Social Policy and Policy Analysis

Associate Professor Kathy Quick is co-author of a new article, “Public management and policing: a dialectical inquiry,” which discusses how policing and public management studies have co-existed alongside each other without exploiting the potential for mutual learning and gaining insights from each other’s experience.

New research by Assistant Professor Heather Randell concludes that dam constructions in the US have significantly contributed to land loss of Native people. Dams have flooded more than 1.13 million acres of tribal land in the US, an area larger than the state of Rhode Island.

Associate Professor Bonnie Keeler, Social Policy Researcher Angie Fertig, and Master of Development Practice Director Dave Wilsey have received the University's Award for Excellence in Academic Unit Service.

Professor Joe Soss and his co-authors have won the Aaron Wildavsky Enduring Contribution Award from the Public Policy section of the American Political Science Association (APSA), for their 2011 book, "Disciplining the Poor: Neoliberalism and the Persistent Power of Race."  

Associate Professors Yuan (Daniel) Cheng and Audrey Dorélien are recipients of the University of Minnesota's 2023 McKnight Presidential Fellowship, a three-year award given to the most promising individuals who have been granted both tenure and promotion to associate professor in an academic year.

Professor and Associate Dean Ryan Allen and PhD candidate Kimberly Horner co-authored a paper, “Penalties and payoffs: The short‐term economic consequences of human capital acquisition for resettled refugees in the United States,” published in International Migration.

Professor Judy Temple has been awarded grant-in-aid from the UMN Graduate School to support her work on the rollout of school-based preschool programs.

Associate Professor Audrey Dorélien is lead author on the paper, "Quantifying social contact patterns in Minnesota during stay-at-home social distancing order," published in BMC Infectious Diseases.

Associate Dean Abimbola Asojo has received a $25,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts for her project, “Using Cross-Cultural Fractals to Promote Design and Math Careers for BIPOC Youth in Minnesota.”

Professor Morris Kleiner is co-editor of a new book, "Grease or Grit: International Case Studies of Occupational Licensing and Its Effects on Efficiency and Quality," published by Upjohn Press.