Carolyn Heinrich

Professor of Public Policy, Education and Economics, Vanderbilt University

Carolyn J. Heinrich is the Patricia and Rodes Hart Professor of Public Policy, Education and Economics in the Peabody College of Education and Human Development at Vanderbilt University, and a University Distinguished Professor of Leadership, Policy, and Organizations (Peabody College) and of Political Science in the College of Arts and Science. She also holds secondary appointments as Professor of Health Policy in the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics, College of Arts and Science. In the 2022-23 academic year, she is appointed as the George Eastman Professor at the University of Oxford, UK, in the Balliol College.

Experience

2015–2019

Professor of Public Policy, Education and Economics, Vanderbilt University
2011–2015

Professor of Public Policy and Economics, University of Texas at Austin
2003–2011

Professor of Public Affairs, University of Wisconsin-Madison
2000–2003

Asst. Professor of Public Policy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Education

1995

University of Chicago, PhD