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SPEA2013:

A guide to the impact of research and scholarship at the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University Bloomington

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Knowledge That Matters At Indiana University’s School of Public and Environmental Affairs in Bloomington, we’re tackling challenging issues, building partnerships around the world, and producing smart policy and sound science. This report, the first in a series we intend to make annually, highlights those successes and profiles the remarkable faculty that makes them possible. SPEA’s research and scholarship is growing and thriving. For example, the number of articles produced annually by our faculty has almost doubled, from a base of 87 in 2008 to 164 in 2011 and that trend continues. Also, the average number of articles per tenure-line faculty member is up by almost 50 percent, from 2.4 to 3.4. You can read more of the story behind these statistics in the newly updated document that guides our growth, SPEA 2015. We believe the quickening pace of research and writing here is one of the factors in our ranking as the number two MPA program in the country out of 266 (U.S. News & World Report). We have the highest-ranked graduate program at a public university and several of our specialties are either best in the nation or in the top five. Also, the National Research Council ranks our Ph.D. Public Affairs program as number one in the nation. We’re also forging new connections around the world. Our partners include Hong Kong University, Thailand’s International College of the National Institute of Development Administration, and India’s Administrative Staff College. As we celebrate our 40th anniversary, we’re at the forefront of the next major development in higher education: online learning. Our SPEA Connect online MPA now serves mid-career students around the world. Even with our rapid growth, we continue to believe in the value of thinking, researching, and writing. This report outlines those efforts. I hope you find it valuable and I truly welcome your comments and suggestions about this publication or anything concerning SPEA. Sincerely,

John D. Graham, Ph.D. Dean

Dr. Shahzeen Attari, an expert in the psychology of resource consumption, co-authored the article “Paying for What Was Free: Lessons from the New York Times Paywall” in Cyberpsychology, Behavior and Social Networking with Jonathan Cook. She also was a co-author of “Catalyzing Frontiers in Water-Climate Society Research: A View from Early Career Scientists and Junior Faculty” in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.

Dr. Matthew Baggetta, an expert on civil society and voluntary associations, wrote the article “Leading Associations: How Individual Characteristics and Team Dynamics Generate Committed Leaders” in the American Sociological Review. Co-authors were Hahrie Han and Kenneth T. Andrews.

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Dr. A. James Barnes, former SPEA dean and an expert in environmental law and policy, authored the 15th edition of the textbook Business Law: The Ethical, Global, and E-Commerce Environment as well as an instructor’s manual for the book with co-authors Jane Mallor, L. Thomas Bowers, and Arlen Langvardt. He is a member of a National Academy of Public Administration panel that published the report Department of Defense Post-Employment Review Assessment.

Prof. Lisa Blomgren Bingham is the Keller-Runden Chair in Public Service and an expert in collaborative governance, dispute resolution, and labor law. With co-authors Rebecca Nesbit and Tina Nabatchi, she wrote “Employees, Supervisors, and Workplace Mediation: Experiences of Justice and Settlement” in the Review of Public Personnel Administration. She also authored “Special Issue Research on Mediation Style: Transformative Mediation at the U.S. Postal Service” in Negotiation and Conflict Management Review. With co-authors Deanna Malatesta, Susanna Foxworthy, and Timothy Reuter, she wrote Dispute Resolution in the Administrative Process: Evaluation of the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission Settlement Part Program, a report for the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission.

David Audretsch on Creating Competitiveness... There is virtual unanimity that most of the developed world has been suffering from an economic slowdown in recent years. Much of the policy debate, along with focus of the media and public, has been at the macroeconomic level. The result has been a preoccupation with the size of the stimulus and the adequacy of the federal deficit, or alternatively tax cuts at the federal level in the United States, and the fate of the euro in Europe. The implication for cities, regions, and states aspiring to improve their economic performance is that it is largely not in their hands but rather at the level of macroeconomic and monetary policymakers. The view argued in my recent book Creating Competitiveness: Entrepreneurship and Innovation Policies for Growth (co-edited with Mary Lindenstein Walshok, University of California) suggests that such local policymakers, along with concerned constituencies such as businesses, non-profit organizations, and the public, are looking for spurs to generate a strong economic performance in the wrong place. Rather than focus on what national or even supra-national governments can and will do for cities, states, and regions, we argue that they need to take accountability for their own economic performance. Rather than passively waiting for “all boats to be lifted by the rising tide of macroeconomic growth and prosperity,” cities, states, and regions can actively undertake policies to create the conditions to spur economic performance. Our book suggests that creating competitiveness does not solely lie in the realm of macroeconomic policy, but can be crucially shaped and influenced by local policy as well. In particular, policies to spur entrepreneurship and innovation are central to creating competitiveness for cities, regions, and states. Globalization has shifted the comparative advantage of many, if not most cities, regions, and states in the developed countries to economic activity where knowledge, creativity, and ideas play an important role. Thus, any type of investment that fosters ideas and creativity, or what can broadly be construed as constituting knowledge, enhances innovation and ultimately economic performance. However, the investment in ideas and knowledge alone may not suffice in ensuring that the new ideas are actually transformed into innovation. Rather, entrepreneurship can serve as a key conduit for commercializing ideas generated in one organizational context but actually turned into innovations and introduced into the market by a different and new organization. Thus, a key focus of our book is not just on policies to promote innovation but also entrepreneurship as important ways of creating competitiveness.

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Distinguished Professor Dr. David Audretsch authored the book Creating Competitiveness: Entrepreneurship and Innovation Policies for Growth with co-author Mary Walshok. He also authored the book Valuing an Entrepreneurial Enterprise with co-author Albert Link. He is an expert in economic policy and entrepreneurship as well as Ameritech Chair of Economic Development, director of the Institute for Development Strategies, and director of the SPEA Overseas Education Program.

Prof. Ashley Bowers, director of the Center for Survey Research, is an expert in survey methodology and applied survey statistics. She gave presentations to the American Association for Public Opinion Research, the American Statistical Association, and the Association of Academic Survey Research Organizations. She was named to the executive committee of the Association of Academic Survey Research Organizations.

Dr. Jennifer Brass, an expert in African politics, NGOs, and civil society, wrote the article “Why Do NGOs Go Where They Go? Evidence from Kenya” in World Development. She also wrote the article “Blurring Boundaries: The Integration of NGOs Into the Governance of Kenya” in Governance, and coauthored “Power for Development: A Review of Distributed Generation Projects in the Developing World” with Sanya Carley, Lauren M. MacLean, and Elizabeth Baldwin published in the Annual Review of Environment and Resources.

