About Kathy
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. She also enjoys affiliate status with the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, the LaFollette Institute for Public Affairs, and is faculty investigator of a statewide public opinion poll, the UW Survey Center Badger Poll. Her work
focuses on deliberative democracy, public opinion, political
communication, and civic engagement. 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).