Wendy J. Schiller

Wendy J. Schiller is Alison S. Ressler Professor of Political Science Excellence in Political Science, International & Public Affairs and Director of the Taubman Center for American Politics and Policy Chair at Brown University. Among books she has authored or co-authored are Inequality Across State Lines: How Policymakers Have Failed Domestic Violence Victims in the United States (Cambridge University Press), Electing the Senate: Indirect Democracy before the Seventeenth Amendment (Princeton University Press), Gateways to Democracy: An Introduction to American Government (Cengage), The Contemporary Congress (Thomson-Wadsworth), and Partners and Rivals: Representation in U.S. Senate Delegations (Princeton University Press). She has been a contributor to NPR, CNNcom, Bloomberg Radio and TV, she provides local political commentary to the Providence Journal, WPRO radio, RIPBS A Lively Experiment, and she is the political analyst for WJAR10, the local NBC affiliate in Providence.