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Dr. Sanya Carley, an expert in energy policy, received the Outstanding Junior Faculty Award from the Indiana University Office of the Vice Provost. She co-authored the article “Intent to Purchase a Plug-In Electric Vehicle: A Survey of Early Impressions in Large U.S. Cities” in Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment with co-authors John D. Graham of SPEA, Rachel Krause, and Bradley Lane. Other articles include “Power for Development: A Review of Distributed Generation Projects in the Developing World” in Annual Review of Environment and Resources, “Creating a Sustainable U.S. Electricity Sector: The Question of Scale” in Policy Sciences, “Regulatory Stringency and Policy Adoption: Reassessment of Renewable Portfolio Standards” in Policy Studies Journal, “Energy Demand-Side Management: New Perspectives for a New Era” in the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, and “Economic Development and Energy: From Fad to Sustainable Discipline?” in Economic Development Quarterly.

Dr. Beth Cate, an expert in data governance and regulation, intellectual property, Constitutional law and Supreme Court decisionmaking, co-authored “The Supreme Court and Information Privacy,” in International Data Privacy Law, with Fred H. Cate.

Dr. Daniel Cole, an expert in environmental and natural resources law, economics, and politics, co-edited Property in Land and Other Resources with Elinor Ostrom for the Lincoln Institute. For that volume, Cole and Ostrom co-authored one paper on “The Variety of Property Systems and Rights in Natural Resources,” and Cole authored another on “Property Creation by Regulation: Rights to Clean Air and Rights to Pollute.” Cole also published “Law, Politics, and Cost-Benefit Analysis,” in the Alabama Law Review. He has a short article on “The Varieties of Comparative Institutional Analysis” about to appear in a symposium issue of the Wisconsin Law Review.

Dr. Christopher B. Craft, an expert in wetland restoration and ecosystem development, wetlands and water quality, and wetlands and climate change, authored an article, “Tidal Freshwater Forest Accretion Does Not Keep Pace with Sea Level Rise,” in Global Change Biology. He also co-authored “Estimating ‘Blue Carbon’ Emissions from Conversion and Degradation of Coastal Ecosystems” with Linwood Pendelton et al., published in PLOS ONE He is also the director of the Ph.D. in Environmental Science Program. He is the Duey-Murphy Professor of Rural Land Policy.

Dr. Sameeksha Desai, an expert in entrepreneurship in contexts related to conflict/postconflict recovery, and political instability, co-authored the article “A Model of Destructive Entrepreneurship: Insight for Conflict and Postconflict Recovery” in the Journal of Conflict Resolution, with Zoltan Acs and Utz Weitzel. She also co-authored Global Microfinance Trends: 19972010 with Venkata Nadella, for the Microcredit Summit Campaign. She serves as the co-chair (American) of the Transatlantic Policy Consortium.

Dr. Denvil R. Duncan, an expert in public economics, labor economics, and economic development, co-authored the article “Personal Income Tax Mimicry: Evidence from International Panel Data” with Ed Gerrish for the journal International Tax and Public Finance. With John D. Graham, he authored “Road User Fees Instead of Fuel Taxes: The Quest for Political Acceptability” in the journal Public Administration Review.

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Dr. Sergio Fernandez, an expert in public management and organization theory, wrote two articles on employee empowerment: “Using Employee Empowerment to Encourage Innovative Behavior in the Public Sector” in Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory and “Employee Empowerment, Employee Attitudes, and Performance: Testing a Causal Model” in Public Administration Review, both with Tima Moldogaziev. He also wrote two articles on representative bureaucracy in the U.S. federal procurement arena: “Equity in Federal Contracting: Examining the Link between Minority Representation and Federal Procurement Decisions” in Public Administration Review with Craig R. Smith, and “The Link between Democratic Representation and Federal Contracting Decisions: Signs of Divergence” in Public Administration Review with Deanna Malatesta and Craig R. Smith. He serves as the director of the Ph.D. in Public Affairs and Joint Ph.D. in Public Policy programs.

Dr. Burnell Fischer, co-director of the Vincent and Elinor Ostrom Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, is an expert in forestry, particularly community and urban forest management practices, issues and policy, and state government management. He co-authored “Evaluating the USFS State and Private Forestry Redesign Program: A First Look at Policy Implications” with Michael Cox, Sarah Mincey, Tatyana Ruseva, and Sergio Villamayor-Tomas, published in Ecological Economics. He also co-authored “Structuring Institutional Analysis for Urban Ecosystems: A Key to Sustainable Urban Forest Management” with Sarah Mincey, Miranda Hutten, Tom Evans, Susan Stewart, and Jessica Vogt in Urban Ecosystems.

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Dr. Seth Freedman, an expert in health, economics, and policy, authored “Health Insurance and Hospital Technology Adoption,” in a book edited by Kristian Bolin and Robert Kaestner, Advances in Health Economics and Health Services Research. He co-authored “Product Recalls, Imperfect Information, and Spillover Effects: Lessons from the Consumer Response to the 2007 Toy Recalls,” in The Review of Economics and Statistics with Melissa Kearney and Mara Lederman.

Dr. Beth Gazley, an expert in public and nonprofit management, associations, intersectoral relations, collaboration, and volunteerism, authored “Predicting a Volunteer’s Future Intentions in Professional Associations: A Test of the Penner Model” published in Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly. She co-authored three articles about community perspectives on hosting student service-learners with Laura Littlepage and Teresa Bennett. Her ongoing research addresses governmental reliance on charities to fund public services. She also serves as chair of the SPEA Teaching and Learning Faculty Group.

