Faculty Profiles 2019-2020

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he faculty of the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy are an interdisciplinary group who meet the criteria of academic excellence in the social

science disciplines, are enthusiastic teachers and mentors, and take seriously the implications of their work for policy problems. Their broad research interests are demonstrated by the wide range of units with which they hold joint appointments—including economics, political science, sociology, history, math, business, social work, education, environment and sustainability, information, and urban planning.

For more information on each faculty member, please visit us online: fordschool.umich.edu.

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Core Faculty Michael S. Barr is the Joan and Sanford Weill Dean of Public Policy at the Ford School, the Frank Murphy Collegiate Professor of Public Policy, the Roy F. and Jean Humphrey Proffitt Professor of Law, and faculty director of the Center on Finance, Law, and Policy. Dean Barr is also a nonresident senior fellow at the Center for American Progress. He served under President Obama from 2009–2010 as the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Assistant Secretary for Financial Institutions, and was a key architect of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010. In the Clinton Administration, Barr served as special advisor to President William J. Clinton, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Community Development Policy, special assistant to the Treasury Secretary, and special advisor and counselor on the policy planning staff at the State Department.

During the United States Supreme Court’s 1993 October term, he was a law clerk for Associate Justice David H. Souter. He received his JD from Yale Law School; an MPhil in international relations from Magdalen College, Oxford University, as a Rhodes Scholar; and his BA, summa cum laude, with honors in history, from Yale University.

Charlotte Cavaillé is an assistant professor of public policy at the Ford School, and is currently on leave as a visiting fellow at Princeton University’s Center for the Study of Democratic Politics. She comes to the Ford School from Georgetown University, where she was an assistant professor at the School of Foreign Service. Through her research, which has appeared in the Journal of Politics and the American Political Science Review, Cavaillé examines the dynamics of popular attitudes towards redistributive social policies at a time of rising inequality, high fiscal stress, and high levels of immigration. She is currently turning her dissertation, which received the 2016 Mancur Olson Best Dissertation Award, into a book manuscript entitled Asking for More: Support for Redistribution in the Age of Inequality. Building on that work, she also studies the relationship between immigration, the welfare state, and the rise of populism. Cavaillé received her PhD in government and social policy from Harvard University in 2014. (On leave, fall 2019-spring 2020.)

Beth Chimera is a writing instructor at the Ford School. In addition to offering individual tutorial hours to graduate and undergraduate students, she teaches the “Introduction to Policy Writing” first-year graduate course and the “Persuasive Policy Writing” undergraduate course. She has worked as a senior or contributing editor for a variety of national publications. She received her MFA in fiction writing from the University of Michigan, where she has taught expository and creative writing, and is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize for her short fiction.

John D. Ciorciari is an associate professor of public policy and director of the Ford School’s Weiser Diplomacy Center and International Policy Center. His research focuses on international law and politics in the Global South. He is the author of The Limits of Alignment: Southeast Asia and the Great Powers since 1975 (Georgetown University Press 2010) and co-author of Hybrid Justice: The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (University of Michigan Press 2014). His current book project is entitled “Sovereignty Sharing in Fragile States.” Previously, Ciorciari has been an Andrew Carnegie Fellow, an Asia Society Fellow, a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford, a policy official in the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of International Affairs, and an associate at the international law firm of Davis Polk & Wardwell. He holds a BA and JD from Harvard and an MPhil and DPhil from Oxford, where he was a Fulbright Scholar.

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Susan M. Collins is the Edward M. Gramlich Collegiate Professor of Public Policy, professor of economics, and former dean of the Ford School (2007-17). Before coming to Michigan, she was on the economics faculty at Georgetown University and Harvard University, and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution (where she retains a nonresident affiliation). She is an international economist whose research interests center on understanding and fostering economic growth in industrial, emerging market, and developing countries. She is currently a member of the Board of Directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. She served a term as president of the Association for Professional Schools of International Affairs (APSIA) from 2013-15 and, earlier in her career, as a senior staff economist on the President’s Council of Economic Advisers. Collins received her bachelor’s degree, summa cum laude, in economics from Harvard University and her doctorate in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Paul Courant is the Edward M. Gramlich Distinguished University Professor of Economics and Public Policy, the Harold T. Shapiro Collegiate Professor of Public Policy, and Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Economics and Information at the University of Michigan. Courant has served as provost and executive vice president for academic affairs, as university librarian and dean of libraries, as associate provost for academic and budgetary affairs, as chair of the Department of Economics, and as director of the Institute of Public Policy Studies (predecessor of the Ford School). He served as a senior staff economist at the Council of Economic Advisers from 1979 to 1980. Courant has authored half a dozen books and more than six dozen papers covering a broad range of topics in economics and public policy. More recently, his academic work has focused on economic and policy questions relating to universities, libraries and archives, and the effects of new information technologies and other disruptions on scholarship, scholarly publication, and academic libraries. He was a founding board member of both the HathiTrust Digital Library and the Digital Public Library of America, and is a member of the advisory committee of the Authors Alliance. Courant holds a bachelor’s in history from Swarthmore College (1968), a master’s in economics from Princeton University (1973), and a doctorate in economics from Princeton University (1974).

Alan V. Deardorff is the John W. Sweetland Professor of International Economics and a professor of public policy. His research focuses on international trade. With Bob Stern, he developed the Michigan Model of World Production and Trade, which has been used to estimate the effects of trade agreements.

Deardorff is also doing theoretical work in international trade and trade policy. He has served as a consultant to the U.S. Departments of Commerce, Labor, State, and Treasury and to international organizations including the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and the World Bank. Alan received his PhD from Cornell University.

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Kathryn M. Dominguez is a professor of public policy and economics at the Ford School. Her research interests include topics in international financial markets and macroeconomics. She has written numerous articles on foreign exchange rate behavior and is the author of Exchange Rate Efficiency and the Behavior of International Asset Markets and Does Foreign Exchange Intervention Work? (with Jeff Frankel). A research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, Dominguez is also a member of the Panel of Economic Advisers at the Congressional Budget Office, the Advisory Scientific Committee of the European Systematic Risk Board, and the Economic Advisory Panel of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and serves as the director of the honors program in the U-M Department of Economics. She has also worked as a research consultant for USAID, the Federal Reserve System, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and the Bank for International Settlements. Dominguez teaches macroeconomics, finance, and international economics at the Ford School. She received her PhD from Yale University.

James J. Duderstadt is President Emeritus and University Professor of Science and Engineering.

A graduate of Yale (’64 BSE in electrical engineering) and Caltech (’65 MS and ’67 PhD in engineering science and physics), Duderstadt’s teaching, research, and publishing activities include nuclear science and engineering, applied physics, computer simulation, science policy, and higher education policy. He has served on and chaired numerous policy bodies including the National Science Board, the executive council of the National Academies, and advisory committees for various federal agencies. He currently chairs the policy and global affairs division of the National Research Council and serves as a senior scholar of the Brookings Institution. He has received numerous awards including the E. O. Lawrence Award for excellence in nuclear research, the Arthur Holly Compton Prize for outstanding teaching, the National Medal of Technology for technological innovation, and the Vannevar Bush Award for exemplary service to the nation. He currently teaches in the Science, Technology, and Public Policy program at the Ford School, and conducts research in the Millennium Project, a think-tank exploring the impact of over-the-horizon technologies on society, located in the James and Anne Duderstadt Center on the university’s North Campus.

Susan M. Dynarski is a professor of public policy, education, and economics at the University of Michigan and co-director of the Education Policy Initiative and the Michigan Education Data Center, both housed at the Ford School. Dynarski is also a faculty research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and past president at the Association for Education Finance and Policy.

She has been a visiting fellow at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and Princeton University.

She currently serves on the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy board of editors and is a past editor of Education Finance and Policy, Journal of Labor Economics, and Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis. Dynarski’s research focuses on financial aid, charter schools, the effect of school reforms, and inequality in education. She has consulted broadly on education and tax policy at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, White House, Treasury, and the Department of Education. She has testified to the U.S. Senate Finance and HELP Committees, the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee, and the President’s Commission on Tax Reform.

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Elisabeth R. Gerber is the associate dean for research and policy engagement and the Jack L. Walker, Jr. Professor of Public Policy at the Ford School, with a courtesy appointment in the U-M Department of Political Science. Her current research focuses on regionalism and intergovernmental cooperation, sustainable development, urban climate adaptation, transportation policy, community and economic development, local fiscal capacity, and local political accountability. She is the author of The Populist Paradox: Interest Group Influence and the Promise of Direct Legislation (1999), co-author of Stealing the Initiative: How State Government Responds to Direct Democracy (2000), and co-editor of Voting at the Political Fault Line: California’s Experiment with the Blanket Primary (2001) and Michigan at the Millennium (2003). She recently completed a five-year term as vice-chair of the Regional Transit Authority of Southeast Michigan. She received her PhD in political science from the University of Michigan.

