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Robert Bird

Robert Bird

Eversource Energy Chair in Business Ethics

Robert Bird is an expert in corporate compliance, employment law, legal strategy, business ethics, and corporate governance.

  • Storrs CT UNITED STATES
Corporate Governance Employment Law Business Law Corporate Compliance Business Ethics Legal Risk Management
Fred Carstensen, Ph.D.

Fred Carstensen, Ph.D.

Professor

Professor Fred Carstensen is an expert in the areas of public policy, economic history and economics.

  • Storrs CT UNITED STATES
Finance Public Policy Economic History Economics
Rebecca Puhl, Ph.D.

Rebecca Puhl, Ph.D.

Deputy Director, Rudd Center for Food Policy and Health; Professor, Human Development and Family Sciences

Clinical psychology expert, specializing in the study of bullying and weight stigmatization

  • Storrs CT UNITED STATES
Weight Discrimination Weight Stigma Weight-based bullying
Rigoberto A. Lopez, Ph.D.

Rigoberto A. Lopez, Ph.D.

Professor

Professor Lopez is an expert in food systems, marketing, and industrial organization.

  • Storrs CT UNITED STATES
Food Systems Marketing Industrial Organization Public Policy
Matthew Hughey, Ph.D.

Matthew Hughey, Ph.D.

Professor of Sociology

A scholar of racism and racial inequality in identity formation, organizations, media, politics, science, religion, and public advocacy.

  • Storrs CT UNITED STATES
Religion Fraternities and Sororities Organizations Whiteness Media Discrimination Racism Science
Laura J. Burton, Ph.D.

Laura J. Burton, Ph.D.

Department Head, Educational Leadership

Professor focused on management in sports organizations and how gender stereotypes affect women working in athletics.

  • Storrs CT UNITED STATES
Gender Stereotypes Access and Success in Leadership Sport Management Gender Issues in Sport Leadership in Sport Organizations Gender
Jennifer Necci Dineen, Ph.D.

Jennifer Necci Dineen, Ph.D.

Associate Professor In-Residence, School of Public Policy | Associate Director, UConn Center for Advancing, Research, Methods, and Scholarship in Gun Injury Prevention (ARMS)

Jennifer Dineen is a survey methodologist who focuses on stakeholder attitudes as mechanism for intervention uptake and policy change.

  • Hartford CT UNITED STATES
Gun Violence Prevention Gun Injury Prevention Education Policy Political Attitudes and Behavior Qualitative Research Methods Survey Methodology Public Policy
Jon Bauer, J.D.

Jon Bauer, J.D.

Clinical Professor of Law

Expertise: Asylum and Refugee Law, Immigration Law, Employment and Housing Discrimination, and Legal Ethics

  • Hartford CT UNITED STATES
Asylum and Human Rights Employment and Housing Discrimination Asylum and Refugee Law Immigration Law Legal Ethics
Kiel Brennan-Marquez

Kiel Brennan-Marquez

Professor and William T. Golden Scholar

Prof. Brennan-Marquez is an expert on human judgment and the role of courts in the age of big data and algorithmic decision-making.

  • Hartford CT UNITED STATES
The Fourth Amendment Policing Over-Criminalization Law and Technology Constitutional Law Law Evidence Big Data and Algorithmic Decision-Making Criminal Procedure
Jeffrey P. Cohen, Ph.D.

Jeffrey P. Cohen, Ph.D.

Kinnard Scholar in Real Estate and Professor

Jeffrey P. Cohen is an expert on transit-oriented development and housing, factors impacting real estate values, and property taxation

  • Storrs CT UNITED STATES
Housing Transit-Oriented Development Residential Real Estate Applied Spatial Econometrics Real Estate Economics and Finance Transportation and Real Estate Property Taxation Real Estate Valuation
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