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DAVID BREDENKAMP, Assistant Professor
DAVID BREDENKAMP
Assistant Professor
(540) 231-7895
bredenkamp@vt.edu
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Research areas:
Public Management
Organizational Behavior
Public Service
Civil Service Employee Attitudes
Human Resources
PROFESSIONAL BIO
David M. Bredenkamp obtained his Ph.D. in Public Affairs, with fields of study in public management and policy analysis, from Indiana University’s School of Public and Environmental Affairs (SPEA) in Bloomington. His research interests include public management, organizational behavior, public service, and human resources. His current work investigates the relationships between government contracting decisions and civil servant employee attitudes on public service. His Master of Public Affairs degree, also from IU, focused on public management and nonprofit management. David’s teaching has focused on classes pertaining to management in public, nonprofit, and private settings with specific attention to organizational behavior and human resources topics. Past service experience includes over three years on the advisory board of the LGBTQ+ Culture Center at IU and volunteering for Bloomington’s regional National Public Radio affiliate, WFIU. Prior to his seven years of sales and management experience in the private sector, he obtained his undergraduate degree from the IU Jacobs School of Music where he studied voice and theater.
EDUCATION
PhD., Public Affairs, Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs, 2018
Master of Public Affairs, Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs, 2012
B.S., Voice, Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, 2002
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BRIAN COOK, Professor Emeritus
BRIAN COOK
Professor Emeritus
(703) 706-8111
brml27@vt.edu
Research areas:
Public administration and constitutionalism
Public administration and American political development
Politics of public policy design and implementation
Environmental policy
PROFESSIONAL BIO
Brian J. Cook (MA and PhD in Government and Politics, University of Maryland) is Professor, Center for Public Administration and Policy, School of Public and International Affairs, Virginia Tech. He is editor in chief of the scholarly journal Administration & Society, published by Sage. He is co-editor, with Doug Morgan, of New Public Governance: A Regime-Centered Perspective (2014), and he recently published the second edition of Bureaucracy and Self-Government: Reconsidering the Role of Public Administration in American Politics (2014). Dr. Cook’s teaching and scholarly interests center on public administration and constitutionalism, public administration and American political development, and the politics of public policy design and implementation, especially in the area of environmental policy. In addition to his teaching and research, he has served as a practicing policy analyst and a research consultant providing research design and data analysis services to federal agencies, local governments, and not-for-profit organizations. He also serves as a Decision Desk Analyst for ABC News, coordinating a team of analysts that project the outcomes of elections for the U.S. House of Representatives on election night.
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
2014 Senior Visiting Scholar, Mark O. Hatfield School of Government, Portland State University
2010-2014 Professor & Chair, Center for Public Administration and Policy, Virginia Tech
2008-2010 Professor, Center for Public Administration and Policy, Virginia Tech
1999-2008 Professor, Department of Government and International Relations, Clark University
1991-1999 Associate Professor, Department of Government, Clark University
1984-1990 Assistant Professor, Department of Government, Clark University
1982-1984 Research Assistant and Instructor, Department of Government and Politics, University of Maryland, College Park
ADMINISTRATIVE & PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2010-2014 Chair, Center for Public Administration & Policy, School of Public & International Affairs, Virginia Tech
2006-2008 Director, Master of Public Administration Program, College of Profession and Continuing Education, Clark University
1997-1998 Policy Advisor, Office of Policy Analysis and Review, Office of Air and Radiation, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
1996-1998 Analyst, State Decision Desk, Election Night Decision Desk, ABC News
1990-1991 Senior Research Associate, Gordon Public Policy Center, Brandeis University
1982-1984 Research Consultant, National Institute for the Conservation of Cultural Property, National Survey of the Conservation Needs of Historic Buildings
1979-1983 Director, Research and Policy Development, The American Institute of Architects
SPONSORED RESEARCH
FOUNDATION GRANTS
National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Seminar on “Constitutional Democracy,” Princeton University, June 17-July 26, 1996
National Science Foundation, Doctoral Dissertation Research Grant, 1983-84
UNIVERSITY GRANTS
Global Issues Research Support Program, Institute for Society, Culture, and Environment, Virginia Tech (with Dawn Stoneking, L. Maria Ingram, and Robert Shaffer), 2015.
Summer Scholars Grant, Institute for Society, Culture, and Environment, Virginia Tech (with Michael Jones), 2012.
Instructional Development Grant, Center for Teaching and Learning, Clark University (with Kristen Williams), 2006.
Harrington Public Affairs Fund, Environmental Justice Research, Clark University, 2002.
Faculty Development Fund, Clark University, 1989.
Graduate School Dissertation Research Fund, University of Maryland, 1984.
GOVERNMENT-SPONSORED RESEARCH
Office of Air and Radiation, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Analytical Support Services Contract to Industrial Economics, Inc., March 2004-September 2008; leader of Delos Associates (Marsh Institute) subcontract team.
Office of Policy Analysis and Review, Office of Air and Radiation, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Intermittent Consultancy, 1998 to 2006.
Office of Policy Analysis and Review, Office of Air and Radiation, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, IPA Grant, 1997-98.
Nevada Nuclear Waste Projects Office Contracts (through Delos Associates), 1988-92.
EDUCATION
Ph.D., University of Maryland, College Park, 1984
M.A., University of Maryland, College Park, 1982
B.A., magna cum laude, Cleveland State University, 1977
BOOKS
Bureaucracy and Self-Government: Reconsidering the Role of Public Administration in American Politics, 2nd ed. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014.
New Public Governance: A Regime-Centered Perspective, Douglas Morgan and Brian J. Cook, eds. New York: Taylor & Francis, 2014.
Democracy and Administration: Woodrow Wilson’s Ideas and the Challenges of Public Management. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.
Bureaucracy and Self-Government: Reconsidering the Role of Public Administration in American Politics. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.
Bureaucratic Politics and Regulatory Reform: The EPA and Emissions Trading. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1988.
CHAPTERS
“Public Administration and Constitutional Theory: Reflections on ‘The Organ of Experience.'” In The Constitutional School of American Public Administration, Stephanie Newbold and David H. Rosenbloom, eds. New York: Routledge, 2017.
“Wilson, Woodrow.” In Encyclopedia of Public Administration and Public Policy, Third Edition. Melvin J. Dubnick and Domomic Bearfield, eds. New York: Taylor & Francis, 2015.
“Regime Leadership for Public Servants.” In New Public Governance: A Regime Perspective. Douglas Morgan and Brian J. Cook, eds. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2014.
“Wilsonian Governance at Home and Abroad: A Comparative Analysis.” In Wilsonianism and Other Visions of Foreign Policy. Anthony J. Eksterowicz and Glenn P. Hastedt, eds. Hauppauge, NY: NOVA Publishers, 2011, pp. 33-50.
ARTICLES
“Curing the Mischiefs of Faction in the American Administrative State.” American Review of Public Administration, Vol. 46, No. 1 (2016), 3-27.
“Wilsonian Governance at Home and Abroad: A Comparative Analysis.” White House Studies, vol. 10, No. 4 (2010): 325-341.
“Arenas of Power in Climate Change Policy Making.” Policy Studies Journal, Vol. 38, No. 3 (2010): 465-486.
“The Organ of Experience: A Defense of the Primacy of Public Administrators in the Design and Reform of Policy and Law.” Administration & Society, vol. 40, no. 3 (May 2010): 263-286.
“Woodrow Wilson’s Ideas about Local Government Reform: A Regime Perspective on the New Push for Citizen Engagement in Public Administration.” Administration & Society, vol. 39, no. 2 (April 2007): 294-314.
“Wilson’s Failure: Roots of Contention About the Meaning of a Science of Politics” (with Peter N. Ubertaccio). American Political Science Review, vol. 100, no. 4 (November 2006): 573-578.
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STEPHANIE DAVIS, Assistant Professor of Practice
STEPHANIE DAVIS
Assistant Professor of Practice
(540) 231-7302
sddavis@vt.edu
Research Areas:
Organizational theory
Collaboration theory
Local Government
PROFESSIONAL BIO
Stephanie Dean Davis is the Director of the Graduate Certificate in Local Government Management and the Graduate Certificate in Public and Nonprofit Financial Management with the Center for Public Administration and Policy at Virginia Tech. Prior to her position with Virginia Tech, she served as Vice President for Springsted, Inc. and worked with local governments in Virginia and North Carolina. In addition, Ms. Davis has served in local government for over 18 years as the Finance Director for Powhatan, VA, and Budget and Management Analyst for Chesterfield, VA. Ms. Davis has a Bachelors of Science degree in Economics from Virginia Tech, a Masters of public administration from Virginia Commonwealth University and a PhD in Public Policy and Administration from Virginia Commonwealth University. Her research interests include organizational theory and collaboration theory in the context of local government.
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SUZETTE DENSLOW, Adjunct Professor
SUZETTE DENSLOW
Adjunct Professor
(804) 225-4803
sd@virginia.gov
Major Areas of Specialization:
Public administration
Legislative relations
Public budget and finance
Education:
B.S. Urban Studies, Virginia Commonwealth University
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JOHN DICKEY, Professor Emeritus
POSITION & CONTACT INFO
JOHN DICKEY
Professor Emeritus
(540) 552-6878
jdickey@vt.edu
Major Areas of Specialization:
“Genes” of Public Administration
Computer Support Systems
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Civil Engineering (Transportation), Northwestern University
M.S., Civil Engineering (Transportation), Northwestern University
B.S., Civil Engineering, Lehigh University
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LARKIN DUDLEY, Professor Emerita
POSITION & CONTACT INFO
LARKIN DUDLEY
Professor Emerita
(540) 231-5133
dudleyl@vt.edu
Major Areas of Specialization:
“Genes” of Public Administration
Computer Support Systems
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Public Administration, Virginia Tech
M.A., University of Georgia
B.A., University of Georgia
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MATT DULL, Associate Professor
POSITION & CONTACT INFO
MATT DULL
Associate Professor
(202) 821-3807
mdull@vt.edu
Major Areas of Specialization:
Administrative politics and American political institutions
Management reform
Public policy analysis
Professional expertise
Measurement
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
ADMINISTRATIVE & PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
SPONSORED RESEARCH
Wernstedt, Kris, Matt Dull, and Patrick Roberts (All Principal Investigators). Disaster Management, Climate Signals, and the Use of Science in Public Policy. Submitted for Funding to Institute for Society, Culture, and the Environment (Virginia Tech). $16,000 Awarded in March 2008.
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Political Science, University of Wisconsin–Madison, 2006
M.A., Political Science, University of Wisconsin–Madison, 2001
BB.A., Government and International Relations, University of Notre Dame, 1997
ARTICLES
Results-Model Reform Leadership: Questions of Credible Commitment,” Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 19(2): 255-284. 2009.
“Land Recycling, Community Revitalization, and Distributive Politics: An Analysis of EPA Brownfields Program Support,” with K. Wernstedt, Policy Studies Journal (Forthcoming).
“Continuity, Competence, and the Succession of Senate-confirmed Agency Appointees, 1989-2009,” with P. Roberts, Presidential Studies Quarterly (Forthcoming).
“Divided We Quarrel: The Changing Politics of Congressional Investigations,” with David C.W. Parker, Legislative Studies Quarterly (forthcoming 2009).
“Shifting Politics, Enduring Tensions, and the Tenure of Senate‐Confirmed Agency Appointees,” Presidential Studies Quarterly (forthcoming 2009).
“Results-Model Reform and Leadership: Questions of Credible Commitment,” Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, doi:10.1093/jopart/mum043. 2008.
“Why PART? The Institutional Politics of Presidential Budget Reform,” Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 16(2): 187-215. 2006.
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ADRIENNE EDISIS, Assistant Professor
POSITION & CONTACT INFO
ADRIENNE EDISIS
Assistant Professor
202-276-4315
aedisis@vt.edu
AWARDS
2016 Department of Labor Scholar – one year grant award to carry out research relevant to Department of Labor policy
George Washington University Public Policy Fellow –5 year scholarship and fellowship
ADMINISTRATIVE & PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Director, Governing in the Global Age, George Washington University
Conducted research and produced educational programs for legislators, secretaries of state, mayors, and other senior officials from over 40 states.
Director, International Business Council, Greater Washington Board of Trade
Founded an international business center and ran a leadership council.
Latin America and the Caribbean III Department, Private Sector, Development and Public Sector Management Division, World Bank
Advised on policy reforms, co-authored reports, and evaluated loans to support export, private sector, and microenterprise development.
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Public Policy and Public Administration, George Washington University
M.P.P, Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government
B.A., Anthropology and Economics, Summa cum Laude, Amherst College, Phi Beta Kappa
BOOKS
Responding to Manufacturing Job Loss: What Can Economic Development Policy Do? The Brookings Institution. June 2011. Co-authored with P. Atkins, H.Wolman, et al.
Global Activities by U.S. States: Findings of a Survey of State Government International Affairs. U.S. Agency for International Development. July 2008.
ARTICLES
Policy and Job Quality: State Unemployment Insurance Effects on Temporary Help Services. Employment, Journal of Labor Research, (revise and resubmit).
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JEFFREY GLICK, Professor of Practice
POSITION & CONTACT INFO
JEFFREY GLICK
Adjunct Professor
(301) 547-1735
jaglick@vt.edu
Dr. Glick works in the Office of Emergency Communications, Cybersecurity and Communications, DHS. He directs communication technology experts located across the nation developing and strengthening communications at the federal, state, local, tribal and territorial governmental levels, and with non-governmental organizations and the private sector. These teams also foster intergovernmental partnerships and collaboration concerning emergency communications resiliency, preparedness, response and recovery. Prior to working for Cybersecurity and Communications, Dr. Glick worked at FEMA for 20 years in plans and operations, and directly responded to disasters, technological and terrorism events.
EDUCATION
PhD in Engineering Management, George Washington University, Washington DC
MA in National Resource Strategy, National Defense University, Washington DC
MA in School of Social Service Administration, University of Chicago
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TOM HICKOK, Adjunct Professor
POSITION & CONTACT INFO
TOM HICKOK
Adjunct Professor
(703) 601-4729 ext 153
tomtennis3@yahoo.com
Major Areas of Specialization:
Performance management
Organizational development
Public management
EDUCATION
D.P.A., University of Southern California
M.B.A., California State University, Northridge
B.A., Middlebury College
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KAREN HULT, Professor
POSITION & CONTACT INFO
KAREN HULT
Professor
(540) 231-5351
khult@vt.edu
Major Areas of Specialization:
Organizational theory
U.S. national institutions (especially the presidency, executive branch, and the courts)
State politics
Social science methodologies
PROFESSIONAL BIO
Karen M. Hult (B.A., Creighton University; Ph.D., University of Minnesota) is a core CPAP faculty member and professor and chair of the Department of Political Science; she served as CPAP chair in 2014-16. Her primary research interests are the U.S. executive, subnational policy and political dynamics, organization theory and institutional design, and social science research design. She is the author or co-author of four books (Agency Merger and Bureaucratic Redesign; Governing Public Organizations; Empowering the White House: Governance under Nixon, Ford and Carter; and Governing the White House: From Hoover through LBJ); her articles have appeared in numerous scholarly journals and edited volumes. Hult is on the board of the White House Transition Project, for which she has been a contributing scholar since 2000. Currently, she serves on the editorial boards of Administration & Society, Congress and the Presidency, Presidential Studies Quarterly, and Rhetoric & Public Affairs. She is finishing a co-authored volume on White House chiefs of staff from Richard Nixon to Donald Trump.
Hult teaches courses in the U.S. presidency and executive branch, state and local government, public policy, organization theory, and social science methodologies. Before coming to Virginia Tech in August 1990, she taught at Pomona College and the Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, California. She also has worked as a staffer in the U.S. House of Representatives and as a policy analyst at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
Department of Political Science: Professor, May 1998-present
Department of Political Science: Associate Professor with tenure, August 1990-May 1998
Center for Public Administration and Policy (Core Faculty Member): Professor, May 1998-present
Center for Public Administration and Policy: Associate Professor, August 1994-May 1998
School of Public and International Affairs (Affiliated Faculty): 2004 – present
Pomona College
Department of Government, Associate Professor with tenure, January-July 1990
Department of Government, Assistant Professor, January 1984-1989
Program in Public Policy Analysis, Director, 1988-90
Program in Public Policy Analysis, Acting Director, 1984-85, 1986-87
Claremont Graduate School
Graduate Faculty: Center for Politics and Policy, 1986-90
Department of Psychology, 1989-90
ADMINISTRATIVE & PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Consultant, Orange County Grand Jury, Long Range Planning Committee, January-March 1987.
Analyst, Office of Adolescent Pregnancy Programs, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, May-September 1982.
Legislative intern (foreign affairs), Representative Berkley Bedell, U.S. House of Representatives, May-September 1979.
SPONSORED RESEARCH
Faculty research grant, College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences, Virginia Tech, 2006-07.
“Workways of Governance,” Governance Institute, 2000-2004 (funded by Pew Charitable Trusts)
American Political Science Association, research grant, 1997-98, 1987-88
Gerald R. Ford Foundation, research grant, 1997
Travel to collections grant, College of Arts and Sciences, Virginia Tech, 1995-96
Supplemental Grant, Virginia Tech, Spring 1993
Avery Fellow, Claremont Graduate School, 1989-90
American Association of University Women, American Fellowship, 1987-88
National Endowment for the Humanities, Travel to Collections Grant, 1987
Co-recipient, Mellon Foundation Fresh Combinations Grant, to aid in the design of the course “Computers in the Humanities,” Summer l986
Haynes Foundation Summer Fellowship, 1984
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Political Science, University of Minnesota, 1984
Graduate work in government, Harvard University, 1978-79
B.A. summa cum laude, Creighton University, 1978
BOOKS
Empowering the White House: Governance under Nixon, Ford, and Carter (with Charles E. Walcott), Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2004. Named “An Outstanding Academic Title, 2004,” Choice; winner Albert L. Sturm Award for Excellence in Faculty Research, Phi Beta Kappa, Mu of Virginia, 2008.
Governing the White House: From Hoover through LBJ (with Charles Walcott), Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1995. Winner of Richard E. Neustadt Award for Best Book on the U.S. Presidency published in 1995, American Political Science Association Presidency Research Group, August 1996; named “An Outstanding Academic Book, 1996,” Choice.
Governing Public Organizations: Politics, Structures, and Institutional Design (with Charles Walcott), Pacific Grove, Calif.: Brooks/Cole, 1990.
Agency Merger and Bureaucratic Redesign, Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1987.
CHAPTERS
“Presidential Decision Making: The Impact of Organization and Style” (with Charles Walcott), invited essay for Oxford Handbook of the American Presidency, edited by George C. Edwards III, Oxford University Press, forthcoming.
“Women as Executive Leaders,” in Lori Cox Han and Caroline Heldman, editors, Rethinking Madam President: Is America Really Ready for a Woman in the White House? (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2007), pp. 147-68.
“The Bush White House in Comparative perspective,” in Fred I. Greenstein, editor, The George W. Bush Presidency: An Early Assessment (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003), pp. 51-77.
“The Bush Staff and Cabinet System” (with Charles Walcott), in Gary L. Gregg II and Mark J. Rozell, editors, Considering the Bush Presidency (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004), pp. 52-68. [Abridged version of essay in Perspectives on Political Science, 32 (Summer 2003): 150-55.]
“Environmental Perspectives on Public Institutions,” solicited entry in Handbook of Public Administration, edited by Guy Peters and Jon Pierre (London: Sage Publications, 2003), pp. 149-59.
“The President’s Advisory System: Its Capacity for Governance” (with Kathryn Dunn Tenpas), in Roger H. Davidson, editor, Workways of Governance: Monitoring Our Government’s Health (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2003), pp. 65-89.
“Advising the President,” solicited entry in A Historical Guide to the U.S. Government, edited by George T. Kurian (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998), pp. 5-9.
“Hubert H. Humphrey, Jr.,” solicited entry in The Vice Presidents: A Biographical Directory, edited by L. Edward Purcell (Facts on File, 1998), pp. 341-49.
“Advising the President,” solicited and peer-reviewed chapter in Researching the Presidency: Vital Questions and New Approaches, edited by George C. Edwards III, John H. Kessel, and Bert A. Rockman (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1993), pp. 111-59.
“Gubernatorial Transition in Minnesota, 1982-83″ (with Virginia Gray), solicited and peer reviewed chapter in Gubernatorial Transitions, edited by Thad Beyle (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1985).
Articles
“George Akerson’s Legacy: Continuity and Change in White House Pres Operations” (with Charles Walcott), Presidential Studies Quarterly, forthcoming December 2008.
“Local Community Groups and the Internet” (with B. Joon Kim and Andrea Kavanaugh), International Journal of Technology, Knowledge, & Society, 2007.
“White House Structure and Decision Making: Elaborating the Standard Model,” (with Charles E. Walcott), Presidential Studies Quarterly, 35 (June 2005): 303-18.
“Right Turn?: Political Ideology in the Higher Civil Service, 1987-1994″ (with Robert Maranto), American Review of Public Administration, 34 (June 2004): 199-222.
“Office of White House Counsel” (with MaryAnne Borrelli and Nancy Kassop), Presidential Studies Quarterly, 31 (December 2001): 561-84. [Revised version in The White House World: Transitions, Organization, and Office Operations, edited by Martha Joynt Kumar and Terry Sullivan, College Station, TX: Texas A & M University Press, 2003, pp. 193-223.]
“The Office of Staff Secretary” (with Kathryn Dunn Tenpas), Presidential Studies Quarterly, 31 (June 2001): 262-280. [Revised version in The White House World: Transitions, Organization, and Office Operations, edited by Martha Joynt Kumar and Terry Sullivan, College Station, TX: Texas A & M University Press, 2003, pp. 140-164.]
“Separating Rhetoric from Policy: Speechwriting under Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter” (with Charles Walcott), White House Studies, 1 (no. 4, 2001): 463-78. [Reprinted in Contemporary Presidential Studies: A Reader, edited by Robert P. Watson, Nova Science Publishing/History Books, 2002.]
“Strengthening Presidential Decision Making Capacity,” Presidential Studies Quarterly, 30 (March 2000): 27-46.
“Qualitative Research and the Study of the Presidency” (with Charles Walcott and Thomas J. Weko), Congress and the Presidency, 26 (Fall 1999): 133-52.
“White House Staff Size: Explanations and Implications” (with Charles Walcott), Presidential Studies Quarterly, 29 (September 1999): 638-56.
“Policy Makers and Wordsmiths: Writing for the President under Johnson and Nixon” (with Charles Walcott), Polity 30 (Spring 1998): 465-87.
“Feminist Organization Theory and Government Organizations: The Promise of Diverse Structural Forms,” Public Productivity and Management Review 19 (December 1995): 128-42.
“White House Organization as a Problem of Governance: The Eisenhower System” (with Charles Walcott), Presidential Studies Quarterly 24 (Spring 1994): 327-40.
“Management Science and the Great Engineer: Governing the White House During the Hoover Administration” (with Charles Walcott), Presidential Studies Quarterly 20 (Summer 1990): 557-79.
“Organizational Design as Public Policy” (with Charles Walcott), Policy Studies Journal 17 (Spring 1989): 469-94. [Winner of Theodore Lowi Award, Policy Studies Organization, 1990 for best article in 1989 Policy Studies Journal]
“Governing in Bureaucracies: The Case of Parental Notification,” Administration and Society 20 (November 1988): 313-334.
“Organizing the White House: Structure, Environment and Organizational Governance” (with Charles Walcott), American Journal of Political Science 31 (February 1987): 109-25.
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LAURA JENSEN, Associate Professor
POSITION & CONTACT INFO
LAURA S. JENSEN
Associate Professor
(540) 231-7302
jensen7@vt.edu
Research areas:
Development of the American welfare state and welfare policy
Social construction of citizens and groups of citizens in public policy
Government accountability
Political development
Government contracting
Conditions attached to grants and entitlement programs
PROFESSIONAL BIO
Although Laura Jensen likes jigsaws, she has always been obsessed with more complex puzzles. How are things put together? What if they’re put together one way instead of another? How and why might we choose one way versus others, and what consequences would result if we did?
In her first career as a violinist and composer, Laura puzzled over music: how to perform, or craft, groups of notes to create sounds evoking particular thoughts, feelings, atmospheres, even worlds. The abilities and intentions of performers and composers are critical dimensions of this, but musical puzzles also involve other people, where and how they listen, and what they contribute as audiences.
Though her passion for music has never waned, Laura became fascinated with asking the same kinds of questions in a different context after she was elected to local government office. Realizing that the decisions she was required to make directly and often powerfully affected her constituents’ everyday lives, her attention turned to questions about how public officials compose communities and societies through the public policies they make and implement.
Hence the focus of Laura’s current scholarly career: governance. In the simplest sense, the study of governance involves asking why, how, and with what consequences governments are organized and managed. Yet, the governance of nations or communities is more than the operations of the agents, agencies, rules, processes, and norms that in combination establish the means and ends of governmental activity. More broadly understood, governance involves the interaction of the official institutions and practices of government with other social structures, such as race, gender, and religion, that give meaning to everyday thought and action around the globe.