Edie N. Goldenberg is a professor of political science and public policy. She served as dean of the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts from 1989-98 and is the founding director of the Michigan in Washington Program. Her research interests include voting turnout of college students, and in 2017 she founded a Michigan group called Turn Up Turnout (TUT). Her most recent book is Off-Track Profs: Nontenured Teachers in Higher Education (MIT Press 2009), co-authored with John Cross. She is also the author of Making the Papers: The Access of Resource Poor Groups to the Metropolitan Papers and co-author of Campaigning for Congress. Edie served in the federal Office of Personnel Management.

She is a member of the National Academy of Public Administration and a life member of the MIT Corporation. Edie served as director of the Ford School from 1987-89.

Richard L. Hall is a professor of political science and public policy. His research interests focus on American national politics. He has studied participation and representation in Congress, campaign finance reform, congressional oversight, issue advertising, health politics, and health policy. He is currently writing a book on interest group lobbying and the role of political money in Congressional policy making. Rick is the author of Participation in Congress (1996). He is a recipient of the Richard F. Fenno Award from the American Political Science Association, the Pi Sigma Alpha Award from the Midwest Political Science Association, and the Jack L. Walker Award from the American Political Science Review. Prior to coming to the Ford School, he served in a staff role on Capitol Hill. At the Ford School, Rick teaches courses on the politics of policy analysis, policy advocacy, campaign finance reform, and the politics of health policy. He received his PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Robert C. Hampshire is an associate professor of public policy at the Ford School, a research associate professor in both the U-M Transportation Research Institute’s (UMTRI) Human Factors group and Michigan Institute for Data Science (MIDAS), and an affiliated faculty member in the Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering (IOE). He develops and applies operations research, data science, and systems approaches to public and private service industries. His research focuses on the management and policy analysis of emerging networked industries and innovative mobility services such as smart parking, connected vehicles, autonomous vehicles, ride-hailing, bike sharing, and car sharing. He has worked extensively with both public and private sector partners worldwide. He is a queueing theorist that uses statistics, stochastic modeling, simulation and dynamic optimization. Hampshire received a PhD in operations research and financial engineering from Princeton University.

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Jonathan Hanson is a lecturer in statistics for public policy at the Ford School. As a specialist in comparative political economy and political development, his research examines the ways in which, and the channels through which, political institutions affect economic performance and human development. In recent projects, he has explored whether democracy and state capacity complement or substitute for each other when it comes to improving human development and why authoritarian regimes vary significantly in economic and social outcomes. Hanson holds an MA in economics and a PhD in political science from the University of Michigan.

Adrienne Harris is a professor of practice at the Ford School, with support from the Towsley Foundation Policymaker in Residence program. The former chief business development officer and general counsel at States Title, Inc., she brings deep experience in financial reform, financial technology, cybersecurity, consumer protection, and housing finance reform. She previously served as special assistant for economic policy to President Obama at the White House National Economic Council, focusing on issues including financial reform, financial technology, and housing finance reform. Harris also served as senior advisor to the Deputy Secretary in the U.S. Department of Treasury, and represented financial institutions and other corporations as an associate at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP. She also sits on the advisory board of FinXTech and was appointed by President Obama for a four-year term to the President’s Advisory Committee on Trade Policy and Negotiations. Harris earned her JD from Columbia Law School and her MBA with specializations in economics and management from New York University.

Catherine H. Hausman is an assistant professor at the Ford School and a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economics Research. Her work focuses on environmental and energy economics. Recent projects have looked at the natural gas sector’s role in methane leaks, the impact of climate change on the electricity grid, and the effects of nuclear power plant closures.

Prior to her graduate studies, Catherine studied in Peru under a Fulbright grant. She has taught statistics, a policy seminar on energy and climate, and a course on government regulation of industry and the environment. She holds a BA from the University of Minnesota and a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley.

Josh Hausman is an assistant professor of public policy and economics at the Ford School and a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research interests are in economic history and macroeconomics with a focus on the U.S. economy in the 1930s and the Japanese economy today. Josh holds a BA in economics from Swarthmore College and a PhD in economics from the University of California, Berkeley. From 2005–2007 he worked as a research assistant at the Federal Reserve Board, and in 2010 he worked as a staff economist at the Council of Economic Advisers. Josh won the 2013 Allan Nevins prize for the best dissertation in U.S. or Canadian economic history.

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Yazier Henry is a lecturer at the Ford School. As a public intellectual, scholar, theorist, strategist, political analyst, professional human rights advocate, and poet, he has written and published on the political economy of social voice, memory, trauma, identity, peace processes, Truth Commissions, international transitional justice and international humanitarian law. His research and writing projects focus on how structural and administrative violence come to be institutionalized during post-colonial transitions. His current work is on the discourse of human rights, structural violence and the politics of official voice. Among the courses Henry has taught at the Ford School are “Social Activism, Democracy, and Globalization: Perspectives of the Global South,” “Facilitating Dialogue across Faultlines: Race, Identity, Leadership and Socio-Structural Difference,” and “The Politics of Official Apologies: Dangerous Peacemaking.” Henry gained his early advocacy experience in the international anti-apartheid movement.

Brian A. Jacob is the Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Education Policy and professor of economics at the Ford School, and is co-director of the Youth Policy Lab. He is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Brian came to Michigan from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government; he previously served as a policy analyst in the NYC Mayor’s Office and taught middle school in East Harlem. His primary fields of interest are labor economics, program evaluation, and the economics of education. Brian’s current research focuses on urban school reform, with a particular emphasis on standards and accountability initiatives. At the Ford School, he teaches “Economics of Education” and classes focused on education policy. In 2008, Jacob received the David N. Kershaw Prize, an award given every two years to honor persons who, at under the age of 40, have made a distinguished contribution to the field of public policy. He received a BA from Harvard University in 1992 and a PhD in public policy from the University of Chicago.

Valenta Kabo is a lecturer at the Ford School. Her fields of interest are comparative law, law and economics, and property rights and development. She earned her PhD in political science and public policy from the University of Michigan. She also has an MPP and a JD from the University of Michigan, and was a postdoctoral research fellow and program director at the Center for Public Policy in Diverse Societies. Prior to beginning her doctorate program, she practiced immigration law and worked as a researcher for an employee assessment organization.

Paula Lantz is the associate dean for academic affairs and the James B. Hudak Professor of Health Policy at the Ford School. She also holds an appointment as professor of health management and policy at the School of Public Health. Lantz, a social demographer, studies the role of public policy in

improving population health and reducing social disparities in health. Lantz is currently engaged in research regarding the potential for and challenges associated with using social impact bonds to fund public/private partnerships aimed at improving health in low-income populations, including Medicaid beneficiaries. An elected member of the National Academy of Social Insurance and the National Academy of Medicine, Lantz received an MA in sociology from Washington University, St. Louis, and an MS in epidemiology and PhD in sociology from the University of Wisconsin.

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John Leahy is the Allen Sinai Professor of Macroeconomics—a joint appointment between the Ford School and the Department of Economics—and the director of the Ford School’s joint PhD program.

Much of his work considers the psychological side of consumerism, analyzing individuated, decisionmaking processes. Leahy is a leading authority on macroeconomics, having served as a coeditor of the American Economic Review and a visiting scholar to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Philadelphia, and Kansas City. He earned an MS in foreign service from Georgetown University and a PhD in economics from Princeton University.

Stephanie Leiser is a lecturer at the Ford School. Her general area of interest is in public finance, budgeting, and financial management, and she has particular expertise in state and local tax policy, business taxation and incentives, and local government fiscal health. She was previously a lecturer at the Daniel J. Evans School of Public Policy and Governance at the University of Washington, where she earned her PhD in 2014. Stephanie has taught courses in public budgeting and financial management, tax policy, nonprofit financial management, and microeconomics. A Ford School alum (MPP ’05), she has also worked as a tax policy analyst for the Michigan legislature and continues to be involved in state and local fiscal policy in Lansing.

The Honorable Sander “Sandy” Levin is a professor of practice at the Ford School, with support from the Towsley Foundation Policymaker in Residence program. In fall 2019, he will be co-teaching “Policy Design, Strategy, and Practice” with Susan Collins. For over 35 years, Levin represented residents of Southeast Michigan in Congress. In that time, Levin was actively involved in the major debates confronting our nation including welfare reform, the auto industry rescue, China’s entry into the World Trade Organization, the Iran Nuclear Agreement, and every critical economic policy issue. He chaired the House Ways and Means Committee including during passage of the Affordable Care Act, drafted the language to add enforceable labor and environmental standards in trade agreements for the first time, and successfully fought the privatization of Social Security. Born in Detroit, Levin earned a BA from the University of Chicago, an MA in international relations from Columbia University, and a JD from Harvard University. He developed a private law practice, served two terms in the Michigan State Senate, ran for governor, and served as an assistant administrator at the Agency for International Development before his election to Congress.

