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1 Ryan J. Williams Contact Information Education Department of Political Science 312 Hamilton Hall ryanjwilliams.web.unc.edu University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Updated: April 9, 2018 Chapel Hill, NC 27599, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA Ph.D. Candidate, Political Science (expected graduation date: May 2018) Dissertation Topic: The Creation and Consequences of Specialization: Expertise and Agency Deference in Specialized Courts Advisor: Kevin T. McGuire Committee: Isaac Unah, Jason M. Roberts, Thomas M. Carsey, Virginia H. Gray, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA M.A., Political Science, August, 2015 Master s Thesis Topic: The Allocation of Supreme Court Agenda Attention: Institutional Issue Dynamics Advisor: Kevin T. McGuire The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA A.B., Political Science, May, 2013 A.B.J., Digital and Broadcast Journalism, May, 2013 Honors and Awards : Whit Ayres Conference Travel Grant, 2015, 2016, Southern Political Science Association Prestage-Cook Travel Grant, Doctoral Merit Assistantship, (Award value of $47,500) The University of Georgia: Graduated Summa Cum Laude Honors in Political Science and Honors in Digital and Broadcast Journalism Phi Beta Kappa, 2013 Fellowships Research Interests Lampley Graduate Fellow, AY ($5,000 award) Future Faculty Fellow-UNC Center for Faculty Excellence, Spring 2018 Program provides instruction on evidence-based teaching practices and participation in learning communities. Thomas M. Uhlman Summer Research Fellowship 2016, 2017 Judicial politics, political institutions, the U.S. Supreme Court, specialized courts, Congress, media and politics, separation of powers

2 Peer-Reviewed Journal Publications Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters Revise and Resubmit Under Review Keeping Up Appearances: Non-policy Court Responses to Public Opinion. Justice System Journal. Forthcoming (With Jacob F.H. Smith). Research findings covered in Andrew Hamm, Why justices attend the State of the Union: Two political scientists focus on positivity bias, SCOTUSblog Dec. 8, 2017, What is so Special about Specialized Courts in the United States? In Handbook of Judicial Behavior. Robert M. Howard & Kirk Randazzo, Eds. Routledge Inc. (with Isaac Unah). Teaching Judicial Politics and Decision Making through a Supreme Court Simulation. (With Anthony J. Chergosky). Revise and Resubmit, Journal of Political Science Education. Revisions submitted November 28, The Legacy of the Obama Presidency in the United States Supreme Court. In Hope and Change: Looking Back to President Obama s Legacy. Wilbur C. Rich, Ed. SUNY Press. (with Isaac Unah). Women Judges and Intergenerational Change in the U.S. Courts of Appeals (with Isaac Unah and Stephanie Zaino). Under review at Law & Social Inquiry. Submitted February 12, Papers in preparation In Search of Expertise in Specialized Courts: Ideology and Expertise in the Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims. Where s the Law? The Effect of Changing Standards of Review on the Jurisprudence of and Agency Deference by the Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims Supreme Court Headline News: How Television Media Affects Court Public Opinion. (With Anthony J. Chergosky, John L. Lovett, and Kelsey M. Shoub). Members of Congress and Television Media Messaging. (With Anthony J. Chergosky and John L. Lovett). The Effect of Subject-Matter Expertise in the United States Supreme Court. (With Isaac Unah and Christopher M. Wall). Everyone s a Little Bit Activist: Judicial Activism on the U.S. Supreme Court. (With Jason M. Roberts). Conference Presentations Where are You Going, Where Have You Been? Patterns of Appointments to Specialized Courts. Prepared for the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois, April, Where s the Law? The Effect of Changing Standards of Review on the Jurisprudence of and Agency Deference by the Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims. Prepared for the Annual Meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, January 4-6, Supreme Court Headline News: How Television Media Affects Court Public Opinion. (With Anthony J. Chergosky, John L. Lovett, and Kelsey M. Shoub). Prepared for the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, San Francisco, California, August 31-September 3, In Search of Expertise in Specialized Courts: Ideology and Expertise in the Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims. Prepared for the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association,

3 San Francisco, California, August 31-September 3, Members of Congress and Television Media Messaging. (With Anthony J. Chergosky and John L. Lovett). Prepared for the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois, April, Teaching Judicial Politics and Decision Making through a Supreme Court Simulation. (With Anthony J. Chergosky). Prepared for the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois, April, In search of Expertise in Specialized Courts: Ideology and Expertise in the Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims. Prepared for the Annual Meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, New Orleans, January, Everyone s a Little Bit Activist: Judicial Activism on the U.S. Supreme Court. (With Jason M. Roberts). Prepared for the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois, April, The State of Attendance: Supreme Court Justices and the State of the Union. (With Jacob Smith). Prepared for the Annual Meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, Puerto Rico, January, The Allocation of Supreme Court Agenda Attention: Institutional Issue Dynamics. Prepared for the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois, April, Research Experience Research assistant for Jason Roberts (Spring 2015, Summer 2015) Contributed to work on the 9th edition of The American Congress and provided other research services to Dr. Roberts. Research assistant for Gregory Caldeira (February 2018-Present) Collected data from the David Outlaw Collection Teaching Interests Teaching Experience Introduction to American Politics, Judicial Politics, Political Institutions, Political Parties, Elections, Congress and the Legislative Process, American Political Development, Constitutional Law, Civil Rights and Liberties, State and Local Government, Political Science Research Methods Courses as Instructor The US Supreme Court UNC (Spring 2018) Political Parties and Elections UNC (Summer 2017, Fall 2017, Summer 2018 (Scheduled)) UNC (Summer 2016 (Co-Instructor), Fall 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018 (Online) Courses as Teaching Assistant UNC (Fall 2015, Spring 2016) State and Local Government in the United States UNC (Fall 2014)

4 Courses as Graduate Research Consultant (GRC) State Governments: Laboratories of Democracy UNC (Spring 2016) Constitutional Policies and the Judicial Process UNC (Fall 2015) Courses as Grader UNC (Fall 2013, Spring 2014) Methods Training Technical Skills Professional Affiliations Professional Service Ordinary Least Squares Regression Generalized Linear Models Time Series Analysis Panel Data Methodology Game Theory I Statistical Packages: R, Stata, L A TEX. American Political Science Association Law and Courts Section Midwest Political Science Association Southern Political Science Association Chapel Hill American Media Project Project directed by faculty and graduate students focused on the collection and analysis of data on television news media between 2000 and 2017 Editorial Assistant, Journal of Law and Courts (Fall 2017-Present) Senator, Graduate and Professional Student Federation Senate, UNC (Fall 2014) References Kevin T. McGuire Professor of Political Science 353 Hamilton Hall Phone: gcecil@ .unc.edu Isaac Unah Associate Professor of Political Science 308 Hamilton Hall Phone: gencecil@unc.edu Jason M. Roberts Professor of Political Science 324 Hamilton Hall

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B.A., Amherst College, Women s and Gender Studies, Magna Cum Laude (2001) SERENA LAWS Department of Political Science Trinity College 300 Summit Street Hartford, CT 06106 slaws@trincoll.edu EDUCATION Ph.D., University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Political Science (2011) M.A.,