Laura is known nationally and internationally for her scholarship assaying the development of the American welfare state and welfare policy, particularly her book Patriots, Settlers, and the Origins of American Social Policy (Cambridge University Press, 2003), which situates the first American entitlement programs in the period of the nation’s founding. She is also known for her work on the social construction of citizens and groups of citizens in public policy; government accountability; the state; political development; government contracting; and conditions attached to grants and entitlement programs.
Laura’s thinking about both music and public policy has been greatly influenced by Edward Cone, who required the students in his Princeton graduate seminar on musical analysis to read the same Sherlock Holmes story four times over the course of a week. This exercise teaches a profound lesson. Laura invites those reading this page to guess what it is.
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
2006-present Associate Professor, Center for Public Administration and Policy, School of Public and International Affairs, Virginia Tech
2003-2006 Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts, Department of Political Science, Amherst, MA. Faculty Associate, Center for Public Policy and Administration
1996-2003 Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts, Department of Political Science, Amherst, MA. Faculty Associate, Center for Public Policy and Administration
1995-1996 Senior Research Fellow and Visiting Lecturer, Wesleyan University, Center for the Humanities and Department of Government, Middletown, CT
1995 Instructor and Research Assistant, University of Connecticut, Department of Political Science, Storrs, CT
1991-1995 Instructor and Research Assistant, University of Connecticut, Department of Political Science, Storrs, CT
1982 Visiting Lecturer, Yale University, Department of Music, New Haven, CT. Resident Director, Yale Summer Program
1979-1981 Assistant in Instruction, Princeton University, Department of Music, Princeton, NJ
ADMINISTRATIVE & PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
CPAP Chair 2007-2010, 2016-present.
1989-1995 Selectman, Town of Clinton, CT. Elected legislative/executive position on chief board responsible for policies/programs for municipality pop. 13,350.
1985-1995 Member, Town of Clinton, CT Planning and Zoning Commission. Elected regulatory/legislative position. Commission Vice-Chair 1987-89, Chair 1989.
SPONSORED RESEARCH
“Investigating the Factors Contributing to the Under diagnosis of Breast Cancer in Rural Southwest Virginia.” Virginia Tech Institute for Society, Culture, and the Environment grant, 2011. $19,980.
“Exploring Risk and Perception of Risk in the Diagnosis of Breast Cancer in Rural Southwest Virginia.” Virginia Department of Health, Office of Minority Health and Public Health Policy grant, 2010. $15,390.
“Congress, the Petitions of the People, and Representation in the Early American Nation.” 2005 Congressional Research Award, Dirksen Congressional Center. $3,500.
“Congress, the Petitions of the People, and Representation in the Early American Nation.” Faculty research grant, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of Massachusetts, 2005-2006. $2,777.
“Faith-Based Social Service Provision Under Charitable Choice: A Study of Implementation in Three States” (Indiana, North Carolina, and Massachusetts), Ford Foundation three-year grant, 2000-2003. $1,500,000. Sheila Suess Kennedy, Principal Investigator, School for Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University, Indianapolis; Laura S. Jensen, Lead Researcher, Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
EDUCATION
Ph.D. University of Connecticut, Political Science, 1996
M.P.A. University of Connecticut, 1991 (with distinction: concentration, public policy)
M.F.A. Princeton University, Music Composition, 1979
B.A. Wellesley College, Music, 1977
BOOKS
Laura Jensen, Patriots, Settlers, and the Origins of American Social Policy. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2003. 244 pp.
CHAPTERS
“Social Provision before the Twentieth Century,” in Daniel Béland, Christopher Howard, and Kimberly Morgan, eds., The Oxford Handbook of U.S. Social Policy (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2014, pp. 23-40). Online and print versions.
Kennedy, S. S., and L. Jensen. 2006. “Outsourcing Patriotism: Privatization, Sovereignty and War,” pp. 375-392 in D. J. Eaton (ed.), The End of Sovereignty? A Transatlantic Perspective. Hamburg, Germany: LIT Verlag.
“Public Ethics, Legal Accountability, and the New Governance,” in H. George Frederickson and Richard K. Ghere, eds., Ethics in Public Management (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2005), pp. 220-40.
“Constructing and Entitling America’s Original Veterans,” in Anne L. Schneider and Helen M. Ingram, eds., Deserving and Entitled: Social Constructions and Public Policy (Albany: State University of New York, 2005), pp. 35-62.
“Charitable Choice,” in Gwendolyn Mink and Alice O’Connor, eds., Poverty in the United States: An Encyclopedia of History, Politics, and Policy (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO Publishers, 2004).
“Veterans’ Benefits,” in John P. Resch, ed., Americans at War: Society, Culture, and the Homefront (New York: Macmillan, 2004).
“Interim Report on the Implementation of Charitable Choice in Massachusetts,” in Sheila Suess Kennedy and Wolfgang Bielefeld, Charitable Choice: First Results from Three States (Indianapolis: Center for Urban Policy and the Environment, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, 2003), pp. 9-21.
ARTICLES
“The Twentieth-Century Administrative State and Networked Governance.” Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, forthcoming. Published online 08 December 2016. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093.jopart/muwo65.
“Is Public Management Neglecting the State?” (with Brint Milward, Alasdair Roberts, Mauricio I. Dussauge-Laguna, Veronica Junjan, René Torenvlied, Arjen Boin, H.K. Colebatch, Donald Kettl, and Robert Durant). Governance 29 (3): 331-34. First published online 21 Mar 2016. DOI: 10.1111/gove.12201.
“Fiduciary Responsibilities to Whom? Federal Grant Recipients’ Perceptions of the Public Interest” (with Emily Brock and Meredith Hundley). Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting, and Financial Management 28 (1) (2016): 72-102.
“Politics, History, and the State of the State: Introduction,” Polity 40 (July 2008): 321-25.
“Government, the State, and Governance,” Polity 40 (July 2008): 379-85.
“Dubious Sovereignty: Federal Conditions of Aid and the No Child Left Behind Act” (with Kathryn A. McDermott), Peabody Journal of Education 80 (2005): 39-56.
“Outsourcing Patriotism: Privatization Goes to War” (with Sheila Suess Kennedy), PATimes 27 (September 2004): 11.
“Federalism, Individual Rights, and the Conditional Spending Conundrum,” Polity 33 (2) (Winter 2000): 259-282.
“Federal Authority vs. State Autonomy: The Supreme Court’s Role Revisited,” Public Administration Review 59 (March/April 1999): 97-99.
“Reinventing Government Accountability: Public Functions, Privatization, and the Meaning of‘State’ Action” (with R. S. Gilmour), Public Administration Review 58 (May/June 1998): 247-258.
“The Early American Origins of Entitlements,” Studies in American Political Development 10 (Fall 1996): 360-404.
“Subsidies, Strings, and the Courts: Judicial Action and Conditional Federal Spending,” The Review of Politics 55 (1993): 491-509.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
“Risk and Perceptions of Risk in the Diagnosis of Breast Cancer in Rural Southwest Virginia.” Report to the Virginia Department of Health, Office of Minority Health and Health Equity. January 2010. 83 pages.
“Adversity and the Ironies of Assistance,” Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History 42 (4) (2009): 169-71.
“Government Matters: Welfare Reform in Wisconsin by Lawrence M. Mead,” Perspectives on Politics 3 (2005): 907-909.
“Public Pensions: Gender and Civic Service in the States, 1850-1937 by Susan M. Sterett,” Law and History Review 23 (2005): 477-79.
“Charitable Choice,” in Gwendolyn Mink and Alice O’Connor, eds., Poverty in the United States: An Encyclopedia of History, Politics, and Policy (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO Publishers, 2004).
“Veterans’ Benefits,” in John P. Resch, ed., Americans at War: Society, Culture, and the Homefront (New York: Macmillan, 2004).
“Final Report on the Implementation of Charitable Choice in Massachusetts,” in “Faith-Based Social Service Provision Under Charitable Choice: A Study of Implementation in Three States,” Final Report to the Ford Foundation, December 2003.
“Interim Report on the Implementation of Charitable Choice in Massachusetts,”
in Sheila Suess Kennedy and Wolfgang Bielefeld, Charitable Choice: First Results from Three States (Indianapolis: Center for Urban Policy and the Environment, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, 2003), pp. 9-21.
“The Rhetorical Dimensions of Charitable Choice: Causal Stories, Problem Definition, and Policy Outcomes,”
2002. Charitable Choice Project Paper, Center for Urban Policy and the Environment, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis.
“The Implementation of Charitable Choice in Massachusetts,” in “Faith-Based Social Service Provision Under Charitable Choice: A Study of Implementation in Three States,” Preliminary Report to the Ford Foundation, September 2002.
“Not by Bureaucracy Alone: Charitable Choice and the Reinvention of Church As State,”
2001. Charitable Choice Project Working Paper, Center for Urban Policy and the Environment, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis.
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LEISHA LARIVIERE, Associate Director SPIA Richmond and Adjunct Faculty
POSITION & CONTACT INFO
LEISHA LARIVIERE
Associate Director SPIA Richmond and Adjunct Faculty
(804) 556-1703
llariviere@vt.edu
Research Areas:
Policy and practice in government and NGO professional development
Organizational theory and context
Facilitative and participative leadership
PROFESSIONAL BIO
Leisha LaRiviere is Associate Director of SPIA for the Virginia Tech Richmond campus. She leads School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA) academic initiatives emphasizing community-based research, sponsored programs, and government leadership and management development initiatives. Leisha is an adjunct professor in the Center for Public Administration & Policy (CPAP), where her teaching foci include personnel-related processes and policies, public management behavioral skills, and graduate student capstone projects. Working cross-functionally with faculty in Blacksburg, the National Capital Region (Alexandria and Arlington), and Richmond, Leisha develops public partnerships, strategic research opportunities, and special lecture series.
Leisha is the Director of the Virginia Management Fellows (VMF) program, an innovative training partnership with SPIA and the Commonwealth of Virginia. Leisha also leads the Virginia Public Sector Leader (VPSL) program, a theory-to-practice management and leadership program designed for state agencies and NGOs. Leisha directs the Master of Public Administration (MPA) Mentoring Program for CPAP Richmond, and facilitates graduate assistant-ships and internship opportunities. Experienced in nonprofit organizational development and policy advocacy, Leisha is a former President & CEO of a major regional nonprofit. where she successfully advocated Virginia’s General Assembly for community land trust development law. Leisha currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Urban Land Institute (ULI) of Virginia, on the Board of Directors of the Virginia Leadership Advisory Council, and is a Leadership Metro Richmond Graduate.
Her research interests include: policy and practice in government and NGO professional development; organizational theory and context; and, facilitative and participative leadership. Leisha is a doctoral student in public administration and policy, and holds a Master of Public Administration degree from Virginia Tech. Her BS in general business and merchandising is from the University of Montevallo.
EDUCATION
PhD Program, Public Administration and Policy, Virginia Tech (current)
MPA, Public Administration, Virginia Tech (2013)
BS, Business and Merchandising, University of Montevallo (1990)
ADMINISTRATIVE & PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Urban Land Institute (ULI) of Virginia, Board of Directors
Virginia Leadership Advisory Council, Board of Directors
Leadership Metro Richmond Graduate
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BILL LEIGHTY, Professor of Practice
POSITION & CONTACT INFO
BILL LEIGHTY
Professor of Practice
(540) 231-5153
bill@billleighty.org
Major Areas of Specialization:
Designing and implementing Performance Management Systems
Business process mapping and improvement
Leadership and motivational speaking
PROFESSIONAL BIO
Until September of 2007 Bill served as Chief of Staff to Governors Kaine and Warner of Virginia. As Chief of Staff, Bill served as the Chief Operating Officer of the Commonwealth. In 2005, Governing Magazine named Virginia the “Best Managed State in the Nation” and in 2007, Governing Magazine named him one of the nine “Public Officials of the Year.”
Prior to serving as Chief of Staff, Bill was the Director of the Virginia Retirement System, where he led the agency to three consecutive United States Senate Productivity Awards. In July of 2008, Bill completed a performance review of the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund, a $52 billion pension system. Recently, Bill also completed an engagement with the Scottish Executive; advising the government on how to implement a national performance management system. Bill also serves on the faculty for the International Foundation for Employee Benefit Plans where he teaches pension system administrative strategies.
ADMINISTRATIVE & PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Partner, DecideSmart, LLC, 2007-current
Chief of Staff, Office of Governor Tim Kaine, 2006-2007
Chief of Staff, Office of Governor Mark R. Warner, 2002-2006
Director, Virginia Retirement System, 1995-2002
Deputy Commissioner, Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles, 1990-1995
EDUCATION
MBA, Economics, Virginia Commonwealth University, 1975-1978
BA, Economics, Mary Washington College, (Phi Beta Kappa) 1975-1978
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ROBIN LEMAIRE, Associate Professor
POSITION & CONTACT INFO
ROBIN LEMAIRE
Associate Professor
(540) 231-0664
rlemaire@vt.edu
Major Areas of Specialization:
Theories of organizations and the management of public, nonprofit, and health care organizations, with a particular research interest in organizational networks and network analysis.
Education:
PhD, Public Management, University of Arizona
PROFESSIONAL BIO
Robin H. Lemaire is an Associate Professor in the Center for Public Administration and Policy in the School of Public and International Affairs at Virginia Tech. She holds a PhD in Public Management from the School of Government and Public Policy at the University of Arizona. Her focus is on organization theory and the management of public, nonprofit, and health care organizations, and specializes in inter-organizational networks and network analysis. She has conducted the network analysis for a child and youth health network in Canada, a National Institutes of Health grant examining the Tobacco Quitline Consortium, a USAID funded project examining the organizations serving children impacted by HIV/Aids in India, and a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation funded project examining the health system in Uttar Pradesh India. She is currently working with local organizations in Southwest Virginia on analyzing and building networks around child health and development as well as hunger relief.
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ERIC MALCZEWSKI, Assistant Professor
POSITION & CONTACT INFO
ERIC MALCZEWSKI
Assistant Professor
(540) 231-2011
ericmalczewski@vt.edu
Eric Malczewski is a sociologist specializing in sociological theory, comparative historical sociology, culture, material culture, and social and political theory. He is currently working on a book providing a theoretical and historical account of transformations of conceptions of nature in American culture and their role in the emergence of a new domain of experience. The study is intended as a contribution to sociological theory and the understanding of the role played by nature and the environment in American modernity. His published research focuses on the organizing principles of social science and epistemological issues in sociological theory. Other core interests include conceptions of nature and the environment, classical sociological theory (with a special emphasis on the thought of Émile Durkheim and Max Weber), sociology of knowledge, modern culture, philosophy of the human sciences, and culture. Dr. Malczewski is also a Faculty Fellow at the Center for Cultural Sociology at Yale University.
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Sociology, Political Science, and Philosophy of Social Science, Boston University, 2012
Master of Public Policy, The University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy, 2004
B.S., Management and Organizational Behavior, New York University Stern School of Business, 2000
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SARA MATTINGLY-JORDAN, Assistant Professor
POSITION & CONTACT INFO
SARA MATTINGLY-JORDAN
Assistant Professor
srjordan@vt.edu
Analytics (Google Scholar external link)
Research Areas:
Ethics in public policy (e.g., regulation of technology in government)
Ethics and high consequence technology (e.g., highly automated vehicles)
Research ethics (e.g., ethical norms and social science research methods)
Political theory (e.g., theories of oligarchic control)
Political participation in policy processes (e.g. who says what to regulators?)
Methods of qualitative research (e.g., computer aided content analysis)
PROFESSIONAL BIO
Sara R Jordan has been an Assistant Professor in the Center for Public Administration & Policy at Virginia Tech since August 2014. Prior to joining the CPAP faculty, Sara worked at University of Miami (August 2013- May 2014) and University of Hong Kong (January 2007 – May 2013). She received her PhD in Political Science from Texas A&M University–College Station in 2007.
COURSES I AM TEACHING
Normative foundations of public administration
Ethics and public administration
Research methods for students of public administration and policy
COURSES I HAVE TAUGHT
Normative foundations of public administration
Ethics and public administration
Research methods for students of public administration and policy
Philosophy of social sciences
Advanced research methods
Global governance
Nonprofit evaluation and accountability
STUDENTS I AM SEEKING
I am interested to work with undergraduate and graduate students on the following topics:
Adaptation of ethical norms to emerging technologies
Content analysis in public policy
WHO I WORK WITH
I regularly work with organizations developing or testing ethical standards for technological systems, such as:
IEEE Global Initiative for Ethically Aligned Design of Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Systems
IEEE P7000 Model Process for Addressing Ethical Concerns During System Design
OCCASIONAL WRITINGS FOR PROFESSIONAL OR NON-ACADEMIC SOURCES
I periodically write for professional venues and other non-academic sources. Some examples are below:
IEEE Beyond Standards
The Ethics of Public Administration: Challenges of Global Governance, with Phillip W. Gray
“The Innovation Imperative” in Public Management Review
“Research Integrity, Image Manipulation, and Anonymizing Photographs in Visual Social Science Research” in International Journal of Social Research Methodology
SEE ALSO:
Analytics (Google Scholar external link)
WORKING PAPER TITLES
I am pleased to send you an abstract or draft of working papers for review or collaboration.
Conspiratorial attitudes in regulatory comments: Ranting to regulators
Professional’s interest groups and the control of ethics in research
Ethics and performance: Does committing to ethics infrastructure lead to greater research returns?
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JOE REES, Associate Professor and Program Coordinator Richmond
POSITION & CONTACT INFO
JOE REES
Associate Professor and Program Coordinator Richmond
(540) 250-5632
reesj@vt.edu
Major Areas of Specialization:
Ethics, regulation
Education:
Ph.D., Jurisprudence and Social Policy, University of California at Berkeley, School of Law, 1986.
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PATRICK ROBERTS, Associate Professor
POSITION & CONTACT INFO
PATRICK ROBERTS
Associate Professor
(202) 599-0562
robertsp@vt.edu
Major Areas of Specialization:
Emergency management in government
Development of disaster and security organizations and their capacity
Organizational autonomy
Current global security threats
PROFESSIONAL BIO
Patrick Roberts has a lifelong fascination with how governments manage emergencies. He’s also interested in how sometimes, when the wheels fall off, bureaucrats speak back to politicians. His research traces the development of disaster and security organizations and their capacity, performance and especially their degree of autonomy, or ability to develop and pursue a perspective independent of the will of elected politicians and interests. Organizational autonomy is particularly important given the thickening layers of bureaucracy and increasingly coordinated agendas in contemporary politics.
Patrick manages the Homeland Security Policy Graduate Certificate, which helps prepare those who work in the fields of homeland security strategy and emergency management. The certificate helps students evaluate the larger context of current global security threats.
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
Associate Professor, School of Public and International Affairs, Virginia Tech, Alexandria, Virginia, (and affiliated faculty in political science, ASPECT social theory graduate program, and Science and Technology Studies), 2012-present.
Visiting Associate Professor, School of Public Affairs and Administration, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ. August 2015-May 2016.
Assistant Professor, Center for Public Administration and Policy, School of Public and International Affairs and affiliated faculty, department of political science, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg and Alexandria, VA, 2006-2012.
Ghaemian Scholar in Residence, Heidelberg Center for American Studies, University of Heidelberg, Germany, September 2010-August 2011.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Program on Constitutional Government, Department of Government, Harvard University, 2007-08.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University, 2005-06.
Centennial Center Fellow, The American Political Science Association, Washington, DC, 2004-05.
ADMINISTRATIVE & PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Associate Chair and Program Director for CPAP Northern Virginia Programs, 2012-2015.
Reporter and editor, Associated Press, Albany, New York, 1997-98.
EDUCATION
Ph.D., The University of Virginia. Government. 2006.
M. A., Claremont Graduate University. Political Philosophy.
B. A., University of Dallas. Politics and concentration in languages.
CHAPTERS
Roberts, Patrick S., Kris Wernstedt, Joe Arvai, Kelly Redmond. In Press. “The Emergency Manager as Risk Manager,” chapter in The New Environmental Crisis, editors James Kendra and Scott Knowles (Springer).
Roberts, Patrick S. 2014. “How Well Will the International Atomic Energy Agency Be Able To Safeguard More Nuclear Materials in More States?” in Moving Beyond Pretense: Nuclear Power and Nonproliferation, Henry Sokolski, ed. (Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute Publications Office, United States Army War College): 265-302.
Roberts, Patrick S., Robert Ward, and Gary Wamsley. 2014. “Evolution of Emergency Management in America,” Crisis and Emergency Management: Theory and Practice, Second Edition, ed. Ali Farazmand (Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press), 167-188.
Roberts, Patrick S., Robert Ward, and Gary Wamsley. 2012. “From a Painful Past to an Uncertain Future,” in Emergency Management: The American Experience 1900-2010, ed. Claire Rubin, (Boca Raton, FL: Taylor & Francis), 237-246.
Roberts, Patrick S., Robert Ward, and Gary Wamsley. 2012. “The Evolving Federal Role in Emergency Management: Policy and Processes,” in Emergency Management: The American Experience 1900-2010, ed. Claire Rubin, (Boca Raton, FL: Taylor & Francis), 247-276.
Roberts, Patrick S. 2012. “Homeland Security” in Oxford Encyclopedia of American and Political Legal History, Donald T. Critchlow and Philip R. VanderMeer, ed., (New York: Oxford University Press), 446-448.
Coffey, Andrew and Patrick S. Roberts. 2012. “Disaster Policy” in Oxford Encyclopedia of American and Political Legal History, Donald T. Critchlow and Philip R. VanderMeer, ed., (New York: Oxford University Press), 216-219.
Roberts, Patrick S. 2011. “Homeland Security,” in Governing America: Major Policies and Decisions of Federal, State, and Local Government, ed. William E. Cunion and Paul Quirk. Facts on File Press, 926-937.
Roberts, Patrick S. 2010. “Dispersed Federalism: Regional Governance for Disaster Policy,” in Policy, Performance, and Management in Governance and Intergovernmental Relations: Transatlantic Perspectives, Edoardo Ongaro, Andrew Massey, Marc Holzer and Ellen Wayneberg, eds., (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar), 114-142.
Roberts, Patrick S. 2010. “Private Choices, Public Harms: The Evolution of US National Disaster Agencies,” in Disaster and the Politics of Intervention, ed. Andrew Lakoff (New York: Columbia University Press), 41-69.
Roberts, Patrick S. 2009. “FEMA After Katrina: Redefining Responsiveness,” in Federal Government Reorganization: A Policy and Management Perspective, Beryl A. Radin and Joshua Chanin, eds. (Sudbury, Mass: Jones and Bartlett, 2009), 221-224. Originally appeared as “FEMA After Katrina,” Policy Review, June/July 2006.
Wernstedt, Kris, Patrick Roberts, and Matthew Dull. 2009. “Do Long-Term Climate Forecasts Have a Role in Local Emergency Management?,” in Ideas from an Emerging Field: Teaching Emergency Management in Higher Education, Jessica Hubbard, ed., (Fairfax, Va.: Public Entity Risk Institute), 169-196.
Roberts, Patrick S. 2009. “If Prevention Fails: Mitigation as Counterterrorism,” in Jihadists & Weapons of Mass Destruction: A Growing Threat, ed. Jeremy Tamsett (Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press), 309-334.
Roberts, Patrick S. 2008. “Making ‘Risk-Based’ a Reality: Constructing a National Hazards Risk Assessment,” in Emergency Management in Higher Education: Current Practices and Controversies, ed. Jessica Hubbard (Fairfax, Va.: Public Entity Risk Institute), 277-296.
Kirp, David L. and Patrick S. Roberts. 2003. “Mr. Jefferson’s ‘Private’ College: The Darden Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Virginia,” in David L. Kirp, Shakespeare, Einstein, and the Bottom Line: The Marketing of Higher Education (Cambridge, Ma: Harvard University Press), 130-148.
ARTICLES
Roberts, Patrick S. and Robert P. Saldin. In Press. “On a Need Not to Know Basis: Why Presidents Sometimes Do Not Use Intelligence Information.” Political Science Quarterly.
Roberts, Patrick S. and Kris Wernstedt. 2016. “Managing Uncertainty: Using Climate Forecasts Across a State’s Emergency Management Network,” Natural Hazards Review, 7 (3): 05016002-1-11. http://ascelibrary.org/doi/full/10.1061/(ASCE)NH.1527-6996.0000222
Roberts, Patrick S. 2014. “The Forgotten Lessons of Civil Defense for the Homeland Security Era,” Journal of Policy History, special issue on disaster politics in the United States, 26 (3): 345-383. http://journals.cambridge.org/repo_A921ZNcX
Video version available at: http://youtu.be/-TM1xv1dOEY
Roberts, Patrick S. 2013. “Discrimination in a Disaster Agency’s Security Culture.” Administration & Society, 45 (4): 387-419.
