Weidenbaum Center’s Food Pantry Desert Map project featured in Food Bank News
By combining data on food insecurity with information on pantry locations, the map helps identify communities where need and access may be mismatched.
John Inazu presented “The Right of Assembly in our Democratic Experiment” as part of the spring 2026 WashU course “1776, Then and Now.”
The award is granted by the American Political Science Association and presented to top scholars in the field who are within ten years of their PhD.
McBride says that recipients don’t always receive the form if they don’t have a physical address or if the address on file is incorrect. And it’s not always clear to enrollees who receive the form what the department needs from them.
Alex Campbell joined the Weidenbaum Center as Communications Specialist in June 2026. She leads communications and marketing strategy to advance the Center's visibility and engagement, connecting its research, events, and initiatives with a broad range of audiences. Her work encompasses digital communications, website management, social media, media relations, publications, email marketing, and strategic campaigns, helping expand awareness of the Center's research and public impact.
Originally from Western New York, Alex is a lifelong Buffalo Bills fan and now lives in the Greater St. Louis area with her husband and their golden retriever, Borden.
Data from the Weidenbaum Center Survey (Waves 1–8, conducted between 2023 and 2026) highlight patterns of Americans' religious affiliation and practices, and how regular prayer and attendance at religious services relate to trust in government.
The award, granted from the Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting Behavior section, is given every 2-3 years for "an outstanding career of intellectual accomplishment and service to the profession in the EPOVB field."
Faculty Research Fellows are Appointed for a 3-year term.
Visit Our Faculty Research Fellows PageProfessor of Economics Research interests: macroeconomics, monetary economics, and international economics
Koch Professor of Practice for Family Enterprise Research interests: direct investment, creating and redesigning inertia in organizations toward more optimal ends, informing leader thinking, and the prominence of commerce, technology, and entertainment for shaping society
Associate Professor of Economics Research interests: micreconomic theory, finance, trade in over-the-counter markets and financial intermediation
Associate Professor of Political Science and Weidenbaum Center Director of Survey Research Research interests: political behavior, political communication, political psychology, American politics, and experiments
Professor of Political Science Research interests: electoral behavior, public opinion, political psychology, political communication, interest groups, survey research design, quantitative methods, and data science
Research Assistant Professor Research interests: housing policy, social mobility, happiness, econometrics, and spatial statistics
Professor of Law, WashU Law School Research interests: voting rights, election law, constitutional law, reconstruction, and U.S. Supreme Court
Associate Professor of Political Science Research interests: political economy, political methodology, and criminal justice
Professor of Sociology Research interests: race and ethnicity, immigration, and education
Professor of Political Science
Research interests: comparative politics legislative, judicial mass behavior, european politics, and health policy
Assistant Professor of Economics Research interests: labor Economics, macroeconomics, and econometrics.
Laurence H. Meyer Professor and Professor of Economics Research interests: labor economics and applied microeconomics
Assistant Professor of Economics Research interests: criminal justice, discrimination, labor
Professor of Law Research interests: constitutional law, presidential power, comparative law, legal philosophy and history, and administrative law
Teaching Professor in History Research interests: U.S. national security, foreign policy, intelligence terrorism, and counterterrorism
Assistant Professor of Sociology Research interests: race & ethnicity, community and urban sociology, demography and Asian Americans
Bernard Becker Professor Research interests: health policy and health economics, health insurance, Medicare and Medicaid policy, rural health care, health reform, and Social Security and pensions
Assistant Professor of Sociology Research interests: immigration, inequality, health, and policing and social control
James Langenfeld Professor of Industrial Organization and Professor of Economics Research interests: empirical industrial organization
Professor of Economics Research interests: micro-econometrics (identification issues: theory and applications), causal inference and policy evaluation, and empirical matching models.
Assistant Professor of Political Science Research interests: how institutions and incentives shape climate and environmental action
Assistant Professor of Political Science Research interests: American politics, quantitative methodology, and racial and ethnic politics.
Assistant Professor of Sociology Research interests: racial inequality, suburban inequality, community studies, and mixed methods.
Mark your calendars for August 24 as we celebrate the official launch of the Frick Initiatives at the Weidenbaum Center. Made possible through the extraordinary generosity of Bob and Barbara Frick, the Frick Initiatives will support innovative research, teaching, and programming that advance free speech, free and open markets, civil discourse, and personal responsibility. We hope you'll join us as we launch this important initiative and recognize the impact it will have on the WashU community and beyond.