John D. Graham on Preparing U.S. Policymakers to Deal with Dangerous Chemicals . . . Defining “safety” and learning from Europe’s example: Those are two challenges for the U.S. chemical industry and policymakers as they look to modernize the Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976 to better protect public health and the environment. With no consensus on what the reform should look like, SPEA experts led by Dean John D. Graham are sparking a critical conversation. A report from Graham and several colleagues supplies a close examination of the European Union’s reformed chemicals law “REACH” (“Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of Chemicals”), which went into effect in 2006. Regulating Industrial Chemicals: Lessons for U.S. Policy Makers from the European Union’s REACH Program is the result of interviews with key stakeholders, including manufacturers, importers, and REACH experts. “As the U.S. Congress considers whether and how to modernize TSCA, much can be learned from the European experience with REACH,” Graham says. “Some aspects of REACH are innovative and promising, while others are overly burdensome and complicated.” While the report examines all areas of REACH, the primary focus is on the program’s chemical registration process. REACH shifts the burden of proving safety from the government to industry. REACH’s key principle – “no data, no market” – compels manufacturers of substances, producers of articles, and importers to supply regulators a minimum safety-related data set for a large number of existing chemicals. “One of our most important conclusions is that there needs to be a clear and consistent definition of ‘safety’ throughout any new chemical regulatory program,” said the report’s lead author, Adam Abelkop, a SPEA doctoral student. Researchers have identified several aspects of the EU program that merit consideration by U.S. policymakers as well as areas that could be refined and modified to be more transparent, simplified, and suitable for the U.S. context. Highlights of the report indicate that a REACH-like system in the United States should focus on opportunities to reduce risks to human health and the environment. In addition, new legislation should provide clarification about critical standards, processes, and tools, while lessening unnecessary burdens on industry by allowing for mutual, cross-Atlantic recognition of registration dossiers. According to SPEA professor Lois Wise, co-author of the report and director of the European Union Center and West European Studies at IU, REACH offers an alternative approach to the process of chemical regulation and control providing a greater understanding of how regulatory processes work. “Our interest is in the extent to which the European experience implementing this complicated and innovative piece of legislation can inform efforts to revise TSCA,” she said. “This study, examining the process of REACH implementation, provides useful insight for policymakers.”

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IMPACT “The report by Dean Graham and his colleagues on Europe’s REACH regulation outlines important lessons for the United States and other governments contemplating revisions in their basic chemical regulatory systems. The major findings of the report are particularly instructive as Congress, the regulated community, and other stakeholders consider revisions to the Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976.” Michael P. Walls Vice President of Regulatory and Technical Affairs American Chemistry Council

Dr. John D. Graham, SPEA dean and an expert in government reform, energy and the environment, and the future of the automobile in both developed and developing countries, coauthored America’s Poor and the Great Recession with Kristin Seefeldt. He also co-authored “Intent to Purchase a Plug-In Electric Vehicle: A Survey of Early Impressions in Large U.S. Cities,” with Sanya Carley et al., published in Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment. With Carley and Bradley Lane, Graham authored an article about electric vehicles in China, Europe, Japan, and the U.S. that is forthcoming in the European Journal of Risk Regulation. With Adam Abelkop, Agnes Botos, and Lois Wise, Graham wrote the report Regulating Industrial Chemicals: Lessons for U.S. Lawmakers from the European Union’s REACH Program.

Dr. David Good, an expert in quantitative policy modeling, productivity measurement in public and regulated industries, and urban policy analysis, serves as director of SPEA’s Transportation Research Center.

Dr. Kirsten Grønbjerg is chair of the Governance and Management Faculty Group and the Efroymson Chair in Philanthropy, Center on Philanthropy, Indiana University– Purdue University Indianapolis. She is an expert on nonprofit and public sector relationships. She authored “Devolution, Marketization, and the Changing Shape of Government-Nonprofit Relations” in State of Nonprofit America (2nd edition), edited by Lester M. Salamon for the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. She directs a group of researchers publishing a series of reports to help community leaders develop effective and collaborative solutions to community needs and to inform public policy decisions by providing baseline information about the Indiana nonprofit sector.

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The Honorable Lee H. Hamilton is director of The Center on Congress and an expert on Congress, homeland security, civic education and participation, American economic and foreign policy, and domestic politics. A variety of print and online outlets across the country publish his “Comments on Congress” op-eds twice monthly.

Dr. Bradley T. Heim is an expert on the impact of tax policies on individual, household, and firm behavior; the impact of health policies on labor market outcomes; and on income inequality. He co-authored “The Effect of Recent Tax Changes on Tax-Preferred Retirement Savings” with Ithai Z. Lurie, published in the National Tax Journal, and co-wrote the forthcoming “Importing Corruption Norms from Overseas: Evidence from Corporate Tax Evasion in the United States,” with Jason DeBacker and Anh Tran, to be published in the Journal of Financial Economics.

The Honorable Paul Helmke is director of the Civic Leaders LivingLearning Center and an expert in mayoral leadership, gun control, urban issues, law and public policy, civic education and participation, and nonprofit leadership. He is the author of “Targeting Gun Violence” in Public Administration Review.

Dr. Diane S. Henshel is an expert in risk assessment and sub-lethal health effects of environmental pollutants, especially pollutant effects on the developing organism. She co-authored “GSM 900MHz Microwave Radiation Affects Embryo Development of Japanese Quails” with Alexander Tsybulin, Evgeniy Sidorik, Sergiy Kyrylenko, and Igor Yakymenko, published in Electromagnetic Biology and Medicine.

Dr. Monika Herzig is a touring jazz pianist and an expert in jazz history, concert promotion, music industry, and jazz education. Her biography, David Baker: A Legacy in Music, was named an AAUP “Selection” for public and secondary school libraries and also received an “Outstanding” designation reserved for books considered exceptional by the reviewer. Her analysis of “Ellingtones: A Fantasy for Saxophone and Orchestra“ (composed by David Baker in 1987) was published in the International Jazz Archives.

Dr. Craig Johnson is an expert in capital markets and financial intermediation, financial management, public budgeting and finance, financing e-government, financing economic development, and environmental and infrastructure finance. He authored “Government-Wide Financial Statements and Credit Risk,” published in Public Budgeting and Finance, and “Understanding Dodd-Franks Reach into Main Streets Financial Market,” published in the Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting & Financial Management.

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Distinguished Professor Dr. Ronald Hites is an expert in applying organic analytical chemistry techniques to the analysis of trace levels of toxic pollutants such as polybrominated flame retardants and polychlorinated biphenyls and pesticides, with a focus on understanding the behavior of these compounds in the atmosphere and in the Great Lakes. He is an associate editor of Environmental Science and Technology and co-authored Elements of Environmental Chemistry (2nd edition), with Jonathan D. Raff, published by John Wiley Sons, Inc.