Roberts, Patrick S. and Matthew Dull. 2013. “Guarding the Guardians: Oversight Appointees and the Search for Accountability in U.S. Federal Agencies,” Journal of Policy History, 25 (2): 207-239.
Dull, Matthew, Patrick S. Roberts, Michael Keeney, and Sang Ok Choi. 2012. “Appointee Confirmation and Tenure: The Succession of U.S. Federal Agency Appointees, 1989-2009,” Public Administration Review, vol. 72, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 2012): 902-913.
Lester, Emile and Patrick S. Roberts. 2011. “Learning About World Religions in Modesto, California,” Politics and Religion, vol. 4, no. 2, (December): 264-288.
Roberts, Patrick S. 2010. “Searching for a Network Administrative Organization in the Niger Food Crisis, 2004-2006,” Journal of Emergency Management, vol. 8, no. 4 (July/August) 1-11.
Lester, Emile and Patrick S. Roberts. 2009. “How Teaching World Religions Brought a Truce to the Culture Wars in Modesto, California,” British Journal of Religious Education, Vol. 31, No. 3 (September): 187-199.
Roberts, Patrick S. 2009. “How Security Agencies Control Change: Executive Power and the Quest for Autonomy in the FBI and CIA,” Public Organization Review, Vol. 9, No. 2 (June): 169-198.
Roberts, Patrick S. 2009. “A Capacity for Mitigation as the Next Frontier in Homeland Security,” Political Science Quarterly, Vol. 124, No. 1 (Spring): 127-142.
Roberts, Patrick S. 2009. “An Unnatural Disaster,” Administration & Society (invited essay; not peer-reviewed), Vol. 41, No. 6 (2009): 763-769.
Wernstedt, Kris, Patrick S. Roberts and Matthew Dull. 2009. “Can Climate Signals Inform Emergency Management? Preliminary Evidence,” Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management, Vol. 6, Issue 1: http://www.bepress.com/jhsem/vol6/iss1/54
Dull, Matthew and Patrick S. Roberts. 2009. “Continuity, Competence, and the Succession of Senate-Confirmed Agency Appointees, 1989-2009,” Presidential Studies Quarterly, vol. 39, no. 3 (2009): 432-453.
Roberts, Patrick S. 2008. “Dispersed Federalism as a New Regional Governance for Homeland Security,” Publius: The Journal of Federalism, 38, 3 (Summer): 416-443.
Stockton, Paul N. and Patrick S. Roberts. 2008. “Findings from the Forum on Homeland Security After the Bush Administration: Next Steps in Building Unity of Effort,” (with Paul Stockton), Homeland Security Affairs IV, no. 2 (2008), http://www.hsaj.org/?article=4.2.4
Roberts, Patrick S. 2007. “What the Catastrophist Heresy Teaches Public Managers,” Administrative Theory & Praxis, 29: 4 (2007), 546-566.
Roberts, Patrick. S. 2007. Toward a National Hazard Risk Assessment,” Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management, Communication/Research Note (4:3) (15 pgs.) August.
Lester, Emile and Patrick S. Roberts. 2006. “The Distinctive Paradox of Religious Tolerance: Active Tolerance as a Mean Between Passive Tolerance and Recognition,” Public Affairs Quarterly, (20:4), 347-380. Roberts, Patrick S. 2006. “FEMA and the Prospects for Reputation-Based Autonomy,” Studies in American Political Development 20 (Spring), 57-87.
Roberts, Patrick S. 2005. “What Katrina Means for Emergency Management,” The Forum, 3:3 (November), 1-10.
Roberts, Patrick S. 2005. “Shifting Priorities: Congressional Incentives and the Homeland Security Granting Process,” Review of Policy Research, 22:4 (July-August), 437-449.
Roberts, Patrick S. 2005. “The Master of Disaster as Bureaucratic Entrepreneur,” PS: Political Science & Politics, Research Note, 38:2, (April), 331.
ESSAYS, REPORTS, AND MONOGRAPHS
Roberts, Patrick S. 2016. “A new mission for Homeland Security: managing risk,” The Hill, September 1. http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/homeland-security/294132-a-new-mission-for-homeland-security-managing-risk
Roberts, Patrick. S. and Yang Zhang. 2016. “Managing Flood Recovery.” Prepared for the Korean government KHRIS research institute, August 31.
Roberts, Patrick S. and Robert Saldin. 2015. “Ignoring the Not-So-Obvious in Obama’s Negotiations with Iran,” The Hill, July 16, 2015. http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/the administration/248081-ignoring-the-not-so-obvious-in-obamas-negotiations
Roberts, Patrick. S. and Yang Zhang. 2015. “Urban Resilience Policy to Prepare for Floods in the United States.” Prepared for the Korean government KHRIS research institute, July 1.
Roberts, Patrick S. 2015. “Retroview: The Centralization Paradox,” The American Interest, VOL. X, No. 6, (June/July, 2015): 90-96. (Essay on the work of Martha Derthick).
Roberts, Patrick S. and Kris Wernstedt. 2015. “Seasonal Climate Forecast Serves as a Call to Action.” U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration website, Washington, D.C.
Roberts, Patrick S. 2014. “The Ebola Crisis as a Crisis of Public Trust.” The American Interest, October 15.
Knowles, Scott Gabriel and Roberts, Patrick S. 2012. “FEMA Needs to Refocus,” The Hill, November 27.
Roberts, Patrick S. 2012. “How Well Will the IAEA Be Able To Safeguard More Nuclear Materials in More States?” Non-Proliferation Policy and Education Center Report, Washington, DC.
Roberts, Patrick S. 2011. “Class War,” The American Interest, July/August, 116-121.
Roberts, Patrick S. 2010. “Our Responder in Chief,” National Affairs, vol. 5, Fall, 75-102.
Roberts, Patrick S. and Matthew Dull. 2009. “Is Obama Using His Appointment Power Effectively?” Roll Call, (September 29), p. 4.
Roberts, Patrick S. 2009. “Models of Network Governance for Technology and Security and Implications for Leadership in Energetics,” Blacksburg, Va.: Center for Public Administration and Policy, April 15, monograph, 59pp. Presented to the US Navy and the US Congress and publicly available.
Roberts, Patrick S. and Matthew Dull. 2009. “How Congress Should Repair the Vacancies Act,” The Hill, January 9.
Lester, Emile and Patrick S. Roberts. 2008. “Talking about God in Modesto,” American Interest, (May/June), 82-85.
Eden, Lynn, Michael May, Patrick S. Roberts, and Jacob Shapiro. 2006. An Analytical Approach to Preparedness for Homeland Security. Stanford, CA. Center for International Security and Cooperation.
Lester, Emile and Patrick S. Roberts. 2006. Learning About World Religions in Public Schools, (Nashville, Tn.: First Amendment Center, Vanderbilt University and the Freedom Forum, June), monograph, 68pp. Cited and reviewed in the New York Times, USA Today, C-SPAN
Lester, Emile and Patrick S. Roberts. 2006. “How One School District Found Religion,” USA Today, May 21.
Kirp, David L. and Patrick S. Roberts. 2002. “Mr. Jefferson’s University Breaks Up,” The Public Interest, (Summer): 70-84.
Kirp, David L. and Patrick S. Roberts. 2002. “Mr. Jefferson’s “Private” College: The University of Virginia’s Business School Secedes.” Occasional Papers Series, National Center for the Study of Privatization in Education, Columbia University. November.
BOOK REVIEWS
Review of Fallout: Nuclear Diplomacy in an Age of Global Fracture by Grégoire Mallard, in Political Science Quarterly, Vol. 130, No. 2 (Summer 2015): 356-358.
Review of The Politics of Disaster: Tracking the Impact of Hurricane Andrew, by David K. Twigg and The Wrong Complexion for Protection: How the Government Response to Disaster Endangers African American Communities, Robert D. Bullard and Beverly Wright, in Political Science Quarterly Vol. 128, No. 4, (Winter 2013-14): 755-757.
Review of The Politics of Presidential Appointments: Political Control and Bureaucratic Performance, by David E. Lewis, in Presidential Studies Quarterly (December 2008): 761-762.
Review of Public Values and Public Interest, by Barry Bozeman, in Markets & Morality, Vol. 11, No. 2, Fall 2008, 328-330.
Review essay of Catastrophe: Risk and Response, by Richard A. Posner. Homeland Security Affairs IV, 1, January 2008.
Review of Timothy Naftali’s Blindspot, Perspectives on Political Science, April 2006.
Review essay, “Organizing for Homeland Security,” Perspectives on Political Science, (35:1), January 2006.
Review essay, “Lost Boys at 70,” Policy Review, June 2004; review of James J. Heckman and Alan B. Krueger, Inequality in America: What Role for Human Capital Policies?, Harvard University Press and John H. Laub and Robert J. Sampson, Shared Beginnings, Divergent Lives: Delinquent Boys to Age 70, MIT Press.
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STEPHANIE SMITH, Associate Professor
POSITION & CONTACT INFO
STEPHANIE SMITH
AssociateProfessor
571-858-3163
slsmith1@vt.edu
Stephanie L. Smith is an Associate Professor in the Center for Public Administration and Policy in the School of Public and International Affairs at Virginia Tech. She holds a Ph.D. in Public Administration from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. Her research is grounded in the policy process, with emphasis on agenda setting dynamics in the global health policy arena and in low- and middle-income countries. Stephanie’s research is published in The Lancet, Social Science & Medicine, Health Policy and Planning, Global Public Health and Nonprofit Management & Leadership. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Save the Children USA and the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development have supported her research. Prior to joining academia, Stephanie was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Vladivostok, Russia, and worked in the nonprofit sector in San Francisco.
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Public Administration, The Maxwell School of Citizenship & Public Affairs, Syracuse University, 2009
Masters of Public Administration, San Fransico State University, 2004
B.A., Rhetoric and Communication, University of Californiam at Davis, 1994
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JIM WOLF, Professor Emeritus
POSITION & CONTACT INFO
JIM WOLF
Professor Emeritus
(703) 706-8116
jfwolf@vt.edu
Education:
D.P.A., University of Southern California, School of Public Administration, 1977
M.P.A., Cornell Graduate School of Business and Public Administration, 1969
B.S., Political Science, LaSalle University, 1965
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
1975-1978 Instructor, Washington Public Affairs Center, School of Public Administration, University of Southern California
ADMINISTRATIVE & PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
1969-1973 Training Coordinator, Institute of Public Service, University of Connecticut
1965-1967 Peace Corps Volunteer, Rural Community Development Worker (Turkey)
BOOKS
Wamsley, Gary L., Charles T. Goodsell, John A. Rohr, Camilla M. Stivers, Orion F. White, and James F. Wolf (1987). “The Public Administration and the Governance Process: Refocusing the American Dialogue,” Chapter 9 in Ralph C. Chandler (ed.), A Centennial History of the American Administrative State, New York: The Free Press, pp. 291-320.
Lane, Larry M. and James F. Wolf (1990), The Human Resource Crisis in the Public Sector: Rebuilding the Capacity to Govern, Quorum/ Greenwood Press.
Wamsley, Gary and James Wolf (eds.)(1996), Refounding Democratic Public Administration: Governance in a Post-Modern Era, Sage Publications.
CHAPTERS
J. Wolf, T. Sanchez and M. B. Farquahr. 2007. “Metropolitan Planning Organizations and Regional Transportation Planning,” pp. 169-188 in J. Plant (ed.), Handbook of Transportation Policy and Administration. Boca Raton FL: CRC Press.
Wolf, James F. (1996) “Action Contexts in Public Administration,” in Wamsley and Wolf (eds.), Refounding Democratic Public Administration: Governance in a Post-Modern Era, Sage Publications.
Wamsley, Gary L., and James F. Wolf. “Introduction: Can a High-Modern Project Find happieness in a Postmodern Era?” in Wamsley, Gary and James Wolf (eds.)(1996), Refounding Democratic Public Administration: Governance in a Post-Modern Era, Sage Publications.
Wolf, James. Business Improvement Districts’ Approaches to Working with Local Governments. Chapter in Business Improvement Districts. Morcol, G. (ed) 2008 by Taylor and Francis.
ARTICLES
Wolf, J. F., and T. K. Bryan. 2009. “Identifying the Capacities of Regional Councils of Government,” State and Local Government Review, 41(1).
Bryan, T. K., and J. F. Wolf. Forthcoming. “Examining Voluntary Regional Councils’ Structures, Processes and Programs,” Public Organization Review.
Orion White and James Wolf (1995), “Deming’s Total Quality Management Movement and the Baskins Robbins Problem, Part I: Is it Time to Go Back to Vanilla?,” Administration and Society, Vol. 27 (2) August.
Orion White and James Wolf (1995), “Deming’s Total Quality Management Movement and the Baskins Robins Problem, Part II: Is this Ice Cream American?,” Administration and Society, Vol. 27 (3) November.
Wolf, James F. (2006) “Urban Governance and Business Improvement Districts: The Washington DC BIDs.” International journal of Public Administration . 29:53-75.
Wolf, James F. and M. Fenwick (2003). “How Metropolitan Planning Organizations Incorporate Land-Use Issues in Regional Transportation Planning.” State and Local Government Review 35(2): 122- 131.
Larry Lane, James Wolf and Colleen Woodard (2003) “Crises in the Federal Public Service.” American Review of Public Administration. Summer.
James F. Wolf and Mary Beth Farquhar (2005) “Assessing Progress: The State of Metropolitan Planning Organizations Under ISTEA and TEA-21.” The International Journal of Public Administration. 28:1057-1079.
Wolf, James F.(2005) “Public Administration’s Multiple Institutionalized Frameworks. Public Organization Review. 5:183-200.
Arthur C. Nelson, Thomas W. Sanchez, James F. Wolf, and Mary Beth Farquhar. 2004. “Metropolitan Planning Organization Voting Structure and Transit Investment Bias: Preliminary Analysis with Social Equity Implications”, Transportation Research Record (TRR), Journal of the Transportation Research Board, 1895: 1-7. 2004-2005
Roberts, Patrick S. 2016. “A new mission for Homeland Security: managing risk,” The Hill, September 1. http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/homeland-security/294132-a-new-mission-for-homeland-security-managing-risk
Roberts, Patrick. S. and Yang Zhang. 2016. “Managing Flood Recovery.” Prepared for the Korean government KHRIS research institute, August 31.
Roberts, Patrick S. and Robert Saldin. 2015. “Ignoring the Not-So-Obvious in Obama’s Negotiations with Iran,” The Hill, July 16, 2015. http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/the administration/248081-ignoring-the-not-so-obvious-in-obamas-negotiations
Roberts, Patrick. S. and Yang Zhang. 2015. “Urban Resilience Policy to Prepare for Floods in the United States.” Prepared for the Korean government KHRIS research institute, July 1.
Roberts, Patrick S. 2015. “Retroview: The Centralization Paradox,” The American Interest, VOL. X, No. 6, (June/July, 2015): 90-96. (Essay on the work of Martha Derthick).
Roberts, Patrick S. and Kris Wernstedt. 2015. “Seasonal Climate Forecast Serves as a Call to Action.” U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration website, Washington, D.C.
Roberts, Patrick S. 2014. “The Ebola Crisis as a Crisis of Public Trust.” The American Interest, October 15.
Knowles, Scott Gabriel and Roberts, Patrick S. 2012. “FEMA Needs to Refocus,” The Hill, November 27.
Roberts, Patrick S. 2012. “How Well Will the IAEA Be Able To Safeguard More Nuclear Materials in More States?” Non-Proliferation Policy and Education Center Report, Washington, DC.
Roberts, Patrick S. 2011. “Class War,” The American Interest, July/August, 116-121.
Roberts, Patrick S. 2010. “Our Responder in Chief,” National Affairs, vol. 5, Fall, 75-102.
Roberts, Patrick S. and Matthew Dull. 2009. “Is Obama Using His Appointment Power Effectively?” Roll Call, (September 29), p. 4.
Roberts, Patrick S. 2009. “Models of Network Governance for Technology and Security and Implications for Leadership in Energetics,” Blacksburg, Va.: Center for Public Administration and Policy, April 15, monograph, 59pp. Presented to the US Navy and the US Congress and publicly available.
Roberts, Patrick S. and Matthew Dull. 2009. “How Congress Should Repair the Vacancies Act,” The Hill, January 9.
Lester, Emile and Patrick S. Roberts. 2008. “Talking about God in Modesto,” American Interest, (May/June), 82-85.
Eden, Lynn, Michael May, Patrick S. Roberts, and Jacob Shapiro. 2006. An Analytical Approach to Preparedness for Homeland Security. Stanford, CA. Center for International Security and Cooperation.
Lester, Emile and Patrick S. Roberts. 2006. Learning About World Religions in Public Schools, (Nashville, Tn.: First Amendment Center, Vanderbilt University and the Freedom Forum, June), monograph, 68pp. Cited and reviewed in the New York Times, USA Today, C-SPAN
Lester, Emile and Patrick S. Roberts. 2006. “How One School District Found Religion,” USA Today, May 21.
Kirp, David L. and Patrick S. Roberts. 2002. “Mr. Jefferson’s University Breaks Up,” The Public Interest, (Summer): 70-84.
Kirp, David L. and Patrick S. Roberts. 2002. “Mr. Jefferson’s “Private” College: The University of Virginia's Business School Secedes.” Occasional Papers Series, National Center for the Study of Privatization in Education, Columbia University. November.
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RAYMOND ZUNIGA, Assistant Professor
POSITION & CONTACT INFO
RAYMOND ZUNIGA
Assistant Professor
540-231-5133
raymondz@vt.edu
Ray Zuniga received his Ph.D. from the School of Public Affairs at American University in 2017. He also earned his Masters in Public Affairs from the Truman School of Public Affairs in 2013. Previously, Ray worked with various nonprofit organizations to promote social justice amongst young people in the greater Kansas City metropolitan area. His main research focuses on the intersection of immigration policy/enforcement and educational outcomes for citizen and noncitizen Latinos in the US. His dissertation focuses on tuition policies and immigration law enforcement issues targeting Latino populations, with a secondary focus on information sources for these young people. Other work includes examining determinants of educational success for traditionally underserved populations in postsecondary education.
EDUCATION
Ph.D., School of Public Affairs, American University, 2017
Masters in Public Affairs, Truman School of Public Affairs, 2013
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DAVID BIERI, Associate Professor
POSITION & CONTACT INFO
DAVID BIERI
Associate Professor
(540) 231-3831
bieri@vt.edu
Dr. David Bieri is Associate Professor of Urban Affairs and Affiliate Associate Professor of Economics at Virginia Tech, with a joint appointment in the Global Forum on Urban and Regional Resilience. He also holds an endowed appointment as Junior Faculty Fellow in the VT Program in Real Estate. Bieri’s current research examines “money and the metropolis”, focusing on the dynamics of urbanization and the evolutionary development of the monetary–financial system as a joint historical process. His other research examines regulatory aspects of international finance, global monetary governance, and their role in the process of financialization. He also writes about the history of economic thought.
Prior to joining the faculty at Virginia Tech, David was a faculty member at Taubman College at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. From 1999 until 2006, he held various senior positions at the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) in Basel, Switzerland, most recently as the Adviser to the CEO. He was also Head of Business Development in which capacity he was responsible for new financial products and reserve management advisory for central banks. Prior to his work in central banking, David worked as a high-yield analyst at Bankers Trust in London and in fixed-income syndication at UBS in Zürich.
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
2017 – : Virginia Tech: Affiliate Associate Professor of Economics
2016 – : Virginia Tech: Junior Real Estate Faculty Fellow (endowed)
2015 – : Virginia Tech: Associate Professor of Public Policy
2010 – 2014: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor: Assistant Professor
ADMINISTRATIVE AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
1999 – 2006: Bank for International Settlements, Basel, Switzerland:
Adviser to the General Manager & CEO (2005–2006)
Economist, Monetary & Economic Department (2004–2005)
Head of Business Development, Banking Department (2002–2004)
Investment Analyst, Banking Department (1999–2002)
1998 – 1999: Bankers Trust International, London: Fixed-Income High Yield Analyst
EDUCATION
Ph.D.: Virginia Tech, School of Public & International Affairs (2010), Dissertation: “Location Choice, Linkages and the Spatial Economy”
M.Sc.: University of Durham, UK. Corporate & International Finance (1998)
B.Sc. (Hons): London School of Economics & Political Science, Economics (1997)
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JOHN BROWDER, Professor (in memoriam)
POSITION & CONTACT INFO
JOHN BROWDER
In Memoriam
Professor, Urban Affairs and Planning, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Tribute, by Ralph Hall
Tribute, by Jim Bohland
Tribute, by John Randolph
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
1997-2017 Professor, Urban Affairs and Planning, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
1996-2017 Adjunct Professor, School of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of Michigan
1994-1995 Visiting Scholar/Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of Michigan
Visiting Scholar, Tropical Conservation and Development Program, Center for Latin American Studies, University of Florida (Spring)
1991-1997 Associate Professor, Urban Affairs and Planning, Adjunct Professor, Department of Geography, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
1988-1991 Assistant Professor, Urban Affairs and Planning, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA
1986-1988 Visiting Assistant Professor of Planning and Geography, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
1982 Teaching Assistant, Department of City and Regional Planning, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
ADMINISTRATIVE AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2007-2013 Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, College of Architecture and Urban Studies, Virginia Tech
1984-1985 Research Associate, Centro de Estudos Avançados Amazônicas (Center for Advanced Amazon Studies), Federal University of Para, Belém, Brazil
SPONSORED RESEARCH
2006-2008 National Science Foundation, Geography and Regional Science, $150,721
Collaborative research grant, Globalization, Deforestation, and the Cattle Sector of the Brazilian Amazon.
2002-2004 National Science Foundation, Geography and Regional Science, $240,000
Collaborative research grant: “Patterns and Process of Landscape Change in the Brazilian Amazon” (with Michigan State University)
1996-97 International Foundation, $9,500 / Conservation, Food and Health Foundation, $15,782
Both grants provided transition funding for the Rondônia Agroforestry Pilot Project Phase II to support agroforestry development and project monitoring and research.
1992-95 John and Teresa Heinz Charitable Trust, $250,000
“Rondônia Agroforestry Pilot Project.” A Three year seed grant to initiate a an agroforestry demonstration project on 50 small farms involving 25 different native species of timber, fruit, and latex-producing species.
1993-94 National Science Foundation, Geography and Regional Science, $26,741
Competitive research grant, “Analysis of Multispectral Remote Sensing Data Recording Changes in Agricultural Land Uses in the Brazilian Amazon Region.”
1993 Center for Latin American Studies, University of Pittsburgh, $24,300
Competitive research fellowship, ”Amazon Forest Conservation and the Small Farm Cattle Sector in Rondônia, Brazil.”
1992-93 National Aeronautics and Space Administration, $56,557
Competitive research grant, “A Comparative Evaluation of Landsat TM and SPOT MSS Systems in Differentiating Vegetative Formations in a Tropical Forest Environment Undergoing Extensive Human Disturbance.” Earth System Science Program.
1990 National Science Foundation, Geography and Regional Science, $59,688
Competitive research grant, “Frontier Urbanization in the Brazilian Amazon: Implications for Regional Development.” Comparative urban study of 2,000 households in 6 Amazon urban settlements in Pará and Rondônia states.
1990 Agency for International Development, $36,314
Two competitive research grants under the SARSA Cooperative Agreement:
(1) “Tropical Forest Conservation and Sustainable Development.” Successfully completed household survey of 115 colonist farms in the Brazilian Amazon State of Rondônia on social factors influencing rural land use decisions.
(2) “Household Production for Peri Urban Development.” Coordinated faculty team project involving surveys of 300 peri urban households in Jakarta, Bangkok, and Santiago, Chile. Office of Rural and Institutional Development.
EDUCATION
Ph.D., City and Regional Planning, University of Pennsylvania, 1986
M.F.A., Graduate School of Fine Arts, The University of Pennsylvania, 1983
M.P.A., School of Gov’t and Public Administration, The American University, 1977
B.A., American History, Political Science, Art History, The College of Wooster, Ohio, 1974
BOOKS
1. Browder, John O. and Brian J. Godfrey. 2007 Cidades da Floresta: Urbanização, Desenvolvimento, e Globalização da Amazonia Brasileira. Translation by Gisele Goldstein. Manaus: Editora da Universidade Federal da Amazonas.
2. Browder, John O. and Brian J. Godfrey. 1997. Rainforest Cities: Urbanization, Development and Globalization of the Brazilian Amazon (New York: Columbia University Press).
3. Thrupp, Lori Ann, Susanna B. Hecht and John O. Browder. 1997. The Diversity and Dynamics of Shifting Cultivation: Myths, Realities and Policy Implications. Washington, D.C. World Resources Institute.
4. Browder, John O. (ed). 1989. Fragile Lands of Latin America: Strategies for Sustainable Development. (Boulder: Westview Press).