Ambassador Melvyn Levitsky, a retired senior American diplomat, is a professor of international policy and practice at the Ford School. He is also a senior advisor for the Weiser Diplomacy Center, a senior fellow of the school’s International Policy Center, and a faculty associate of the U-M Center for Russian and East European Studies (CREES). From 2003 to 2012, Levitsky was a member of the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), an independent body of international drug policy experts headquartered in Vienna, Austria and responsible for monitoring and promoting the implementation of the three International Drug Conventions. He is also a member of the American Academy of Diplomacy and the Drug Free America Foundation. During his 35-year career as an American foreign service officer, Levitsky was ambassador to Brazil from 1994-98 and before that held senior positions as Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics Matters, executive secretary of the State Department, ambassador to Bulgaria, deputy director of Voice of America, and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights. Mel also served in Germany and the Soviet Union. He directed U.S.-Soviet bilateral relations and UN political affairs at the State Department earlier in his career. On his retirement, Levitsky received the Secretary of State’s Distinguished Service Award.

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Earl Lewis is the Thomas C. Holt Distinguished University Professor of History, Afromerican and African Studies, and Public Policy, and the founding director of the U-M Center for Social Solutions.

From March 2013–2018, he served as president of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. An author and esteemed social historian, he is past president of the Organization of American Historians. A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2008) and the recipient of 11 honorary degrees, he has held faculty and administrative appointments at Michigan (1989–2004) and the University of California, Berkeley (1984–89). From 2004–2012, he served as Emory University’s provost and executive vice president for academic affairs and the Asa Griggs Candler Professor of History and African American Studies. In addition to prior service service on a number of nonprofit and governmental boards, Lewis chairs the Board of Regents at Concordia College, is a trustee of ETS and a director of 2U and the Capital Group, American Funds.

Ann Chih Lin is an associate professor of public policy at the Ford School. She writes on immigration policy, and is especially interested in how states can create policies to recruit immigrants under federal guidance. Ann was co-principal investigator on the Detroit Arab American Study, a landmark public opinion survey of Arab Americans in Detroit, and a co-author of a book on the study, Citizenship in Crisis: Arab Detroit after 9/11. With David Harris, she is the co-author of the collection The Colors of Poverty: Why Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Poverty Continue to Exist. She is the author of Reform in the Making: The Implementation of Social Policy in Prison and the co-editor, with Sheldon Danziger, of Coping with Poverty: The Social Contexts of Neighborhood, Work, and Family in the African-American Community. She serves on national and local boards and was formerly a social worker with Covenant House in New York City. Ann received her PhD in political science from the University of Chicago.

Sharon Maccini is a lecturer of public policy and director of the Ford School’s BA program. She has taught courses in public health, public finance, behavioral economics and applied microeconomics to MPP and BA students. As a health economist, her overarching interest is the evaluation of public health policies. Sharon’s research has focused on the impact of decentralization on health outcomes and public health, and the role of environmental conditions at birth on health and socioeconomic status in adulthood. Sharon holds a BA in political science from Brown University and a PhD in health policy from Harvard University.

Eduardo Montero is an assistant professor of public policy at the Ford School. Originally from San José, Costa Rica, his interests are in development economics, political economy, and economic history, and his research centers on how variation in institutional arrangements, such as property rights regimes, affect development in Central America and Central Africa. Montero graduated from Stanford University with a BA in economics and an MS in statistics. He earned his PhD in economics from Harvard University. (On leave, fall 2019-spring 2020.)

Jeffrey D. Morenoff is a professor of sociology and public policy, with an additional appointment at the Institute for Social Research (ISR). He is also director of the ISR Population Studies Center.

Morenoff’s research interests include neighborhood environments, inequality, crime and criminal justice, the social determinants of health, racial/ethnic/immigrant disparities in health and antisocial behavior, and methods for analyzing multilevel and spatial data. In 2004, Morenoff won the Ruth Shonle Cavan Young Scholar Award from the American Society of Criminology for “outstanding contributions to the discipline of criminology.” He earned an MA and PhD in sociology from The University of Chicago.

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David Morse is a lecturer at the Ford School, where he teaches expository writing as well as undergraduate courses on lying and on utopianism. Before completing a master’s degree in fiction writing from the University of Michigan, he edited for an educational nonprofit organization in Washington, DC, and taught English as a second language in Iwakuni, Japan. His fiction has appeared in The O. Henry Prize Stories, as well as magazines such as One Story, The Missouri Review, and Short Fiction. His play, Quartet, was performed in collaboration with the Takács Quartet and the Colorado Shakespeare Festival.

Yusuf Neggers is an assistant professor of public policy at the Ford School. His research examines questions at the intersection of development economics and political economy, with a focus on state capacity and the delivery of public services. Most recently, he served as a postdoctoral fellow in international and public affairs at Brown University’s Watson Institute. Neggers earned his BA in mathematical economic analysis from Rice University, his MSc in international political economy from the London School of Economics, and his PhD in public policy from Harvard University.

Shobita Parthasarathy is a professor of public policy. Her research focuses on the comparative and international politics and policy related to science and technology. She is interested in how to develop innovation, and innovation policy, to better achieve public interest and social justice goals.

Much of her previous work has focused on the governance of emerging science and technology, particularly those that have uncertain environmental, social, ethical, political, and health implications. She is the author of multiple articles and two books: Building Genetic Medicine: Breast Cancer, Technology, and the Comparative Politics of Health Care (MIT Press 2007; paperback 2012); and Patent Politics: Life Forms, Markets, and the Public Interest in the United States and Europe (University of Chicago Press, 2017). Parthasarathy has participated in innovation policy discussions in both the U.S. and Europe; most notably, her work influenced the 2013 U.S. Supreme Court case challenging the patentability of human genes. Her new research project focuses on the political machineries that shape the development and decision-making related to technologies for the poor, with a focus on India. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Chicago and master’s and PhD from Cornell University.

Natasha Pilkauskas is an assistant professor of public policy at the Ford School. Pilkauskas’ research considers how social policy might improve the developmental and life trajectories of low-income children. Much of her research focuses on the living arrangements of low-income children, especially those who live with grandparents. Past and current projects also investigate the role of family/kin transfers in helping families make ends meet; links between maternal employment and school outcomes; the effectiveness of the Earned Income Tax Credit; and the effects of the Great Recession on low-income households. Pilkauskas received a Master of Public Policy from Harvard University and a PhD in social welfare policy from Columbia University.

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Barry Rabe is the J. Ira and Nicki Harris Family Professor of Public Policy at the Ford School. He is also the Arthur Thurnau Professor of Environmental Policy, with courtesy appointments in the Program in the Environment, the Department of Political Science, and the School for Environment and Sustainability.

A non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, Barry directed the Ford School’s Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy (CLOSUP) from 2012-2019 and was a visiting fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in 2015. His research examines climate and energy politics, and his most recent book, Can We Price Carbon? (MIT Press) was released in 2018. He has received four awards for his research from the American Political Science Association, including the 2017 Martha Derthick Award for long-standing impact in the fields of federalism and intergovernmental relations. In recent years, Barry has chaired the Assumable Waters Committee of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and has served on recent National Academy of Public Administration panels examining the Departments of Commerce and Interior as well as the Oklahoma Corporation Commission. He is currently a member of the U-M Carbon Neutrality Commission.

Kaitlin Raimi is an assistant professor of public policy at the Ford School. A social psychologist, her interests center on how individuals can promote or prevent sustainable behaviors and policies.

Raimi’s research focuses on how people compare their own beliefs and behaviors to those of other people, people’s reactions to climate change communication and climate-related technologies, and how adopting one sustainable behavior affects subsequent environmental decisions. She completed a PhD in social psychology from Duke University and a postdoctoral fellowship at the Vanderbilt Institute for Energy & Environment.

Alex L. Ralph is a lecturer in expository writing at the Ford School. For over a decade he taught in the Sweetland Center for Writing and the English Department at the University of Michigan.

In 2009 he received the English Department’s Ben Prize for excellence in the teaching of writing.

Alex also served for 10 years as an instructor in the Public Policy and International Affairs (PPIA) summer institute. He received his BA from Swarthmore College and an MFA in creative writing from the University of Michigan.

Joy Rohde is an associate professor of public policy and history at the Ford School, where she teaches courses on ethics, history, and science and technology policy. Her research examines the relationship between the social sciences and U.S. public policy since World War II. Her first book, Armed with Expertise: The Militarization of American Social Research during the Cold War (Cornell, 2013), investigates the Cold War origins and contemporary consequences of military funding for social science and foreign policy research. Her current research examines how developments in computing have changed policy expertise and American governance since World War II. Rohde earned a PhD in history and sociology of science from the University of Pennsylvania.

Stephanie L. Sanders is a lecturer and diversity, equity, and inclusion officer at the Ford School.

Through the lens of critical race theory, Sanders’ research agenda examines students who transition from urban environments to rural, predominantly white, college environments. Her publications have appeared in the Journal of School Leadership, the American Journal of Health Research, IGI Global and Nova Science Publishers. As a practitioner and scholar, she is interested in pipeline initiatives, urban education, and diversity in higher education. Previously, Sanders served as assistant director for diversity and inclusion at Ohio University, and was most recently the associate director of diversity

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initiatives at Old Dominion University. She received her doctorate in curriculum and instruction from Ohio University and her master’s and bachelor’s degrees, in speech-language-hearing science, from the University of Central Arkansas.

