Featured Faculty The wealth of knowledge of the Harris School faculty translates into a rich learning environment for students, with opportunities to explore a variety of public policy topics.

View the profiles below to learn specifics about the backgrounds, interests and accomplishments of our featured faculty. See All Faculty for more details about each member of the Harris School faculty.

Additional Faculty Profiles

Take a look at some of the faculty who have been featured in the past.

Topics of Research

Current research programs in the Harris School include the following topics:

Read about some of our current faculty research projects:

• Professor Jeffrey Grogger on welfare reform: Were the changes worth it?
• Assistant Professor Boris Shor on voting patterns in America
• Assistant Professor Christopher Berry on banking and the poor
• Professor Don Coursey on beach closings due to E. coli
• Associate Professor Ariel Kalil on parental employment and their children's performance in school
• Professor Bruce Meyer on immigrant entrepreneurship
• Professor Robert LaLonde on older workers and job loss
• Assistant Professor Ofer Malamud on the benefits of educational breadth versus depth
• Assistant Professor Diane Schanzenbach on evaluating Chicago's Renaissance 2010 plan for school reform
• Professor Tomas Philipson on America's obesity problem
• Assistant Professor Diane Schanzenbach on the relationship between school lunches and childhood obesity