Faculty Members and Other Instructors

Tenured and Tenure-Track Faculty

Ryan Allen, Assistant Professor
Immigrant and refugee policy; social networks; urban planning in diverse communities.

Ragui Assaad, Professor
International economic development; labor market analysis; politics and economics of the Middle East and North Africa; urban planning; poverty in developing countries; quantitative methods; women’s work in developing countries.

J. Brian Atwood, Professor and Dean
Former Administrator of USAID. International development; foreign assistance; the United Nations; UN peacekeeping operations; politics-policy leadership; post-conflict reconstruction; government reform.

Michael Barnett, Professor (Harold Stassen Chair of International Relations)
The Middle East; international affairs; international organizations; humanitarianism.

John M. Bryson, Professor (McKnight Presidential Professor of Planning and Public Affairs)
Public leadership; policy entrepreneurship; strategic management of public and nonprofit organizations; project management; collaboration; government and nonprofit organization innovation and reform; design and management of public participation processes.

Jason Cao, Assistant Professor
Land use and transportation interactions; transportation planning and policy; travel behavior analysis and demand modeling; neighborhood design and public health; mobility of transportation-disadvantaged people.

Dara Kay Cohen, Assistant Professor
International security; civil conflict; the logic of wartime violence; gender and international relations

Nancy N. Eustis, Professor
Aging and disability policy; long-term care policy; health care for the elderly; policy toward people with disabilities; program evaluation.

Yingling Fan, Assistant Professor
Land Use/Growth Management, transportation planning and policy, time geography, urban health

Katherine Fennelly, Professor
Immigration and public policy; diversity and cross-cultural relations; health and public policy; leadership in the public sector.

Greta Friedemann-Sánchez, Assistant Professor
International development; occupational stress by gender; health services research.

Edward G. Goetz, Professor (Chair, Regional Policy and Planning area)
Housing policy, markets; community economic development; politics of urban and regional planning, growth management strategies; urban planning; urban poverty; urban sprawl.

Maria Hanratty, Associate Professor
Health care; medical economics, economics of poverty; comparative social welfare institutions.

Stephen A. Hoenack, Professor
Higher education policy; K–12 innovation, reform, policy; economic behavior within organizations; economic development and education in developing countries; econometrics; government innovation, reform; organizational planning; women and gender equity.

Lawrence R. Jacobs, Professor (Walter F. and Joan Mondale Chair for Political Studies and chair, Politics and Governance area)
Presidential and legislative politics; elections and voting behavior; public opinion and polling; Social Security and health care policy; American political history; Midwestern swing states; third party politics.

Sally J. Kenney, Professor (Chair, Social Policy area)
Women, law, and public policy; judicial selection; women judges; women and electoral politics; the European Union; employment discrimination; feminist organizations.

Morris M. Kleiner, Professor (AFL–CIO Chair of Labor Policy)
Public policies on work and pay; role of labor unions in democratic societies; human resource policies and organizational performance.

Robert T. Kudrle, Professor (Orville and Jane Freeman Chair in International
Trade and Investment Policy and chair, Global Policy area)
Competition policy; tax policy; policy problems of globalization; international economic policy cooperation.

Jennifer Kuzma, Associate Professor (Chair, Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy area)
Biotechnology policy; biochemistry/molecular biology; regulatory policy; risk analysis; renewable energy programs; nanotechnology policy.

Deborah Levison, Associate Professor
Child labor and education in poor countries; gender issues; population studies; labor economics; child care.

Greg Lindsey, Professor and Associate Dean
Environmental planning, policy, and land-use management at the state and local levels; activity patterns on urban greenways and the effects of greenways in urban communities; water infrastructure finance; annexation policy; and erosion and sediment control programs.

Ann Markusen, Professor
Arts, culture, and economic development; regional economics and planning; industrial organization; economic development, local, state, regional; industrial and occupational planning; economic impact of high technology, military spending.

Samuel L. Myers, Professor (Roy Wilkins Professor of Human Relations and Social Justice)
Microeconomic policy analysis; racial inequality and public policy; analysis of discrimination; racial disparities in test scores; anti-racism programs; government procurement and contracting; credit and housing markets; child protective services; violence analysis; science and engineering workforce; academic labor markets; race-neutral remedies.