H. Luke Shaefer is the director of Poverty Solutions, a University of Michigan-wide center housed at the Ford School. He is a professor of social work and public policy whose research on poverty and social welfare policy in the United States has been published in top peer-reviewed academic journals such as the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management and the American Journal of Public Health. His research is supported by the National Science Foundation, the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and others. Shaefer has presented his research at the White House and before numerous federal agencies, has testified before the U.S. Senate Finance Committee, and has consulted with a number of the nation’s largest social service providers as well as numerous community-based agencies. His work has been cited in the New York Times, the Washington Post, The Atlantic, Vox, the LA Times, and many others. His recent book with Kathryn Edin, $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America, was named one of the 100 Notable Books of 2015 by the New York Times Book Review, and won the Hillman Prize for Book Journalism, among other awards.

Charles R. Shipan is the J. Ira and Nicki Harris Professor of Social Sciences. Prior to joining the faculty at Michigan, Shipan served on the faculty at the University of Iowa, and he has also held visiting positions at the Brookings Institution, Trinity College (Dublin), the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney, the London School of Economics, and Australian National University. He is the author of Designing Judicial Review, co-author of Deliberate Discretion?, and has written numerous articles and book chapters on political institutions and public policy. He is currently engaged in a comparative study of antismoking laws in the U.S. and Switzerland, an assessment of the president’s ability to change policy, and an examination of the effects of bipartisanship on public policy. Shipan received a BA in chemistry from Carleton College and an MA and PhD in political science from Stanford University.

Fabiana Silva is an assistant professor of public policy at the Ford School. She studies the mechanisms that perpetuate (or mitigate) group-based inequality in the labor market, with a focus on social networks and employer discrimination. Through her current projects, she examines how employers reward the referrals of black and white job applicants, the relationship between employers’ racial attitudes and their hiring behavior, and the determinants of “observed race”—that is, how people are racially classified by others. She is also working on a series of studies investigating how different ways of framing immigration affect attitudes towards immigration policy.

Carl P. Simon is professor of mathematics, economics, complex systems, and public policy. He was the founding director of the U-M Center for the Study of Complex Systems and a former director of the Science, Technology, and Public Policy program at the Ford School. His research centers on the theory and application of dynamical systems: from economic systems in search of equilibrium, to political systems in search of optimal policies, ecosystems responding to human interactions, and especially to the dynamics of the spread of contagious diseases. His current research centers on the spread of crime, the initiation of teenage smoking, and health issues that affect SES. He was named the LSA Distinguished Senior Lecturer for 2007 and received the U-M Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award in 2012. He teaches calculus at the Ford School, including “algebraic aerobics.” He received his PhD in mathematics from Northwestern University.

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Molly Spencer is a lecturer in expository writing at the Ford School, and the author of two poetry collections, If the House (University of Wisconsin Press, 2019) and Relic and the Plum (Southern Illinois University Press, 2020). A poet, editor, and literary critic, she has taught writing to students of all ages, and her poetry and criticism have appeared in Kenyon Review, New England Review, Ploughshares and other literary journals. Prior to her writing career, Spencer worked in large-scale public sector project management and later in legislative relations. She holds a BA in economics from the University of Notre Dame, a Master of Public Administration from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, and Master of Fine Arts in poetry from the Rainier Writing Workshop.

Kevin Stange is an associate professor of public policy. He is an applied microeconomist, focused on labor markets, education, and public economics. He is currently doing research on college costs and pricing, earnings differences by college major field, changes in skill demand, and the higher education market. In the past, he has studied community colleges, college dropout and persistence, college amenities and spending, vocational education and training, the health care workforce, and unemployment insurance. At the Ford School, Stange teaches master’s courses on microeconomics, program evaluation, and higher education policy. He received undergraduate degrees in mechanical engineering and economics from MIT and his PhD in economics from the University of California, Berkeley.

Betsey Stevenson is a professor of public policy and economics at the Ford School. She is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a visiting associate professor of economics at the University of Sydney, a research fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research, a fellow of the Ifo Institute for Economic Research in Munich, and an executive committee member with the American Economic Association. From 2013–2015, Betsey served on the Council of Economic Advisers in the Obama White House, advising the president on policy issues related to labor markets and social policy. She also served as the chief economist of the U.S. Department of Labor from 2010–2011. Stevenson is a labor economist whose research focuses on the impact of public policies on the labor market. Her research explores women’s labor market experiences, the economic forces shaping the modern family, and the potential value of subjective well-being data for public policy. Stevenson earned a BA in economics and mathematics from Wellesley College and an MA and PhD in economics from Harvard University.

David Thacher is an associate professor of public policy and urban planning. His research draws from philosophy, history, and the interpretive social sciences to develop and apply a humanistic approach to policy research. He is particularly interested in the use of case study and narrative analysis to clarify the ethical foundations of public policy. Most of his work has focused on criminal justice policy, where he has undertaken studies of order maintenance policing, the local police role in homeland security, community policing reform, the distribution of safety and security, prisoner re-entry, and the control of criminal justice discretion. He is currently studying the rise of American drug laws in the late 19th century and the transformation of police authority in the 1960s. David received his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Megan Tompkins-Stange is an assistant professor of public policy at the Ford School. She is the author of Policy Patrons: Philanthropy, Education Reform, and the Politics of Influence (Harvard Education Press, 2016). She is a scholar of education policy and philanthropy, focusing on the influence of private foundations on the politics of K-12 school reform. She received her PhD in education policy and organization studies from Stanford University.

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Susan Waltz is a professor of public policy at the Ford School. She specializes in human rights and international affairs, with a focus on arms transfer policy and regional expertise on North Africa. Waltz is author of Human Rights and Reform: Changing the Face of North African Politics (1995) and a series of articles on the historical origins of international human rights instruments. She also maintains the website Human Rights Advocacy and the History of International Human Rights Standards (humanrightshistory. umich.edu), hosted by U-M. For some 15 years she was involved in international efforts to promote an international Arms Trade Treaty and has more recently focused on U.S. firearms export regulations.

From 1993–99 Susan served on Amnesty International’s international executive committee and since 2000 she has served terms on the national boards of the American Friends Service Committee, Amnesty International USA, and an executive committee overseeing the work of the Quaker United Nations Office, New York. Susan received her PhD in international studies from the University of Denver.

Janet Weiss is the Mary C. Bromage Collegiate Professor at the Ross School of Business and a professor of public policy at the Ford School. She does research on policies to improve the leadership and management of public and nonprofit agencies. Weiss founded the Nonprofit and Public Management Center, and is currently the faculty director of the Nonprofit Board Fellowship program. She is a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration, and has been a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.

Justin Wolfers is a professor of public policy and economics. He also serves as a member of the Congressional Budget Office Panel of Economic Advisers. Wolfers’ research interests include labor economics, macroeconomics, political economy, social policy, law and economics, and behavioral economics. Previously, Wolfers was an associate professor of business and public policy at the University of Pennsylvania and a visiting professor at Princeton University. He is a research associate with the National Bureau for Economic Research, a senior fellow of the Brookings Institution, a senior fellow of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, a research affiliate with the Centre for Economic Policy Research in London, and an international research fellow at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy in Germany. He is also a contributing columnist with the New York Times. Justin earned a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Sydney and his AM and PhD in economics from Harvard University.

Dean Yang is a professor of public policy and economics. His research is on the economic problems of developing countries. His specific areas of interest include: international migration, microfinance, health, corruption, political economy, and the economics of disasters. Dean teaches a Ford School course on the economics of developing countries, as well as a PhD course in development economics.

He received his undergraduate and PhD degrees in economics from Harvard University.

Alton Worthington is a lecturer in public policy at the Ford School, where he teaches on statistical computing and data visualization. His core research is on topics of international political economy, with a focus on the intersection of global capital flows and the global goods market. In that work, he examines how firms invest in reaction to trade barriers and how changes in industry characteristics lead to changes in varieties of industrial and trade protection. In other recent projects, he has collaborated on research into the co-evolution of decentralized political authority and the rise of regional parties, the genesis of creole languages, and the public pension systems of U.S. states.

He received his PhD in political science from the University of Michigan.

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Faculty by Courtesy William Axinn is a research professor at the Institute for Social Research, professor in the Department of Sociology, and a faculty affiliate at the Center for South and Southeast Asian Studies, with a courtesy appointment at the Ford School. He is a sociologist and demographer whose research interests center on fertility and family demography. Axinn’s program of research addresses the relationships among social change, the social organization of families, intergenerational relationships, marriage, cohabitation, fertility and mental health in the United States and Nepal. He also studies the interrelationships between population and the environment and new techniques for the collection of social science data. More recently in his career, Axinn’s interests have evolved to include public policy applications of his research. His teaching centers on the family, the life course, fertility and research methods.