CHAPTERS
Browder, John O. 2002. “Reading Colonist Landscapes: Social Factors Influencing Land Use Decisions by Small Farmers in the Brazilian Amazon.” In Charles H. Wood and Roberto Porro (eds.). Deforestation and Land Use in the Amazon. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, pp.218-240.
Browder, John O. 1996. “Reading Colonist Landscapes: Social Interpretations of Tropical Forest Patches in an Amazonian Agricultural Frontier.” In John Schlehas and Russell Greenberg (eds.), Forest Patches in Tropical Landscapes. (Washington, D.C.: Island Press). Pp. 285-299.
Browder, John O. 1993. “Alternative Rainforest Uses” In Susan E. Place (ed.), Tropical Rainforests: Nature and Society in Transition (Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, Inc.). Pp. 200-209.
Browder, John O. 1992. “Extractive Reserves and the Future of the Amazon’s Rainforests: Some Cautionary Observations.” In Simon Counsell and Tim Rice (eds.), The Rainforest Harvest: Sustainable Strategies for Saving Tropical Forests. (London, U.K.: Friends of the Earth Trust, Ltd.). Pp. 224-235.
Rowe, Raymond, Narendra Sharma, and John O. Browder. 1992. “Deforestation: Problems, Causes and Concerns.” In Narendra Sharma (ed.), Managing the World’s Forests: Looking for Balance Between Conservation and Development. (Dubuque, IO: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company). Pp. 33-45.
Browder, John O. 1991. “Alternative Rainforest Uses.” In Joseph S. Tulchin (ed.), Economic Development and Environmental Protection in Latin America. (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner). Pp. 45-54.
Browder, John O. 1989. “Development Alternatives for Tropical Rainforests.”In H. Jeffrey Leonard (ed.), Environmental Strategies for Meeting Human Needs: Poverty and Sustainable Development in the 1990s. (Washington, D.C.: Earthscan Press). Pp. 111-134.
Browder, John O. 1988. “Public Policy and Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon.” In Robert Repetto and Malcolm Gillis (eds.), Public Policy and the Misuse of Forest Resources. (Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press). Pp. 247-298.
BOOKS
Browder, John O. and Jennifer L. Gagnon. 2010. Sustainable Forestry. Encyclopedia of Geography. New York: Sage Publications.
Browder, John O. and Marcos A. Pedlowski, Robert Walker, Randolph H. Wynne, Percy M. Summers, Ana Abad, Nancy Becerra-Cordoba, and Joao Mil-Homens, 2008. Revisiting Theories of Frontier Expansion in the Brazilian Amazon: A Survey of the Colonist Farming Population inn Rondonia’s Post-frontier, 1992-2002. World Development 36(8):1469-1492.
Walker, Robert, John Browder, Eugenio Arima, Cynthia Simmons, Ritaumaria Pereira, Marcellus Calda, Ricardo Shirota, Sergio de Zen. 2008. Ranching and the new Global Range: Amazônia in the 21st Century. Geoforum 10:1016.
Wynne, Randolph H., Katherine A. Joseph, John O. Browder, and Percy M. Summers. 2007 Comparing Farmer-based and Satellite-derived Deforestation estimates in the Amazon Basin Using a Hybrid Classifier. International Journal of Remote Sensing 28(6): 1299-1315.
Aldrich, Stephen P., Robert Walker, Eugenio Arima, Marcellus Caldas, John Browder and Stephen Perz. 2006. Land Cover and Land Use Change in the Brazilian Amazon: Smallholders, Ranchers, and Frontier Stratification. Economic Geography 82(3): 265-288.
Joseph, K.A., R. H. Wynne, J.O. Browder, and J.B. Campbell (2007). Comparison of Segment and Pixel-based Non-parametric Land Cover Classification in the Brazilian Amazon Using Multi-temporal Landsat TM/ETM+ Imagery. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, 73(7): 813-827.
Browder, John O., Marcos A. Pedlowski, and Percy M. Summers. 2004. Land Use Patterns in the Brazilian Amazon: Comparative Farm-Level Evidence from Rondônia. Human Ecology32(2), April.
Browder, John O., Randolph H. Wynne, and Marcos A. Pedlowski. 2005. Agroforestry Diffusion and Secondary Forest Regeneration in the Brazilian Amazon: Further Findings from the Rondônia Agroforestry Pilot Project (1992-2002). Agroforestry Systems, 65:99-111.
Summers, Percy M., John O. Browder, and Marcos A. Pedlowski. 2004. Tropical Forest Management and Silvicultural Practices by Small Farmers in the Brazilian Amazon: Recent Farm-Level Evidence from Rondônia. Forest Ecology and Management, 192: 161-177.
Browder, John O. 2003. The Urban-Rural Interface: Urbanization and Tropical Forest Cover Change. Urban Ecosystems 6:21-41.
Browder, John O. 2002. Conservation and Development Projects in the Brazilian Amazon: Lessons from the Community Initiative Program in Rondônia. Environmental Management 29(6):750-762.
Browder, John O. and Marcos A. Pedlowski.2000. Agroforestry Performance on Small Farms in Amazonia: Findings from the Rondonia Agroforestry Pilot Project. Agroforestry Systems 49: 63-83.
Godfrey, Brian J. and John O. Browder. 1996. Disarticulated Urbanization in the Brazilian Amazon. The Geographical Review 86(3):441-445.
Browder, John O. and Eraldo Aparecido Trondoli Matricardi and Wilson Soares Abdala. 1996. Is Sustainable Tropical Timber Production Financially Viable? A Comparative Analysis of Mahogany Silviculture Among Small Farmers in the Brazilian Amazon. Ecological Economics vol. 16: 147-159.
Browder, John O. 1995. Deforestation and the Environmental Crisis in Latin America. Latin American Research Review 30(3, October): 123-135.
Browder, John O. 1995. Redemptive Communities: Indigenous Knowledge, Colonist Farming Systems, and Conservation of Tropical Forests. Agriculture and Human Values 12(2, Winter): 17-30.
Browder, John O. and James R. Bohland, Joseph L. Scarpaci. 1995. Patterns of Development on the Metropolitan Fringe: Urban Fringe Expansion in Bangkok, Jakarta, and Santiago. Journal of the American Planning Association. Summer: 310-327.
Browder, John O. 1994. Surviving in Rondônia: The Dynamics of Colonist Farming Strategies in Brazil’s Northwest Frontier. Studies in Comparative International Development 29(3, Fall): 45-69.
Campbell, James and John O. Browder. 1994. Field Data Collection for Remote Sensing Analysis: SPOT Data, Rondônia, Brazil. International Journal of Remote Sensing Vol. 15:1-18.
Browder, John O. 1992. The Limits of Extractivism: Tropical Forest Strategies Beyond Extractive Reserves. Bioscience 42(3): 174-182.
Browder, John O. and Jose Antonio Borello. 1992. The State and the Crisis of Planning in Latin America. Journal of Planning Literature 6(4): 369-377.
Browder, John O. 1992. Social and Economic Constraints on the Development of Market-Oriented Extractive Systems in Amazon Rain Forests. Advances in Economic Botany Vol. 9: 33-41.
Browder, John O. 1990. Extractive Reserves Will Not Save Tropical Forests. Bioscience 40(9): 627.
Browder, John O. and Brian J. Godfrey. 1990. Urbanization of the Amazonian Settlement Frontier: Landscape Change and Urban Transition. Yearbook of the Conference of Latin American Geographers. Pp. 56-66.
Browder, John O. 1989. Lumber Production and Economic Development in the Brazilian Amazon: Regional Trends and a Case Study. Journal of World Forest Resource Management 4(1): 1-19.
Browder, John O. 1988. The Social Costs of Rain Forest Destruction: A Critique and Economic Analysis of the Hamburger Debate. Interciencia 13(2): 115-120.
Browder, John O. 1988. The Geography of Development or the Development of Geography: Recent Texts on Latin America, (review essay). Latin American Research Review 24(1): 250-260.
Browder, John O. 1987. Brazil’s Export Promotion Policy (1980-84): Impacts on the Amazon’s Industrial Wood Sector. Journal of Developing Areas, Vol. 21: 285-304.
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RALPH BUEHLER, Associate Professor and Chair
POSITION & CONTACT INFO
RALPH BUEHLER
Associate Professor and Chair
ralphbu@vt.edu
(571) 858-3111
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Research Interests:
(1) The influence of transport policy, land use, socio-demographics on travel behavior
(2) Active travel and public health
(3) Public transport demand, supply, financial efficiency, and policy
PROFESSIONAL BIO
Ralph’s research, outreach, and teaching seek to advance the understanding of determinants of individual travel behavior and the sustainability of transport systems. The goal is to identify and share policy lessons on how to achieve a more environmentally sound, economically efficient, and socially equitable urban transport system. Leveraging a comparative analysis framework, his research effectively contrasts travel behavior, socioeconomic factors, land use, transport policies, and the sustainability of transport systems at city, regional, and national scales in North America and Western Europe. Couched in solid theoretical frameworks and including national and international best practices, his work helps inform policy makers and contributes to the development of students in the field of planning.
Born and raised in Germany, he has gained research and work experience in his home country, the UK, France, and the USA. Ralph holds a PhD in Planning and Public Policy and a Masters of City and Regional Studies from Rutgers University, as well as a Masters in Politics and Management from the University of Konstanz, Germany. His dissertation “Transport Policies, Travel Behavior, and Sustainability: A Comparison of Germany and the U.S.” was honored with the “Barclay Gibbs Jones Award for Best Dissertation in Planning 2008” by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP).
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ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
Virginia Tech, School of Public and International Affairs, Urban Affairs & Planning
o Associate Professor (with tenure), 2013-present
o Assistant Professor (tenure track), 2008-2013
o Metropolitan Institute, Virginia Tech, Faculty Fellow, 2009-present
SPONSORED RESEARCH
Virginia Center for Transportation Innovation and Research (MATS-UTC), Planning for walking and cycling in an automated vehicle future. My role: PI, 2017-2018.
Virginia Center for Transportation Innovation and Research (MATS-UTC), Multi-city, national-scale direct-demand models of peak-period bicycle and pedestrian traffic. My role: Co-PI, 2016-2017.
European Commission & UN Habitat. State of European Cities Report. Chapter on urban transport. My role: PI (joint), 2015-2016.
Harvard University & Volvo Foundation. Transforming Urban Transport. Case Study Vienna, Austria. My role: PI (joint), 2014-2016.
Mid-Atlantic Transportation Sustainability University Transportation Center (MATS-UTC). Designing a bicycle and pedestrian traffic count program to estimate performance measures on streets and sidewalks in Blacksburg. My role: adviser, 2014-2016.
Mid-Atlantic University Transportation Center (MAUTC), Regional Coordination in Public Transportation: Lessons for the United States. My role: PI, 2013-2015
Mid-Atlantic University Transportation Center (MAUTC), Bikesharing and Economic Benefits. My role: PI, 2013-2014
Mid-Atlantic University Transportation Center (MAUTC), Multimodal Travel Behavior in Virginia, the Mid-Atlantic Region, and the USA. My role: PI, 2012-2013.
Virginia Tech Institute for Society Culture and Environment, support for proposal development for “Integrating Planning for Sustainable Economic Development and Transport: Lessons from Cities in Transition in Western Europe and the United States.” My role: CO-PI with Margaret Cowell, 2012.
Daimler Foundation/American Institute for Contemporary German Studies, Transportation Planning and Sustainability in North America and Germany: The Cases of Stuttgart and Northern Virginia. My role: CO-PI for national level analysis and Northern Virginia, 2012.
Institut fuer Angewandte Sozialwissenschaft (INFAS), State and Future Potential of Electric Mobility in Western Europe, North America, and Asia. My role: Co-PI for USA, 2011. (link)
Mid-Atlantic Universities Transportation Center (MAUTC), Analysis of Determinants of Bicycle Use in the Washington Metropolitan Area. My role: PI, 2009-2011. (link)
IFMO/BMW, Analysis of trends in young people’s mobility patterns in the United States, as part of an international research team studying trends in nine countries. My role: CO-PI for USA. 2010. (link to final report in German)
Alliance for Biking and Walking, Benchmarking Cycling and Walking in the USA. My role: Research Consultant 2008-
Virginia Tech Institute for Society Culture and Environment, Proposal Revision Support for “Metropolitan Climate Change Policies: Comparative analysis and policy exchange between Europe and the United States“ (with S. Hirt, J. Randolph, G. Reichard). My role: CO-PI for research on transport policy and planning in Germany. Summer 2010.
U.S. Department for Housing and Urban Development. Livable Communities Initiative. “Strategies to Increase Affordable Housing near Transit.”(with Casey Dawkins). My role: CO-PI on Virginia Tech part of the project.
University Transportation Research Center II, Rutgers University, Virginia Tech, CO-PI, Analysis of Bicycling Trends and Policies in Large American Cities, CO-PI, 2009-2010.
Thunderhead Alliance, Research Consultant, 2006-2007, Consulting and data analysis for a project connecting walking and cycling to public health in U.S. cities and States; funded by U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
German Institute of Economic Research, (DIW), CO-PI, 2006-2008, Analyzing and explaining differences and similarities in travel behavior in Germany and the U.S.
EDUCATION
Rutgers University, Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, New Brunswick, NJ:
– PhD in Planning and Public Policy, 2008 (Note: Dissertation honored with the “Barclay Gibbs Jones Award for Best Dissertation in Planning 2008” by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ASCP))
– Graduate Certificate in Transportation Studies, 2004;
– Master of City and Regional Studies, 2002
University of Constance, Department of Public Policy and Management, Konstanz, Germany:
– Master of Public Policy and Management, 2003 (German “Diplom”)
Sorbonne-Panthéon, Paris, France, Administration Économique, Exchange Student, 2000-2001
BOOKS
City Cycling Book
Link to Book Website
Bicycling in cities is booming, for many reasons: health and environmental benefits, time and cost savings, more and better bike lanes and paths, innovative bike sharing programs, and the sheer fun of riding. City Cycling offers a guide to this urban cycling renaissance, with the goal of promoting cycling as sustainable urban transportation available to everyone. It reports on cycling trends and policies in cities in North America, Europe, and Australia, and offers information on such topics as cycling safety, cycling infrastructure provisions including bikeways and bike parking, the wide range of bike designs and bike equipment, integration of cycling with public transportation, and promoting cycling for women and children.
City Cycling emphasizes that bicycling should not be limited to those who are highly trained, extremely fit, and daring enough to battle traffic on busy roads. The chapters describe ways to make city cycling feasible, convenient, and safe for commutes to work and school, shopping trips, visits, and other daily transportation needs. The book also offers detailed examinations and illustrations of cycling conditions in different urban environments: small cities (including Davis, California, and Delft, the Netherlands), large cities (including Sydney, Chicago, Toronto and Berlin), and “megacities” (London, New York, Paris, and Tokyo). These chapters offer a closer look at how cities both with and without historical cycling cultures have developed cycling programs over time. The book makes clear that successful promotion of city cycling depends on coordinating infrastructure, programs, and government policies.
MIT Press. Urban and Industrial Environments series.
ISBN-10: 0-262-51781-7
ISBN-13: 978-0-262-51781-2
Reports to Governments
Buehler, R., Zimmerman, M., and Lukacs, K. 2015. Regional Coordination of Public Transportation: Lessons from Germany, Switzerland, and Austria. Report prepared for the Mid- Atlantic University Transportation Research Consortium (MAUTC), University Park, PA as part of the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Research and Innovative Technology Administration, Washington, D.C.
Buehler, R., Hamre, A. 2014. “Economic Benefits of Capital Bikeshare: A Focus on Users and Businesses,” Report prepared for the Mid-Atlantic University Transportation Research Consortium (MAUTC), University Park, PA as part of the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Research and Innovative Technology Administration, Washington, D.C.
Buehler, R., Hamre, A. 2013. “Multimodal Travel Behavior in the United States,” Report prepared for the Mid-Atlantic University Transportation Research Consortium (MAUTC), University Park, PA as part of the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Research and Innovative Technology Administration, Washington, D.C.
Buehler, R., Hamre, A., Sonenklar, D., Goger, P. 2011. “Trends and Determinants of Cycling in the Washington, DC Region,” Report prepared for the U.S. Department of Transportation, Research and Innovative Technology Administration, Washington, DC, and the Mid- Atlantic University Transportation Research Consortium (MAUTC), University Park, PA.
Pucher, J., Buehler, R. 2011. “Analysis of Bicycling Trends and Policies in Large North American Cities: Lessons for New York,” Report for U. S. Department of Transportation, Research and Innovative Technology Administration, Washington, D.C. and UTRC II New York.
Dawkins, C., Buehler, R. 2011. “Promoting Affordable Housing Near Public Transit: The Role of Planning,” Report for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Washington, D.C.
Buehler, R., Kunert, U. 2008. “Trends und Determinanten des Verkehrsverhaltens in den USA und Deutschland / Trends and Determinants of Travel Behavior in Germany and the USA,” Report to the German Federal Ministry of Transportation and Urban Development (173 pages).
CHAPTERS
Dissertation:
Buehler, R. 2008. “Transport Policies, Travel Behavior, and Sustainability: A Comparison of Germany and the U.S.” Doctoral Dissertation; E.J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers University; honored with the “Barclay Gibbs Jones Award for Best Dissertation in Planning 2008” by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning.
Book Chapters and Encyclopedia Entries
Buehler, R., Stowe, J. 2015. “Bicycling in the Washington, DC Region: Trends in Ridership and Policies Since 1990,” In: Hyra, D., Prince, S. (eds.) Capital Dilemma: Growth and Inequality in Washington, DC. New York: Routledge, 180-206.
Buehler, R. 2014.“Public Transportation Ridership,” SAGE Encyclopedia of Transportation.
Buehler, R., Hamre, A. 2014. “Bicycle-Transit Linkages,” SAGE Encyclopedia of Transportation.
Buehler, R., Pucher, J. 2014. “Urban Transport: Promoting Sustainability in Germany,” In: Keleman, D. (ed.), Lessons from Europe: What Americans can Learn from European Public Policies. CQ Press.
Pucher, J., Buehler, R., Bassett, D., Dannenberg, A. 2012. “Walking and Cycling to Health: Recent Evidence from City, State, and International Comparisons,” In: Greavers, S. and Garrard, J. (eds.), Transport, the Environment and Public Health: Classic Papers on Non-motorised Travel. Edward Elgar. (Note: reprint of article)
Buehler, R. 2010. “Traffic Calming,” In: Robbins, P. (ed.) SAGE Reference Series on Green Society. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE.
Buehler, R. 2010. “Transportation,” In: Dutch, I.E. (ed.) Encyclopedia of Global Warming. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, pp. 993-994.
Pucher, J., Buehler, R. 2005. “Transport Policy in Post-Communist Europe,” In: Hensher, D., A. and Button, D. J. (eds.), Handbooks in Transportation. London: Elsevier, 2005, pp. 725-743.
Book Reviews:
Buehler, R. 2011. “Sustainable Transportation—Problems and Solutions,” Book Review, In: Journal of Planning Education and Research. Vol. 31, No. 4, pp 471-473.
Buehler, R. accepted. “Transport for Suburbia – Beyond the Automobile Age,” Book Review, In: Canadian Journal of Urban Research. Forthcoming 2011.
Buehler, R. 2006. “Making Urban Transportation Sustainable,” Book Review, In: Journal of the American Planning Association. Vol. 11, No. 3, pp. 370-371.
Other Publications:
Buehler, R. 2015. The Policy Problem. America’s Transportation Revolution. The European Blog.
Buehler, R. 2015. Germany’s Green City: A Journey Toward Sustainable Transportation Planning. CURB Magazine, Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 12-13
Pucher, J., Buehler, R. 2014. Cycling Boom in Small and Mid-Sized Cities. The Atlantic Cities/CityLab, blog.
Buehler, R., 2014. “9 Reasons the U.S. Ended Up So Much More Car-Dependent Than Europe,” The Atlantic Cities, blog.
Buehler, R., Jung, W., Hamre, A., and P. Stoddard. 2013. Transportation and Land-Use Planning in Germany and the U.S.: Lessons from the Stuttgart and Washington, DC Regions. AICGS Report Number 53. American Institute for Contemporary German Studies, Washington, DC.
Buehler, R. 2012. Daily Travel and CO2 Emissions from Passenger Transport: A Comparison of Germany and the United States. Essay in Transatlantic Perspectives Series, American Institute for Contemporary German Studies, Washington, DC.
Buehler, R., Keeley, M., Jungjohann, A., and M. Mehling. 2011. How Germany Became Europe’s Green Leader: A Look at Four Decades of Sustainable Policymaking. The Solutions Journal, Vol. 2, No.5.
Buehler, R. 2010. “Lance Armstong and I/Lance Armstong und ich,” Automotive Agenda, Special Volume on “Cities and the Automobile/Stadt und Auto,” Vol. 3, No. 8, p.86, Springer Automotive Media.
Buehler, R. 2010. “Viewpoint: How can the stigma of public transport as the ‘poor man’s vehicle’ be overcome to enhance sustainability and climate change mitigation?” Natural Resources Forum-A United Nations Sustainable Development Journal, Vol. 34, No. 4, 2010, p. 327.
Buehler, R., Pucher, J., Kunert, U. 2010. “Making Transportation Sustainable: Insights from Germany,” Planung Neu Denken, Vol. 5, No.2, 2010, (official reprint of Brookings Institution Report listed above).
Buehler, R., Lovrien, N. 2008. “Using National Travel Data in State Energy Master Planning: Gaps and Opportunities in National Transportation Data,” (peer-reviewed conference proceedings). Transportation Research Board annual meeting, Washington, D.C.
Buehler, R. “Urban Development in Mega-Cities in Developing Countries,” KOPS Master Thesis, Konstanz, 2003.
Published Letters to the Editor:
Buehler, R. 2010. “Response to: Where Bikes Rule,” Public Management (PM) Magazine, International City/County Management Association (ICMA) Press, Vol.92 (8).
Buehler, R. 2009. “Mixed-use Works Well in Downtown,” Badische Zeitung, Germany.
Buehler, R., Pucher, J., Kunert, U. 2008. “Can We Find a New Way to Get Home?” published letter to the editor responding to Paul Krugman’s column “Stranded in Suburbia,” New York Times.
ARTICLES
Buehler, R., Pucher, J. 2017. “Have Walking and Cycling Become Safer? Recent Evidence from High-Income Countries, with a Focus on the United States and Germany,” American Journal of Public Health, Vol. 107, No. 2, pp. 281–287.
Buehler, R., Pucher, J., Altshuler, A. 2017. “Vienna’s Path to Sustainable Transport,“ International Journal of Sustainable Transportation, Vol. 11, No. 4, 257-271.
Buehler, R., J. Pucher, R. Gerike, T. Goetschi. 2017. “Reducing car dependence in the heart of Europe: Lessons from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland,” Transport Reviews, Vol. 37, No. 1, pp 4-28.
Buehler, R., Dill, J. 2016. “Bikeway networks: A review of effects on cycling,” Transport Reviews. Vol. 36, No. 1, pages 9-27.
Pucher, J., Buehler, R. 2016. “Safer Cycling Through Improved Infrastructure,” American Journal of Public Health, Vol. 116, No. 12, pp 2089-2090. (Note: Invited Editorial).
Buehler, R., Götschi, T., Winters, M. 2016. “Moving Toward Active Transportation: How Policies Can Encourage Walking and Bicycling,” San Diego, CA: Active Living Research. (peer reviewed research brief).
Buehler, R., Hamre, A. 2016. ”An Examination of Recent Trends in Multimodal Travel Behavior Among American Motorists,” International Journal of Sustainable Transportation, Vol. 10, No.4, 354-364.
Buehler, R., Hamre, A. 2015. ”The multimodal majority? Driving, walking, cycling, and public transportation use among American adults,” Transportation, Volume 42, Issue 6,pp 1081-1101. Here is a link to a related poster presented at the TRB annual meeting.
Buehler, R., Pucher, J. 2012. “Cycling to Work in 90 Large American Cities: New Evidence on the Role of Bike Paths and Lanes,” Transportation, Vol. 39, 2, pp. 409-432.
Buehler, R., Keeley, M., Jungjohann, A., and M. Mehling. 2011. How Germany Became Europe’s Green Leader: A Look at Four Decades of Sustainable Policymaking. The Solutions Journal, Vol. 2, No.5.
Buehler, R., Pucher, R., Merom, D., Bauman, A. “Active Travel in Germany and the USA: Contributions of Daily Walking and Cycling to Physical Activity,” American Journal of Preventive Medicine, Vol. 40, No. 9, September 2011, pp. 241-250. Abstract.
Buehler, R., Pucher, J. “Cycling to Work in 90 Large American Cities: New Evidence on the Role of Bike Paths and Lanes,” Transportation, Vol. 38, 2011, in press.
Buehler, R., Pucher, J. 2011. “Making Public Transport Financially Sustainable,” Transport Policy, Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 128-136.
Buehler, R., Pucher, J. 2011. “Sustainable Transport in Freiburg: Lessons from Germany’s Environmental Capital,” International Journal of Sustainable Transportation, Vol. 5, pp. 43-70.