IMPACT “The analysis of tree bark as demonstrated by researchers at SPEA is an inexpensive and simple approach to indirectly measure the levels of pollutants in air. This technique is particularly useful for spatially mapping the distribution of pollutants in air and for identifying chemicals that are capable of longrange atmospheric transport.” Tom Harner, Senior Research Scientist/ Environment Canada, and Ed Sverko, head of the Organic Analysis Laboratory/ Environment Canada

Ron Hites on Finding Pollutants Where You’d Least Expect Them . . . The bark of trees can tell us about a deadly threat to our health. SPEA researchers say chemicals used as flame retardants are present as environmental pollutants at locations around the globe, including remote sites in Indonesia, Nepal, and Tasmania. Their study makes use of a novel but highly effective sampling technique: measuring concentrations of the chemicals in the bark of trees, which absorbs compounds in both vapor and particle phases. “These findings illustrate further that flame retardants are ubiquitous pollutants and are found all around the world, not only in biota and humans but also in plants,” says SPEA research associate Amina Salamova, who co-authored the study with Ronald A. Hites, Distinguished Professor in SPEA. The study measured concentrations of brominated and chlorinated flame retardants collected in tree bark samples at 12 locations around the globe: three sites in Canada and single sites in Iceland, Ireland, Norway, Czech Republic, South Africa, Nepal, Indonesia, Tasmania, and American Samoa. The highest concentrations were found at an urban site: Downsview, Ontario, Canada, near Toronto. However, the second-highest concentration of one type of flame retardant, Dechlorane Plus, was found at a remote site at Bukit Kototabang in Indonesia. Researchers don’t know the cause of the relatively high concentrations at the site but suspect it may be near a source. Brominated and chlorinated flame retardants have been used for several decades in consumer products made of plastic, foam, wood, and textiles to prevent combustion and slow the spread of fire. They persist in the environment and bio-accumulate in ecosystems and in human tissues. Exposure to the compounds has been associated with thyroid and other endocrine system disruption and with adverse neurological development. As a result, the production and use of certain flame retardants has been restricted in North America and the European Union. Researchers measured a variety of flame retardants, including widely used polybrominated diphenyl ethers, or PBDE, as well as nonregulated compounds such as Dechlorane Plus and “older” flame retardants that were used in the 1980s. Findings included: • Most of the compounds were detected at all the locations, with concentrations varying widely. • Concentrations were associated with population density, suggesting the compounds most likely entered the environment through their use in nearby homes and offices. • Concentrations found in tree bark are correlated with those measured in previous atmospheric sampling at the sites by the Global Atmospheric Passive Sampling network. Higher concentrations of flame retardants in bark and the atmosphere have been found by Hites and others in previous studies of the Great Lakes region, especially urban areas near Chicago and Cleveland, and also at cities in China. Even higher concentrations were found in southern Arkansas and at Niagara Falls, NY, near the sites of manufacturing facilities for PBDE and Dechlorane Plus, respectively.

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Dr. Haeil Jung is an expert on incarceration and prison programs, applied econometrics and program evaluation, and child and family policy. He authored “Increase in the Length of Incarceration and the Subsequent Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from Men Released from Illinois State Prisons,” published in the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management.

Dr. Robert Kravchuk, director of the MPA/Dual Degree programs, is an expert in public finance, macrobudgeting, public debt markets, U.S. Defense Department procurement management, and the political economy of reform in formerly socialist countries. Kravchuk also directs SPEA’s online MPA program, SPEA-Connect. He is working on the 8th edition of his textbook Public Administration: Understanding Management, Politics, and Law in the Public Sector due out this fall. His co-authors are David Rosenbloom and Richard Clerkin. Further, he is also currently writing what he calls a “modern text” on public financial management for the twenty-first century.

Dr. Kerry Krutilla is an expert in theory and practice of benefit-cost analysis, environmental and energy policy analysis, environmental and energy program evaluation, and natural resource management in developing countries. He coauthored, with SPEA dean John Graham, “Are Green Vehicles Worth the Extra Cost? The Case of Diesel-Electric Hybrid Technology for Urban Delivery Vehicles,” published in the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. He also co-authored “The Normative Implications of Political DecisionMaking for Benefit-Cost Analysis” published in the Journal of BenefitCost Analysis, with Alexander Alexeev.

Dr. Marc L. Lame is director of the Masters of Science in Environmental Science program and an expert in implementation of integrated pest management programs in schools and day care facilities. He serves as national education coordinator for the National Environmental Health Association and is a congressionally appointed advisor to the EPA’s Office of Pesticide Programs.

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Dr. Leslie Lenkowsky is an expert in nonprofits and public policy, civil society in comparative perspective, institutional grant-makers, volunteering and civic engagement, education and social welfare policy, and social entrepreneurship. He authored “Foundations and Corporate Philanthropy” in Lester M. Salamon (Ed.), The State of Nonprofit America (2nd edition), and is a regular contributor to The Chronicle of Philanthropy.

Dr. Joyce Y. Man, an expert in public finance, urban and regional economics and international trade, authored the book China’s Environmental Policy and Urban Development. She also wrote the article “China’s Property Tax Reform: Progress and Challenges” published in Land Lines by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.

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Dr. Michael McGuire serves as managing editor of Public Administration Review and is an expert in intergovernmental and interorganizational collaboration and networks, federalism and intergovernmental relations, and public management. He co-authored “The Role of Advocacy in Networks” with Rachel Krefetz Fyall and published in PUBLIC - Esade. He wrote “Challenges of Intergovernmental Management,” forthcoming in the Journal of Health and Human Services Administration. He was elected to the National Academy of Public Administration.

Dr. Vicky J. Meretsky is an expert in landscape-level conservation, conservation under climate change, ecology and management of rare species, integrating ecosystem research, and endangered species management within adaptive management. She co-authored “A State-Based National Network for Effective Wildlife Conservation” with Lynn Maguire, Frank Davis et al., published in BioScience. With Jessica Hellmann and Jason McLachlan, she wrote a chapter in Saving a Million Species: Extinction Risk from Climate Change.

Chancellor’s Professor Dr. John L. Mikesell is an expert in governmental finance, especially questions of policy and administration of sales and property taxation, state lotteries, public budgeting, and public finance in countries of the former Soviet Union. He co-authored “Fast Money? The Contribution of State Tax Amnesties to Public Revenue Systems,” with Justin Ross, published in the National Tax Journal, and wrote “State Tax Policy and State Sales Taxes: What Tax Expenditure Budgets Tell Us About Sales Taxes,” published in American Review of Public Administration.

Dr. Andrea Need is an expert in environmental, administrative, and conservation law. She is deputy director of the Master of Public Affairs program and is of counsel to the Conservation Law Center.

