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Katherine Cramer Walsh
Katherine Cramer Walsh (B.A. University of Wisconsin-Madison 1994, Ph.D. University of Michigan 2000) is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science and is the Morgride Center for Public Service Faculty Research Scholar. She is also affiliate professor of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, affiliate professor of the LaFollette Institute for Public Affairs, and faculty director of the Wisconsin public opinion survey, the UW Survey Center Badger Poll. Her primary research and teaching interests include public opinion, political communication, civic engagement, and deliberative democracy. She is the author of Talking about Race: Community Dialogues and the Politics of Difference (University of Chicago Press, 2007), Talking about Politics: Informal Groups and Social Identity in American Life (University of Chicago Press, 2004) and co-author of Democracy at Risk: How Political Choices Have Undermined Citizenship and What We Can Do About It with the members of the American Political Science Association's Task Force on Civic Engagement and Civic Education, Stephen Macedo, Yvette M. Alex-Assensoh, Jeffrey M. Berry, Michael Brintnall, David E. Campbell, Luis Ricardo Fraga, Archon Fung, William A. Galston, Christopher F. Karpowitz, Margaret Levi, Meira Levinson, Keena Lipsitz, Richard G. Niemi, Robert D. Putnam, Wendy M. Rahn, Rob Reich, Robert R. Rodgers, Todd Swanstrom (Brookings, 2005).
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Recent Publications
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Katherine Walsh. 2009. “Scholars as Citizens: Studying Public Opinion through Ethnography.” In Ed Schatz, ed., Political Ethnography. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
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Katherine Walsh 2007. “The Democratic Potential of Civic Dialogue.” In Shawn Rosenberg (ed.) Deliberation, Participation, and Democracy: Can the People Govern? New York: Palgrave MacMillan.
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Katherine Walsh Talking about Race: Community Dialogues and the Politics of Difference. 2007. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
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Katherine Walsh 2006. “Communities, Race, and Talk: An Analysis of the Occurrence of Civic Intergroup Dialogue Programs.” Journal of Politics 68 (1): 22-33.
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Katherine Walsh, Stephen Macedo, Yvette M. Alex-Assensoh, Jeffrey M. Berry, Michael Brintnall, David E. Campbell, Luis Ricardo Fraga, Archon Fung, William A. Galston, Christopher F. Karpowitz, Margaret Levi, Meira Levinson, Keena Lipsitz, Richard G. Niemi, Robert D. Putnam, Wendy M. Rahn, Rob Reich, Robert R. Rodgers, Todd Swanstrom Democracy at Risk: How Political Choices Have Undermined Citizenship, and What We Can Do About It. 2005. A Report of the American Political Science Association’s Standing Committee on Civic Education and Engagement. Brookings.
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Katherine Walsh Talking about Politics: Informal Groups and Social Identity in American Life. 2004. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
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Current Courses taught for Fall 2009-2010
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