definitely going to see the impact of the decision at the state level after 2030.
Congrats to Weidenbaum Center Speaker and Associate Professor of Sociology Liz Chiarello for being selected as a 2026–27 Member in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University. Liz will be in residence at Princeton for the upcoming academic year.
Collins says products and services do not make a community. They help ease the hurt of living without one.
Shin says employees often need time set aside by their bosses to experiment with tools or formalized AI training.
Winners of the award demonstrate advanced pedagogical skills, develop innovative materials and lessons, and/or refine feedback mechanisms that have significant impacts on student learning and engagement.
Video of Alejandro Orrego Agudelo’s arrest put him at the center of a debate over ICE staking out Massachusetts courthouses.
Sending heartfelt well wishes to our Weidenbaum Center–affiliated faculty members Steve Fazzari (Resident Fellow and former Director), Costas Azariadis (Grant Recipient), James Gibson (Grant Recipient), and Ping Wang (Grant Recipient) as they embark on their upcoming retirement. Your dedication, insight, and impact have shaped countless students, colleagues, and conversations. Wishing you all the best in this exciting new chapter!
Professor Chiarello is a medical sociologist and socio-legal scholar whose work explores how cultural forces such as law, politics, and organizational policy shape decision-making in healthcare and the criminal-legal system. Chiarello gave a talk in January 2025 for the Center on her book, "Policing Patients: Treatment and Surveillance on the Frontlines of the Opioid Crisis."
Magarian, a former clerk to Justice John Paul Stevens, cautioned reading too much into the justices’ correspondence, noting that there’s different internal norms for memos compared to a dissent meant to go public.