Faculty
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David AmesProfessor and Director – Center for Historic Architecture and Design Research Interests: Historic preservation, urban geography, urban and regional planning |
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Maria AristiguetaProfessor and Director - School of Public Policy & Administration Research Interests: Administrative behavior, performance measurement, policy analysis, strategic management |
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Deborah AugerAssociate Professor Research Interests: Nonprofit management, public policy and administration, state and local government, U.S. social policy |
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Karen CurtisAssociate Professor Research Interests: Social and economic opportunity, nonprofit leadership and management, applied research and public policy analysis, qualitative methods |
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James FlynnAssistant Professor and Director - Masters of Public Administration Program Research Interests: Personnel administration, quality improvement initiatives, educational governance, legislative management, professional development, human resources management |
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Audrey HelfmanAssociate Professor and Director - Organizational & Community Leadership Undergraduate Program Research Interests: Leadership, human resource development, and organizational change |
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Raheemah Jabbar-BeyAssistant Professor Research Interests: Resident leadership in community and economic development planning and implementation, organizational capacity building of nonprofits, community-based groups, urban policy analysis |
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Eric JacobsonAssociate Professor Research Interests: Public economics, health policy, employee compensation and benefits, tourism development and research, analytic methods |
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Jonathan JusticeAssociate Professor Research Interests: Public budgeting and finance, local economic development, public-sector accountability and decision making, the intersections of urban planning and public administration, and institutional analysis and development |
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James KendraAssociate Professor and Director - Distaster Research Center Research Interests: Individual and organizational response to risk, improvisation and creativity during crisis, post-disaster shelter and housing, and planning for behavioral health services |
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Jerome LewisAssociate Professor and Director - Institute for Public Administration Research Interests: Public administration, personnel management, urban planning, political leadership |
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John McNuttProfessor Research Interests: Civil Society and Nonprofit Organizations, Information Technology, Post-Industrial Social Welfare Policy, Community Practice |
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Anthony MiddlebrooksAssociate Professor Research Interests: Cognitive science and motivation, management and strategic planning, leadership, and research methods including program evaluation |
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James MorrisonProfessor Research Interests: Multi-cultural leadership decision-making processes and electronic information searching and access strategies for documenting credible sources as a basis for data collection |
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Audrey NobleAssistant Professor Research Interests: Education policy, specifically the effects of high-stakes testing on teaching and learning |
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Steven PeuquetAssociate Professor and Director–Center for Community Research and Service Research Interests: Strategic planning, housing, homelessness, electronic community networks, public policy analysis and evaluation |
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Jeffrey RaffelC.P. Messick Professor of Public Admininistration Research Interests: Educational policy, policy analysis, urban management |
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Edward RatledgeAssociate Professor and Director–Center for Advanced Demography and Survey Research Research Interests: Management information systems, econometrics, criminal justice systems |
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Chandra ReedyProfessor Research Interests: Material Culture research and preservation, technological history and change, materials and technology in traditional Asian villages |
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Daniel RichUniversity Professor of Public Policy and Director - Public Policy Undergraduate Program Research Interests: The changing political economy of higher education, early childhood education policy, and state and local partnerships that support economic and community development |
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Breck RobinsonAssociate Professor Research Interests: Public finance, banking, mortgage finance, banking regulation |
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Andrea SarzynskiAssistant Professor Research Interests: Urbanization and environmental change; environmental policy and politics; urban and regional planning; science and policymaking |
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Rebecca SheppardAssistant Professor Research Interests: Historic preservation planning, history of rural landscapes and the built environment, landscape preservation |
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Paul SolanoAssociate Proessor Research Interests: Financial administration and public finance, political economy, health economics |
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Karen SteinAssociate Professor Research Interests: Interrelationships among leadership, power and social responsibility, the role of leadership in promoting effective consumer advocacy and policies, and elder abuse and neglect |
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Douglas TuttleInstructor Research Interests: State and local government personnel development, strategic planning, emergency service planning and public service quality assessment |
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Leland WareLouis L. Redding Professor of Law & Public Policy Research Interests: Civil Rights Law and Public Policy |
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Robert WarrenProfessor Research Interests: Urban and regional government, telecommunications and information policy, urban planning and development, cultural theory |
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Margaret WilderProfessor Research Interests: Community development policy and organizations; economic development policy and planning; housing problems and policy; race, gender, and economic mobility |
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Danilo YanichAssociate Professor and Director - Masters of Urban Affairs and Public Policy Graduate Program Research Interests: Criminal justice policy, media and public policy, international comparative governance |
















