The University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public has named four new faculty members (pictured above, from left), Gary Hsieh (HCDE), Cheryl Kaiser (Psychology), Lisa Manheim (Law) and Zahr Said (Law), bolstering the CIP’s multidisciplinary research and expertise.
Appointed for two-year terms with eligibility to renew their affiliations, CIP affiliated faculty members will have the opportunity to engage with the center’s full range of research and activities, including pursuing collaborative research proposals and projects, participating in the CIP’s Invited Speaker Series, utilizing the center’s research infrastructure, and applying for the CIP Innovation Fund.
Gary Hsieh
Associate Professor
UW Department Human Centered Design & Engineering
Dr. Hsieh is an Associate Professor in Human Centered Design & Engineering, where he leads the Prosocial Computing Lab. He studies and designs technologies to help people improve their lives and their societies. His current research focuses on translating and communicating academic findings to support evidence-based human centered design and to enhance trust and understanding of science. Hsieh has presented research at the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, and has published work in Scientific Reports and the International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, among other journals.
Cheryl Kaiser
Professor
UW Department of Psychology
Dr. Kaiser is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Washington, where she directs the Social Identity Laboratory. Kaiser’s research explores psychological aspects of prejudice, stereotypes, social identity, and diversity, and the intersection of these topics with law, politics, and policy. Kaiser’s research typically adopts an experimental approach, using self-report, psychophysiological, social cognitive, archival, and behavioral assessments both in the lab and field. Kaiser’s research has been supported by the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Science Foundation, and the Russell Sage Foundation.
Lisa Marshall Manheim
Professor
UW School of Law
Lisa Manheim is Charles I. Stone Professor of Law at the University of Washington’s School of Law. Her research explores the law of elections as it intersects with questions of federalism, institutionalism, and the rule of law. Her areas of expertise include administrative law, constitutional law, courts (including the Supreme Court), legislation, and property. Manheim’s scholarship has been published in the University of Chicago Law Review, the Supreme Court Review, the Vanderbilt Law Review, and other leading academic journals. The American Law Institute recently appointed Manheim to serve as co-reporter for the Restatement of the Law, Election Litigation project.
Zahr K. Said
Professor
UW School of Law
Zahr K. Said is Charles I. Stone Professor of Law at the University of Washington School of Law. Said holds a Ph.D. in comparative literature from Harvard University, a J.D. from Columbia (where she was a Kent Scholar and served as Articles Editor for the Columbia Journal of Law and the Arts) and a B.A. from U.C. Berkeley. She taught at the University of Virginia School of Law for three years as a Visiting Professor of Law, and was a Visiting Professor at Stanford Law School in 2018. Said’s research applies humanistic methods, theories, and texts to problems in legal doctrine and policy. Her work has appeared in the Lewis and Clark Law Review, the Iowa Law Review, the Cardozo Law Review, the North Carolina Law Review, the Harvard Journal of Law and Technology, the Stanford Technology Law Review, and the Columbia Journal of Law and the Arts, among others. Current works in progress examine the role of the jury in copyright law and jury instructions in copyright litigation.