Dr. John Ayanian is the Alice Hamilton Distinguished University Professor of Medicine and Healthcare Policy, the Alice Hamilton Collegiate Professor of Medicine at the Medical School, and professor of health management and policy at the School of Public Health, with a courtesy appointment at the Ford School. He is the director of the Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation at U-M. The Institute incorporates over 600 faculty members from 14 schools and colleges at U-M, including the Ford School. Dr. Ayanian has focused his career on health policy and health services research related to access to care, quality of care, and health care disparities, and has served in key health policy advisory roles to state and federal government. In addition to his medical degree from Harvard Medical School, he holds an MPP from Harvard’s Kennedy School.

Sarah Burgard is a professor at the University of Michigan Department of Sociology, research professor at the Population Studies Center, and professor of epidemiology, with a courtesy appointment at the Ford School. Her research focuses on the way systems of stratification and inequality impact the health of people and populations. Much of her work focuses on socioeconomic, gender, and racial/ ethnic disparities in working lives and the relationships between working careers and health. She studies mental and physical health, as well as health behaviors, with a particular interest in sleep. In related work, she has studied the impact of recessions on well-being. Burgard also studies adult and child health in Brazil. She holds an MS in epidemiology and PhD in sociology from the University of California at Los Angeles.

Stephen DesJardins is the Marvin W. Peterson Collegiate Professor of Education, with a courtesy appointment at the Ford School. He is also affiliated with the University College-London. Steve teaches courses related to public policy, economics, and the financing of postsecondary education, statistical methods, and institutional research and policy analysis. His recent research interests focus on the effects of student loans on life-course outcomes and the evaluation of education programs in a variety of institutions and states. Prior to joining the faculty ranks, he worked for 13 years as an institutional researcher and also worked in market research in the private sector. DesJardins received a BS in economics from Northern Michigan University, an MA in policy analysis and labor economics from the Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs (University of Minnesota), and a PhD in higher education, also from Minnesota.

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Jennifer Haverkamp is a professor of practice at the Ford School, the Graham Family Director of the U-M Graham Sustainability Institute, a professor from practice at Michigan Law, and co-chair of the U-M President’s Commission on Carbon Neutrality. An internationally-recognized expert on climate change, international trade, and global environmental policy and negotiations, she has led U.S. climate negotiators to a successful international agreement under the Montreal Protocol and facilitated a successful agreement by the International Civil Aviation Organization to adopt the first-ever global market-based measure to address aviation carbon emissions. Haverkamp also led the international climate program at the Environmental Defense Fund, served as the Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Environment and Natural Resources, and held positions in the Environmental Protection Agency and the Justice Department’s Environment and Natural Resources Division. Haverkamp earned a law degree from Yale Law School and a master’s degree in politics and philosophy from Oxford University, where she was a Rhodes Scholar.

Pam Jagger is an associate professor at the U-M School for Environment and Sustainability, with a courtesy appointment at the Ford School. She is an applied political economist whose research focuses on the dynamics of poverty and environment interactions in low-income countries. A global leader in interdisciplinary population and environment research, Jagger leads the interdisciplinary Forest Use, Energy, and Livelihoods (FUEL) Lab, and is the director of the National Science Foundation funded Energy Poverty PIRE in Southern Africa, a five-year collaborative program to support research and training on the topic of energy access in Southern Africa. Jagger has also worked as a policy research scholar with the World Bank, Resources for the Future, the International Food Policy Research Institute, and the Center for International Forestry Research. She earned her master’s in forest economics from the University of Alberta and her PhD in public policy from Indiana University.

David Johnson is the director of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics at the U-M Institute for Social Research’s Survey Research Center, with a courtesy appointment at the Ford School. His research interests include the measurement of inequality and mobility (using income, consumption and wealth), the effects of tax rebates, equivalence scale estimation, poverty measurement, and price indexes.

He also worked for many years in the Federal Statistical System, including experience in administrative data linkages.

Amanda Kowalski is the Gail Wilensky Professor of Economics and Public Policy, with her primary appointment in the U-M Department of Economics and a courtesy appointment at the Ford School.

A health economist, she specializes in bringing together theoretical models and econometric techniques to answer questions that inform current debates in health policy. Her recent research advances methods to analyze experiments and clinical trials with the goal of designing policies to target insurance expansions and medical treatments to individuals who will benefit from them the most. Kowalski is the 2019 recipient of the ASHEcon medal given to “an economist age 40 or under who has made the most significant contributions to the field of health economics.” She has previously been honored with a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation and the Yale Arthur Greer Memorial Prize. Her research has received the HCUP Outstanding Article of the Year Award, the Garfield Economic Impact Award, the NIHCM Research Award, and the Zellner Thesis Award. Kowalski’s research has been published in American Economic Review, The Review of Economic Studies, and The Quarterly Journal of Economics, and featured by The New York Times, NPR, and The Wall Street Journal. She holds a PhD in economics from MIT and an AB in economics from Harvard.

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Helen Levy is a research professor at the Institute for Social Research and the School of Public Health, with a courtesy appointment at the Ford School. She is a co-investigator on the Health and Retirement Study, a long-running longitudinal study of health and economic dynamics at older ages. Her research interests include the causes and consequences of lacking health insurance, evaluation of public health insurance programs, and the role of health literacy in explaining disparities in health outcomes. Before coming to the University of Michigan she was an assistant professor at the Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies at the University of Chicago. She is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and served as a senior economist to the President’s Council of Economic Advisers in 2010–11. She received a PhD in economics from Princeton.

Daniel Little is a professor of sociology at UM-Ann Arbor, with a courtesy appointment at the Ford School and research appointments in the Center for Chinese Studies, ICPSR, and the Center for Complex Systems. The former chancellor of UM-Dearborn, where he is also a professor of philosophy, Little is a philosopher of the social sciences with extensive interdisciplinary experience and a developed interest in Chinese history and politics. His recent books include The Paradox of Wealth and Poverty: Mapping the Ethical Dilemmas of Global Development (2003), New Contributions to the Philosophy of History (2010), and New Directions in the Philosophy of Social Science (2016). Little received his undergraduate degrees in mathematics and philosophy from University of Illinois in 1971 and his PhD in philosophy from Harvard University in 1977.

Kenneth Lowande is an assistant professor of political science and faculty associate in the Center for Political Studies at the Institute of Social Research, with a courtesy appointment at the Ford School.

Lowande studies American political institutions and policymaking, and his published research covers topics such as congressional oversight, presidential power, and policy implementation. Lowande previously held research fellowships at Washington University in St. Louis and the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics at Princeton University. He earned his PhD and MA in government from the University of Virginia.

Brian McCall is a professor of education and economics, with a courtesy appointment at the Ford School. He is an economist whose research interests include applied econometrics, econometrics theory, economics of education and education policy, research design and quasi-experimental research, labor economics, social insurance, and health economics. McCall studies problems in both K-12 and higher education, including using econometric methods to model and evaluate intervention program effects. He is currently studying the effects of tuition subsidies on college outcomes, the determinants of college choice, and the impact of unemployment insurance receipt on re-employment and future labor market outcomes. McCall received his PhD in economics from Princeton University.

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Alexandra K. Murphy is an assistant professor of sociology and a faculty associate of the Population Studies Center at the Institute for Social Research, with a courtesy appointment at the Ford School. In her research, she uses ethnographic methods to examine how poverty and inequality are experienced, structured, and reproduced across and within multiple domains of social life, including neighborhoods, social networks, and the state. Murphy is currently finishing her book, Where the Sidewalks End: Poverty & Race in an American Suburb (Oxford University Press), an ethnographic study of the social organization of poverty in one suburb. Another line of research examines the causes and consequences of transportation insecurity. She received her PhD in sociology and social policy from Princeton University.

Brendan Nyhan is a professor of government at Dartmouth College, with a courtesy appointment at the Ford School. His research, which focuses on misperceptions about politics and health care, has been published the American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, among other journals. Nyhan is also a contributor to “The Upshot” at The New York Times; a co-founder of Bright Line Watch, a watchdog group that monitors the status of American democracy; and a 2018 Andrew Carnegie Fellow. He first arrived at the University of Michigan as a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholar in Health Policy Research before joining the faculty of Dartmouth College’s Department of Government. Previously, Nyhan co-edited the non-partisan watchdog Spinsanity, co-authored New York Times bestseller All the President’s Spin, and served as a media critic for Columbia Journalism Review. He received his PhD in political science from Duke University.

Jason Owen-Smith is a professor of sociology, with an additional appointment as a research professor in the U-M Institute for Social Research and a courtesy appointment at the Ford School. Owen-Smith uses dynamic network methods with large scale data sets to examine topics relevant to science policy, innovation, higher education, regional economic development and medical care. He is the executive director of the Institute for Research on Innovation and Science (IRIS). In 2008, he received the University of Michigan’s Henry Russel Award, which recognizes mid-career faculty for exceptional scholarship and conspicuous teaching ability. He received his MA and PhD in sociology at the University of Arizona.

