Tammy M. Frisby is Executive Director of Stanford University’s Bill Lane Center for the West.  She also holds appointments as a Lecturer in the Stanford Political Science Department and in the university’s Public Policy Program. 

Frisby earned her Ph.D. in Political Science from Harvard University’s Department of Government.  She studies Congress, state politics, and regulatory policymaking.  Her current work includes research on the role of scientific knowledge and uncertainty in environmental regulation.  She arrived at Stanford in the autumn of 2006 as a postdoctoral fellow at the Bill Lane Center for the West.  Her qualifications for her appointment at the Bill Lane Center for the West include being a fourth generation Montanan and the year she spent as a ski bum in Utah. 

During the 2008-09 academic year, Frisby will teach Political Science 2: Introduction to American National Government and Politics, with Morris Fiorina, and Public Policy 101/Political Science 123: Politics and Public Policy.