Expand your academic interests to include a policy dimension – or apply your policy expertise to a research project in your field.
If selected as a Udall Center Fellow, you will receive time in the Summer 2026, Fall 2026, or Spring 2027 term to devote to a research project related to, tangential to, or informing some area of public policy relevant to your area of academic expertise. Terms vary by fellowship track.
There are a number of opportunities for research that might qualify you to participate in the Udall Center Fellows Program. Your chosen research can cover any aspect of public policy and need not relate to general Udall Center activities.
In partnership with several other U of A colleges, institutes and programs, The Udall Center Fellows Program offers multiple specialized tracks tailored to your public-policy interests and designed to propel your research forward.
Public Policy Fellowship Tracks
Agriculture, Life, and Environmental Sciences and Public Policy
For faculty from the College of Agriculture, Life and Environmental Sciences (CALES)
In partnership with the College of Agriculture, Life, and Environmental Sciences (CALES)
AI and Public Policy
For faculty in any department or unit on campus for other research interests relating to public policy not covered by the other research tracks.
In partnership with the Office and Research Institute of the Chief AI Officer (CAIO)
Biosciences
For research on topics within the BIO5/Translational Bioscience strategic areas (Science, Agriculture, Engineering, Medicine, and Pharmacy) with appropriate public-policy inquiry concerning such realms as ethics, financing, legislation, governance, public dialogue, Indigenous issues, and other germane subjects.
PROJECT EXAMPLES
INFORMATION SESSION
In partnership with the BIO5 Institute
Environment
For faculty in any department or unit on campus to support research in any aspect of environment and public policy.
In partnership with the Arizona Institute for Resilience (AIR)
Other Public Policy
For faculty in any department or unit on campus for other research interests relating to public policy not covered by the other research tracks above.
In partnership with the Office of Research and Partnerships (ORP)
Social Sciences
For faculty from the College of Social & Behavioral Sciences
In partnership with the College of Social & Behavioral Sciences
APPLICATIONS DUE FEBURARY 16, 2026!
Project Examples
Social Sciences & Public Policy
- Studying Americans’ Attitudes Toward Freedom of Information (David Cuillier, Asst. Prof., Journalism, 2009-10)
- Death and Life on the Yangtze: Extinction, Conservation, and Environmental Change in China (David Pietz, Prof., History, 2022-23)
- How Institutions Change: Looking Backward at Policing and Forward at Education (Jennifer Earl, Prof., Sociology, 2021-22)
Environment & Public Policy
- Real Estate Speculation, Ranching, and the Sonoran Desert Conservation Plan: Long-Term Environmental Collaboration in a Largely Urban Country (Thomas Sheridan, Prof. Anthropology, 2020-21)
- AGRIVOLTAICS: A Solution to Food-Energy-Water Vulnerabilities in the semiarid Southwest (Greg Barron-Gafford, Prof., Biogeography, 2020-21)
- From Restoration to Resilience Ecology: An Emerging Paradigm for Ecosystem Management (Don Falk, Assoc. Prof. Natural Resources and the Environment, 2014-15)
Biosciences & Public Policy
- State Policy Review of Abuse Reporting from Developmental Disability Groups (Jamie Edgin, Prof. Science, 2022-23)
- Embodying Place: Pathologizing Chinese and Chinatown in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco (Susan Craddock, Prof. Women’s Studies & Geography, 1997-98)
- Community-based approaches to monitor and improve the Southern Arizona-Sonora Borderlands Foodshed: Cultivating the Network of Collaborators (Megan Carney, Asst. Prof. Anthropology, 2019-20)
Other Public Policy Research
- The Limitations of Social Network Analysis in Studying Insurgency and Terrorism (Ronald Breiger, Prof. Sociology, 2009-10)
- Ed Tech, FERPA, and Overcoming the Privacy Paradox (Rochelle Rodrigo, Assoc. Writing Studies Specialist Dept of English, 2020-21)
- Authoritarianism, Populism, and the Partisan Policy Divide (Christopher Weber, Assoc. Prof. Government and Public Policy, 2018-19)