E.J. Fagan

E.J. Fagan

Primary Affiliation: Equity, Justice, and Human Flourishing Working Group

Department of Political Science, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences | University of Illinois Chicago

CONTACT ME: ejfagan@uic.edu
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Skill Highlights

Assessing the Role of Expert Information in Political Decision-making

Assessment of political party roles in Congressional policy decisions

Policy Expertise

political institutions
public policy
civil society

Milestones

Awarded funding of $100,000 for a project studying Racial Equity and Justice in the State Courts During the Post-Pandemic Transition. The project will leverage and build on the COVID-19 and the Operations of Courts Project and what has been learned so far on the operations of courts and access to justice during the pandemic.
Professor Wilson received a $232,032 Templeton Religion Trust grant to support the Tolerance Means Dialogues initiatives.
Since January 1, 2019, Professor Wilson and a team of students have been supporting legislative efforts across the U.S. to provide patient protections around intimate teaching exams, which have resulted in 13 laws in 32 months, drawing on her Opinion-Editorial in the Chicago Tribune, #Just Ask: Stop Treating Unconscious Female Patients like Cadavers.
Assisted Utah Governor Gary Herbert and General Counsel Ron Gordon in crafting legislation banning gay conversion therapy through revisions to R156 concerning Commerce, Occupational and Professional Licensing, drawing from her article Being Transgender in the Era of Trump: Compassion Should Pick Up Where Science Leaves Off.
Assisted the Utah Legislature to craft its landmark antidiscrimination laws protecting both the LGBT and faith communities in a package of protections, drawn from Bargaining for Civil Rights: Lessons from Mrs. Murphy for Same-Sex Marriage and LGBT Rights, described in more detail in Common Ground Lawmaking Lessons for Peaceful Coexistence from Masterpiece Cakeshop and the Utah Compromise.
Assisted Senator Michael McLachlan, Connecticut State Senate, in codifying same-sex marriage with legislative protections for all, drawing from her work on Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Liberty: Emerging Conflicts with Professor Douglas Laycock and Anthony Picarello. This effort resulted in religious liberty protections in 9 states and the District of Columbia. See, e.g., Connecticut (S.B. 899, 2009); District of Columbia (D.C. Law 18-110, 2009); New Hampshire (H.B. 73, 2010); New York (A. 8354, 2011); Washington (S.B. 6239, 2012); Maryland (H.B. 438, 2012); Minnesota (H.F. 1054, 2013); Rhode Island (S. 0038A, 2013); Illinois (S.B. 0010, 2013); and Hawaii (S.B. 1, 2013).
Assisted Rep. David Orentlicher, Indiana House of Representatives, in crafting child protection legislation (Indiana S.B. 311), drawing on her work on Sexually Predatory Parents and the Children in Their Care: Remove the Threat, Not the Child, in Handbook of Children, Culture and Violence 39 (Nancy Dowd, Dorothy G. Singer & Robin Fretwell Wilson, eds., 2006).
Assisted Representative James Smith, South Carolina House of Representatives, in crafting the Lewis Blackman Hospital Patient Safety Protection Act (South Carolina H.B. 3832). Professor Wilson partnered with Helen Haskell, whose fifteen-year-old son, Lewis Blackman, had died, to fashion a package of patient protections designed to avert tragic deaths, such as requiring health professionals to wear name tags identifying their role on the healthcare team and posting notices about how to reach an attending physician.
Partnered with Delegate Robert Bell, Virginia House of Delegates, to provide patient protections around intimate teaching exams, drawing on her article Autonomy Suspended: Using Female Patients to Teach Intimate Exams Without Their Knowledge or Consent and her testimony before the Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice at the Joint Hearings on Health Care and Competition Law and Policy on June 10, 2003. From 2012 until 2019, the span of seven years, six states enacted similar laws requiring informed consent for intimate teaching exams.
Assisted Representative David Orentlicher, Indiana House of Representatives, in crafting child protection legislation (Indiana S.B. 194), drawing on Professor Wilson’s article The Cradle of Abuse: Evaluating the Danger Posed by a Sexually Predatory Parent to the Victim’s Siblings.
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EXPERIENCE &
BACKGROUND

ABOUT

Professor Fagan studies how political institutions process information and make decisions about public policy.
His work focuses on the role of expert information, civil society, and political parties in
influencing decisions by policymakers, particularly in the U.S. Congress.

Deputy Communications Director, Global Financial Integrity, Washington DC, 2011-2014

Advocate, Stand Up America PAC, Washington DC, 2009-2010

Field Organizer, Dennis Shulman for Congress, Demarest NJ, 2008

Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, University of Illinois Chicago, 2020-

Faculty Associate, U.S. Policy Agendas Project, 2020-present

Project Manager, U.S. Policy Agendas Project, 2017-2019

Graduate Research Fellow, U.S. Policy Agendas Project, 2014-2020

PhD University of Texas at Austin, 2020

MA University of Texas at Austin, 2017

MPP George Mason University, 2011

BA Providence College, 2009

Engagement



Johns Hopkins

Visiting Speaker on “Social Determinants of Oral Health in Children.” Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Johns Hopkins. Baltimore, MD, May 7, 2021


Case Western/MetroHealth

Visiting Professor: “Improving Outcomes for Surgical Patients.” Department of Anesthesiology, Case Western/MetroHealth. Cleveland, OH. March 16, 2021


Society for Pediatric Anesthesia

Panel Moderator: What Would SPA Members Do-Clinical Panel. Society for Pediatric Anesthesia. February 2021


American Society of Anesthesiology Conference

Panel presenter at the “Perioperative Implications of Anesthetic Induced Neuroinflammation.” American Society of Anesthesiology Conference in San Francisco California; October 2009


Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee

Speaker at the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee’s Equitable Professional Advancement Workshop on Fostering Diverse and Inclusive Professional Development in Pediatric Anesthesia: “Barriers to Professional Success for Women and Underrepresented Minorities in Medicine.” Society for Pediatric Anesthesia, February 2021





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HONORS & AWARDS

2019: NIDCR Workshop, “Addressing Dental Fear and Anxiety: Steps Toward Accelerating Progress and Building a Cumulative Science.” Part of a seventeen-member panel of national experts invited by NIDCR.
2016-2018: UIC Center for Clinical and Translational Science Affiliate Scholar/KL2. Two early investigators selected across the UIC Health Sciences to participate in a program of mentoring, career development, and other training activities over a three-year period.
2017: 17th Summer Institute on Randomized Behavioral Clinical Trials, National Institutes of Health: Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Office of Disease Prevention, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.
2016: Department of Anesthesiology Rising Star, UIC College of Medicine

POLICY

Policy Work

Measuring Polarization Across Issues

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The Lobbying Agenda: Contract and In-House Lobbying and Policy Subsystems

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The Politics of Earmark Requests in the 111th Congress

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IGPA’s Fagan on the problem with Facebook’s algorithm (Beyond Politics podcast)

IGPA’s Fagan comments on Justice Breyer’s retirement (Newsweek)