Buehler, R., Pucher, J., Kunert, U. 2009. “Making Transportation Sustainable: Insights from Germany,” Washington DC: The Brookings Institution, Metropolitan Policy Program, (38 pages plus statistical appendix).
Buehler, R. 2011. “Determinants of Mode Choice: A Comparison of Germany and the USA,” Transport Geography, Vol. 19, pp. 644-657.
Buehler, R. 2010. “Transport Policies, Automobile Use, and Sustainable Transportation: A Comparison of Germany and the USA,” Journal of Planning Education and Research, Vol. 30, pp. 76-93.
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MAGGIE COWELL, Associate Professor
POSITION & CONTACT INFO
MAGGIE COWELL
Associate Professor
mmcowell@vt.edu
(571) 858-3118
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Primary Interests:
(1) Economic Development
(2) Community Resilience
PROFESSIONAL BIO
I am an Assistant Professor of Urban Affairs and Planning at Virginia Tech. Since 2004, I have been a member of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation-funded research project, “Building Resilient Regions.” I am also part of a team of researchers assessing the potential of the homeland security economy for community economic development at the St. Elizabeths Hospital site in Southeast Washington, DC. My research has been funded by the Kauffman Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, National Association of Counties, and the United States Economic Development Administration. In 2014, I published a book manuscript, Dealing with Deindustrialization: Adaptive Resilience in Eight Midwestern Regions (Routledge).
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RESEARCH AREAS
In scholarship and in practice, my primary goal is to shed light on the unique relationship between governance, economic development interventions, and regional resilience. My research approach includes quantitative analysis of medium size datasets and qualitative case study research at the community, city, and regional scales. Much of my early case study work was done independently, but more recent efforts have led to collaborations with other scholars and practitioners, which has in turn increased my exposure to other pertinent case study areas and to other methods of inquiry. As these collaborative efforts have increased in number, so too have invitations to participate and speak at national and international events in Davos, Dublin, London, Manchester, and Paris, all of which have helped me to expand the recognition and impact of my scholarly contributions. My current focus is on the resilience of regions and regional economies, especially during periods of transition. Within this framework, my scholarly endeavors generally fall within the two main areas of economic development and regional resilience.
Most of my research focuses on the people who have been most affected by deindustrialization and economic abandonment, both of which historically have disproportionately affected low-income and minority populations. Finding solutions to enable these populations through economic and community development interventions is a central motivation of this research and a primary motivation of my scholarship and outreach efforts in general. Another important area of research involves leveraging federal investments in a way that links disenfranchised citizens of Washington, DC to job and business opportunities that result from that investment. I am currently working on a number of articles and funding proposals that continue exploring the potential for this type of collaboration at the St. Elizabeth’s project site in Southeast DC.
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
My work on economic development in distressed regions has resulted in a number of publications and presentations as well as teaching and service opportunities. My most significant contributions in this area stem from an ongoing assessment of the innovation cluster potential at a new Department of Homeland Security (DHS) facility in a severely disenfranchised Washington, DC neighborhood known as St. Elizabeths. The main thrust of this Economic Development Administration-funded project involved an economic analysis of the DHS economy and its role in the Capital Region as well as interviews and focus groups with DHS employees, related contractors, and neighborhood groups. The collaborative, four-phased project resulted in the recent completion of a “District Planning and Implementation Strategy for an Innovation Cluster at St Elizabeths”, which will serve as an important framework for development occurring at St. Elizabeths. Collaborators for this project include Dr. John Provo from Virginia Tech’s (VT) Office of Economic Development (OED) and Dr. Heike Mayer from the University of Bern, Switzerland. Dr. Mayer and I are presently exploring funding opportunities to continue our study of this neighborhood as it undergoes transformation.
Relevant Articles:
Cowell, M., Mayer, H. (2014). Anchor Institutions and Disenfranchised Communities: Lessons for DHS and St. Elizabeths. In Robert Silverman and Kelly Patterson (Eds.), Re-Thinking Revitalization in the Inner-City: Schools and Other Institutions in the Community Development Process. Routledge.
Mayer, H., Cowell, M. (2013). Capital Cities as Knowledge Hubs: The Economic Geography of Homeland Security Contracting. In Ben DeRudder (Ed.), Hub Cities in the Knowledge Economy. Ashgate.
Cowell, M., Provo, J. (in press). Reshoring and the ‘Manufacturing Moment’. In John Bryson, Jennifer Clark, Vida Vanchan (Eds.), The Handbook of Manufacturing Industries in the World Economy. Edward Elgar.
Cowell, M. Gainsborough, J, & Lowe, K. (forthcoming) Homogenized diversity: Economic visions in the Great Recession. Journal of Urban Affairs.
Cowell, M., Provo, J. Reshoring to Virginia (The Economic Development Studio @ VT).
Cowell, M., Mayer, H., Provo, J. (2012). DC Innovation Strategy for St. Elizabeths. Washington, DC.
Presentations:
Cowell, M. (Presenter), Invited Discussant. “Regional Systems and Regional Economic Growth.” Conference on Urban and Regional Policy and Its Effects, George Washington University, Washington, DC. (2010).
Cowell, M. (Presenter), DC Office of Planning, St. Elizabeths Scoping Meeting, DC Office of Planning, Washington, DC, “Innovation Strategy for St. Elizabeths”, Professional, State.(September 12, 2011).
Cowell, M. (Co-presenter), O’Brien, P. (Co-presenter), Ward 8 Roundtable Meeting, Ward 8 Councilmember Marion Barry’s Office, Washington, DC, “Employment, Business, and Workforce Opportunities at St. Elizabeths”, Non-Academic, State. (August 31, 2011).
Cowell, M. (Co-presenter), Provo, J. (Co-presenter), Invited by the International Economic Development Council to speak about Virginia Tech’s research role in the St. Elizabeths redevelopment project (December 2010).
Cowell, M. (Co-presenter), O’Brien, P. (Co-presenter), Presentations to District of Columbia’s Office of Planning on the St. Elizabeths project early findings (December 2010 and April 2011).
Co-facilitated panel on “Planning’s Role in Stabilizing and Expanding Communities” at Annual Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Annual Conference (2010).
Cowell, M. (Co-presenter), Hyra, D. (Co-presenter), Gallaudet University, Washington, DC, “Economic Development Strategies”, Outreach, University, Invited. (April 17, 2013).
Cowell, M. (Co-presenter), Virginia Economic Development Partnership, Richmond, VA, “Reshoring to Virginia”, Professional, Regional, published elsewhere, Invited. (December 2, 2012).
Cowell, M. (Co-presenter), O’Brien, P. (Co-presenter), Ward 8 Roundtable Meeting, Ward 8 Councilmember Marion Barry’s Office, Washington, DC, “Employment, Business, and Workforce Opportunities at St. Elizabeths”, Non-Academic, State, published elsewhere, Invited. (August 1, 2012).
RESILIENCE
Much of my research emphasis is in the area of regional resilience and the identification of factors that increase or decrease a region’s resilience. To that end, I have long been a part of the MacArthur Foundation funded research network, “Building Resilient Regions” (BRR). For nearly ten years, this interdisciplinary team of scholars and practitioners has investigated why regions matter, what constitutes resilience in the face of various challenges, and what factors help to build and sustain regional resilience. My ongoing research efforts within BRR have resulted in three key publications: two co-authored papers (one in Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society and one in Journal of Urban Affairs) and one sole-authored paper (in Cities). More recently, and to culminate the formal end of the ten year grant from MacArthur, I co-organized (with Dr. Rolf Pendall of the Urban Institute) a daylong symposium at the Urban Institute in Washington, DC.
Resilience is also the focus of my book project, which utilizes key stakeholder interviews to examine industrial Midwestern metropolitan regions in the United States as they struggled with the economic restructuring that began to unravel local economies during the early 1980s. The working title is, Dealing with Deindustrialization: Adaptive Resilience in Eight Midwestern Regions (to be published in 2014).
Along with Professor Joe Schilling of the Metropolitan Institute, I have also established a number of international research projects on the topic of community and regional resilience. In addition to organizing a panel on “Resilient Urban Regeneration” at the recent Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning conference in Dublin, I also co-facilitated (with J. Schilling) an international research symposium on “Shrinking Cities Scholarship.”
Relevant Articles:
Cowell, M. (forthcoming 2014). Dealing with Deindustrialization: Adaptive Resilience in Eight Midwestern Regions.
Cowell, M., DeSouza, K. (in press). Micro-scale Disasters and Local Resiliency. In James Bohland and Jack Harrald (Eds.), The Resiliency Challenge: Transforming Theory to Action. Charles C Thomas Press.
Cowell, M. (2013). Bounce back or move on: Regional resilience and economic development planning. Cities, 30, 212-222.
Pendall, R., Foster, K. & Cowell, M. (2010). Resilience and regions: Building understanding of the metaphor. Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society 3(1), 71 – 84.
Cowell, M. (2012). Review of “Collaborative Resilience Moving Through Crisis to Opportunity“, Bruce Goldstein (Ed.) Columbus, OH in Journal of Planning Literature.
Presentations:
Cowell, M. (Presenter), Shrinking Cities Research Cafe, University College Dublin, Ireland. “On Resilient Urban Regeneration: Situating the Manchester Case.” Academic, International, Invited. (July 14, 2013).
Cowell, M. (Presenter), Invited Lecture. “Resilient Regions in the Wake of Deindustrialization.” Rutgers, Camden. Urban Studies Program. Camden, NJ. (2010).
Organized panel on “Resilient Urban Regeneration” at Annual Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning – Association of European Schools of Planning Annual Conference, Dublin, Ireland (July 2013).
Co-facilitated (with J. Schilling) international research symposium on “Shrinking Cities Scholarship” in Dublin, Ireland (July 2013).
OTHER RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS
Relevant Articles:
Cowell, M. (2010). “Polycentric regions: Comparing complementarity and institutional governance in the San Francisco Bay Area, the Randstad and Emilia-Romagna.” Urban Studies, 47(5), 945-965.
Cowell, M. (2005). “Prison privatization: Frugal funding or investment scam?” Progressive Planning 163, 25-26.
Presentations:
Cowell, M. (Co-presenter), Ridenour Faculty Forum, Virginia Tech, School of Public and International Affairs, Blacksburg, VA, “Governance in Crisis”, Academic, Regional, Invited. (April 25, 2013).
Cowell, M. (Presenter), Shrinking Cities Networking Workshop, Centre for Urban and Regional Studies, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK, “Research Agenda”, Academic, International, Invited. (June 11, 2012).
Cowell, M. (Presenter), Swiss-U.S. Capital Cities Convening, University of Bern and Virginia Tech, Alexandria, VA, “DC Research”, Academic, International, Invited. (September 14, 2011).
Co-facilitated Cities in Transition portion of “Sustainable Communities Research Roundtable” to inform Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Interagency Partnership (September 2010).
Co-facilitated three focus groups with industry experts in homeland security and leaders from the Department of Homeland Security. Co-hosted by Washington DC Economic Partnership and the Vradenburg Foundation (January – May 2011).
COURSES TAUGHT
Descriptions of the primary courses that I teach are provided below.
UAP 5234, Urban Economy and Public Policy (Credits: 3)
This core course introduces planning students to relevant economic concepts in order to understand and evaluate planning issues and challenges. The course is designed for students with little background in economics, but has also proven useful to students with an economics background who want to deepen their knowledge and to apply economic reasoning to planning. Economics is the study of how economies work and how individuals, firms, and organizations make decisions. Urban economics is the economic study of urban areas, urban spatial structure, and the location of households and firms. A variety of issues, including development, housing, water rights, poverty, traffic congestion, economic decline, trade and regional governance fundamentally relate to urban economics. UAP 5234 provides students with the background knowledge, language, and theories necessary for critical analysis and effective intervention in these areas of public policy.
UAP 5774, The Economic Development Studio @ Virginia Tech (Credits: 3)
The Economic Development Studio @ Virginia Tech is a resource for communities throughout the Commonwealth of Virginia. We conduct research on economic development issues, inform and empower decision-making, and provide technically sound recommendations for economic development strategy and action.
The Studio is a collaborative effort between Virginia Tech’s Urban Affairs and Planning program and the Office of Economic Development. Maggie Cowell and John Provo are the faculty leading the studio effort. Graduate students work under faculty supervision on behalf of real-life clients and deliver actionable research projects. The students design and shape the implementation of the project, which typically provides a final sheltered work experience before they embark on their careers. The studio course is designed to provide a final, hands-on, professional experience to students who are close to completing their graduate degrees and have an interest in economic development.
More information is available on the studio website at:
http://www.econdev.vt.edu/index.php/what-we-do/studio
UAP 5784, Economic Development Planning Topics: Community Resilience (Credits: 3)
This course examines community economic development and the resilience of communities in the face of various challenges. We focus largely on theory, research, and practice as they pertain to community economic development and resilience. Students investigate challenges currently affecting various communities and associated community development responses. The course also helps students to better understand the factors that affect a community’s vitality or resilience, the structures that determine how community development operates, and how community development responses are crafted.
UAP 5784, Local Economic Development Planning (Credits: 3)
This course presents a survey of the field of local economic development planning. We begin with an overview of the history of economic development and an examination of its theoretical and methodological foundation. In the second part of the course we focus on economic development programs and policies pertaining to industries, places and people. Case presentations by students and a field trip are utilized to provide a practice-oriented context for the discussed programs and policies. In the second course segment we focus on a variety of economic development programs and policies. This part of the course is divided into three sections, including:
– Economic development programs targeted at industries; – Programs and policies aimed at developing places; and – People-based programs and policies.
SPONSORED RESEARCH
Building Resilient Regions, Sub-award, PI: M. Cowell, Sponsor: UC Berkeley, MacArthur Foundation, (January 1, 2013 – September 1, 2013).
District Planning and Implementation, Co-PIs: M. Cowell, H. Mayer, Sponsor: DC Office of Planning/Economic Development Administration, (January 10, 2011 – October 30, 2012).
Integrating Planning for Sustainable Economic Development and Transport: Lessons from Cities in Transition in Western Europe and the United States, Co-PIs: R. Buehler, M. Cowell, Sponsor: Virginia Tech Institute for Society Culture and Environment, (May 2012 – June 2012).
Resilience of citizen engagement to local disasters, Co-PIs: K. DeSouza, M. Cowell, Sponsor: Institute for Society, Culture & Environment, (January 1, 2012 – June 1, 2012).
Building Resilient Regions, Sub-award, PI: M. Cowell, Sponsor: UC Berkeley, MacArthur Foundation, (January 1, 2012 – August 31, 2012).
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
2009 Instructor, City and Regional Planning, Cornell University
2006 Adjunct Professor, Urban and Regional Planning, SUNY at Buffalo
ADMINISTRATIVE AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2004-2006 Assistant Regional Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Buffalo, New York
ARTICLES
Cowell, M. Gainsborough, J, & Lowe, K. (2015). “Homogenized diversity: Economic visions in the Great Recession.” Journal of Urban Affairs.
Cowell M. (2014). Dealing with Deindustrialization: Adaptive Resilience in American Midwestern Regions. Routledge.
Cowell, M., DeSouza, K. (in press). “Micro-scale Disasters and Local Resiliency.” In James Bohland and Jack Harrald (Eds.) (Ed.), The Resiliency Challenge: Transforming Theory to Action. Charles C Thomas Press.
Cowell, M., Provo, J. (2014). Reshoring and the ‘Manufacturing Moment’. In John Bryson, Jennifer Clark, Vida Vanchan (Ed.), The Handbook of Manufacturing Industries in the World Economy. Edward Elgar.
Cowell, M., Mayer, H. (2013). Anchor Institutions and Disenfranchised Communities: Lessons for DHS and St. Elizabeths. In Robert Silverman and Kelly Patterson (Ed.), Re-Thinking Revitalization in the Inner-City: Schools and Other Institutions in the Community Development Process. Routledge.
Cowell, M. (2013). “Bounce Back or Move On: Regional Resilience and Economic Development Planning.” Cities. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2012.04.001
Mayer, H. & Cowell, M. (2012). Capital Cities as Knowledge Hubs: The Economic Geography of Homeland Security Contracting. In Ben DeRudder (Ed.), Hub Cities in the Knowledge Economy. Ashgate.
Pendall, R., Foster, K. & Cowell, M.( 2010). “Resilience and Regions: Building Understanding of the Metaphor.” Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society 3(1): 71 – 84.
Cowell, M. (2010). “Polycentric Regions: Comparing Complementarity and Institutional Governance in the San Francisco Bay Area, the Randstad and Emilia-Romagna.” Urban Studies 47(5): 945-965.
Cowell, M. (2005). “Prison Privatization: Frugal Funding or Investment Scam?” Progressive Planning, No. 163: 25-26.
Cowell, M. & Deitz, R. (2005). “How New York State’s Agriculture Industry Is Staying Competitive” The Regional Economy of Upstate New York. Spring.
“Polycentric Regions: Comparing Complementarity and Institutional Governance in the San Francisco Bay Area, the Randstad, and Emilia-Romagna”, Urban Studies (forthcoming 2009).
“Regional Resilience: Building Clarity for a Potentially Fuzzy Concept” (with Rolf Pendall and Kate Foster) Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society (forthcoming 2009/10).
“Prison Privatization: Frugal Funding or Investment Scam?” 2005. Progressive Planning, No. 163: 25-26.
“How New York State’s Agriculture Industry Is Staying Competitive” (with Richard Deitz). 2005. The Regional Economy of Upstate New York.
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RALPH HALL, Undergraduate Programs Director, Associate Professor
RALPH HALL
Undergraduate Programs Director, Associate Professor
(540) 231-7332
rphall@vt.edu
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Major Areas of Specialization:
– Provision of sustainable water supply services in developing countries
– Sustainable transportation in developed countries
– Strategies to transform the industrial state towards sustainable development
PROFESSIONAL BIO
My research and teaching interests lie in several domains that are connected by the underlying goal of making progress towards more sustainable forms of development. My first research area focuses on the provision of sustainable water supply services in developing countries. Since arriving at Virginia Tech, I have co-led two major research projects that studied the emerging concept of multiple-use water services (MUS) in Colombia, Senegal, and Kenya for the World Bank’s Water and Sanitation Program (WSP), and evaluated a rural water program in Nampula, Mozambique for the US Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC). This research has been published in various journals, including Water Alternatives, Sustainability, the Journal of Development Studies, the Journal of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene for Development, and Science and Engineering Ethics.
My second research area focuses on sustainable transportation in developed countries. In this area, I have co-authored a book with international scholars entitled
Sustainable Transportation: Indicators, Frameworks, and Performance Management
. I also serve as a member of the National Academies Transportation Research Board’s (TRB’s) Transportation and Sustainability Committee, and led its research subcommittee from 2012 to 2016.
My third research area focuses on strategies to transform the industrial state towards sustainable development. In this area, specific emphasis is given to nurturing disruptive innovation and addressing inequality, developing meaningful and well-paid employment, and expanding earning capacity (leveraging ideas such as binary economics) while ensuring human activity remains within ecosystem limits. In this area, I am currently preparing a second edition of my co-authored textbook entitled
Technology, Globalization, and Sustainable Development: Transforming the Industrial State
. I also plan to advance research focused on inclusive economics through SPIA’s Beloved Community Initiative that will be launched this fall.
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Technology, Management & Policy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006.
MEng., Civil Engineering, University of Southampton 1999
M.S., Civil & Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002
M.S., Technology & Policy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
Associate Professor, Virginia Tech, 2016-present
Affiliated Scholar of the Global Forum on Urban and Regional Resilience (GFURR), 2014-present
Affiliate Member of the Myers-Lawson School of Construction, 2013-present
Coordinator of the VT Graduate Certificate in Global Planning and International Development Studies, 2012-present
Faculty Fellow, Metropolitan Institute, 2011- present
Assistant Professor, Virginia Tech, 2009-2016
Postdoctoral Scholar, Stanford University, 2006-2008
Graduate Research Assistant, MIT, 2000-2006
Curriculum Development Advisor, Judge Institute of Business, Cambridge University, Summer of 2002
ADMINISTRATIVE & PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Technical Advisory Team Member,
Transform International
, 2016-present
Committee Member, Transportation Research Board (TRB)
Committee on Transportation and Sustainability
, ADD40, 2012-present
Research Chair for the Transportation Research Board (TRB) Committee on Transportation and Sustainability, ADD40, 2012-2016
Committee Research Coordinator, TRB, ADD40, 2012-2016
Policy Analyst, Office of the Secretary of Transportation, U.S. DOT, Summers of 2001 and 2003
Civil Engineer, Halcrow Group, Swindon, UK 1999-2000
SPONSORED RESEARCH
2017-2018: Virginia Tech, “The Beloved Community Initiative,” Co-PI.
2017-2018: Global Systems Science (GSS) Destination Area, Virginia Tech. “Expanding the Mzuni-Virginia Tech Library Design Partnership to Include GSS-Related Research and Education Opportunities,” Co-PI.
2015-2016: ISCE Grant, “Interdisciplinary Exploratory Research: Visualizing Water Services for Community Decision Making,” PI.
2013-2015: VT, Center for Innovation in Learning, “Peering into the Black Box of Learning via Cognitive Life Logging,” Google Glass, Single PI.
2012-2015: University Grants Commission, India, “Creating an International Program for Sustainable Infrastructure Development between the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur (IITK) and VT,” PI.
2012-2014: VT, AdvanceVT, “Mentoring micro-grant to work with Prof. Robert Ashford,” Single PI.
2010-2013: Millennium Challenge Corporation, “Impact Evaluation of the Millennium Challenge Corporation-supported Rural Water Investment in Nampula, Mozambique,” Co-PI.
2009-2010: National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP), “Sustainability Performance Measures for State Departments of Transportation and Other Transportation Agencies,” Senior Advisor.
2007-2010: Water and Sanitation Program (WSP), World Bank, “Assessing the Link between Productive Use of Domestic Water, Poverty Reduction, and Sustainability (Colombia, Senegal, and Kenya),” Postdoc (2007-2008, Stanford University) / Co-PI (2009-2010, VT).
BOOKS
Ashford, N. A., and Hall, R. P. (forthcoming) Transforming the Industrial State.
Gudmundsson, H., Hall, R. P., Marsden, G., and Zietsman, J. (2015)
Sustainable Transportation: Indicators, Frameworks, and Performance Management
. Springer or Samfundslitteratur, pages 304.
Ashford, N. A., and Hall, R. P. (2011)
Technology, Globalization, and Sustainable Development: Transforming the Industrial State
. Yale University Press, New Haven, pages 752.
CHAPTERS
Hall, R. P., Gudmundsson, H., Marsden, G., and Zietsman, J. (2014)
Sustainable Transportation
. The Encyclopedia of Transportation: Social Science and Policy, SAGE, pp. 1300-1305.
Cutcher-Gershenfeld, J., Field, F., Hall, R.P., Kirchain, R., Marks, D.H., Oye, K., and Sussman, J.M. (2004) “Sustainability as an Organizing Design Principle for Large-Scale Engineering Systems”. Chapter 8 of the MIT Engineering Systems Division’s (ESD’s) Engineering Systems Monograph.
ARTICLES
An, Y., Garvin, M., and Hall, R. P. (2017) Pathways to Better Project Delivery: the Link between Capacity Factors and Urban Infrastructure Projects in India. World Development, 94, 393–405.
Hall, R. P., Ranganathan, S, and Raj, G. C. (2017) A General Micro-level Modeling Approach to Analyzing Interconnected SDGs: Achieving SDG 6 and More through Multiple-Use Water Services (MUS). Sustainability, 9(2), 314.
Chirwa, C. F. C, Holm, R. H., Hall, R. P., Krometis, L-A, H., Vance, E., Edwards, A., and Guan, T. (2017) Pit latrine fecal sludge resistance using a dynamic cone penetrometer in low income areas in Mzuzu city, Malawi. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 14(2), 87.
Van Houweling, E., Hall, R. P., Carzolio, M., and Vance, E. (2016) My neighbor drinks clean water, while I continue to suffer;” an analysis of the intra-community and intra-household impacts of a rural water project in Mozambique. Journal of Development Studies. DOI: 10.1080/00220388.2016.1224852.
Hall, R. P., Van Houweling, E., Huang, W., and Vance, E. (2015) Willingness to Pay for VIP Latrines in Rural Senegal. Journal of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene for Development. 5(4) 586-593.
Hall, R. P., Vance, E., and Van Houweling, E. (2015) Upgrading Domestic-Plus Systems in Rural Senegal: An Incremental Income-Cost (I-C) Analysis. Water Alternatives 8(3): 317-336.
Hall, R. P., Vance, E., and Van Houweling, E. (2014) The Productive Use of Rural Piped Water in Senegal. Water Alternatives 7(3): 480-498.
Bryce, J, Flintsch, G., and Hall, R. P. (2014) A Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis Technique for Sustainable Infrastructure Management Business Practices. Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment 32: 435–445. DOI: 10.1016/j.trd.2014.08.019.