Bob Schoeni is a research professor at the Institute for Social Research and professor of economics, with a courtesy appointment at the Ford School. He is also the co-investigator of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, a national panel survey of families assessing issues of poverty, income, family formation, wealth, and health since 1968. His teaching and research interests include program evaluation, welfare policy, economics and demographics of aging, labor economics, and immigration. He worked previously at RAND, where he was associate director of the Labor and Population Program and also served as senior economist on the President’s Council of Economic Advisers in Washington, DC. Bob received his PhD in economics from the University of Michigan.

Kristin S. Seefeldt is an associate professor of social work, with a courtesy appointment at the Ford School. She holds a PhD in public policy and sociology from the University of Michigan. Her work focuses on how large macroeconomic and policy changes shape the lives of low to moderate-income families. She is the author of Working after Welfare (2008) and Abandoned Families (2016). Her most recent book is Credit Where It’s Due (with Frederick Wherry and Anthony Alvarez). She is also the author of numerous journal articles, including publications in the American Journal of Public Health, Social Forces, and Social Service Review.

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Mel Stephens is professor of economics, with a courtesy appointment at the Ford School.

He serves as a research affiliate at the Population Studies Center and a faculty associate at the Survey Research Center, both within the Institute for Social Research. Stephens is also affiliated with the National Bureau of Economic Research where he is currently a research associate. He has previously served as a member of the Academic Research Council at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Stephens is a labor economist whose current research interests include consumption and savings, aging and retirement, education, the impact of local labor market fluctuations on household outcomes, and applied econometrics. He received his BA in economics and mathematics from the University of Maryland and his PhD in economics from the University of Michigan.

Alford A. Young, Jr. is the Arthur F. Thurnau Professor in the Department of Sociology and a professor of African and African American studies, with a courtesy appointment at the Ford School.

He serves as associate director of U-M’s Center for Social Solutions and faculty director for scholar engagement and leadership at Michigan’s National Center for Institutional Diversity (NCID). He has pursued research on low-income, urban-based African Americans, employees at an automobile manufacturing plant, African American scholars and intellectuals, and the classroom-based experiences of higher-education faculty as they pertain to diversity and multiculturalism.

He employs ethnographic interviewing as his primary data collection method. His objective in research on low-income African American men, his primary area of research, has been to argue for a renewed cultural sociology of the African American urban poor. Young received an MA and PhD in sociology from the University of Chicago.

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Adjunct Faculty Scott Atran is an anthropologist who experiments on ways scientists and ordinary people categorize and reason about nature, on the cognitive and evolutionary psychology of religion, and on limits of rational choice in political and cultural conflict. Scott has done fieldwork around the world, where he has interviewed the leadership and members of insurgent and extremist groups. He has briefed NATO, the U.S. Senate and House, National Security Council staff at the White House, UN Security Council, EU Governments, World Economic Forum and others on problems of youth and violent extremism. He is tenured as Research Director in Anthropology at France’s National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), Institut Jean Nicod − Ecole Normale Supérieure, in Paris. He is a founding fellow of the Centre for Resolution of Intractable Conflict, Harris Manchester College and Department of Politics and International Relations University of Oxford. His work and life have been spotlighted in the popular and scientific press, including feature and cover stories of New York Times Magazine, Chronicle of Higher Education, Nature, and Science Magazine.

Reynolds Farley is a research scientist at the Population Studies Center, the Dudley Duncan Professor Emeritus of Sociology, and a lecturer at the Ford School. Farley’s research interests concern population trends in the United States, focusing on racial differences, ethnicity, and the changes occurring in the nation’s cities. His current work focuses upon the revitalization of Rust Belt metropolises, particularly Detroit. Farley, who maintains a website describing the history and future of Detroit (www.Detroit1701. org), teaches a short Ford School course on the history and future of Detroit. To assist in preparation for Census 2020, he also serves on the Ann Arbor and Washtenaw Complete Count Committees.

He received his PhD from the University of Chicago.

Deirdre Golden is a lecturer at the Ford School and professor of health law at Detroit Mercy Law School. She holds an MD from the Royal College of Surgeons, Dublin, Ireland; a master’s in neuroscience and psychiatry from Wayne State University School of Medicine; a Juris Doctor (2004) and LLM (2009) in corporate and finance health care, from Wayne State University Law School. Professor Golden is a state-certified mediator and facilitator, a long-time member of the American Bar Association Health Law Section, and liaison to the Standing Committee on Armed Forces Law.

Neel Hajra is a lecturer at the Ford School, where he has taught for over a decade. He is currently the CEO of the Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation (AAACF), which under his leadership has received national and local awards for its innovative work, and was identified as one of the 20 fastest growing community foundations nationally from 2015-2017. Previously Neel was president and CEO of Nonprofit Enterprise at Work and a corporate attorney at Ford Motor Company. Neel also serves as a vice chair for the Council of Michigan Foundations, as a member of the Washtenaw County Board of Health, and on two national advisory committees. He has received two national nonprofit leadership awards: the Aspen Institute Fellowship for Emerging Nonprofit Leaders and the American Express NGen Fellowship. Neel holds a BS with honors in physics and a JD, both from the University of Michigan.

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John Hieftje, Ann Arbor’s longest serving mayor (2000-14), is a lecturer at the Ford School. In 2001 he initiated a long-term drive for greater efficiency that prepared the city for the Great Recession.

Hieftje championed the successful Greenbelt Campaign of 2003 and the “Mayor’s Green Energy Challenge” that established Ann Arbor as one of the nation’s leading “green” cities. He was also a leader in the successful push for the expansion of public transit, bicycle infrastructure, and pedestrian safety. He has been recognized for his service with the Greater Detroit Audubon Society Conservation Award, the Michigan League of Conservation Voters Environmental Leadership Award, and the Great Lakes Renewable Energy Association Leadership Award, among others. Currently, Hieftje is co-chair of the Washtenaw County Continuum of Care Board of Directors and continues his work with other activists on state and local environmental issues.

Rusty Hills is a lecturer at the Ford School. Most recently, he was senior advisor to former Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette and held a leadership role in the Department of Attorney General for 13 years serving two administrations. Hills was twice elected unanimously to serve as Chair of the Michigan Republican Party, during which the concept of microtargeting was first tested on a statewide basis. He spent 10 years working for the Governor of Michigan as communications director and public affairs director, and was in charge of all State of the State speeches and messaging. He has attended eight national conventions, beginning in 1976 as a delegate for Governor Reagan. Prior to politics, he worked as a reporter and anchor for CBS and NBC television and radio affiliates in Lansing, Jackson, and Flint, Michigan, and in South Bend, Indiana. Hills has a BA in telecommunications from Michigan State University and a Master of Government from the University of Notre Dame.

Debra Horner is on staff with the Ford School’s Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy (CLOSUP) where she is a project manager on the Michigan Public Policy Survey (MPPS) program. She has been a regular lecturer in U-M’s Political Science Department for over a decade and also teaches a course on Michigan politics and policy at the Ford School. Horner’s primary areas of research focus on individuals’ political attitudes and political participation, as well as policymaking at the state and local levels in Michigan. She received her undergraduate degree from Duke University and her doctorate in political science from the University of Michigan in 2007.

Daniel Raimi is a senior research associate at Resources for the Future and a lecturer at the Ford School. He works on a range of energy policy issues with a focus on oil and gas regulation and taxation and climate change policy. He has published in academic journals including Science, Environmental Science and Technology, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Energy Economics, and Energy Policy; popular outlets including Axios, The New Republic, Newsweek, Slate, and Fortune; and presented his research for policymakers, industry and other stakeholders around the United States and internationally. The Fracking Debate, his first book, combines stories from his travels to dozens of oil and gas producing regions with a detailed examination of key policy issues, and is published

by Columbia University Press. He hosts Resources Radio, a weekly podcast from Resources for the Future, and is currently working on his second book focused on the projected effects of climate change in the United States. Daniel received his master’s degree in public policy from Duke University and his bachelor’s degree in music from Wesleyan University.

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Melissa Riba is a lecturer at the Ford School and the research and evaluation director for the U-M Center for Health and Research Transformation (CHRT). Riba directs CHRT’s survey and program evaluation portfolios, including two biennial surveys—Cover Michigan and the Michigan Physician Survey—and numerous evaluations for community and statewide programs aimed at improving health and health care for Michiganders. She previously was a senior consultant for evaluation and survey research in the Health and Human Services Policy Division at Public Sector Consultants, Inc., where she designed and conducted research that evaluated federal and state funded programs related to expanding access to care for the uninsured, children’s mental health, special education, and the use of substance abuse services among the Medicaid population in mid- and southern Michigan.

Riba holds a master’s degree in sociology from Michigan State University, with an emphasis on medical sociology and research methods.

Irving Salmeen is a lecturer at the Ford School. He previously served as the associate director of the Ford School’s Science, Technology, and Public Policy program (2012-2014) and a research scientist with the U-M Center for the Study of Complex Systems (2008-2012). He previously worked for 36 years in the Ford Motor Company Scientific Research Laboratories, retiring in 2007. At retirement he headed the lab’s systems analytics department, which developed mathematical models for business, manufacturing, and vehicle technologies. He holds a PhD in biophysics and BS degrees in engineering physics and mathematics from the University of Michigan.

