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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

Nancy Augustine
Visiting Professor of Public Policy and Public Administration
Research Interests: Urban policy,state and local governance, community and economic development

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

Burt S. Barnow
Amsterdam Professor of Public Service
Research Interests: Program evaluation, Workforce Investment programs
Labor economics, Performance measurement

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

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

Ron Carlee
Professorial Lecturer
Research Interests: Leadership; Inter-Organizational Relations; Local Government; Civic Engagement; Emergency Management, Homeland Security, Resiliency; Public Libraries; Sustainability, Smart Growth; Local Budgeting and Finance

Christopher Carrigan
Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Public Administration
Research Interests: Government regulation, Bureaucratic politics, public organization structure and performance, political economy

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

Dylan Conger
Associate Professor of Public Policy and Public Administration
Director, Master’s of Public Policy Program
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

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

Cynthia Harrison
Associate Professor of History, Women's Studies, and Public Policy
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, PhD Public Policy and Administration
Research Interests: Public Affairs Education, Comparative Public Affairs Education, Aging and long-term care

Stuart Kasdin
Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Public Administration
Research Interests: Public budgeting, Performance measurement, Bureaucratic politics, Institutional theory, Political behavior and governance

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

Paula Lantz
Professor of Health Policy and Public Policy
Research Interests: Public health policy, clinical preventive services, health reform research, program/policy evaluation

Peter Linquiti
Visiting Professor of Public Policy & Public Administration
Research Interests: Technology policy, climate change, risk management, policy analysis methods

Jasmine McGinnis
Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Public Administration
Research Interests: Philanthropy, international grantmaking, governance, wage equity

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

Elizabeth Rigby
Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Public Administration
Research Interests: Politics of poverty and inequality, Health, education, and welfare policy, Policymaking process, State politics, Representation and political equality, Policy analysis and evaluation

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

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

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

Thad Allen
Distinguished Professor of Practice
Research Interests: Crisis Management, Leadership

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

Jeffrey Brand-Ballard
Associate Director MA program in Philosophy and Social Policy
Research Interests: Ethics, philosophy of law, political philosophy

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

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

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

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

Joseph Firschein
Professor, Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration
Research Interests: Community and economic development, banking and financial institutions policy, corporate social responsibility, public-private partnerships

John Forrer
Associate Faculty, Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration
Research Interests: What global citizens can do to reduce global warming, a model of good global governance: global governance brokers, global commodities, corporate responsibility and global governance

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

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

Melissa Keeley
Assistant Professor of Geography, and Public Policy and Public Administration
Research Interests: Urban Sustainability, urban environmental management, land-use planning and the environmental services provided by urban vegetation

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

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

Patricia McGinnis
Professor of Practice
Research Interests: Government performance and accountability

Demetra Smith Nightingale
Chief Evaluation Officer, U.S. Department of Labor; Professorial Lecturer

Vanessa Perry
Chair and Associate Professor of Marketing
Research Interests: Consumer behavior, marketing and public policy, marketing and society, consumer financial decisions, consumer credit, housing and financial regulatory policy

Marvin Phaup
Professorial Lecturer in Public Policy and Public Administration

Nancy Potok
Deputy Director and Chief Operating Officer of the U.S. Census Bureau
Professorial Lecturer in Public Policy and Public Administration

Diane Lim Rogers
Professorial Lecturer in Public Policy and Public Administration

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

F. Stevens Redburn
Professorial Lecturer in Public Policy and Public Administration

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

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

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

Sara Wilensky
Special Services Faculty for Undergraduate Education in the Department of Health Policy
Research Interests: Policy issues and research affecting community health centers, financing HIV primary care services and preventing and treating childhood obesity

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

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

Richard Hylton
Administrative Manager

Amber Palmer-Halma
Director of Communications

Bethany Pope
Assistant Director of Graduate Studies

Denise Riebman
Director of Career Development and Alumni Services

Pamela Turner
Executive Coordinator

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