Advancing Citizenship and Public Leadership
Campbell Public Affairs Institute

Featured Lecture:
How the Ultra-Rich Avoid Taxes, and Why it Matters for Our Democracy
Jesse Eisinger is a senior editor and reporter at ProPublica. He is the author of the “ The Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives." He serves on the advisory board of the University of California; Berkeley’s Financial Fraud Institute, and he was a consultant on season three of the HBO series “Succession.” He was the lead reporter on “The Secret IRS Files,” a series that explored the tax avoidance techniques of the ultrawealthy, drawing a massive trove of previously never-seen tax records of the richest Americans. It won the Selden Ring and the Barlett & Steele prize, among others.
In April 2011, he and a colleague won the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for a series of stories on questionable Wall Street practices that helped make the financial crisis the worst since the Great Depression. He won the 2015 Gerald Loeb Award for Commentary. He has also twice been a finalist for the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting.
He was also a regular columnist for The New York Times’ Dealbook section. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, NewYorker.com, The Washington Post, The Baffler, The American Prospect and on NPR and “This American Life.” Before joining ProPublica, he was the Wall Street Editor of Conde Nast Portfolio and a columnist for the Wall Street Journal, covering markets and finance.
March 3, 2023
Featured Research

"Private Selves as Public Property: Black Women’s Self-Making in the Contemporary Moment" Jenn Jackson shows how Black women have resisted the fungibility of their bodies through processes of self-formation and self-reclamation and how that resistance might help us understand Black women’s social and political life worlds today.
Public Culture, 2020
"To Appeal and Amend: Changes to Recently Updated Flood Insurance Rate Maps" In this article, Sarah Pralle, associate professor of political science, and her co-author examine whether there are discernible trends or patterns in alterations to Flood Insurance Rate Maps.
Risk, Hazards & Crisis in Public Policy, 2021
Building Robust and Ethical Vaccination Verification Systems
Johannes Himmelreich and his co-authors propose guidelines for deploying vaccine record verification (V.R.V.) systems that align with vaccine prioritization decisions; uphold fairness and equity; and are built on trustworthy technology.
The Brookings Institution, 2021
Recent Faculty Books

The Constitution’s Penman: Gouverneur Morris and the Creation of America’s Basic Charter
Dennis Rasmussen
University Press of Kansas, 2023
Government, United States

Women and the Common Life: Love, Marriage, and Feminism
Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn, editor
W. W. Norton and Co., 1997

Pandemic Politics: The Deadly Toll of Partisanship in the Age of COVID
Shana Kushner Gadarian, Sara Wallace Goodman, Thomas B. Pepinsky
Princeton University Press, 2022
COVID-19, Government, Political Parties
Lecture Series
Campbell's lecture series bring together people with a diverse range of perspectives and interests to open dialogue, foster understanding and give the power of knowledge.
Bantle Symposium on Business and Government Policy
Phanstiel Lecture Series on Leadership
State of Democracy Lecture Series
Tanner Lecture Series on Ethics, Citizenship and Public Responsibility


Campbell Conversation Spotlight
In the wake of the Buffalo and Uvalde shootings, Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State legislature passed a set of new gun control laws. Then, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned New York's concealed carry permitting process. In response, the governor and the legislature, in a special session, passed another set of laws.
On this episode of the Campbell Conversations, Grant Reeher speaks with NYS Assemblyman Robert Smullen, a Republican representing the 118th assembly district and Senator Rachel May, a Democrat representing the 53rd senate district.
July 9, 2022
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