Brian Roberts is a senior fellow at the Civitas Institute, a professor of government in the College of Liberal Arts, and a professor of business, government and society (by courtesy) in the McCombs School of Business at UT Austin. Roberts concentrates on American political institutions, interest groups, and positive political economy, with a focus on politics and financial markets, corporate political participation, and distributive politics. He has served as associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts, as UT’s vice president of information technology, and as a visiting assistant professor at the California Institute of Technology. He is the coauthor, with Daron Shaw and Mijeong Baek, of The Appearance of Corruption: Testing the Supreme Court’s Assumptions about Campaign Finance Reform (Oxford University Press, 2021). He has a Ph.D. in economics from Washington University.