Dr. Kimberly A. Novick, an expert in forest ecology, ecosystem carbon and water cycling, and biometeorology, co-authored “Increased Resin Flow in Mature Pine Trees Growing Under Elevated CO2 and Moderate Soil Fertility” with Gabriel Katul, Heather McCarthy, and Ram Oren, published in Tree Physiology, and “EO-1 Hyperion Reflectance Time Series and Calibration and Validation Sites: Stability and Sensitivity to Seasonal Dynamics,” with Petya Campbell et al., and published in IEEE JSTARS.

Distinguished Professor Dr. James Perry is an expert in public service motivation, government and civil service reform, public management, public human resource management, national and community service, performance-related pay, and public organizational behavior. He authored “Does Making a Difference Make a Difference? Answers from Research on Public Service Motivation” in Reforming the Public Sector: How to Achieve Better Transparency, Service, and Leadership. He co-authored “The Transformation of Governance: Who Are the New Public Servants and What Difference Does It Make for Democratic Governance” in the American Review of Public Administration. He co-authored “Investigating the Structure and Meaning of Public Service Motivation Across Populations: Developing an International Instrument and Addressing Issues of Measurement Invariance” in the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory. He also serves as editor-in-chief for Public Administration Review.

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Dr. Ashlyn Aiko Nelson is an expert in the overlapping housing and education policy sectors, and with Wei Jiang and Edward Vytlacil co-authored “Liars Loan? Effects of Origination Channel and Information Falsification on Mortgage Delinquency,” forthcoming in The Review of Economics and Statistics as well as “Delinquency Model Predictive Power Among Low-Documentation Loans” in Economics Letters. With SPEA student Anthony Konechnik, she wrote a research brief on the national mortgage settlement published by the USC Lusk Center for Real Estate.

IMPACT Education Next named Dr. Nelson to the RHSU Edu-Scholar Public Presence Rankings. This is a list of top contributors to the public debate about education. The rankings are the creation of education researcher and author Frederick Hess, who describes them as a way “to recognize those university-based academics who are contributing most substantially to public debates about schools and schooling.”

Ashlyn Nelson on Learning Painful Lessons from the Mortgage Debacle . . . The housing industry is showing signs of life with the number of sales and the purchase price of homes both starting to rise. Against that backdrop, research by Ashlyn Nelson is a reminder of the cost of mistakes made during the last housing boom. Nelson and colleagues Wei Jiang (Columbia University) and Edward Vytlacil (New York University) studied the rise of low-documentation mortgages, often called “liar loans” because they allowed borrowers to falsify income and assets reported for loan underwriting. Now her paper on the fallout from those fibs is about to be published in the Review of Economics and Statistics. It has already earned an award by the Western Finance Association for the Best Paper on Financial Institutions and Markets. “The market may have overcorrected a bit by shutting no-doc loans down,” Nelson says. “Now they’re making a comeback, so it’s important the mortgage industry know what went wrong the last time.” So what went wrong? In “Liar’s Loan? Effects of Origination Channel and Information Falsification on Mortgage Delinquency,” Nelson, Jiang, and Vytlacil studied 721,767 loans made by an unnamed “major national mortgage bank” between 2004 and 2008. Among their key findings: • Loans originated by brokers were 50% more likely to be delinquent than loans originated directly through the bank. These were preventable mistakes, the authors found. “Approximately three-quarters of this delinquency difference can be attributed to lower borrower/loan quality based on observable risk factors.” • There were “significantly higher delinquency rates among Hispanic and black borrowers than among whites.” Nelson blames this not on discrimination but on “information and experience disparities resulting from a lack of prior home buying experience or exposure to mainstream financial institutions.” • On average, borrowers taking out so-called “liar loans” exaggerated their incomes by 15% to 19%. • The unnamed bank was able to originate high-risk mortgages without undue concern about creditworthiness because it could securitize the mortgages and sell them to investors. “The expansion of the secondary loan market and the ease of loan securitization weakened the bank’s incentive to screen borrowers by allowing the bank to offload risk,” the study said. • Loan pricing didn’t compensate for the additional risk associated with broker-originated and low-doc loans. The re-emergence of low-doc loans does serve a useful purpose, Nelson points out. The self-employed and other creditworthy individuals don’t always have the time or ability to produce W-2 forms or other payroll documents that verify their income streams. “The original idea behind low-doc loans was that lenders could earn a reasonable rate of return by extending low-risk loans to relatively wealthy, creditworthy borrowers at a slightly higher rate if they were unable to produce the documents traditionally used for income and asset verification,” Nelson says. “If that’s where the low-doc industry is going and no further, that may be a good thing for everybody.”

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Dr. Flynn Picardal is an expert in bioremediation, environmental microbiology, and biogeochemistry. He authored “Abiotic and Microbial Interactions during Anaerobic Transformations of Fe (II) and NO-x,” published in Frontiers in Microbiology and co-authored “Induction of Nitrate-Dependent Fe(II) Oxidation by Fe(II) in Dechloromonas sp. Strain UWNR4 and Acidovorax sp. Strain 2AN” with Anirban Chakraborty published in Applied and Environmental Microbiology.

Dr. Maureen Pirog is the Rudy Professor of policy analysis. She is an expert in poverty and income maintenance with an emphasis on child support enforcement, welfare reform, adolescent parenting, and methods of policy evaluation. She co-authored “Social Policy: What Have We Learned?” with Tatyana Guzman and Kristin Seefeldt, published in Policy Studies Journal, and the book Public Policy and Mental Health: Avenues for Prevention with Emily Good. She also co-authored a book chapter with Craig Johnson and Sharon Kioko entitled, “Managing in the Era of Digital Governance: The Expanding Role and Efficacy of E-Government Innovations in US Social Services” in Managing E-Government Projects: Concepts, Issues, and Best Practices. She is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management.

Dr. Jonathan D. Raff is an expert in atmospheric chemistry and environmental catalysis who works on problems related to how chemistry on surfaces affect the fate of pollutants in the environment and impact global climate. He co-authored the book Elements of Environmental Chemistry (2nd edition) with Ronald Hites, and the article, “Photooxidation of Ammonia on TiO2 as a Source of NO and NO2 under Atmospheric Conditions” in the Journal of the American Chemical Society with SPEA Ph.D. students Mulu Kebede and Nicole Scharko. In addition, he recently co-authored an article titled, “Experimental and Theoretical Studies of the Interaction of Gas Phase Nitric Acid and Water with a Self-Assembled Monolayer” in the journal, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics.

