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.