Seiss, M., Vance, E., and, Hall, R. P. (2014) The Importance of Cleaning Data During Fieldwork: Evidence from Mozambique. Survey Practice 7(4).
Hall, R. P. (2014) Teaching Using Google Glass and Apps: Creating a platform to enable the fluid and continuous exchange of ideas and information. The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy.
Hall, R. P., Van Koppen, B., and Van Houweling, E. (2013) The Human Right to Water: The Importance of Domestic and Productive Uses of Water. Science and Engineering Ethics. 20(4):849–868.
Ashford, N. A., Hall, R. P., and Ashford, R. (2012) Addressing the Crisis in Employment and Consumer Demand: Reconciliation with Environmental and Financial Sustainability. The European Financial Review, October-November, 2012, pp. 63-68.
Ashford, R., Hall, R. P., and Ashford, N. A. (2012) Broadening Capital Acquisition with the Earnings of Capital as a Means of Sustainable Growth and Environmental Sustainability. The European Financial Review, October-November, 2012, pp. 70-74.
Van Houweling, E.; Hall, R.P.; Sakho Diop, A.; Davis, J. and Seiss, M. (2012) The role of productive water use in women’s livelihoods: Evidence from rural Senegal. Water Alternatives 5(3): 658-677.
Ashford, N. A., and Hall, R. P. (2012) Regulation-Induced Innovation for Sustainable Development. Administrative & Regulatory Law News, Spring 2012, 37(3): 21-23.
Ashford, N. A., Hall, R. P., and Ashford, R. (2012) The Crisis in Employment and Consumer Demand: Reconciliation with Environmental Sustainability. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 2, 1-22.
Ashford, N. A., and Hall, R. P. (2011) The Importance of Regulation-Induced Innovation for Sustainable Development. Sustainability, 3(1), 270-292. [See theEuropean Commission’s summary of the paper.]
Ramani, T. L., Zietsman, J., Gudmundsson, H., Hall, R. P. , and Marsden, G. (2011) Framework for Sustainability Assessment by Transportation Agencies. Transportation Research Record, No. 2242, 2011, pp. 9–18.
Burton, M.A. and Hall, R. P. (1999) Asset Management for Irrigation Systems: Addressing the Issue of Serviceability. Irrigation and Drainage Systems, 13(2): 145-163.
RESEARCH REPORTS
Hall, R. P., Van Houweling, E., Polys, N., Wenzel, S., and Williams, P. (2015) “Interdisciplinary Exploratory Research: Visualizing Water Services for Decision Making. Field Report.” Submitted to the Institute for Society, Culture, and Environment, Virginia Tech, August 2015.
Hall, R. P., Davis, J., Van Houweling, E., Vance, E., Carzolio, M., Seiss, M., and Russel, K. (2014) “Impact Evaluation of the Mozambique Rural Water Supply Activity Under a Cooperative Agreement between MCC and Stanford University.” Submitted to the Millennium Challenge Corporation, April 15, 2014, 120 pages. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.1.1498.9844.
Hall, R. P., Van Houweling, E., Vance, E., Carzolio, M., and Davis, J. (2014) “Evaluation of Eight Small-Scale Solar Systems in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique.” Submitted to the Millennium Challenge Corporation, April 15, 2014, 51 pages.
Hall, R. P., Davis, J., Vance, E., Van Houweling, E., Carzolio, M., and Russel, K. (2013) “Impact Evaluation Design and Implementation Report. Impact Evaluation of the Rural Water Activity in Nampula, Mozambique.” Submitted to the Millennium Challenge Corporation, April 30, 2013, 35 pages.
Hall, R. P. and Puckett, E. (2013) Analysis of TRB’s Research Needs Statements (RNS) Database for Records Related to Sustainability, Virginia Tech, pages 22.
Hall, R. P. Davis, J., et al. (2012) “Impact Evaluation of the Millennium Challenge Corporation-Supported Rural Water Supply Activity (RWSA) in Nampula, Mozambique. Mid-Term Report.” Submitted to the Millennium Challenge Corporation, June 30, 2012, pages 94.
Hall, R. P., Van Houweling, E., Vance, E., Hope, R., and Davis, J. (2011) “Assessing the Link between Productive use of Domestic Water, Poverty Reduction, and Sustainability. Senegal Country Report.” Submitted to the Water and Sanitation Program, World Bank, September 9, 2011, pages 95.
Davis, J., Hall, R. P., Hope, R., Marks, S., and Van Houweling, E. (2011) “Assessing the Link between Productive use of Domestic Water, Poverty Reduction, and Sustainability. Synthesis Report.” Submitted to the Water and Sanitation Program, World Bank, September 9, 2011, pages 35.
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STEVE HANKEY, Assistant Professor
POSITION & CONTACT INFO
STEVE HANKEY
Assistant Professor
hankey@vt.edu
(540) 231-7508
Hankey’s academic and professional interests lie in merging the fields of urban planning, engineering, and policy. This goal is evidenced by his background including: academic degrees (chemical and civil engineering; urban planning), professional experience (launching new markets for a car-sharing company [Zipcar]), and current appointment (assistant professor in Public and International Affairs). He sees this merger as a necessity to move our society forward in a thoughtful and productive way.
A major societal and research question is how best to build healthy, clean cities. Sustainable transportation systems will likely play a crucial role in acheiving that goal. Hankey’s scholarly contributions towards this goal fall into three main research agendas: (1) measurement and modeling of urban air quality, (2) integrating bicycle and pedestrian traffic counts and models in the planning process, and (3) assessing cyclists’ and pedestrians’ exposure to hazards in urban environments.
Personal Website
Google Scholar
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
Aug 2014 – present:
Assistant Professor, Urban affairs and Planning, School of Public and International Affairs, VT
June 2016 – present:
Affiliate Faculty, Civil and Environmental Engineering, VT
ADMINISTRATIVE AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Operations Manager, Zipcar Inc.
2006 to 2008, Responsible for the launch of two Zipcar markets (Toronto, ON and Vancouver, BC) and managing ~5 employees per market.
SPONSORED RESEARCH
Current Research Support:
2016-2021, US Environmental Protection Agency, Total budget: $10 million; share to VT: $278,629, “Center for Air, Climate, and Energy Solutions.” Co-Investigator.
2017-2019, Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Science (VT), Total budget (and share to VT): $79,820, “Towards real-time air quality models: adding temporal precision to empirical models of air quality.” Principal Investigator.
2017-2018, City of Minneapolis, Total budget (and share to VT): $6,300, “Developing VOC land use regression models in Minneapolis, MN.” Principal Investigator.
2017-2018, Safe-D UTC, Total budget: $54,066; share to VT: $20,352, “Street noise relationship to vulnerable road user safety.” Co-Investigator.
2017-2018, Mid-Atlantic Transportation Sustainability UTC, Total budget (and share to VT): $84,436, “Planning for walking and cycling in an autonomous vehicle future.” Co-Investigator.
Past Research Support:
2016-2017, Mid-Atlantic Transportation Sustainability UTC, Total budget (and share to VT): $89,232, “Multi-city, national-scale direct-demand models of peak-period bicycle and pedestrian traffic.” Principal Investigator.
2016-2017, Institute for Society, Culture, and Environment (VT), Total budget (and share to VT): $9,430, “Mood state in transport environments: Assessing the impact of mode, purpose, and the built environment.” Principal Investigator.
2014-2016, Mid-Atlantic Transportation Sustainability UTC, Total budget: $147,218; share to VT: $135,878, “Designing a bicycle and pedestrian traffic count program to estimate performance measures on streets and sidewalks in Blacksburg, VA.” Principal Investigator.
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Civil Engineering, University of Minnesota, 2014
MURP, Urban and Regional Planning (minor: Public Health), University of Minnesota, 2012
M.S., Civil Engineering, University of Minnesota, 2012
B.S., Chemical Engineering, University of Wisconsin, 2005
ARTICLES
Peer-reviewed Journal Articles:
Hankey, S., Marshall, J., “Urban form, air pollution, and health.” (in review)
Yeganeh, A., Hall, R., Pearce, A., Hankey, S., “An Equity Analysis of the U.S. Public Transportation System Based on Job Accessibility.” (in review)
Wang, J., Lindsey, G., Hankey, S., “Exposure to risk and the built environment, an empirical study of bicycle crashes in Minneapolis.” (in review)
Hankey, S., Lu, T., Mondschein, A., Buehler, R., “Spatial models of active travel in small communities: Merging the goals of traffic monitoring and direct-demand modeling.” (in review)
Lu, T., Mondschein, A., Buehler, R., Hankey, S., “Designing a bicycle and pedestrian traffic monitoring program to estimate annual average daily traffic in a small rural college town.” (2017) Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, 53, 193-204.
Hankey, S., Lindsey, G., Marshall, J.D., “Population-level exposure to particulate air pollution during active travel: Planning for low-exposure, health-promoting cities.” (2017) Environmental Health Perspectives, 125(4), 527-534.
Hankey, S., Lindsey, G., “Facility-demand models of peak-period pedestrian and bicycle traffic: A comparison of fully-specified and reduced-form models.” (2016) Transportation Research Record, 2586, 48-58.
Wang, J., Lindsey, G., Hankey, S., Wu, X., “Monitoring and modeling urban trail traffic: Validation of direct demand models in Minneapolis, MN and Columbus, OH.” (2016) Transportation Research Record, 2593, 47-59.
Hankey, S., Marshall, J.D., “On-bicycle exposure to particulate air pollution: particle number, black carbon, PM2.5, and particle size.” (2015) Atmospheric Environment, 122, 65-73.
Hankey, S., Marshall, J.D., “Land use regression models of particulate air pollution (particle number, black carbon, PM2.5, particle size) using mobile monitoring.” (2015) Environmental Science & Technology, 49(15), 9194-9202.
Hankey, S., Sullivan, K., Kinnick, A., Koskey, A., et al., “Using objective measures of stove use and indoor air quality to evaluate a cookstove intervention in rural Uganda.” (2015) Energy for Sustainable Development, 25, 67-74.
Dekoninck, L., Bottledooren, D., Int Panis, L., Hankey, S., et al., “Applicability of a noise-based model to estimate in-traffic exposure to black carbon and particle number concentrations in different cultures.” (2015) Environment International, 74, 89-98.
Hankey, S., Lindsey, G., Marshall, J.D., “Day-of-year scaling factors and design considerations for non-motorized traffic monitoring programs.” (2014) Transportation Research Record, 2468, 64-73.
Wang, X., Lindsey, G., Hankey, S., “Estimating mixed-mode urban trail traffic using negative binomial regression models.” (2014) Journal of Urban Planning and Development, 140(1), 1-9.
Hankey, S., Lindsey, G., Wang, X., Borah, J., et al., “Estimating use of non-motorized infrastructure: models of bicycle and pedestrian traffic in Minneapolis, MN.” (2012) Landscape and Urban Planning, 107(3), 307-316.
Hankey, S., Marshall, J.D., Brauer, M., “Health impacts of the built environment: within-urban variability in physical inactivity, air pollution, and ischemic heart disease mortality.” (2012) Environmental Health Perspectives, 120(2), 247-253.
Hankey, S., Marshall, J.D., “Impacts of urban form on future U.S. passenger-vehicle greenhouse gas emissions.” (2010) Energy Policy, 38(9), 4880-4887.
Boies, A., Hankey, S., Kittelson, D., Marshall, J.D., et al., “Reducing motor vehicle greenhouse gas emissions in a non-California state: a case study of Minnesota.” (2009) Environmental Science & Technology, 43(23), 8721-8729.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Technical Reports:
Hankey, S., Lu, T., Mondschein, A., Buehler, B., “Designing a Bicycle and Pedestrian Traffic Count Program to Estimate Performance Measures on Streets and Sidewalks in Blacksburg, VA.” (2016) Mid-Atlantic Transportation Sustainability University Transportation Center, Charlottesville, VA.
Lindsey, G., Petesch, M., Hankey, S., “The Minnesota Bicycle and Pedestrian Counting Initiative: Implementation Study.” (2015) Minnesota Department of Transportation, Research Services Section, St. Paul, MN.
Lindsey, G., Hankey, S., Wang, X., Chen, J., “The Minnesota Bicycle and Pedestrian Counting Initiative: Methodologies for Non-motorized Traffic Monitoring.” (2013) Minnesota Department of Transportation, Research Services Section, St. Paul, MN.
Lindsey, G., Hankey, S., Wang, X., “Feasibility of Using GPS to Track Bicycle Lane Positioning.” (2013) Intelligent Transportation Systems Institute, Center for Transportation Studies, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.
Lindsey, G., Hoff, K., Hankey, S., Wang, X., “Understanding Non-Motorized Transportation Facilities.” (2012) Intelligent Transportation Systems Institute, Center for Transportation Studies, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.
CHAPTERS
2017, Artsenkrant, “Doordachte stadsplanning tegen luchtvervuiling (translation: Thoughtful city planning against pollution).”
2016, Environmental Monitor, “Weather bikes stand out in urban studies, advance science dialogue”, (
link
).
2016, EPA, “EPA awards $10M for new Center for Air, Climate and Energy Solutions”, (Hankey is member of Center;
link
).
2013, Star Tribune, “His work may lead to cleaner cycling routes”, (
link
).
2012, WCCO CBS, “U of M grad student researches pollution effects on cyclists”, (
link
).
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THEODORE LIM, Assistant Professor
POSITION & CONTACT INFO
THEODORE LIM
Assistant Professor
tclim@vt.edu
Website
Google Scholor
Twitter: $CHAOLIM85
Professional Bio and Research Interests
Theodore Lim is an assistant professor in the Department of Urban Affairs and Planning. He has over ten years of experience in environmental planning-related fields, including academic and industry positions in environmental data science and planning in agricultural technology, civil engineering design and sustainable masterplanning, and urban public health. Dr. Lim’s research on urban hydrology, distributed stormwater management practices, and green infrastructure program implementation in cities has been published in top-ranked, peer-reviewed journals. His research interests also include green infrastructure planning at the regional scale in agricultural and rural settings, land development impacts on the hydrological cycle, and applications of data science in urban and environmental planning. Underlying his research and professional activities is the belief in the interconnectedness of natural, engineered, and social systems. Therefore, while his research has been highly quantitative, involving both data science and numerical simulation tools, the systems perspective motivates his continued engagement with stakeholders for the incorporation and co-production of local knowledge for the successful implementation of more sustainable systems.
Research and Teaching Interests:
(1) Green infrastructure planning, implementation, and adaptation
(2) Water resources management and impacts of land use on hydrology
(3) Data science and “big data” applications in urban and environmental planning
(4) Sustainable development
Education
Ph.D., City and Regional Planning, University of Pennsylvania, 2017
M.S., Environmental Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, 2011
B.A., Swarthmore College, 2007
Academic Experience
Jan 2019 – present: Assistant Professor, Urban Affairs and Planning, School of Public and International Affairs, VT
Professional Experience
Jun 2017 – Dec 2018: Environmental Data Scientist, Bayer Crop Science (St Louis, MO)
Sep 2009 – May 2013: Civil Design Engineer, Sherwood Design Engineers (San Francisco, CA)
Publications
T.C. Lim and C. Welty. “Assessing variability and uncertainty in green infrastructure planning using a high-resolution surface-subsurface hydrological model and site-monitored flow data” Frontiers of the Built Environment (2018)
T.C. Lim. “Revitalizing Urban Neighborhoods by Adopting Green Infrastructure: The Case of Washington DC” Urban Planning International (2018)
T.C. Lim. “An empirical study of spatial-temporal growth patterns of a voluntary residential green infrastructure program”. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management (2017)
T.C. Lim and C. Welty “Effects of spatial configuration of imperviousness and green infrastructure networks on hydrologic response in a residential sewershed” Water Resources Research (2017)
T.C. Lim. “Predictors of urban variable source area: a cross‐sectional analysis of urbanized catchments in the United States” Hydrological Processes (2016)
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SHELLEY MASTRAN, Professor of Practice
POSITION & CONTACT INFO
SHELLEY MASTRAN
Professor of Practice
smastran@vt.edu
(571) 858-3129
INTEREST AREAS:
– Environmental Conservation
– Environmental History
– Natural Resources Planning
– Watershed Planning
– Low Impact Development
– Land Use Planning
EDUCATION:
Ph.D., University of Maryland (1988)
M.A., George Washington University (1974)
B.A., Vassar College (1965)
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SHALINI MISRA, Associate Professor
POSITION & CONTACT INFO
SHALINI MISRA
Associate Professor
shalini@vt.edu
(571) 858-3131
Google Scholar Page
Research Gate
Shalini Misra is an Associate Professor in Urban Affairs and Planning. She joined Virginia Tech in Fall 2012. Her research interests include:
(1) Social, psychological, and health implications of the Internet and digital communication technologies;
(2) Environment and behavior studies, specially focusing on the psychological and health impacts of environmental stressors such as information overload and multitasking; and
(3) “Science of team science” or the study of the processes and outcomes of large scale transdisciplinary collaborative scientific, training, and action research initiatives.
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
June 2019 – present
Associate Professor, Urban Affairs and Planning, Virginia Tech
August 2012 – June 2019
Assistant Professor, Urban Affairs and Planning, Metropolitian Institute Fellow, Virginia Tech
July 2010 – June 2012
Postdoctoral Research Scholar, School of Social Ecology, University of California, Irvine
2006 – 2010
Research and Teaching Assistant, School of Social Ecology, University of California, Irvine
SPONSORED RESEARCH
2017-2018- Co-PI, Caution: Heavy Load Ahead, Smart and Connected Communities- Planning Grant, National Science Foundation
2017-2018 – Principal Investigator, Thinking and Decision Making in An Age of Divided Attention, Institute for Society, Culture, and Environment, Virginia Tech
2016-19 – Think Tank Lead, Being a Cross-disciplinary Scientist, Creating a Culture of Collaboration at George Washington University (C3GWU) Initiative
2013-2014 – Conceptualizing and Measuring Transdisciplinary Intellectual Orientation, Institute of Society, Culture, and Environment, Virginia Tech –
2013-2017 – Team member, D.C. Initiative, Institute for Society, Culture, and Environment, Virginia Tech
2013-2015 – Consultant, BRIDGES: Building Resources through Integrating Disciplines for Group Effectiveness in Science, National Science Foundation Grant
2013-2015 – Mentoring Grant, Virginia Tech Office of Provost
2012-2014 – Co-PI, Creating an International Program for Sustainable Infrastructure Development, Obama-Singh 21st Century Knowledge Initiative Grant
2010-2012 – Postdoctoral Research Grant, National Academies Keck Futures Initiative (NAKFI)– Tracking the Transdisciplinary Scientific Impacts of NAKFI
2009-2010 – Predoctoral Research Grant, National Academies Keck Futures Initiative (NAKFI) – Tracking the Transdisciplinary Scientific Impacts of NAKFI
2008 – Digital Cultures Small Seed Grant, Intel’s People and Practices Research at the University of California, Irvine ($ 3754)
2006-2007 – Predoctoral Research Grant, National Institute of Health Roadmap Interdisciplinary Training Grant No. 15R13DK69500-03
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Environment and Behavior Studies, University of California, Irvine, 2010
M.S., Sustainable Resource Management, Technical University of Munich, Germany, 2004
B.E., Civil Engineering, Gujarat University, India, 2001
BOOKS
Lotrecchiano, G. & Misra, S. (Eds). (2018). Special series on communication in transdisciplinary teams. Informing Science: The International Journal of an Emerging Transdiscipline, 21, 41-253.
Stuhler, E. A. and Misra, S. (Eds.) (2008).
Across disciplinary boundaries towards a sustainable life: Psychodynamic reflection on human behavior
. Rainer Hampp Verlag, Muenchen, Mering.
Download the entire book for free using the link provided above.
CHAPTERS
Lotrecchiano, G. & Misra, S. (2019). A systems perspective for measuring the features of transdisciplinary knowledge producing teams. In J. Sturmberg (Ed). Embracing complexity in health. The transformation of science, practice and policy. New York, NY: Springer.
Misra, S. & Trivedi, C. (2017).
Psychological impacts of technological change: An Ethnic Minority Perspective
. In Czopp, A. & Blume, A. (Eds). Social Issues in Living Color: Challenges and Solutions from the Perspective of Ethnic Minority Psychology Praeger, 221-242.
Misra, S., Hall, K., Feng, A., Stipleman, B., and Stokols, D., (2011).
Collaborative Processes in Transdisciplinary Research
. In M. Kirst, Schaefer-McDaniel, N., Hwang, S., O’ Campo, P. (Eds.). Converging Disciplines: A Transdisciplinary Research Approach to Urban Health Problems. New York: Springer, 97-110.
Misra, S., Stokols, D., Hall, K., and Feng, A. (2011).
Transdisciplinary Training in Health Research: Distinctive Features and Directions for the Future
. In M. Kirst, Schaefer-McDaniel, N., Hwang, S., O’ Campo, P. (Eds.). Converging Disciplines: A Transdisciplinary Research Approach to Urban Health Problems. New York: Springer, 133-148.
Stokols, D., Hall, K., Moser, R., Feng, A., Misra, S., & Taylor, B. K. (2010).
Evaluating cross-disciplinary team science initiatives: Conceptual, methodological, and translational perspectives
. In R. Frodeman, J. T. Klein, and C. Mitcham (Eds). Oxford Handbook on Interdisciplinarity. New York: Oxford University Press, 471-493.
Fuchs, R. and Misra, S. (2008). Need and possibility for analyzing human motivation potential related to sustainability. In E.A. Stuhler and S. Misra (Eds). Across disciplinary boundaries towards a sustainable life: Psychodynamic reflection on human behavior. Rainer Hampp Verlag, Muenchen, Mering.
ARTICLES
Trivedi, C. & Misra, S. (2018). Dialogue and the creation of transformative social change: The case of social enterprises. Special series on communication in transdisciplinary teams. Informing Science: The International Journal of an Emerging Transdiscipline, 21, 107-132.
Lotrecchiano, G. & Misra, S. (2018). Transdisciplinary knowledge producing teams: Toward a complex systems perspective. Special series on communication in transdisciplinary teams. Informing Science: The International Journal of an Emerging Transdiscipline, 21, 51-74.
Misra, S. & Lotrecchiano, G. (2018). Transdisciplinary communication. Special series on communication in transdisciplinary teams. Informing Science: The International Journal of an Emerging Transdiscipline, 21, 41-50.
Misra, S., Stokols, D., & Cheng, L. (2015).
The Transdisciplinary Orientation Scale: Factor Structure and Relation to the Integrative Quality and Scope of Scientific Publications
. Journal of Collaborative Healthcare and Translational Medicine. 3(2): 1042.
Trivedi, C. & Misra, S. (2015).
Relevance of systems thinking and scientific holism to social entrepreneurship
. Journal of Entrepreneurship, 24 (1), 37-62.
Misra, S., Cheng, L., Genevie, J., & Yuan, M. (2014).
The iPhone effect: The quality of in-person social interactions in the presence of mobile technologies
. Environment & Behavior. Available online at:
Misra, S., Stokols, D., and Marino, A.H. (2013).
Descriptive, but not Injunctive, Normative Appeals Increase Response Rates In Web-based Surveys
. Journal of MultiDisciplinary Evaluation, 9 (21).
Misra, S. and Stokols, D. (2012).
A typology of people-environment relationships in the digital age
. Technology in Society, 34 (4), 311-325.
Misra, S., Stokols, D., & Marino, A. (2011).
Using Norm-Based Appeals to Increase Response Rates in Evaluation Research: A Field Experiment
. American Journal of Evaluation.
Misra, S. and Stokols, D. (2011).
Psychological and health outcomes of perceived information overload. Environment & Behavior
.
Misra, S., Harvey, R., Stokols, D., Pine, K., Fuqua, J., Shokair, S., & Whiteley, J. (2009).
Evaluating an interdisciplinary undergraduate training program in health promotion research
. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 36(4), 358-365
Stokols, D., Misra, S., Runnerstrom, M. G., & Hipp, J. A. (2009).
Psychology in an age of ecological crisis: From personal angst to collective action
. American Psychologist, 64 (3), 181-193.
Stokols, D., Misra, S., Moser, R., Hall, K., and Taylor, B. K. (2008).
The ecology of team science: Understanding contextual influences on transdisciplinary collaboration
. American Journal of Preventive Medicine (Supplement on the Science of Team Science), 35 (2), S96-S115.
Misra, S. (2007).
Spirituality, culture and the politics of environmentalism in India.Journal of Entrepreneurship
(Sage Publications), 16 (2), 131-145.
SCALES DEVELOPED:
– Transdisciplinary Orientation Scale
– Perceived Information Overload Scale: Includes perceived cyber-based and place-based information overload scales
– Collaborative Activities Scale
– Interdisciplinary Perspectives Scale
– Team Project Participation Scale
If you would like copies of any of these scales, please contact Shalini Misra
shalini@vt.edu
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
BOOK REVIEWS
Misra, S. (2018). Review of the book by Stokols, D. (2018). Social Ecology in the Digital Age: Solving Complex Problems in a Globalized World. Journal of Entrepreneurship, 27 (2), 313-319.