Dr. David Reingold is SPEA’s executive associate dean for Bloomington and an expert in urban poverty, economic development, social welfare policy, low-income housing policy, civil society, and government performance. He is the project director for the SPEA VISTA Fellows Program and procured and manages a training grant of $300,000 to provide up to 15 full-time fellowships (stipend and tuition remission) for professional graduate students in public affairs to work in leading not-for-profit organizations and governmental agencies on innovative antipoverty programs. The grant comes from the U.S. Corporation for National and Community Service.

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Dr. Michael Rushton is director of the Arts Administration programs and an expert in cultural economics, policy and administration, nonprofit organizations, and tax policy. His current research concerns include the relationship between the arts and local economic development, and tax policy regarding charities. He edited the book Creative Communities: Art Works in Economic Development, and is currently preparing a book on pricesetting in the arts.

Michael Rushton on Creative Communities . . . Urban and regional planners, elected officials, and other decisionmakers are increasingly focused on what makes places “livable.” Many factors are involved, including the arts and culture, which make a crucial contribution to community development. But knowledge about arts and culture as a development tool and what works at various urban and regional levels is lacking. What art forms or types of arts-related employment matter the most, and in what neighborhoods? How does a city ensure that “the arts” is not defined simply by a core of long-established major arts institutions? What state and local policies best foster the development of strong local arts scenes? Creative Communities: Art Works in Economic Development (Brookings Institution Press) offers answers and provides an understanding of “how art works.” A central theme is that the arts are an amenity or sector to be considered not in isolation but as a wholly integrated part of the local economy. Using original data and quantitative and qualitative methods, the contributors investigate the arts as an engine for transforming communities and as an integral, measurable component of the U.S. economy. The book contains nine original studies (plus my editor’s introduction, and a foreword by NEA chairman Rocco Landesman). Topics include location choices by arts entrepreneurs, links between the arts and non-arts sectors, public policies to foster local arts organizations, and the arts’ effects on incomes in cities across the nation. Some background: In 2011, discussions with the research and analysis branch of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) led to the idea for a symposium on “The Arts, New Growth Theory, and Economic Development.” A call for original research papers was issued, and on May 10 last year the symposium took place, hosted by the Brookings Institution and sponsored by the NEA. Immediately after, we set to work selecting papers for a publication, with significant review amongst the authors and NEA research staff, and now we have the finished volume. Creative Communities is not a book of advocacy as such – the aim is to consider what we know, and to move the research program forward on the question of the arts and economic development, a topic on which there is still much to be discovered. The complex role of the arts in local growth has made empirical research in this field especially challenging. The new research in this volume will be warmly welcomed by scholars who seek to understand this dynamic relationship and policymakers who strive to promote the economic growth and development of their communities.

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Dr. William G. Resh is an expert in public management, the U.S. presidency and executive politics, policy implementation, and organizational behavior. He coauthored “No Solutions, Only TradeOffs? Evidence about Goal Conflict in Street-Level Bureaucracies” with David Pitts, published in Public Administration Review, and “Loopholes to Loadshed: Contract Management Capacity, Representative Bureaucracy, and Goal Displacement in Federal Procurement Decisions” with John D. Marvel, published in the International Public Management Journal.

Dr. Rafael Reuveny is an expert in international political economy, sustainable development, and the political economy of the Middle East. He authored “Reconsidering Trade and Conflict Simultaneity: The Risk of Emphasizing Technique over Substance” in Conflict Management and Peace Science. Forthcoming by Reuveny is “Moving to a Better Life? Climate, Migration and Population Health” in Climate Change and Global Health, a book edited by C. Butler and P. Kinney. With Joel Guttman, he wrote “On Revolt and Endogenous Economic Policy in Autocratic 2 Regimes” for the journal Public Choice.

Dr. Kenneth R. Richards is an expert in domestic and international climate change policy, environmental policy implementation, and energy law. He is the Musim Mas Chair in Sustainability, National University of Singapore, Department of Strategy and Public Policy. He coauthored “Evaluating Protocols and Standards for Forest Carbon-Offset Programs, Part A: Additionality, Baselines and Permanence” with Grant Huebner, published in Carbon Management, and “Pouring Out Our Soils: Facing the Challenge of Poorly Defined Property Rights in Subsurface Pore Space for Carbon Capture and Storage,” with Joice Chang, Joanna Allerhand, and John Rupp, forthcoming in The George Washington University Journal of Energy and Environmental Law.

Dr. Evan J. Ringquist is an expert in public policy process and evaluation, environmental and energy policy, and democratic influences in policy making. He authored the book MetaAnalysis for Public Management and Policy and co-authored “Campaign Promises, Democratic Representation, and Environmental Policy Choice in the U.S. Congress” with Milena Neshkova and Joseph Aamidor, forthcoming in the Policy Studies Journal.

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Dr. Justin Ross is an expert in state and local public finance topics. Most of his research examines how alternative tax instruments and their design affect the incentives and actions of government. Publications in the past year include “Fiscal Illusion from Property Reassessment? An Empirical Test of the Residual View” (with Wenli Yan) and “Fast Money? The Contribution of State Tax Amnesties to Public Revenue Systems” (with John L. Mikesell), both of which appear in the National Tax Journal. He also published a paper on the role of elected property assessors in affecting the regressivity of the property tax in Land Economics, and a comprehensive review of property tax amnesty programs in Public Finance and Management.

Dr. Todd V. Royer is an expert on water quality and his laboratory addresses questions related to aquatic biogeochemistry, particularly nitrogen, carbon, and phosphorus cycling in streams and rivers. He co-authored “Manipulation of the Dissolved Organic Carbon Pool in an Agricultural Stream: Responses in Microbial Community Structure, Denitrification, and Assimilatory Nitrogen Uptake” with Laura T. Johnson, Jael M. Edgerton, and Laura G. Leff, and “Pharmaceutical Compounds and Ecosystem Function: An Emerging Research Challenge for Aquatic Ecologists” with Emma J. Rosi-Marshall, both published in Ecosystems.

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Dr. Barry M. Rubin, chair of the Policy Analysis and Public Finance Faculty Group, is an expert in urban and regional economic development and impact analysis, state-level energy policy analysis, and strategic planning and management. He co-authored the working papers Re-examining the Economic Impact of Social Capital with Trent Engbers and Craig Aubuchon, and Evaluating the Impacts of State Energy Efficiency and Demand Side Management Policies, with Zachary Wendling, David Warren, Sanya Carley, and Kenneth Richards.

