Wendy J. Schiller is an Alison S. Ressler professor of political science, professor of public & international affairs, and director of the A. Alfred Taubman Center for American Politics and Policy at Brown University. She earned her BA from the University of Chicago and her PhD in political science from the University of Rochester. Among the books she has authored or co-authored include Inequality Across State Lines: How Policymakers Have Failed Domestic Violence Victims in the United States (Cambridge University Press), Dynamics of American Democracy: Partisan Polarization, Political Competition and Government Performance (University of Kansas Press), Electing the Senate: Indirect Democracy before the Seventeenth Amendment (Princeton University Press), Gateways to Democracy: An Introduction to American Government (Cengage), The Contemporary Congress (Rowman & Littlefield), and Partners and Rivals: Representation in US Senate Delegations (Princeton University Press).

Schiller has also published articles in the American Journal of Political Science, The Forum, Journal of Politics, Journal of Women, Politics & Policy, Legislative Studies Quarterly, Perspectives on Politics, State Politics and Policy Quarterly, and Studies in American Political Development. Schiller has provided political analysis to MSNBC, NPR, CNN, and Bloomberg News. She also provides local political commentary to the Providence Journal, WPRO radio, and Rhode Island PBS’s A Lively Experiment. She is the political analyst for WJAR10, the local NBC affiliate in Providence, Rhode Island.