Faculty Directory

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  Trachtenberg School Faculty

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William C. Adams
Professor of Public Policy and Public Administration
Research Interests: Research methods, applied statistics, social psychology

Steven Balla
Associate Professor of Political Science, Public Policy and Public Administration, and International Affairs
Research Interests: American political institutions and public policy, state politics and public policy, health policy

Edward Berkowitz
Professor of History and Public Policy and Public Administration
Director, Program in History and Public Policy
Research Interests: American history, social welfare policy, history and public policy

Lori A. Brainard
Associate Professor of Public Policy and Public Administration
Director, Master’s of Public Administration Program
Research Interests: Communications policy, regulation, policy formulation

Jennifer M. Brinkerhoff
Professor of Public Administration and International Affairs
Research Interests: Interorganizational relations, international development, nongovernmental organizations

Gerald Brock
Professor of Telecommunication and of Public Policy and Public Administration
Research Interests: Telecommunication policy, Internet policy, regulation and technological progress

Stephanie Riegg Cellini
Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Public Administration, and Economics
Research Interests: Education policy, public finance, labor economics

Dylan Conger
Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Public Administration
Research Interests: Education and youth policy, English language learners and immigrant students, racial and nativity segregation across and within public schools

Joseph Cordes
Professor of Economics, Public Policy and Public Administration, and International Affairs
Associate Director, Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration
Research Interests: Economics and public policy, tax and fiscal analysis, cost-benefit analysis, economics of nonprofit organizations

Dwight Cropp
Associate Professor of Public Policy and Public Administration
Research Interests: Intergovernmental relations, urban and regional issues, resource development, management

Cynthia Deitch
Associate Professor of Women's Studies, Sociology, and Public Policy
Research Interests: Gender and public policy, employment and labor market inequalities, work and family policies

Avi Dor
Professor of Health Policy, Economics, and Public Policy and Public Administration
Research Interests: Health care markets and pricing, health insurance, pharmaceutical markets and regulation, international health care financing

Ernie Englander
Associate Professor of Strategic Management and Public Policy
Research Interests: business and public policy, business-government relations, strategic management and public policy, corporate governance

Robert Goldfarb
Professor of Economics and Public Policy
Research Interests: Economic methodology, microeconomics, labor economics

William Griffith
Professor of Philosophy
Director, Philosophy and Social Policy Program
Research Interests: Social and political philosophy, ethics and policy, economic justice

Michael Harmon
Professor of Public Policy and Public Administration
Research Interests: Organization theory, organizational behavior, administrative ethics, philosophy of social science

Cynthia Harrison
Associate Professor of History, and of Women's Studies
Research Interests: Women and public policy, women and the law, U.S. women's history, U.S. constitutional history

Donna Lind Infeld
Professor of Public Policy and Public Administration
Director, Master’s of Public Policy Program
Research Interests: Health policy, gerontology, community-based long-term services, public affairs education in the U.S. and China

Philip Joyce
Professor of Public Policy and Public Administration
Director, PhD Program in Public Policy and Administration
Research Interests: Public budgeting, the congressional budget process, intergovernmental relations, performance measurement, bureaucratic politics

Jill F. Kasle
Associate Professor of Public Policy and Public Administration
The George Washington University Marshal
Research Interests: Constitutional law, first amendment law, telecommunications law and policy

James Edward (Jed) Kee
Professor of Public Policy and Public Administration
Research Interests: Public policy, intergovernmental policy and finance, public management, leadership

Eric D. Lawrence
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Research Interests: Legislative politics, research methodology, politics of the policy process

Arun Malik
Associate Professor of Economics, and Public Policy and Public Administration
Research Interests: Environmental and resource economics, regulation, public economics, microeconomics

Yas Nakib
Associate Professor of Education Policy, and Public Policy and Public Administration
Research Interests: Financial and economic aspects of education policy, schooling resource allocation and use, educational productivity, school reform

Kathryn Newcomer
Director, Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration
Professor of Public Policy and Public Administration
Research Interests: Research methods, applied statistics, public and nonprofit performance measurement and evaluation

Scott Pace
Professor of the Practice of International Affairs and of Public Policy and Public Administration
Director, Space Policy Institute

Marcus Raskin
Professor of Policy Studies
Research Interests: Modern political thought and social management, national security, social reconstruction in public policy

Sara Rosenbaum
Harold and Jane Hirsh Professor of Health Law and Policy
Research Interests: Health law, health services, public health policy

Robert Rycroft
Professor of International Science & Technology Policy and of International Affairs and of Public Policy and Public Administration
Research Interests: Science, technology, and international affairs, environment and international affairs, science, technology, and complexity

Gregory D. Squires
Professor of Sociology, and Public Policy and Public Administration
Research Interests: Urban sociology, race relations, urban development, racial inequality, community reinvestment