Dr. Adrian Sargeant, an expert on charitable giving, wrote the report Great Fundraising: What Makes Fundraising Truly Great for Clayton Burnett and Associates, a UKbased consultancy. His co-author was his wife, Jen Shang, also a SPEA professor. He is the Robert F. Hartsook Professor of Fundraising, Center on Philanthropy, Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis.

Dr. Yue (Jen) Shang is an expert in philanthropic psychology, donor behavior, fund development, and nonprofit marketing. She co-authored “Limits of the Effect of Social Information on the Voluntary Provision of Public Goods: Evidence from Field Experiments” with Rachel Croson, published in Economic Inquiry.

Dr. Joseph Shaw is an expert in environmental toxicology, environmental genomics, and comparative physiology.

Dr. Daniel Simon is an expert in firm strategy, competition, and customer satisfaction. He coauthored “Is Dual Agency in Real Estate a Cause for Concern?” with Jeffrey Kadiyali and Vrinda Prince for the Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics.

Dr. Thomas Simon is an expert in aquatic biology, ecological indicators, and the early life of fishes. He wrote the book Fundamentals of Applied Risk Assessment and authored or co-authored numerous reports and articles, including “Patterns in Stream Fish Assemblage Structure and Function Associated with a PCB-gradient,” forthcoming in The Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology.

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Dr. Kosali Simon, an expert in health economics and policy, coauthored “The Impact of Direct-toConsumer Television and Magazine Advertising on Antidepressant Use” (Journal of Health Economics), “Drug Withdrawals and the Utilization of Therapeutic Substitutes: The Case of Vioxx” (Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization), ”Measuring the Impact of Valuing Health Insurance on Levels and Trends in Inequality and How the Affordable Care Act of 2010 Could Affect Them” (Contemporary Economic Policy), “Declines in Employer Sponsored Coverage Between 2000 and 2008: Offers, Take-up, Premium Contributions, and Dependent Options” (Health Services Research), and “The Effect of State Workers’ Compensation Program Changes on the Use of Federal Social Security Disability Insurance” (Industrial Relations), and she was a section co-editor of the forthcoming Encyclopedia of Health Economics. She also co-authored forthcoming articles in the International Economic Review and American Economic Journal: Economic Policy.

IMPACT

“The report by Dr. Simon and her colleagues offers what is the most comprehensive analysis to date of this provision in the Affordable Care Act. It provides timely, new insights about the impacts of this provision, not only on health insurance coverage, but also on labor market outcomes for young adults, which will have the potential to shape important policy decisions at the federal and state level.” Genevieve Kenney Co-Director of Health Policy at the Urban Institute Washington, DC

Kosali Simon on The Affordable Care Act and Young Adults . . . The future of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) remains uncertain as Congress and states are still debating the merits of the law. In addition, some of its mandates divide the American people. That makes the research by Kosali Simon and her colleagues very timely. Their study is the first detailed and highly rigorous analysis of the ACA’s dependent-care provision. In “Effects of Federal Policy to Insure Young Adults: Evidence from the 2010 Affordable Care Act Dependent Coverage Mandate” (NBER Working Paper No. 18200), forthcoming in the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Simon, Yaa Akosa Antwi, and Asako Moriya found the dependent coverage mandate increased the percentage of 19- to 25-year-olds with health insurance from 66 to 70 percent. This translates to about 938,000 individuals moving from being uninsured to insured, and falls in the mid-range of the government’s preimplementation estimate of 190,000 to 1.64 million individuals. In other words, the ACA dependent coverage mandate erased about onethird of the uninsurance among targeted individuals. In addition to comparing dependent coverage for 19- to 25-year-olds before and after the law, the researchers examined control groups of slightly younger and slightly older children and considered changes in parental insurance rates to gauge the extent to which the increase was due to the law. “There’s been a great deal of debate regarding expansion of public spending to cover the uninsured,” Simon says. “In the case of young adult coverage, however, the policy has had a significant impact through an expansion of private coverage. Although prior reports have noted that young adults are more likely to be insured now than before the law, our study is the first to specifically follow dependent coverage through parental employer policies and evaluate its impact on their employment behavior.” The increase in dependent coverage came both from those who were otherwise uninsured and from those who were either insured by their own employer or had individually purchased policies. Even though there was greater take-up of coverage when the marginal cost of adding an individual was low, around 13 percent of eligible dependents remained uninsured despite the fact that their parents had employer-supplied policies. The study finds no evidence that the dependent coverage mandate affected the probability of employment, but the authors did find that the law was associated with a reduced prevalence of full-time work and a statistically significant reduction in hours of work. “Around the time when the mandate was introduced, there were many other things going on, including a recession and declining trend in employer-provided policies,” says Moriya, a SPEA postdoctoral fellow. “Our analytic approach enabled us to isolate the effect of the mandate from these other factors.” Other findings include: • The law had an immediate impact on both dependent coverage and own coverage before implementation started in September 2010. • Young men were twice as likely as young women to become insured after the law took effect. • Minorities were less likely than other young adults to add coverage under their parents’ plans, consistent with evidence of lower availability of employer health insurance among minority parents. • Young adults who were single were more likely to be added to parental coverage than those who were married, even though the law applies regardless of marital status.

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Nan Stager, director of undergraduate programs, is an expert in mediation, negotiation, alternative dispute resolution, and public input processes. She is a facilitator for Indiana Legal Services and a mediator for the Indiana Department of Education.

Rudy Professor Dr. Philip S. Stevens, chair of the Environmental Science Faculty Group, is an expert in characterization of the chemical mechanisms in the atmosphere that influence regional air quality and global climate change. He co-authored “Kinetic Isotope Effects and Rate Constants for the Gas-phase Reactions of Deuterated Toluenes with OH from 298-413 K” with D. Kim and Ronald Hites, published in the International Journal of Chemical Kinetics, and “Pump-probe Atom-centered Density Matrix Propagation Studies to Gauge Anharmonicity and Energy Repartitioning in Atmospheric Reactive Adducts: Case Study of the OH + Isoprene and OH + Butadiene Reaction Intermediates” with Scott M. Dietrick, Alexander B. Pacheco, and Srinivasan S. Lyengar, published in the Journal of Physical Chemistry.

Dr. Anh Tran is an expert in institutions and behavior of bureaucrats, entrepreneurs, and workers in developing countries. He co-authored “The Adverse Effects of Sunshine: A Field Experiment on Legislative Transparency in an Authoritarian Assembly” with Edmund Malesky and Paul Schuler, published in American Political Science Review, and “Rank as an Inherent Incentive: Evidence from a Field Experiment,” with Richard Zeckhauser, published in the Journal of Public Economics.