Misra, S. (2015). Review of the book by Das, J.P. (2014).
Consciousness Quest: Where East Meets West
. Journal of Entrepreneurship/Sage Publications, 24 (2), 251-256
Misra, S. (2014). Review of the book by Pawar, B.S. (2009).
Theory Building for Hypothesis Specification in Organizational Studies
. Journal of Entrepreneurship/ Sage Publications, 23(1), 159-162.
Misra, S. (2013). Review of the book by Vormans, K., Paslack, R., Isildar, G. Y., de Vrind, R., & Simon, J. W. (Eds). (2012).
Environmental Ethics: An Introduction and Learning Guide
. Journal of Entrepreneurship/ Sage Publications, 22(2), 245-256.
Misra, S. (2010). Review of the book
Employee Identity in Indian Call Centres: The Notion of Professionalism
. Journal of Entrepreneurship, 19(2), 228-233.
Trivedi, C. & Misra, S. (2009). Review of the book
Impact of e-commerce on consumers and small firms
. Journal of Entrepreneurship, 18(1), 122-126.
Misra, S. (2007). [Review of the book Public relations writing: Principles in practice].Journal of Entrepreneurship, 16(2), 219-223.
Misra, S. (2007). [Review of the book Environmental management (2nd ed.)]. Journal of Entrepreneurship, 16(1), 109-113.
Misra, S. (2006). Review of the book
Management of environmental problems and hazards in Nigeria
. Journal of Entrepreneurship, 15(2), 223-225.
Misra, S. (2005). Review of the book
The new face of environmental management in India
. Journal of Entrepreneurship, 14(2), 166-168.
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ELIZABETH MORTON, Associate Professor of Practice
POSITION & CONTACT INFO
ELIZABETH MORTON
Associate Professor of Practice
morton05@vt.edu
(571) 858-3181
Dr. Elizabeth Morton is an Associate Professor of Practice in Urban Design. She has worked in a variety of capacities for UAP since 2005, including as Director of the Planning Academy, which offered professional development programming, and as Coordinator of the MURP program on the NCR campus.
Dr. Morton teaches graduate seminars in topics related to urban design, historic preservation, commemoration, and Washington, DC, along with client-based studios. Some of her most recent studio projects include:
Arlington’s Legacy Businesses: Documentation, Interpretation and Placemaking Strategies
Parks and Play: Innovative Design in DC
Echoes of Little Saigon: Preserving Vietnamese Cultural Heritage in Arlington’s Clarendon Neighborhood
The 11th Street Bridge Park: Stitching Together Communities
Tinner Hill African American Heritage Walking Tour
(winner of the Student Planning Award from the Virginia Chapter of the American Planning Association)
Exploring Evaluation for Public Art: Arlington County as Laboratory
PROFESSIONAL BIO
Dr. Morton is actively involved in urban planning and revitalization issues in her community. She is an appointed member of the Arlington Planning Commission. She has also served on the Arlington County Public Art Committee and the Arlington County Cultural Facilities Task Force. From 2010-2016 she was an appointed member of the Fairfax County Revitalization Advisory Group, a member of the McLean Pedestrian Task Force, and a board member of the McLean Revitalization Corporation, serving as President from 2012-2015.
Dr. Morton is on the leadership team of the American Planning Association’s Urban Design and Preservation Division. She is also currently serving as a panelist for the Transportation Research Board’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program.
Dr. Morton has worked for a wide variety of arts and preservation organizations, and as a consultant in planning and design has conducted studies for institutions such as the National Capital Planning Commission, the National Park Service, the World Bank, UNESCO, the Metropolitan Institute, the Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH), Urban Arts, and the John F. Kennedy School of Government.
She was a review panelist for the US EPA National Award for Smart Growth Excellence and has previously been appointed to the Oakland (CA) Strategic Plan Task Force, the California Governor’s Preservation Task Force Incentives Committee, the Oakland Percent for Art Advisory Committee, and the Somerville (MA) Arts Council.
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Urban Studies and Planning (City Design and Development), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
M.U.R.P, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
B.A., Williams College
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JOHN PROVO, Adjunct Professor
POSITION & CONTACT INFO
JOHN PROVO
Adjunct Professor
jprovo@vt.edu
(540) 231-4004
Provo provides leadership for the university in the implementation of its economic development mission. A “pracademic” with more than 14 years of economic development experience in higher education and government he builds partnerships that link university, community, and industry resources to address the economic development needs of the Commonwealth.
In this role Provo secures funding as a major point of contact between academic departments within the university, federal, state, and local governments, as well as other public and private sector leaders. Active in professional and scholarly associations he is experienced at the analysis and dissemination of best practices in economic development for diverse audiences. He also teaches a studio course in economic development planning that puts Virginia Tech graduate students to work solving real problems for real clients.
EDUCATION:
Ph.D., Urban Studies, Portland State University, 2005
MURP, Urban and Regional Planning, Virginia Commonwealth University, 1999
B.A., Government, College of William and Mary, 1989
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JOHN RANDOLPH, Professor Emeritus
POSITION & CONTACT INFO
JOHN RANDOLPH
Professor Emeritus
energy@vt.edu
(540) 231-7714
A member of the Virginia Tech community since 1979, Randolph has served the university in numerous leadership positions and simultaneously achieved international recognition for his scholarship and educational leadership in environmental planning, energy, and sustainability. He has written numerous books, articles, chapters, and reports that are used extensively in classrooms and policy making centers across the world.
Randolph was instrumental in the creation of the doctoral degree in planning, governance, and globalization within School of Public and International Affairs. He was the acting head of the Ph.D. program in environmental design and planning in 1991 and 1992.
Randolph is regarded as a highly engaged member the university community, the Town of Blacksburg, the Commonwealth of Virginia, and beyond, He has given considerable service, leadership, and research to finding workable solutions, new insights, creative possibilities and progress in sustainable, equitable, and efficient practices and policies for communities.
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Civil Engineering (Environmental), Stanford University, 1976
M.S., Civil Engineering (Environmental), Stanford University, 1972
B.M.E., Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota, 1969
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
1985-1992 Associate Professor, Urban Affairs and Planning, Virginia Tech
1979-1985 Assistant Professor. Urban and Regional Planning. Virginia Tech
1978-1979 Member of the Faculty, The Evergreen State College (Olympia, WA)
1976-1978 Assistant Professor of Environmental Science, University of Puget Sound (Tacoma)
1973-1976 Research Assistant; Stanford University
1973 Teaching Fellow; Stanford University
ADMINISTRATIVE AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2008-2009 Chair, Urban Affairs and Planning program, SPIA, Virginia Tech
2003-2008 Director, School of Public & International Affairs, Virginia Tech
1995-2003 Head, Department of Urban Affairs and Planning, Virginia Tech
1988-1995 Director, Virginia Center for Coal and Energy Research, Virginia Tech
1991-1992 Acting Chair, Ph.D. Program in Environmental Design and Planning, Virginia Tech
1986-1987 Assistant Director, Virginia Center for Coal and Energy Research, Virginia Tech
1969-1971 Planning Development Engineer, Quality Control Engineer; Bemis Company, Inc., Nashua, New Hampshire
SPONSORED RESEARCH
“Community Energy Program Development,” Virginia Tech Office of Vice President for Research, $15,000.
“Energy Audit of Booker T. Washington National Monument,” principal investigator, University National Park Energy Partnership Program, 2008. $11,428.
“Impacts of Environmental Regulations on Affordable Housing.” co-principal investigator with Chris Nelson. U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. 2004-06. $299,000.
“Energy Audit of Petersburg National Battlefield Park,” principal investigator, University National Park Energy Partnership Program, 2004. $14,950.
“Residential Energy Assistance Challenge: Evaluation of Virginia Weatherization Program,” principal investigator with T. Koebel, Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development, 2003-05. $78,965
“Urban Biodiversity Pilot Project, Holmes Run Watershed, Northern Virginia,” co-principal investigator with D. Trauger, J. Waldon. U.S. Geological Survey. 2002. $175,000.
“CD-ROM: Participation and Partnerships in Planning.” co-principal with D. Zahm, M. Chandler. American Planning Association, American Institute of Certified Planners 1997-98. $9,000
“Water Supply Options for the Southwest Virginia Coalfields.” Powell River Project and the Virginia Environmental Endowment. 1995-96. $29,500
“Watershed Management in Virginia: Status, Effectiveness, Future Prospects,” co-Principal Investigator (with Bill Cox, Civil Engineering), Virginia Water Resources Research Center, June 1993 – May 1996, $54,000.
“State Agency Solar Energy Monitoring and Evaluation Study,” co-principal Investigator (with R. Schubert, Architecture, and Saifur Rahman, Electrical Engineering), Virginia Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy, May 1993-February 1995, $128,000.
“Impacts of the Virginia Oil and Gas Industry on the State Economy,” Co-principal Investigator (with Carl Zipper, VCCER), Virginia Oil and Gas Association, January – July 1995, $9,000
“Preliminary Feasibility of a New Electricity Transmission Line from the Virginia Coalfield to the Virginia Power System” (study in response to Virginia General Assembly 1991 House Joint Resolution 441), co-principal Investigator (with C. Zipper), Coastal Coal, United Coal, Virginia Power, Appalachian Power, January – December 1993, $20,000.
“An Analysis of Water Supply Impacts Due to Subsidence from Underground Coal Mining in Virginia,” co-principal Investigator, (with C. Zipper), Mining and Mineral Resources Research Institute, July 1991-June 1992, $4,200.
“Local Water Resources Management Sourcebook,” Principal Investigator, Virginia Environmental Endowment, January 1991 – December 1991, $35,000.
“Update and Revision of Virginia Energy Patterns and Trends,” Principal Investigator, Virginia Division of Energy, Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy, April 1990-July 1991, $15,494.
“Managing Water Resources by Virginia Localities,” Principal Investigator, Virginia Environmental Endowment, December 1989 – December 1990, $45,832.
“Fuel Availability for Cogeneration/IPP Development in the Southwest Virginia Coalfields,” Principal Investigator, Virginia Coalfield Economic Development Authority, January 1990 – March 1991, $9,202.
“Evaluation of the Virginia Weatherization Program,” Principal Investigator, Virginia Association of Community Action Agencies, Inc., June 1989 – February 1991, $179,073.
“Potential for Coalbed Methane Development in Virginia,” Principal Investigator, Center for Innovative Technology (CIT), June 1989 – March 1990, $6,081.
“Mining Subsidence and Water Resources: Summer Graduate Student Support,” Principal Investigator, Mining and Mineral Resources Research Institute, July 1989 – June 1990, $2,500.
“Research Design for Investigation of Factors Affecting Private Sector Investment Decisions in the Appalachian Coal Fields,” Co-principal Investigator (with Curtis Seltzer), Appalachian Regional Commission, June – December 1987, $29,977.
“Workbook for Costing Water and Sewer Service,” Co-Principal Investigator (with Paul Shinn, Government Finance Research Center), Virginia Water Resources Research Center, June 1986 – November 1987, $27,000.
“Energy Patterns of Virginia,” Principal Investigator, Virginia Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy, June 1986 – March 1987, $7,000.
“Resource Recovery in Virginia,” Principal Investigator, Virginia Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy, June 1986 – September 1986, $3,900.
“Growth Management System for Environmentally Sensitive Areas,” Co-principal Investigator (with L. Anderson, C. D. Loeks, W. D. Conn),Town of Blacksburg, November 1980 – June 1981, $9,939.
BOOKS
2009. Nelson, A. C., J. Randolph, J. M. Schilling, J. Logan, J. M. McElfish Jr. and Newport Partners, LLC. Environmental Regulations and Housing Costs. Washington DC: Island Press.
2008. with Gilbert M. Masters. Energy for Sustainability: Technology, Planning, Policy. Island Press. 796 pp., xviii. See http://www.energyforsustainability.org for book website.
2004. Environmental Land Use Planning and Management, Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 664 pp., xxxviii. Textbook. See http://www.envirolanduse.org for book website.
1992. Randolph, J. (editor and principal author), Sourcebook for Local Water Resources Management. Ten volumes. College of Architecture and Urban Studies, Blacksburg, VA., 710 pp.
1991. Randolph, J., Virginia Energy Patterns and Trends, 1960-1990, Virginia Department of Mines, Minerals, and Energy, Richmond, Virginia, 284 pp.
1989. with Shinn, P., Costing and Rate-Setting Workbook for Water and Sewer Utilities, Two volumes.Virginia Water Resources Research Center, 306 pp.
1987. Randolph, J., Virginia Energy Patterns and Trends, Virginia Department of Mines, Minerals, and Energy, Richmond, Virginia, 153 pp.
1981. Randolph, J., Energy (a monograph of trends included in a Monograph Series on Strategic Planning), College of Architecture and Urban Studies, VPI and SU, 325 pp.
1976. Randolph, J. Effect of NEPA on Corps of Engineers Water Planning in California, Ph.D. Dissertation, Stanford University, 303 pp.
CHAPTERS
Randolph, J. 2011. “Creating the Climate Resilient Community.” in B. Goldstein (ed.), Collaborative Resilience: Moving from Crisis to Opportunity, MIT Press. p. 127-148.
Randolph, J. “Inventory of Current State Energy Activities,” in S.W. Sawyer and J.R. Armstrong (ed.) State Energy Policy: Current Issues, Future Directions, Westview Press, 1985.
ARTICLES
Pitt, D., and J. Randolph. Forthcoming. “Identifying Obstacles to Community Climate Protection Planning,” Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy.
2009. with Wheeler. S. M., and J, B. London, “Planning and Climate Change: An Emerging Research Agenda.” Progress In Planning, special issue on “Emerging Research Agendas in Urban Design and Planning.” v.72.n.1
2008. “Comment on Ewing and Rong’s ‘The Impact of Urban Form on U.S. Residential Energy Use,’” Housing Policy Debate, 19(1): 45-52.
2007. with Dougherty, M., R. L. Dymond, T. J. Grizzard, Jr., A. N. Godrej, C. E. Zipper. “Quantifying Long-Term Hydrologic Response in an Urbanizing Basin,” Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, 12(1):33-41.
2007. with Dougherty, M., R. L. Dymond, T. J. Grizzard, Jr., A. N. Godrej, C. E. Zipper, and C. M. Anderson-Cook. 2007. “Empirical Modeling of Hydrologic and NPS Pollutant Flux in an Urbanizing Basin,” Journal of the American Water Resources Association, 42(5): 1405-1419.
2006. with Dougherty, M., R. L. Dymond, T. J. Grizzard, Jr., A. N. Godrej, C. E. Zipper. “Quantifying Long-term NPS Pollutant Flux in an Urbanizing Watershed,” Journal of Environmental Engineering, 132(4): 547-554.
2000. with C. G. Phillips. “The Relationship of Ecosystem Management to NEPA and its Goals,” Environmental Management, v.26, n.1 (July), pp. 1-12.
2000. with M.R. Bauer. “Characteristics of Collaborative Environmental Planning and Decisionmaking Processes,” Environmental Practice (Journal of the National Association of Environmental Professionals), v.2, n.2, (June) pp. 156-165.
1999/2000. with M. R. Bauer. “Improving Environmental Decision-making through Collaborative Methods,” Policy Studies Review, v.16, n. 3/4 (Fall/Winter), pp. 168-191.
1998. with C. G. Phillips. “Has Ecosystem Management Really Changed Practices on the National Forests?” Journal of Forestry, v.96, n.5 (May), pp. 40-45.
1997. with C. Zipper, W. Balfour, R. Roth “Domestic water supply impacts by underground coal mining operations in Virginia, USA,” Environmental Geology, v.29, n.1/2 (January).
1992. with K. Greely and W. Hill. “A Warm Wind Blows South: Retrofitting Virginia’s Weatherization Program,” Home Energy. Jan/Feb.
1991. “The Revolution in Electric Utility Planning and Its Manifestation in Virginia.” Virginia Coal & Energy Journal. Summer, pp.47-76.
1991. with R. Roth and C. Zipper. “Coal Mining Subsidence Regulation in Six Appalachian States.” Virginia Environmental Law Journal, v.10, n.2, Spring, pp.311-343.
1990. with Combs, R. T., W. F. Frazier, G. A. Verno, “Advanced Coal Technologies for Power Generation,” Virginia Coal and Energy Journal, n. 2, Spring 1990, pp. 29-57.
1989. “State Energy Policy to Enhance Coal Production: The Virginia Coal Incentive Acts,” Virginia Coal and Energy Quarterly, v. 1, n. 1, Summer 1989, pp. 61-79.
1987. “Comparison of Approaches to Public Land Planning by Federal Agencies: Forest Service, Park Service, Bureau of Land Management, Fish and Wildlife Service,” Trends (Journal of the National Parks and Conservation Association), v. 9, n. 1, pp. 36-45.
1984. “Energy Conservation Programs: A Review of State Initiatives in the USA.” Energy Policy. v. 12, n. 4 (December), pp. 425-438.
1984. “Implementation and Effectiveness of State Administered, Federally Funded Energy Conservation Programs,” Energy Systems and Policy, v. 9, n. 1 (December), pp. 49-88.
1982. with Reardon, J. C., L. D. Hanson, “Using EPA’s Computerized Data Base (STORET) to Analyze for Agricultural Water Pollution,” Journal of Environmental Quality, v. 11, n. 3, July-September 1982, pp. 427-432.
1981. “The Local Energy Future: A Compendium of Community Programs.” Solar Law Reporter. v.3,n.2 (July/August). pp. 253-282.
1976. with L. Ortolano. “NEPA and the Consideration of Alternatives: A Case Study of Corps of Engineers’ Planning for Carmel River.” Environmental Affairs. v. 5, n.3 (August). pp. 213-253.
*1975. with L. Ortolano. “Effect of NEPA on the Corps of Engineers’ New Melones Project.” Columbia Journal of Environmental Law. v.1, n.2 (Spring). pp. 233-273.
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TOM SANCHEZ, Professor
POSITION & CONTACT INFO
TOM SANCHEZ
Professor
(571) 858-3250
tom.sanchez@vt.edu
Sanchez earned his PhD in City Planning from Georgia Tech in 1996 and conducts research in the areas of transportation, civil rights, environmental justice, and other social aspects of urban planning and policy. His research over the past 20 years has resulted in over 100 articles, reports, and conference presentations on these topics. While a Nonresident Senior Fellow for the Brookings Institution, he authored several publications about how Metropolitan Planning Organizations address environmental justice in their transportation planning practices. He currently serves as the editor-in-chief of Housing Policy Debate, a leading journal on the topics of housing and community development policy. In 2012 he co-authored, Planning as if People Matter: Governing for Social Equity (Island Press) with Marc Brenman. In 2007 they co-authored The Right to Transportation: Moving to Equity (American Planning Association). Also in 2007, he co-authored The Social Impacts of Urban Containment (Ashgate) with Arthur C. Nelson and Casey J. Dawkins.
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ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
2007-2010 Chair and Associate Professor, Department of City & Metropolitan Planning, University of Utah
2006-present Nonresident Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution, Washington D.C.
2002-2007 Associate Professor, Urban Affairs and Planning, Virginia Tech
2004-2005 Lecturer, College of Professional Studies, George Washington University
2002-2007 Fellow, Metropolitan Institute, Virginia Tech
2001-2002 Associate Professor, School of Urban Studies and Planning, Portland State University
1997-2001 Assistant Professor and Research Associate, Center for Urban Studies, School of Urban Studies and Planning, Portland State University
1995-1997 Assistant Professor, Department of Community and Regional Plannig, Iowa State University
1991-1995 Instructor and Research Assistant, Graduate City Planning Program, Georgia Institute of Technology
ADMINISTRATIVE AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Summer 1993 Project Coordinator, Committee for Olympic Development in Atlanta, Atlanta Georgia
1988-1990 Project Coordinator, R.B. McCormic, Inc., Laguna Niguel, California
1986-1988 Business Consultant, Touche Ross & Co., San Diego, California
1985-1986 Community Development Specialist, People’s Self-Help Housing Corp., San Luis Obispo, California
SPONSORED RESEARCH
Co-Principal Investigator, 2015-2016, Addressing the Impact of Housing Affordability for Virginia’s Economy, Commonwealth of Virginia, Office of Governor Terence R. McAuliffe, $615,000 (Virginia Center for Housing Research – PI).
Co-Investigator, 2009-2011, Practical Approaches for Involving Traditionally Underserved Populations in Transportation Decisionmaking, NCHRP Project 08-72, $396,000 (The Louis Berger Group, Inc. – PI).
Co-Principal Investigator, 2008-2012, Matrix, Models, Census: Geographic Information, Maps, Salt Lake County Planning and Development Services, $100,000.
Principal Investigator, 2008-2012, Best Practices Research Papers, Regulations and Policies, Salt Lake County Planning and Development Services, $100,000.
Principal Investigator, 2008-2009, Crowdsourcing Public Participation in Transit Planning, Federal Transit Administration, $115,000.
Principal Investigator, 2007-2008, Enhancing Public Participation in Regional Public Transportation Planning: Innovative Practices Survey, Knowledge Networks, and Incentives Model, Federal Transit Administration, $149,873.
Co-Principal Investigator, 2007-2010, National Study on Car-Less and Special Needs Evacuation Planning, Federal Transit Administration, $415,000 (John L. Renne, University of New Orleans – Co-PI).
Co-Investigator, 2007-2010, Environmental Justice Toolkit, Federal Transit Administration, $386,093 (Glenn Robinson, Morgan State University – PI).
Principal Investigator, 2005-2006, Housing and Transportation: An Affordability Tradeoff for Working Families and Their Communities? Center for Neighborhood Technology/Center for Housing Policy, $24,512.
Co-Principal Investigator, 2004-2005, The New Submarkets: Mapping Office Space in Edgeless Cities, National Association of Realtors, $25,000 (Robert E. Lang – PI).
Co-Principal Investigator, 2004-2005, The Effect of Urban Containment on Neighborhood and Housing Quality, Fannie Mae Foundation, $25,000 (Arthur C. Nelson—PI).
Principal Investigator, 2004-2009, Journal of the American Planning Association – Review Editor, $100,000.
Principal Investigator, 2004-2005, Effects of MPO Representation on Transportation Spending And Project Selection, Brookings Institution, $7,500.
Principal Investigator, 2004-2005, Reality Check on Growth Regional Growth Visioning, Urban Land Institute, $30,000.
Principal Investigator, 2004, Neighborhood Watch National Database, National Sherriff’s Association, $10,000.
Research Associate, 2002-2003, Urban Containment Programs and the Vulnerability of Infrastructure to Hazards: Are Cities Being Engineered to be Safe as Well as Smart? National Science Foundation, $149,995 (Raymond J. Burby – PI).
Co-Principal Investigator, 2001, Social Determinants of Leukemia Incidence in Oregon, College of Urban and Public Affairs, Portland State University, Faculty Research Award, $14,000.
Principal Investigator, 2000-2002, Transit Mobility, Jobs Access, and Low-Income Labor Participation in U.S. Metropolitan Areas, National Science Foundation, $165,000.
Principal Investigator, 2000-2002, Rural Public Transportation: Using Geographic Information Systems to Guide Service Planning, Transportation Northwest and Oregon Department of Transportation, $92,705.
Principal Investigator, 2000, Canby Community Transportation Needs Survey, City of Canby, OR, $6,000.
Co-Principal Investigator, 1999-2000, Estimating Induced Travel Demand in the 1995 NPTS, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, $85,000 (James Strathman – PI).
Principal Investigator, 1998-2000, Highway Improvement Land Use and Growth Impacts, Oregon Department of Transportation, $168,000.
Co-Principal Investigator, 1998-1999, An Analysis of Neighborhood Revitalization: The Role of Local Civic Organizations, Faculty Enhancement Grant Program, Portland State University, $3,600.
Research Associate, 1998-1999, Automated Bus Dispatching, Operations Control, and Transit Service Reliability, TransNow, $35,000 (James Strathman – PI).
Research Associate, 1996-1997, Access Management Awareness Program, Iowa Department of Transportation, Engineering Division, $250,000 (Thomas Maze – PI).
Research Associate, 1997, Multimodal Investment Analysis Methodology, Iowa Department of Transportation, $89,398.
Co-Principal Investigator, 1996-1997, Alternative Approaches to Providing Passenger Transportation in Low Density Cities: The Case of Council Bluffs, Iowa, City of Council Bluffs and the Iowa Department of Transportation, $50,000.
Principal Investigator, 1996, Monitoring Aircraft Activity at Un-towered Airports, Iowa Department of Transportation, $20,000.
Principal Researcher, 1995-1996. Sustainable Projects Database Design Evaluation, National Parks Service, $35,000.
Principal Investigator, 1995. Special Research Initiation Grants Competition, Iowa State University, Office of the Vice President for Research, $6,000.
