Our People

Kristin  Henningfeld

• Research Development Associate

• Email: kforinger@wustl.edu

Mirvali  Ismailov

• Senior Grants Specialist (Post-award)

• Email: mirvali@wustl.edu

Andrew  Jordan

• Assistant Professor of Economics
• 
  Weidenbaum Center Faculty Research Fellow

• Email: awjordan@wustl.edu

Jaclyn  Kaslovsky

• Assistant Professor of Political Science
• 
  Weidenbaum Center Resident Fellow

• Email: kjaclyn@wustl.edu

Andrea  Katz

• Professor of Law
• 
  Weidenbaum Center Faculty Research Fellow

​Krister  Knapp​

• Teaching Professor and Minor Adviser in History
• Coordinator of Crisis & Conflict in Historical Perspective
  Weidenbaum Center Faculty Research Fellow

• Email: kknapp@wustl.edu
• Phone: 314-935-6838

Samuel  Kye

• Assistant Professor of Sociology
• 
  Weidenbaum Center Faculty Research Fellow

• Email: samuel.kye@wustl.edu
• Phone: +1 (314) 935-5790

Ruilin  Lai

• Fourth Year Graduate Student
• 
  Weidenbaum Center Graduate Fellow

• Email: ruilin.lai@wustl.edu

Timothy  McBride

• Bernard Becker Professor, School of Public Health
• Co-Director, Center for Advancing Health Services, Policy & Economics Research
  Weidenbaum Center Faculty Research Fellow

Margot  Moinester

• Assistant Professor of Sociology
• 
  Weidenbaum Center Faculty Research Fellow

• Email: mmoinester@wustl.edu
• Phone: +1 (314) 935-5790

Leilani  Moise

• Undergraduate Student Affiliate

Julie Holland  Mortimer

• James Langenfeld Professor of Industrial Organization
• Professor of Economics
• 
  NBER Research Associate: Industrial Organization
  Weidenbaum Center Faculty Research Fellow

• Email: hollandmortimer@wustl.edu

Ismael  Mourifié

• Professor of Economics
• 
  NBER Research Associate: Labor Studies
  Weidenbaum Center Faculty Research Fellow

• Email: ismaelm@wustl.edu

Khoi  Ngo

• Graduate Student
• 
  Weidenbaum Center Graduate Fellow

• Email: khoi@wustl.edu
• Phone: +1 (314) 935-5790

Michael  Olson

• Associate Professor of Political Science
• 
  Weidenbaum Center Resident Fellow

• Email: michael.p.olson@wustl.edu

Elizabeth  Pippert Larson

• Associate Director of Research & Administration

• Email: elizabeth.larson@wustl.edu

Melanie Fontes  Rainer

• Leading Healthcare Strategist, J.D.
• 
  Chief Strategy and Transformation Office, L.A. Care
  Former U.S. National Director Civil Rights & Chief Privacy Officer at HHS
  Weidenbaum Center Senior Fellow
  

• Email: Melaniefontesrainer@gmail.com

Andrew  Reeves

• Professor of Political Science
• 
  Director of the Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, Government, and Public Policy
  Senior Advisor to the Chancellor

• Email: reeves@wustl.edu
• Phone: 314-935-5636

​Jake  Rosenfeld​

• Department Chair of Sociology
• Professor of Sociology
  Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, Government, and Public Policy Resident Fellow
  

• Email: jrosenfeld@wustl.edu
• Phone: 314-935-6196

Rich  Ryffel

• Executive Director of Business Leadership and Professor of Practice, Mitch Daniels School of Business, Purdue University
• 
  Weidenbaum Center Senior Fellow

• Email: rryffel@purdue.edu
• Phone: Phone: (314) 614-3232

Armin  Sauermann

• Graduate Student
• 
  Weidenbaum Center Graduate Fellow

• Email: a.sauermann@wustl.edu

​Ariela  Schachter​

• Associate Chair of Sociology
• Associate Professor of Sociology
  Weidenbaum Center Resident Fellow
  Faculty Affiliate in Asian American Studies
  

• Email: ariela@wustl.edu
• Phone: +1 (314) 935-5790

Sepehr  Shahshahani

• Professor of Law
• 
  Weidenbaum Center Faculty Research Fellow

• Email: sepehrs@email.wustl.edu
• Phone: (314) 935 - 6495

Shiran Victoria  Shen

• Assistant Professor of Political Science
• 
  Weidenbaum Center Faculty Research Fellow

• Email: shen.shiranvictoria@wustl.edu