Katherine Cramer Walsh received her BA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1994, and her PhD from the University of Michigan in 2000. She is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science, and is the Morgridge Center for Public Service Faculty Research Scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Walsh 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 a Wisconsin public opinion survey, the Badger Poll. Her work focuses on 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, with the members of the American Political Science Association's Task Force on Civic Engagement and Civic Education, of Democracy at Risk: How Political Choices Have Undermined Citizenship and What We Can Do About It (Brookings, 2005).

Academy Evenings Panel Discussion:

Did you miss Katherine Cramer Walsh's February 16, 2010, panel discussion, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner: The Nature of Tolerance in 2050? You can watch it online or purchase the DVD from our Wisconsin Academy store.

Suggested Reading:

"Rural Republicans? Conservative Democrats? Listening to the Content of Partisanship," a paper prepared for presentation to the Midwest Political Science Annual Meeting, Chicago, 2009

"Doug Moe: Professor polls opinions on Madison," column, Wisconsin State Journal, 2009