Department of Public Policy and Administration

Gloria Bonilla-Santiago
Degree School: City University of New York
Field of Degree: Ph.D. Sociology
Position: Board of Governors Service Professor of Public Policy and Administration, and Director, Community Leadership Center. 

Research Interests: leadership, school leadership and partnerships, charter schools, communities and poverty, children and families, early childhood and literacy, migration and migrant workers, women and leadership

Courses: Organizational Behavior, Leadership and Communication Skills, Managerial Skills, Foundations of Policy Analysis, Urban Practicum, Directed Study, Creating a Culture of Continuous Improvement in Schools, History and Theory of Community Development

Marie Isabelle Chevrier
Degree School: Harvard University
Field of Degree: Ph.D. Public Policy
Position: Professor of Public Policy and Administration

Research Interests: arms control, chemical and biological weapons policy, international negotiations conflict and conflict resolution

Courses: International Negotiations, Negotiations for Effective Management

Maureen M. Donaghy
Degree School: University of Colorado
Field of Degree: Ph.D. Political Science 
Position: Assistant Professor of Political Science and Public Policy (joint appointment)

Research Interests: development and civil society, with an emphasis on participatory governance, urban politics and Latin America

Courses: International Economic Development, Colloquium on Poverty Alleviation Strategies

Michael Javen Fortner 
Degree School: Harvard University
Field of Degree: Ph.D. Political Science 
Position: Assistant Professor of Political Science and Public Policy (joint appointment)

Research Interests:

Courses: Research Methods, Urban Politics, Basic Urban Issues

Christopher Goodman
Degree School: University of Georgia
Field of Degree: Ph.D. Public Administration
Position: Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Administration

Research Interests: local public finance, public financial management, economic development, urban policy

Courses: Introduction to Public Budgeting and Finance, Financial Management of Public Programs, Research Methods

Eduardo J. Gomez
Degree School: Brown University
Field of Degree: Ph.D. Political Science
Position: Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Administration

Research Interests: comparative and American politics, institutions, research methods

Courses: Research Methods, Global Health Governance, Decentralization and Community Development, Government and Politics of Latin America, Law and Public Policy

Richard A. Harris
Degree School: University of Pennsylvania
Field of Degree: Ph.D. Political Science
Position: Professor of Political Science and Public Policy and Administration (joint appointment)

Research Interests: government/business relations, regulatory policy, environmental policy

Courses: Foundations of Policy Analysis, Law and Public Policy, Environmental Policy, Regulatory Policy, Logic of Social Inquiry

Paul Jargowsky
Degree School:  Harvard University
Field of Degree:  Ph.D. Public Policy
Position:  Professor of Public Policy, and Director, Center for Urban Research and Education (CURE)

Research Interests: inequality, geographic concentration of poverty, residential segregation by race and class, educational attainment and economic mobility 

Courses:  Economics, Sociology, Social Policy, Quantitative Methods

Margo Kaplan
Degree School: New York University; Harvard University                                                
Field of Degree: J.D., Masters in Public Administration
Position: Assistant Professor of Law and Public Policy (joint appointment with Rutgers-Camden School of Law)

Research Interests: law and public policy related to health, sex, and sexuality; criminal law; LGBTQ law and policy; feminism and the law

Courses Taught: Health Law, Policy and Community

Patrice M. Mareschal
Degree School: University of Oklahoma                                                 
Field of Degree: Ph.D., Political Science
Position: Associate Professor of Public Policy and Administration, and Department Chair

Research Interests: conflict resolution, labor unions, public policy

Courses Taught: Labor Management Relations, Human Resource Management, Organizational Behavior, Ethics In Government, Research Methods, Foundations of Policy Analysis, Colloquium in Conflict Resolution, Colloquium in Program Evaluation

Lorraine C. Minnite
Degree School: City University of New York
Field of Degree: Ph.D. Political Science
Position:  Associate Professor of Public Policy, Director, Undergraduate Urban Studies Program

Research Interests:  American politics, voting rights, political history, electoral politics and policy, social protest movements, social policy, race, ethnicity and class, urban politics and policy, immigration, inequality and social justice

Courses: Foundations of Policy Analysis, Politics of Community Development, Research Workshop

Adam Okulicz-Kozaryn
Degree School: University of Texas at Dallas
Field of Degree: Ph.D. Public Policy and Political Economy
Position: Assistant Professor of Public Policy 

Research Interests: public policy, public economics, income inequality, preferences for redistribution, urban and rural issues, cultural economics, values and religion, economics of happiness, quality of life, life satisfaction, economic and political transition in Eastern Europe 

Courses: Urban and Regional Economic Development, Introduction to Geographic Information Systems