Jodi Sandfort, Associate Professor
Nonprofit management; welfare, workforce, and early childhood policy; social policy implementation.

Carissa Schively Slotterback, Assistant Professor
Environmental and land-use planning; public participation; planning decision-making; plan implementation; sustainable development.

Joe Soss, Professor (Cowles Chair for the Study of Public Service)
Welfare reform; organization and governance of social policy; public service; politics of inequality and poverty; role of race, class, and gender in public affairs.

Melissa Middleton Stone, Associate Professor (Gross Family Professor of Nonprofit Management and chair, Public and Nonprofit Leadership area)
Nonprofit management and governance; government-nonprofit relationships; cross-sectoral partnerships.

Judy Temple, Associate Professor
Public economics; economics of education; early childhood education; cost-benefit analysis; policy evaluation.

Elizabeth Wilson, Assistant Professor (McKnight Land-Grant Professor)
Energy and environmental policy; regulatory and legal analysis of emerging technologies; climate change; geologic carbon sequestration; public perception of emerging technologies.

Zhirong (Jerry) Zhao, Assistant Professor
State and local public finance; nonprofit management; public management; performance; budgeting; GIS applications in public affairs.

Senior Fellows, Fellows, and Other Faculty

Steve Andreasen, Lecturer
National security; foreign and defense policy; arms control; nuclear weapons; nuclear proliferation; missile defense; intelligence; crisis management.

Richard Bolan, Professor Emeritus
Planned social change; planning theory; social and environmental planning; planning in Central and Eastern Europe.

Andrew M. Borene, Lecturer
Global policy; national security law and the intelligence community; foreign and defense policy; international trade and national security.

Harry C. Boyte, Senior Fellow
Civic engagement; theory and practice of democracy; citizen politics; citizen professionalism; international democracy promotion; national service initiatives.

Barbara C. Crosby, Associate Professor
Leadership and public policy; women in leadership; media and public policy; strategic planning; leadership in transnational contexts; leadership and cross-sector collaboration.

Gary DeCramer, Senior Lecturer
Former Minnesota State Senator.Political leadership; reflective practice; program evaluation; rural development; transportation policy; cooperative development.

Dennis Donovan, Research Fellow
Theory and practice of democracy; civic engagement; citizen politics; culture change in K–12 settings; strategies for public engagement of K–12 and university students; democracy building in international settings.

Kaye Husbands Fealing, Visiting Professor
Global trade and economics; science policy development.

Robbin Johnson, Research Fellow

Steve Kelley, Senior Fellow
Former Minnesota State Senator.Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education policy; telecommunications and information technology policy.

Jay Kiedrowski, Senior Fellow
Former Minnesota Commissioner of Finance. Financial management; federal, state, and local budgeting and deficits; organizational development; leadership; public and nonprofit management; innovative reforms for public and nonprofit organization; state and local government.

LaJune Lange, Senior Fellow
Retired State of Minnesota trial court judge.Legal and constitutional standards for discrimination in state and federal courts; civil rights; human rights.

Lee W. Munnich, Jr., Senior Fellow
Transportation policy; economic development; state and local finance; industry clusters; science and technology policy; planning; public finance; value pricing.

Joe Nathan, Senior Fellow
Charter public schools; parent and community involvement; school choice programs; legislation and research; youth community service; public education reform.

Helzi Noponen, Visiting Associate Professor
Microfinance; international development.

Tim Penny, Senior Fellow
Former U.S. Congressman from Minnesota. Agriculture; federal and public sector budgeting; federal budget deficit/surplus; leadership; politics, political parties; Social Security; transportation, planning, finance; veterans policy.

Joe Ritter, Associate Professor
Labor markets and macroeconomics; macroeconomic data; incentives in employment relationships.

Nan Skelton, Senior Fellow
Civic engagement; youth policy, including making the connection between in-school learning and out-of-school time; neighborhood and community development, particularly in areas with immigrant populations.

Paul Stone, Lecturer
American political and institutional history; behavior in American public life; Minnesota political history.

Steve Sviggum, Instructor
Commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Labor and Industry. State finance; leadership; taxation; education funding and policy; labor management; special legislative sessions.

Vin Weber, Senior Fellow
Former U.S. Congressman from Minnesota. Agriculture; federal and public sector budgeting; federal budget deficit/surplus; government finance; politics and political parties; state government; welfare system.