Surry Scheerer is a lecturer at the Ford School, where she teaches a course on leadership development.

She is a leadership and organizational culture consultant, trainer, and executive leadership coach.

Scheerer leads teams of executive coaches for open enrollment and custom programs at the U-M Ross School of Business’ Executive Education Program, and is the coach lead for its Executive MBA program.

She has been a trainer and professional development coach for international exchange programs sponsored by the U.S. State Department Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and at the William Davidson Institute at University of Michigan. Scheerer received her BS in human development and social policy from Northwestern University and her MSW from the University of Michigan.

John J.H. “Joe” Schwarz is a lecturer at the Ford School. He received his undergraduate degree in history from the University of Michigan in 1959, and his medical degree from Wayne State University in 1964. Dr. Schwarz served his residency in otolaryngology at Harvard University, finishing in 1973, and has been in private practice in Battle Creek, Michigan for 42 years. Dr. Schwarz served in Southeast Asia for five years, first with the U.S. Navy in Vietnam and as an assistant naval attaché in Indonesia.

He then served with the Central Intelligence Agency in Laos and in Vietnam. Dr. Schwarz was a City Commissioner then Mayor of Battle Creek, from 1979 until 1986. He was in the Michigan Senate from 1987 until 2002, serving as President Pro Tempore of the Senate from 1993 until 2002. From 2005 to 2007 he was a Member of Congress. Dr. Schwarz was chairman of the board of directors of the Alumni Association of the University of Michigan 2005-2007, and serves on numerous boards and commissions.

He was a faculty member at Harvard for one year and holds 11 honorary degrees. In 2007, Dr. Schwarz served on the panel to investigate care at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, appointed by the Secretary of Defense, on the Governor’s Emergency Financial Advisory Panel, and chaired the successful 2008 state constitutional amendment proposal allowing Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research in Michigan.

Dr. Schwarz is currently serving on the board of directors of Voters Not Politicians, a statewide organization working that successfully pursued ballot initiatives to end gerrymandering in Michigan’s congressional and legislative districts.

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Conan Smith is the president and CEO of the Michigan Environmental Council and a lecturer in public policy at the Ford School. He served 14 years as a Washtenaw County Commissioner and Washtenaw Parks and Recreation Commissioner, chairing the county commission in 2011 and 2012. Smith specializes in developing and leading intergovernmental partnerships to support economic and social justice policies and practices. As the executive director of Metro Matters (2004-16), his work was fundamental to the creation of the Southeast Michigan Regional Energy Office, Michigan Works South East, and the Regional Transit Authority of Southeast Michigan. He currently serves on the Michigan Future Talent Council (appointed), Michigan Saves (founding board chair), and Michigan Works! Association (second vice chair). Smith earned his undergraduate degree at the University of Michigan and his master’s degree in dispute resolution from Wayne State University.

Denise Thal is a lecturer at the Ford School and teaches on budgeting and financial planning for mission-based organizations. She is executive vice president for business operations for Planned Parenthood of Michigan. Previously, she served as vice president for business operations at The Henry Ford, a large history museum complex outside Detroit. Thal has a Master of Public and Private Management (now called an MBA) from the Yale School of Management and Master of Philosophy in economics from Oxford University, where she was a Rhodes Scholar.

Marianne Udow-Phillips is the founding executive director of the Center for Health and Research Transformation (CHRT) at the University of Michigan and a lecturer at the Ford School and U-M School of Public Health. Prior to her leadership role at CHRT, Marianne served as director of the State of Michigan’s Department of Human Services (2004-07). She came to state service from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, where she held a number of leadership roles over the years, most recently as senior vice president of health care products and provider services. Marianne currently serves as a board member for the Grameen Foundation, University of Michigan Health System, Arbor Research Collaborative for Health, U-M School of Public Health Dean’s Advisory Board, U-M Depression Center National Advisory Board, and Michigan Women’s Foundation Emeritus Board. She has received numerous awards and honors over the years, including the Anti-Defamation League’s “Women of Achievement Award”; Crain’s Detroit Business’s top 100 “Most Influential Women Award”; and the Michigan Women’s Foundation’s “Women of Achievement and Courage Award.” Marianne holds a master’s in health services administration from the U-M School of Public Health.

Kat Walsh is a lecturer at the Ford School. She is also the executive director of diversity, equity, and inclusion at U-M’s Office of University Development (OUD), where she heads department-wide efforts toward implementing policies aimed at diversifying and creating more equitable opportunities for OUD staff, donors, and volunteers. Walsh formerly oversaw all student philanthropy efforts and was the program designer for the nationally award-winning Development Summer Internship Program (D-SIP). Prior to her work at Michigan, Walsh was the director of alumni, coordinator of admissions, and part-time instructor at Saint Joseph Academy in Brownsville, Texas. She has presented at numerous academic and professional conferences, is published in the International Journal of Educational Advancement, and is a certified administrator and trainer on the Intercultural Development Inventory, emotional intelligence and diversity, and unconscious bias. Walsh received her BA in history and BA in theatre from the University of Notre Dame, her MA from the University of Michigan Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education, and her MPP from the Ford School.

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Visiting Faculty Javed Ali is a Towsley Foundation Policymaker in Residence at the Ford School for fall 2019, teaching “National Security Council and Counterterrorism” and co-teaching “Cybersecurity for Future Leaders.”

A former senior director for counterterrorism at the National Security Council, Ali has over 20 years of professional experience in national security and intelligence issues in Washington, D.C., serving in the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Department of Homeland Security, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. While at the FBI, he also held senior positions on joint duty assignments at the National Intelligence Council, the National Counterterrorism Center, and the National Security Council under the Trump Administration. Ali holds a BA in political science from the University of Michigan, a JD from the University of Detroit School of Law, and an MA in international relations from American University.

Louis (Lou) Fintor is a U.S. State Department Diplomat in Residence at the Ford School. Fintor joined the State Department in 2002 as a press officer in the Bureau of Public Affairs’ Office of Press Relations. He subsequently served as embassy spokesperson in Kabul (2005-06), Baghdad (2006-07),

Islamabad (2007-08), and Sana’a, Yemen (2012-14) before returning to Kabul in 2016. He also completed press officer assignments at Embassy Paris (2011); Consulate-General Istanbul (2011); Embassy Dhaka, Bangladesh (2008); the former U.S. Office Pristina, Kosovo (2008); U.S. Mission to NATO (2007); and U.S. Embassy Budapest (2003 and 2004). Fintor holds degrees in journalism from both the University of Michigan and American University.

Broderick Johnson is a Towsley Policymaker in Residence at the Ford School for the fall 2020 semester and a partner in the Washington office of Bryan Cave. With over three decades of leadership at the highest levels of government, he served most recently as assistant to the president and cabinet secretary under President Obama. There, Johnson also was appointed chair of the White House’s My Brother’s Keeper Task Force. Earlier, he was deputy assistant for legislative affairs in the Clinton White House and previously held senior positions on Capitol Hill, during which time he drafted landmark legislation including the Family and Medical Leave Act and the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986. Johnson received his undergraduate degree from the College of the Holy Cross and his JD from the University of Michigan Law School.

Phyllis Meadows is a Towsley Foundation Policymaker in Residence at the Ford School in winter 2020, teaching “Public Management: Leadership Within the Third Sector.” Meadows is a senior fellow in The Kresge Foundation’s health program and, since joining the foundation in 2009, has advised on her team’s strategic direction, provided leadership in the design and implementation of grantmaking initiatives and projects at all levels, and linked national organizations with experts in the health field.

In addition, she has led the foundation’s Emerging Leaders and Public Health Program and advises and supports a variety of cross-team programming. A former public health officer for the City of Detroit, Meadows’ 30-year career has included serving as associate dean for practice at the University of Michigan School of Public Health, as adjunct faculty at the Wayne State University and Oakland University schools of nursing, and as a program director with the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.

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Hardy Vieux (MPP/JD ’97) is a Towsley Foundation Policymaker in Residence at the Ford School in fall 2019, teaching “The Role of Courts in International Human Rights.” Vieux is the vice president of legal for Human Rights First, an independent advocacy and action organization that uses American influence to protect human rights and the rule of law. Previously, he served as a policy fellow in the Middle East, where he worked at Save the Children International in Amman, Jordan. Prior to living in the Middle East, Vieux was in private legal practice in Washington, D.C., for over 10 years, during which time he also handled numerous pro bono matters, ranging from litigation stemming from the abuses at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq to juvenile detention impact litigation and asylum representation. In 2010, the D.C. Bar recognized him as its Pro Bono Lawyer of the Year. Vieux serves on the board of directors of the National Military of Justice and the WISER Girls Secondary School. Vieux earned his JD and MPP degrees from Michigan Law—serving as editor-in-chief of the Michigan Journal of Race & Law—and the Ford School.