Dr. Henry K. Wakhungu is an expert in development of growth simulation models for sustainable management of indigenous community forests, experimental designs in tropical forestry research, and servicelearning research. He edited content for customized SPEA statistics textbooks. Wakhungu made presentations on online and classroom teaching to several IU groups. He directed the ACCT International Kenya 2012 Summer Internship Program for graduate students.

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Dr. Jeffrey R. White is director of Indiana University’s new Integrated Program in the Environment, and an expert on climate feedback effects on greenhouse gas emissions in arctic ecosystems.

Michael Wilkerson, an expert in arts administration and cultural policy, published “Using the Arts to Pay for the Arts: A Proposed New Funding Model” in the Journal of Arts Management, Law and Society. His brief article questioning the validity of endowments for small nonprofit organizations appeared in the electronic version of the Stanford Social Innovation Review.

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Dr. Lois R. Wise is an expert in public management, comparative public administration, employment policies and practices, and work motivation. She co-authored “How Can REACH Be Improved” in the forthcoming REACH Handbook with Adam Abelkop, Agnes Botos, and John D. Graham, and “Regulating Industrial Chemicals: Lessons for U.S. Lawmakers from the European Union’s REACH Program,” published in the Environmental Law Review.

Dr. C. Kurt Zorn is an expert in state and local finance, transportation safety, economic development, and gaming policy. He co-authored Analyzing Aviation Safety: Problems, Challenges, Opportunities with Clinton V. Oster and John S. Strong.

SPEA’s full-time faculty also includes: Dr. Osita Afoaku is an expert in U.S.-African/Third World relations, human rights, democratization, state reconstruction, and sustainable development in Africa.

Dr. Alexander Alexeev, a policy analysis expert, coauthored “The Normative Implications of Political DecisionMaking for BenefitCost Analysis” (Journal of BenefitCost Analysis).

Melissa Clark teaches courses in water resources and is the director of the Indiana Clean Lakes Program. She wrote a series of reports on lakes and watersheds for government agencies.

Brian DeLong teaches courses in political communication and is the coach of the Indiana University debate team.

Dr. Michael Edwards, an expert on underrepresented students in STEM disciplines, teaches courses in chemistry and environmental science.

Dr. Al Lyons teaches courses in nonprofit management. He is a nationally recognized trainer of development professionals and community leaders.

Antonette McCaster teaches courses in public sector and nonprofit accounting.

Dr. Sarah Mincey co-authored articles including “Zoning, Land Use, and Urban Tree Canopy Cover: The Importance of Scale” in Urban Forestry and Urban Greening.

Cheryl Hughes is an expert in human resources and teaches courses in employee relations and management.

Dr. Chaman Jain teaches courses in governmental and nonprofit financial management and accounting.

Dr. John Karaagac teaches courses in international relations, politics, and the presidency.

Frank Lewis is an expert in art history, contemporary theory, and criticism. He teaches courses in museum management.

Mark Norrell is a fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives and teaches courses in health care management.

Prof. Orville Powell teaches courses in urban policy and city management.

Prof. Dan Preston, deputy director for Global Initiatives and director of SPEA in Croatia, teaches public policy and international relations.

Dr. Susan Siena teaches courses in national and international affairs. She is the faculty advisor to IU’s Model United Nations team.

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Alumni Research, Writing, and Scholarship SPEA has about 30,000 alumni and many are engaged in thinking, writing, and policymaking about the issues they first confronted during their college years. Here are some of their recent, notable contributions: Chi Hung, a 2000 SPEA Ph.D. in public policy, was a co-author of “Sustainability of Asian-American Nonprofit Organizations” that appeared in Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly. Kenneth Luther, a 1998 SPEA Ph.D. in environmental science, authored “Mathematics Underground” in the journal Primus. Melvin Myers, a 1977 SPEA MPA, wrote “Inherently Safer Aquaculture Work” with two co-authors. Their article appeared in Professional Safety. Emily Nicholas, a 2011 SPEA MPA, was a co-author of the article “Evaluating the Scientific Support of Conservation Best Management Practices for Shale Gas Extraction in the Appalachian Basin.” It appeared in the journal Environmental Practice. N. LeRoy Poff, a 1983 SPEA MSES, and Scott Struck, SPEA MSES 2001 and 2003 Ph.D., contributed chapters to the book Toward a Sustainable Water Future. Susan Raines, a 2002 Ph.D. in public policy, authored the book Conflict Management for Managers: Resolving Workplace, Client, and Policy Disputes. Tavis Smiley, a 2003 SPEA graduate, wrote Fail Up: 20 Lessons on Building Success from Failure. Scott Smitson, a 2012 Ph.D. in public policy, was selected as a 2013–2014 Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) International Affairs fellow. Smitson is an assistant professor at the United States Military Academy.

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2012–2013 Ph.D. Graduates Dr. Daniel B. Abrams

Dr. Cheol Liu

Dr. Gwendolyn B. Arnold, Assistant Professor, University of California, Davis

Dr. Le Anh Nguyen Long

Dr. Rene Aubourg, Assistant Professor in Public Affairs, American University Dr. Galia Benitez, James Madison College, Michigan State University Dr. Neal Buckwalter, Assistant Professor, Grand Valley State University Dr. Anirban Chakraborty Dr. Girte L. Davis Dr. Shane Day, Lecturer, Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver Dr. Natalia Ermasova, Assistant Professor, Governors State University

Dr. John M. Marton, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, LUMCON (Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium) Dr. Sarah Mincey, Visiting Lecturer, Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs Dr. Temirlan (Tima) Moldogaziev, Assistant Professor, University of South Carolina Dr. Monica Paulson-Priebe, Teaching Faculty, Portland State University Dr. Mikaela Schmitt-Harsh, Postdoctoral Fellow, Carleton College Dr. Scott Smitson, Teaching at West Point Dr. Richard G. Thurau, Geospatial Analyst, Plan-It-Geo Dr. Sergio Villamayor-Tomas

Dr. Forrest D. Fleischman, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Dartmouth College Dr. Gustavo Garcia-Lopez, Public Policy Specialist, Programa del Estuario de la Bahía de San Juan Dr. Tatyana Guzman, Maxine Goodman Levine College of Urban Affairs, Cleveland State University Dr. Alexsei Kolpakov, Assistant Professor, Ohio University Dr. Olha Krupa, University of Washington

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