The 2015-16 year brings with it a number of recent changes in the directorship and chair status in centers and programs at the Woodrow Wilson School.

Paul Frymer, associate professor in the Department of Politics, will serve as the director of the Program in Law and Public Affairs (LAPA). Frymer has been affiliated with LAPA for six years with appointments as faculty associate, executive committee member and acting director. His work focuses at the intersection of American politics and law with particular interests in civil rights and labor laws as well as national constitutional development. 

Ilyana Kuziemko, professor in the Department of Economics, will serve as co-director of the Center for Health and Wellbeing (CHW) with Janet Currie, Henry Putnam Professor of Economics and Public Affairs and chair of the Department of Economics. Kuziemko's work focuses on economic inequality.

Andrea Graham, associate professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, will serve as the co-director of CHW's Global Health and Health Policy certificate program. 

Due to faculty leaves, the Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP) and Office of Population Research (OPR) have two acting directors. Nick Feamster, professor in the Department of Computer Science, will serve as acting director of CITP while Ed Felten, the Robert E. Kahn Professor of Computer Science and Public Affairs, is on public service leave in Washington, D.C. Feamster's research focuses on many aspects of computer networking and networked systems, with a concentration on network operations, network security and censorship-resistant communication systems.

Noreen Goldman, the Hughes-Rogers Professor of Demography and Public Affairs, will serve as acting director of OPR while Doug Massey, the Henry G. Bryant Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, is on sabatical. A specialist in demography and epidemiology, Goldman researches the impact of social and economic factors on adult health and the physiological pathways through which these factors operate.