Gail Wilensky is a Towsley Foundation Policymaker in Residence at the Ford School in fall 2019, teaching “Health Economics and U.S. Health Policy.” An economist and senior fellow at Project HOPE, she directed the Medicare and Medicaid programs from 1990 to 1992 and served in the White House as a senior health and welfare adviser to President George H.W. Bush. She also served as president of the Defense Health Board, commissioner on the World Health Organization’s Commission on the Social Determinants of Health, and co-chair of the Department of Defense Task Force on the Future of Military Health Care. She is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine and has served two terms on its governing council. She is a former chair of the board of directors of Academy Health, a former trustee of the American Heart Association, and a current or former director of numerous other non-profit organizations. Wilensky testifies before Congressional committees, serves as an advisor to members of Congress and other elected officials, and speaks nationally and internationally before professional, business and consumer groups. She received a bachelor’s degree in psychology and a PhD in economics at the University of Michigan and has received several honorary degrees.

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Postdoctoral Fellows Richard Rodems is a postdoctoral fellow with Poverty Solutions, a University of Michigan-wide center housed at the Ford School. His research interests center on poverty, inequality, material hardship, social policy, racial disparities, and the welfare state. He completed his undergraduate degree at Vassar College, and earned his MSW and a joint PhD in social work and sociology from the University of Michigan.

Sabrina Solanki is an Institute of Education Sciences postdoctoral fellow with the Ford School’s Education Policy Initiative. She comes to the University of Michigan from the University of California, Irvine, where she earned master’s degrees in teaching and public policy and a PhD in education policy.

After completing her first master’s degree, Sabrina taught at Beckman High School (Irvine, CA), where she developed an economics program and taught AP Microeconomics for several years. As a PhD student, she focused on improving the college experience and learning outcomes for students, and counts among her research interests the areas of higher education policy, teacher effectiveness, economics of education, STEM education, and the evaluation of education interventions. While there, she was the recipient of the National Academy of Education’s Spencer Dissertation Fellowship. Sabrina’s dissertation was an evaluation of a one-year learning communities program for incoming biological sciences undergraduates and the program’s impact on both academic and non-academic outcomes.

Pinghui Wu is a postdoctoral fellow at Poverty Solutions, a University of Michigan-wide center housed at the Ford School. Her research interests are in poverty, worker mobility, and regional labor markets, with particular focus on the interaction between macroeconomic changes, labor market policies, and the well-being of disadvantaged workers and their families. Wu received her Bachelor of Social Work degree from National Taiwan University, and her Master of Social Work and PhD in economics and social work from the University of Michigan.

Gloria Yeomans-Maldonado is an Institute of Education Sciences postdoctoral fellow with the Ford School’s Education Policy Initiative. Her research interests include early childhood, child development, and the contextual factors that accompany these experiences (i.e., the home, the community, and the classroom), especially for Latino families and children living in disadvantaged circumstances. Gloria is also interested in how advances in quantitative methodology can be applied to better understand these experiences. Prior to coming to Ann Arbor, she served as the senior research fellow for Strive Partnership where she also worked with the Cincinnati Public Schools’ Performance and Accountability team on various projects that spanned PK-12. She was also part of the evaluation team of a quality preschool expansion program in Cincinnati. Gloria graduated with a BA in economics and math from the University of Arizona; an MS in economics from Louisiana State University; and a PhD in quantitative research, evaluation, and measurement from Ohio State University.

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Emeritus Faculty Robert Axelrod is the William D. Hamilton Distinguished University Professor Emeritus at the University of Michigan, having held appointments at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and Department of Political Science. His areas of specialization include international security, formal models, and complex adaptive systems. Axelrod’s books include Harnessing Complexity (with Michael D. Cohen), Conflict of Interest, The Structure of Decision, The Evolution of Cooperation, and The Complexity of Cooperation. His work focuses on questions of how patterns of social behavior emerge. He draws on the current research in a wide range of disciplines, including biology, psychology, and computer science. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and former president of the American Political Science Association. He is also the winner of several national awards: in 2014 he was awarded the National Medal of Science, “the nation’s highest honor for scientific achievement and leadership,” and in 2015 he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree by Harvard University.

Previously, Axelrod was named a MacArthur Prize Fellow. He is a graduate of the University of Chicago and received his PhD from Yale University.

John R. Chamberlin is a professor emeritus of political science and public policy. His research interests include ethics and public policy, professional ethics, and methods of election and representation. He taught the core course “Values, Ethics, and Public Policy” at the Ford School.

He was the founding director of the Ford School’s BA in Public Policy program from 2007-2011 and the director of U-M’s Center for Ethics in Public Life from 2008-2011. John has a BS in industrial engineering from Lehigh University and a PhD in decision sciences from the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University.

David K. Cohen is the John Dewey Professor Emeritus of Education in the School of Education and professor emeritus of public policy at the Ford School. His research focuses on the relationships between education policy and classroom practice in K-12 education, and on efforts to improve schooling. He was co-director of a national study of efforts to improve teaching and learning in high-poverty elementary schools. A nationally recognized authority on educational reform, Cohen taught at Harvard and Michigan State before coming to the University of Michigan. At the Ford School he teaches a class in education policy. David received his PhD from the University of Rochester.

Mary E. Corcoran is a professor emerita of public policy, political science, and women’s studies. Her research focuses on the effects of gender and race discrimination on economic status and earnings, and on professional women’s career trajectories. Mary has published articles on intergenerational mobility, the underclass, and sex-based and race-based inequality. She taught seminars on poverty and inequality and on women and employment. Mary received her PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Sandra Danziger is the Edith A. Lewis Professor Emerita of Social Work and research professor emerita of public policy. Her primary research interests are the effects of public programs and policies on the wellbeing of disadvantaged families, poverty policy and social service programs, demographic trends in child and family wellbeing, gender issues across the life course, program evaluation, and qualitative research methods. Her research examines low-income families’ participation in public and private nonprofit programs and the role these programs play in addressing barriers to work and parenting, especially for single mothers. She was principal investigator on the Women’s Employment Study.

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Sheldon Danziger is president of the Russell Sage Foundation, which supports research to “improve social and living conditions in the United States.” He is also the Henry J. Meyer Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Public Policy at the Ford School. He was director of the National Poverty Center and director of the Research and Training Program on Poverty and Public Policy at the Ford School. Danziger is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a 2008 John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellow, and the 2010 John Kenneth Galbraith fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. Among his publications, he is the co-author of America Unequal (with Peter Gottschalk, 1995), Detroit Divided (with Reynolds Farley and Harry Holzer, 2001) and co-editor of Legacies of the War on Poverty (with Martha J. Bailey, 2013). Danziger received his PhD in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

James S. House is the Angus Campbell Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Survey Research, Public Policy, and Sociology. His research has focused on the role of social and psychological factors in the etiology and course of health and illness, including the role of psychosocial factors in understanding and alleviating social disparities in health and the way health changes with age. He has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Medicine, and the National Academy of Sciences. At the Ford School he has taught courses on the relation between socioeconomic policy and health policy. Jim has co-edited Making Americans Healthier: Social and Economic Policy as Health Policy (with Bob Schoeni of the Ford School and others) and A Telescope on Society: Survey Research & Social Science at the University of Michigan and Beyond. He recently published Beyond Obamacare: Life, Death, and Social Policy (Russell Sage Foundation, June 2015). He received his PhD in social psychology from the University of Michigan.

Maris A. Vinovskis is the Bentley Professor Emeritus of History and a research professor emeritus at the Center for Political Studies in the Institute for Social Research. While in active service, he also held a courtesy appointment at the Ford School. He has authored or co-authored 10 books, the most recent being From a Nation at Risk to No Child Left Behind: National Education Goals and the Creation of Federal Education Policy as well as edited or co-edited seven books. Maris was the research advisor to the assistant secretary of the Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI) in both the Bush and Clinton Administrations in 1992 and 1993. He was a member of the congressionally mandated independent review panel for the U.S. Department of Education for Goals 2000, as well as No Child Left Behind. Maris is an elected member of the National Academy of Education, the International Academy of Education, the American Educational Research Association, and former president of the History of Education Society. He received his PhD in history from Harvard University.

Marina v.N. Whitman is professor emerita of business administration and public policy. From 1979 until 1992 she was an officer of the General Motors Corporation, first as vice president and chief economist and later as vice president and group executive for public affairs. Prior to her appointment at GM, Whitman was a professor of economics at the University of Pittsburgh. She served as a member of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers (1972-73), and as an independent director of several major multinational corporations. Marina received a bachelor’s degree in government from Radcliffe College (now Harvard University) and master’s and doctorate in economics from Columbia University.

She is the recipient of numerous fellowships, honors, and awards, and holds honorary degrees from more than 20 colleges and universities. Her research interests include management of international trade and investment, and the changing role of multinational corporations, including the evolving concept of global corporate social responsibility. She is the author of The Martian’s Daughter, a memoir, published by the University of Michigan Press in 2012.

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