Mark Starik
Professor of Strategic Management and Public Policy
Research Interests: Strategic environmental management, international environmental policy, stakeholder management, strategic management and public policy integration

Christopher H. Sterling
Professor of Media and Public Affairs, Public Policy and Public Administration
Research Interests: Electronic media and common carrier history and policy, telecommunications policy development, impact of changes in telecommunications, federal law and regulation

Robert Stoker
Associate Professor of Political Science, and Public Policy and Public Administration
Research Interests: Policy analysis, policy implementation, politics of the policymaking process, research methods, social welfare policy

Stephen Joel Trachtenberg
University Professor of Public Service
President Emeritus, The George Washington University
Research Interests: Educational leadership, higher education and public policy, law and public administration

Steven A. Tuch
Professor of Sociology and Public Policy and Public Administration
Research Interests: Race relations, social stratification, mobility, public policy

Nicholas Vonortas
Professor of Economics and International Affairs
Research Interests: Industrial organization, science and technology policy, economics of technological change, strategic alliances

Robert Weiner
Professor of International Business, Public Policy and Public Administration, and International Affairs
Research Interests: Privatization and state-owned enterprises, energy policy, trade, markets, and regulation, multinational firms

Philip Wirtz
Professor of Decision Sciences and of Psychology
Research Interests: Research methods and applied statistics, substance abuse treatment and prevention, psycho-social models of addictive behaviors

Hal Wolman
Professor of Political Science, Public Policy and Public Administration, and International Affairs
Director, The George Washington Institute of Public Policy
Research Interests: Urban and metropolitan policy and politics, local and regional economic development, state and local fiscal policy, comparative urban policy and politics

Michael Worth
Professor of Nonprofit Management
Research Interests: Nonprofit management, social enterprise, nonprofit governing boards, fund raising, philanthropy

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  Affiliated Faculty

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Theresa Alafita
Assistant Professorial Lecturer in Economics

Patricia S. Atkins
Assistant Research Professor of Public Policy and Public Administration
The George Washington Institute of Public Policy
Research Interests: Substate regionalism, regional governance, intergovernmental relations

Nancy Augustine
Assistant Professorial Lecturer in Public Policy and Public Administration
Senior Research Associate, George Washington Institute of Public Policy
Research Interests: Human capital development, state and local governance and finance

Michael Bell
Research Professor of Public Policy and Public Administration
The George Washington Institute of Public Policy
Research Interests: State and local fiscal policy, economic development, government capacity in newly emerging democracies

Rick Belous
Professorial Lecturer in Economics and Public Policy and Public Administration

Derick Brinkerhoff
Associate Faculty of Public Administration and International Affairs
Research Interests: Policy implementation, strategic management, democracy and governance

David Brunori
Research Professor of Public Policy and Public Administration
Research Interests: State and urban politics and policy, intergovernmental policy and finance, tax and fiscal policy

Susan Dudley
Research Professor of Public Policy and Public Administration
Director, Regulatory Studies Center
Research Interests: Government regulation, benefit cost analysis

Julia Friedman Gaff
Research Professor in Public Policy and Public Administration
The George Washington Institute of Public Policy
Research Interests: urban economics and policy, local fiscal policy and management

Gretta Goodwin
Professorial Lecturer in Public Policy and Public Administration

Elise Gould
Assistant Professorial Lecturer in Public Policy and Public Administration
Research Interests: Child health and parental labor force participation, income inequality and health, health insurance

Sheila N. Kirby
Adjunct Professor of Economics, and Public Policy and Public Administration
Research Interests: Microeconomic theory and applications, quantitative methods in public policy,
education policy, military manpower

Leighton Ku
Adjunct Professor of Public Policy and Public Administration
Research Interests: Health policy, health insurance coverage, health care access

Marvin Phaup
Professorial Lecturer in Public Policy and Public Administration

Diane Lim Rogers
Professorial Lecturer in Public Policy and Public Administration

Andrea Sarzynski
Assistant Research Professor of Public Policy

Elizabeth Sherman
Professorial Lecturer in Public Policy and Public Administration

Clarence N. Stone
Research Professor of Public Policy and Political Science
The George Washington Institute of Public Policy
Research Interests: Urban politics, comparative local politics, school reform politics, political leadership, agenda setting

Michael Wiseman
Research Professor of Public Policy and Public Administration, and Economics
The George Washington Institute of Public Policy
Research Interests: Social welfare policy, program evaluation, labor economics, public economics, urban economics

Garry Young
Assistant Professorial Lecturer
Associate Director, The George Washington Institute of Public Policy
Research Interests: American politics, political institutions, public policy

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  Staff

Paul Binkley
Director of Career Development Services

Richard Hylton
Administrative Manager


Program Coordinator

Pamela Turner
Executive Coordinator

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