Susan L Moffitt (PhD, MPP, University of Michigan, 2005, Political Science) is John Hazen White Professor of Public Policy, Chair of the Department of Political Science, and Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs at The Watson School of International and Public Affairs at Brown University. Her research concerns American political institutions and public policy, particularly barriers confronting policy development and implementation in government agencies. She is coauthor of "Reforming the Reform: Problems of Public Schooling in the American Welfare State" (Chicago, 2023) and "The Ordeal of Equality: Did Federal Regulation Fix the Schools” (Cambridge; Harvard, 2009). Her other scholarship has appeared in journals including: the American Journal of Political Science; Journal of Politics; Perspectives on Politics; and American Journal of Education.