Luigi Bonatti

Italy-University of Trento

Research Area: Accounting for people's weak rationality: public policies when individual beliefs are distorted and preferences are intertwined with inaccurate perceptions.

David Chai

Research Area: Researching and writing about a wide range of public policy issues related to national and California Governance.

Louise Comfort

Research Area: Public policy regarding earthquake protection standards for housing and cities.

Sergio Fabbrini

U.S.-Wagner School of Public Policy

Research Area: EU project in collaboration with IES/IGS.

Erica Foldy

NY University

Research Area: Learning together across potential divisions like race and gender.

Matteo Giglioli

Princeton University

Research Area: Woman and War

Ellen Hanak

Public Policy Institute of California

Laura Hill

PPIC Washington, DC

Lynne Horiuchi

Research Area: Japanese internment during the second world war.

Hans Johnson

Public Policy Institute of California

Jeremy Kinsman

Research area: US/Canada conference.

Kazushige Koizumi

Professor of the Faculty of Administration, Prefectural University of Kumamoto, Japan

Research Area: a comparative analysis of local tax policy in U.S and Japan while studying the effects of tax revolt on local government fiscal situation in California.

Madeline Landau

Research Area: Research on community development and political implications.

Marie Laperriere

University of Montreal, Canada

Research Area: New Actors in immigrant incoporation: Women community organizations and political incorporation of women migrants in Quebec.

Benjamin LeClere

France-French Institute of Geopolitics of the University of Paris 8

Research Area: Studying a comparative perspective of the issue of territorial claims for two indigenous groups: American Indians of the SF Bay area and the Noongar people of the Perth metropolitan area.

Loretta Lynch

Research Area: California politics and public policy.

Fred Martin

Research Area: Mental health policy in the U.S.

John R. Miller

Research Area: Military/civilian relations and articles about human rights and foreign policy.

Kimberly Nalder

Cal. State University, Sacramento

Research Area: Information and misinformation in the California electorate.

Seth Rosenfeld

Research Area: Researching and writing a book on the FBI and Berkeley in the 1960s.

Don Rothblatt

San Jose State University - Urban and Regional Planning

Research Area: Examining strategies for improving the quality of public participation in the regional planning process.

Peter Schrag

Research Area: California politics and political history.

Roy Ulrich

Research Area: Study of deficiencies in California government structure.

Alan Unger

Research Area: Researching historical and conceptual basis for the public education and information programs funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development.

Dariush Zahedi

Research Area: Mr. Zahedi's research entails a comparative analysis between the levels of influence wielded in the American political process by Cuban-Americans vs. Iranian-Americans.

Eric Zimmering

San Francisco State University

Research Area: His research focuses on the political dynamics behind interlocal agreements between cities and county governments.