Principal Investigator, 1994-1996, Equity Implications and Impacts of Personal Transportation Benefits on Urban Form, Doctoral Dissertation Grant Program, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Policy Development and Research, $15,000.
EDUCATION
Ph.D., City Planning, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1996
M.C.R.P., City and Regional Planning, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, 1986
B.A., Environmental Studies, University of California-Santa Barbara, 1984
BOOKS
Brenman, Marc and Thomas W. Sanchez. 2012. Planning as if People Matter: Governing for Social Equity, Washington, D.C.: Island Press.
Sanchez, Thomas W., and Marc Brenman. 2007. The Right to Transportation: Moving to Equity, Chicago: American Planning Association.
Nelson, Arthur C., Casey J. Dawkins, and Thomas W. Sanchez. 2007. The Social Impacts of Urban Containment, England: Ashgate
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Sanchez, Thomas W. and Marc Brenman. 2014. Transportation and Civil Rights in Hartman, Chester W. (Ed.) America’s Growing Inequality: The Impact of Poverty and Race, Lexington Books.
Sanchez, Thomas W. and Marc Brenman. 2013. Public Participation, Social Equity, and Technology, in Nunes Silva, Carlos (Ed.) Citizen e-Participation in Urban Governance, Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning, University of Lisbon.
Lang, Robert E. and Thomas W. Sanchez. 2011. Metropolitan Voting Patterns in the Mountain West: The New and Old Political Heartlands, in Teixeira, Ruy (Ed.) America’s New Swing Region, Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press.
Lang, Robert E., Thomas W. Sanchez, and Alan Berube. 2008. “The New Suburban Politics: A County-Based Analysis of Metropolitan Voting Trends Since 2000,” in Teixeira, Ruy (Ed.) The Future of Red, Blue and Purple America: Election Demographics, 2008 and Beyond, Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press.
Nelson, Arthur C., Casey Dawkins, Thomas W. Sanchez, and Karen Danielsen. 2007. “Urban Containment Effects on Housing and Neighborhood Quality in Florida,” in Connerly, Charles and Timothy Chapin (Eds.) Growth Management In Florida: A 20-Year Assessment, England: Ashgate.
Sanchez, Thomas W. and Robert H. Mandle. 2007. “Growth and Change Florida Style: 1970 to 2000,” in Connerly, Charles and Timothy Chapin (Eds.) Growth Management in Florida: A 20-Year Assessment, England: Ashgate.
Blakely, Edward J. and Thomas W. Sanchez. 2007. “Walling In or Walling Out: Gated Communities,” in Bullard, Robert D. (Ed.) The Black Metropolis in The Twenty-First Century: Race, Power and the Politics of Place, Rowman & Littlefield.
Wolf, James F., Thomas W. Sanchez, and Mary Beth Farquhar. 2007. “Metropolitan Planning Organizations and Regional Transportation Planning,” in Plant, Jeremy F., Van R. Johnston, and Cristina Ciocirlan (eds.) Handbook of Transportation Policy and Administration, Boca Raton, FL: Taylor & Francis.
Sanchez, Thomas W. and James F. Wolf. 2007. “Environmental Justice and Transportation Equity: A Review of Metropolitan Planning Organizations,” in Bullard, Robert D. (ed.) Growing Smarter: Achieving Livable Communities, Environmental Justice, and Regional Equity, Cambridge: MIT Press.
Burby, Raymond J., Arthur C. Nelson, and Thomas W. Sanchez. 2006. “Katrina, Containment and Catastrophe: The Role of Planning in Preventing Natural Disasters,” in Birch, Eugenie and Susan Wachter (eds.) Rebuilding Urban Places After Disaster: Lessons from Hurricane Katrina, Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press.
Sanchez, Thomas W. 2004. “Connecting Mass Transit and Employment,” in Stopher, P., Button, Haynes, K. and Hensher, D. (eds.) Transport Geography and Spatial Systems, Handbooks in Transport 5, Amsterdam: Pergamon – Elsevier Science.
ARTICLES
Sanchez, Thomas W. 2016. Faculty Performance Evaluation using Citation Analysis: An Update, Journal of Planning Education and Research, (forthcoming). DOI: 10.1177/0739456X16633500.
Sanchez Thomas W. Vidimos ”akademicheskikh issledovaniy po gradostroitel”stvu i budushchee vebometriki MGSU [Proceedings of Moscow State University of Civil Engineering]. 2015, no. 3, pp. 119—137. (In Russian. Translation from English: Thomas W. Sanchez. Academic Visibility for Urban Planning and the Webometric Future. The Journal of the World Universities Forum, Volume 6, 2014, pp. 37—52. www.ontheuniversity.com)
Sanchez, Thomas W. 2015. Where Has Housing Policy Debate Been? Housing Policy Debate, 25(2): 1-7. DOI: 10.1080/10511482.2015.1006030
Cowley, Jennifer S. Evans, Thomas W. Sanchez, Nader Afzalan, Abel S. Lizcano, Zachary Kenitzer, and Thomas Evans. 2014. Learning about E-Planning: The Results of a Massive Open Online Course Experiment, International Journal of E-Planning Research, 3(3): 53-76. DOI: 10.4018/ijepr.2014070104.
Sanchez, Thomas W. 2014. Academic Visibility and the Webometric Future, The Journal of the World Universities Forum, 6(2): 37-52.
Golub, Aaron, Thomas W. Sanchez, and Richard Marcantonio. 2013. Race, Space, and Struggles for Mobility: Transportation Impacts on African-Americans in San Francisco’s East Bay, Urban Geography, 34(5): 699-728.
Renne, John L., Thomas W. Sanchez, Todd Litman. 2011. Carless and Special Needs Evacuation Planning, Journal of Planning Literature, 26(4): 420-431.
Renne, John L., Thomas W. Sanchez, Pam Jenkins, and Robert Peterson. 2009. “The Challenge of Evacuating the Carless in Five Major U.S. Cities: Identifying the Key Issues Being Faced, Transportation Research Record (TRR),” Journal of the Transportation Research Board, 2119: 36-44.
Lang, Robert E., Thomas W. Sanchez, and Asli Ceylan Oner. 2009. “Beyond Edge City: Office Geography in the New Metropolis.” Urban Geography, 30(7): 726-755.
Sanchez, Thomas W. and Marc Brenman. 2008. “Transportation Equity and Environmental Justice: Lessons from Hurricane Katrina.” Environmental Justice. 1(2): 73-80.
Sanchez, Thomas W. 2008. “Poverty, Policy, and Public Transportation.” Transportation Research Part A, 42: 833-841.
Shen, Qing and Thomas W. Sanchez. 2006. “Residential Location, Transportation, and Welfare-to-Work in the United States: A Case Study of Milwaukee.” Housing Policy Debate, 16(3/4): 393-431.
Dawkins, Casey J., Qing Shen, and Thomas W. Sanchez. 2005. “Race, Space, and Unemployment Duration.” Journal of Urban Economics, 58: 91-113.
Nelson, Arthur C., and Thomas W. Sanchez. 2005. “The Effectiveness of Urban Containment Regimes in Reducing Exurban Sprawl,” NSL Network City and Landscape, 160: 42-47.
Sanchez, Thomas W., Robert E. Lang., and Dawn Dhavale. 2005. “Security versus Status? A First Look at the Census’s Gated Community Data,” Journal of Planning Education and Research, 24: 281-291.
Sanchez, Thomas W., Rich Stolz, and Jacinta S. Ma. 2004. “Transportation Equity: Inequitable Effects of Transportation Policies on Minorities, Transportation Research Record (TRR),” Journal of the Transportation Research Board, 1885: 104-110.
Nelson, Arthur C., Thomas W. Sanchez, James F. Wolf, and Mary Beth Farquhar. 2004. “Metropolitan Planning Organization Voting Structure and Transit Investment Bias: Preliminary Analysis with Social Equity Implications, Transportation Research Record (TRR),” Journal of the Transportation Research Board, 1895: 1-7.
Nelson, Arthur C., Thomas W. Sanchez, and Casey J. Dawkins. 2004. “The Effect of Urban Containment and Mandatory Housing Elements on Racial Segregation in US Metropolitan Area, 1990-2000,” Journal of Urban Affairs, 26(3): 339-350.
Sanchez, Thomas W., Qing Shen, and Zhong-Ren Peng. 2004. “Transit Mobility, Jobs Access, and Low-Income Labor Participation in U.S. Metropolitan Areas.” Urban Studies, 41(7): 1313-1331.
Nelson, Arthur C., Thomas W. Sanchez, and Casey J. Dawkins. 2004. “Urban Containment and Racial Segregation: A Preliminary Assessment.” Urban Studies, 41(2): 423-439.
Sanches, Thomas W. 2004. “Land Use and Growth Impacts form Highway Capacity Increases.” Journal of Urban Planning and Development, 130(2): 75-82.
Sanchez, Thomas W. 2002. “The Impact of Public Transportation on U.S. Metropolitan Wage Inequality.” Urban Studies, 39(3): 423-436.
Sanchez, Thomas W. and Casey J. Dawkins. 2001. “Distinguishing City and Suburban Movers: Evidence from the American Housing Survey.” Housing Policy Debate, 12(3): 607-631.
Sanchez, Thomas W. 2001. “Are Planners Prepared To Address Social Justice And Distributional Equity?” Critical Planning, 8: 90-100.
Sanchez, Thomas W. 1999. “Transit Access Analysis of TANF Recipients in the City of Portland, Oregon,” Journal of Public Transportation, 2(4): 61-73.
Sanchez, Thomas W., Kenneth J. Dueker, and Anthony Rufolo. 1999. “A GIS Methodology for Assessing the Growth Impacts of Highway Improvements,” Transportation Research Record, 1660: 75-83.
Nelson, Arthur C. and Thomas W. Sanchez. 1999. “Debunking the Exurban Myth: A Comparison of Suburban Households,” Housing Policy Debate, 10(3): 689-709.
Sanchez, Thomas W. 1999. “The Connection between Public Transit and Employment,” Journal of the American Planning Association, 65(3): 284-296 (2000 Award for Best Article).
Mahayni, Riad G., Thomas W. Sanchez, and Eric D. Kelly. 1999. “Teaching Planning Methods through Modules,” Journal of Planning Education and Research, 18: 353-360.
Nelson, Arthur C. and Thomas W. Sanchez. 1998. “The Influence of MARTA on Population and Employment Location,” Transportation Research Record, 1604: 18-25.
Sanchez, Thomas W. 1998. “Equity Analysis of Capital Improvement Plans Using GIS: The Case of the Des Moines Urbanized Area,” Journal of Urban Planning and Development, 124(1): 33-43.
Sanchez, Thomas W., Timothy O. Borich, and Riad G. Mahayni. 1998. “Sharing of Public Works Services by Small Towns,” Public Works Management & Policy, 2(4): 327-339.
Sanchez, Thomas W. 1998. “Equity Analysis of Personal Transportation System Benefits,” Journal of Urban Affairs, 20(1): 69-86.
Nelson, Arthur C. and Thomas W. Sanchez. 1997. “Exurban and Suburban Residents: A Departure from Traditional Location Theory,” Journal of Housing Research, 8(2): 249-276.
Nelson, Arthur C., Thomas W. Sanchez, Catherine L. Ross, and Michael D. Meyer. 1997. “Rail Transit in the Suburbs: Case Study of Transit Use in Atlanta’s Affluent Northern Tier,” Transportation Research Record, 1571: 142-150.
Nelson, Arthur C. and Thomas W. Sanchez. 1995. “Socio-economic Considerations of Road Impact Fees,” Transportation Research Record, 1498: 32-35.
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TODD SCHENK, Assistant Professor
POSITION & CONTACT INFO
TODD SCHENK
Assistant Professor
tschenk@vt.edu
(540) 231-1803
RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS:
– Collaborative planning and decision-making
– Public sector dispute resolution
– Joint fact-finding
– Empathy and understanding
– Environmental policy and planning
– Climate change adaptation
– Sustainable development
– Serious games for action research
PROFESSIONAL BIO
Todd Schenk is interested in how decision-makers and other stakeholders can more effectively solve shared problems to advance public policy, planning, and good governance. He is particularly focused on how multi-stakeholder groups can tackle ‘wicked’ problems with high degrees of uncertainty, complexity, and institutional ambiguity, like adapting to climate change. To this end, his co-edited volume on
Joint Fact-Finding for Urban Planning and Environmental Disputes
advances a model of collaborative governance that treats scientific and technical information as a shared resource rather than a weapon. His forthcoming book on Adapting Infrastructure to Climate Change examines various approaches infrastructure managers and other stakeholders can adopt as they seek to account for climate risks while grappling with limited resources, uncertainty, and other limiting factors.
Recognizing that effective deliberation is contingent on the ability to engage in dialogue, and that this seems to be increasingly difficult in our polarized society, Todd initiated
The Frenemies Project
in 2015. This initiative is exploring if and how facilitated dialogue among individuals that hold negative perceptions of, and would rarely interact with, each other can foster mutual understanding, increase empathy, and help them to identify opportunities for coexistence and mutual gains. Todd regularly uses ‘serious games’ in his research, teaching, and consulting.
Todd has extensive research and consulting experience working on environmental policy and planning nd collaborative governance issues in North America, Europe, Asia, Africa and the Middle East. He regularly uses ‘serious games’ in his research, teaching, and consulting. His research suggests that they can provide potent yet safe ‘sandbox-like’ environments for experimentation, social learning, and the initiation of deliberation among stakeholders.
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
Assistant Professor, School of Public and International Affairs, Virginia Tech (Blacksburg, Virginia); affiliated with the Global Change Center, the Center for Communicating Science, and the Global Forum on Urban and Regional Resilience, 2015-present
Graduate Research Fellow, Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School, 2014-2015
Invited guest lectures: Boston University; University of Massachusetts-Lowell; University of Ostrava (Czech Republic); and the University of Tokyo (Japan)
ADMINISTRATIVE AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Assistant Director, MIT Science Impact Collaborative, 2013-2014
Senior Consultant, The Consensus Building Institute, 2007-2013
Project Manager, The Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe (Hungary), 2002-2007
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Public Policy and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015
M.C.P. (focus on Environmental Policy and Planning), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009
B.A. (Hons.), Geography (International Development Minor), University of Guelph, 2002
BOOKS
Schenk, T. (forthcoming). Adapting Infrastructure to Climate Change: Advancing decision-making under conditions of uncertainty and complexity. London and New York: Routledge.
Matsuura, M. and T. Schenk, eds. (2017).
Joint Fact Finding in Urban Planning and Environmental Disputes.
London and New York: Routledge.
CHAPTERS
Chu, E. and T. Schenk (2017). Communicating About Climate Change With Urban Populations and Decision-Makers. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Climate Science.
Schenk, T., E. Czaika, D. Rumore and M. Russo (2016). Joint Fact-Finding: An Approach for Advancing Interactive Governance When Scientific and Technical Information is in Question. Critical Reflections on Interactive Governance. L. Edelenbos and I. van Meerkerk, eds. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing.
Schenk, T. and L. Susskind (2015). Using role-play simulations to encourage adaptation: Serious games as tools for action research. Action Research for Climate Change Adaptation: Developing and applying knowledge for governance. A. van Buuren, J Eshuis and M. van Vliet, Eds. London and New York: Routledge.
Schenk, T. (2014). Boats and Bridges in the Sandbox: Using Role Play Simulation Exercises to Help Infrastructure Planners Prepare for the Risks and Uncertainties Associated With Climate Change. Infranomics: Sustainability, Engineering, Design and Governance. A.V. Gheorghe, M. Masera and P.F. Katina, eds. Berlin, Germany: Springer.
Juras, A. and T. Schenk (2006). Abwasser in Budapest. Grenzen der Privatisierung: Wann ist des Guten zu viel? E.U. von Weizsäcker, O.R. Young and M. Finger, eds. Stuttgart: S.Hirzel Verlag, pp. 45-48.
Juras, A. and T. Schenk (2005). Budapest Sewage Works: Partial privatization of a Central European Utility. Limits to Privatization: How to Avoid Too Much of a Good Thing. E.U. von Weizsäcker, O.R. Young and M. Finger, eds. London and Sterling, VA: Earthscan, pp. 34-39.
Juras, A. and T. Schenk (2005). Union Miniere Pirdop Copper, Bulgaria: A case of privatization and the environment. Limits to Privatization: How to Avoid Too Much of a Good Thing. E.U. von Weizsäcker, O.R. Young and M. Finger, eds. London and Sterling, VA: Earthscan, pp. 47-50.
ARTICLES
Rumore, D., T. Schenk and L. Susskind (2016). Role-play simulations: A tool for climate adaptation education and engagement. Nature Climate Change, 6: 745-750.
Eriksen, C., V. Sword-Daniels, E.E.H. Doyle, R. Alaniz, C. Adler, T. Schenk and S. Vallance (2016). Embodied Uncertainty: Living with Complexity and Natural Hazards. Journal of Risk Research, doi:10.1080/13669877.2016.1200659
Edelenbos, J., I. van Meerkerk and T. Schenk (2016). The Evolution of Community Self-Organization in Public Sector Governance: Cross-case insights from three countries. American Review of Public Administration, doi:10.1177/0275074016651142.
Schenk, T., R.A.L. Vogel, N. Maas and L. Tavasszy (2016). Joint Fact-Finding in Practice: Review of a Collaborative Approach to Climate-Ready Infrastructure in Rotterdam. European Journal of Transport and Infrastructure Research, 16(1): 273-293.
Shi, L., E. Chu, I. Anguelovski, A. Aylett, J. Debats, K. Goh, T. Schenk, K.C. Seto, D. Dodman, D. Roberts, J.T. Roberts and S.D. VanDeveer (2016). Roadmap towards justice in urban climate adaptation research. Nature Climate Change, 6: 131–137.
Susskind, L. and T. Schenk (2014). Can Games Really Change the Course of History? Négociations, 2(22): 29-39.
World Social Science Fellows on Risk Interpretation and Action (2014). Reporting on the Seminar – Risk Interpretation and Action (RIA): Decision Making Under Conditions of Uncertainty. Australasian Journal of Disaster and Trauma Studies, 18 (1): 27-37.
Bollinger, L.A., C.W.J. Bogmans, E.J.L. Chappin, G.P.J. Dijkema, J.N. Huibregtse, N. Maas, T. Schenk, M. Snelder, P. van Thienen, S. de Wit, B. Wols and L.A. Tavasszy (2013). Climate Adaptation of Interconnected Infrastructures: A Framework for Supporting Governance. Regional Environmental Change, 13(1); DOI: 10.1007/s10113-013-0428-4.
Susskind, L., A. Camacho and T. Schenk (2011). A Critical Assessment of Collaborative Adaptive Management in Practice. Journal of Applied Ecology, DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2664.2011.02070.x.
Susskind, L., A. Camacho and T. Schenk (2010). Collaborative Planning and Adaptive Management in Glen Canyon: A Cautionary Tale. Columbia Journal of Environmental Law, 35(1).
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Schenk, T. and E. Buchannan (2016, Oct. 12).
Making Frenemies: Virginia Tech project aims to facilitate more civil discourse among the utterly opposed.
Roanoke Times.
Schenk, T. and L.C. Stokes (2013). The Power of Collaboration. IEEE Power & Energy, May/June: 56- 65.
Schenk, T. and O. Ferguson (2012). Coastal States’ Climate Adaptation Initiatives: Sea Level Rise and Municipal Engagement. Lincoln Institute of Land Policy Working Paper, WP12TS1.
Schenk, T., D. Plumb and E. Paul (2011). Preparing Through Simulation: Using Role-Play Exercises to Incorporate Climate Risks Into Decision-Making. Practical Solutions for a Warming World: American Meteorological Society Conference on Climate Adaptation, July 2011.
Schenk, T. (2008, April). Assessing the State of Conflict Assessment. CBI Reports, April, 2008.
Filcak, R., T. Schenk and R. Atkinson (2006). Sustainability in Action: NGO Initiatives for Sustainable Development in the Western Balkans. Szentendre, Hungary: The Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe.
Schenk, T. (2006, October). The Road to Suburbia. The GreenHorizon, vol. 3, no. 3, 15. Schenk, T. (2006, August). Chewing Slowly in CEE. Diversity, vol. 2, no. 4, 14.
Simpson, J., T. Schenk and G. Krzywkowska (2003). Snapshot of Environmental Information Systems in South Eastern Europe: Current Progress and Future Priorities. Szentendre, Hungary: The Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe.
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THOMAS SKUZINSKI, Assistant Professor
POSITION & CONTACT INFO
THOMAS SKUZINSKI
Assistant Professor
skuzinsk@vt.edu
(540) 231-1801
Thomas Skuzinski is an Assistant Professor of Urban Affairs and Planning at the School of Public and International Affairs. His background spans both planning and law, and includes work in land use, housing, and tax policy. Broadly, he studies policy implementation and governance, focusing especially on explaining variation in the effectiveness and equity of land use and housing policies at the local, interlocal, and regional levels in the United States. Currently, Thomas is researching how deeply held values about solidarity and equality help explain the preferences of local elected officials toward interlocal cooperation in land use and economic development, a process he terms the cultural cognition of governance.
TEACHING:
Land Use Law
Legal Foundations of Planning
Urban and Regional Theory
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Urban and Regional Planning, University of Michigan, 2015
Master of Urban Planning, University of Michigan, 2008
Juris Doctor, Michigan State University College of Law, 2006
B.S., Economics, Grand Valley State University, 2003
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MAX STEPHENSON, IPG Director, Professor
POSITION & CONTACT INFO
MAX STEPHENSON
IPG Director, Professor
mstephen@vt.edu
(540) 231-6775
RESEARCH/TEACHING INTERESTS:
– Nonprofit/Nongovernmental Organizations, Governance, Leadership, Management and Civil Society
– Higher Education: Policy and Practice
– Humanitarian and Refugee Relief and Disaster Risk Mitigation
– Public Policy and Policy Theory
– Peacebuilding, International Development and Democratization
– Environmental Politics, Policy and Planning
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
2008-present Coordinator (MURP Program), Master’s International Program, United States Peace Corps
2007-present Faculty, Alliance for Social, Political, Ethical and Cultural Thought (ASPECT) Doctoral Program
2006-present Director, Virginia Tech Institute for Policy and Governance
2006-2007 Program Chair, Center for Public Administration and Policy, Virginia Tech
2005-present Coordinator, Graduate Certificate in Nonprofit and Nongovernmental Organization Management
2003-2005 Program Chair, Urban Affairs and Planning, Virginia Tech
2003-2006 Co-Director Institute for Governance and Accountabilities, Virginia Tech
2002-2003 Co-Director, Institute for Innovative Governance, Virginia Tech
1997-2002 Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, College of Architecture and Urban Studies, Virginia Tech
1997-2002 Director, Doctoral Program in Environmental Design and Planning, College of Architecture and Urban Studies, Virginia Tech
March/April 1995 Visiting Professor, University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia, (Under the auspices of the United States Baltic Foundation)
SPONSORED RESEARCH
Ford Foundation, “Accountability and Representation in Negotiated Contexts,” September 2006-September 2009, $102,152. Co-Principal Investigator, 2006-2008, Principal Investigator, 2008-2009. With Alnoor Ebrahim.
Bernard and Patricia Goldstein Family Foundation for “Enhancing Resilience through Communicative Planning,” June, 2008. Principal Investigator, $71,784. Ongoing.
Bertelsmann Foundation (Bertelsmann Stiftung) with Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, Transatlantic Community Foundation Peer Exchange, April13-16, 2007, “Governance,” Mountain Lake, Pembroke, Virginia. Principal Investigator with Andrew Morikawa, Executive Director, New River Valley Community Foundation, $21.000
Virginia Tech Office of International Affairs, Mini-grant for International Program Development, Awarded, $4,000. Awarded April 14, 2007.
Office of Economic Development, Arlington County, Va. for capacity building program for county nonprofits. March 2007. Co-principal investigator with Russell Cargo. $90,000. Completed August 2008.
World Disaster Risk Management Institute. Exploring Innovative and Sustainable Approaches to Global Disaster Risk Reduction. Principal investigator. $113,000. Awarded May 2007, 1 year. With Professor James Martin, Civil and Environmental Engineering.
Arlington County, Va. Office of Economic Development, $70,000 for capacity building program for county nonprofi ts. Co-principal investigator With Russell Cargo. Awarded March 2007.
World Disaster Risk Management Institute. Exploring Innovative and Sustainable Approaches to Global Disaster Risk Reduction. $50,000. Principal investigator. Awarded August 2007, Ongoing. With Professor James Martin, Civil and Environmental Engineering.
VT Institute for Society, Culture and the Environment. $3500 grant to begin research on peace building in Belfast, Ireland with Professor Laura Zanotti.
Roanoke Times: “Building the Capacity of Nonprofi t Organizations in the Roanoke Region. through Improved Governance” Principal Investigator. $45,000 over two years. Awarded June 15, 2006.
Co-PI with Bruce Goldstein and Bruce Hull. U.S. Forest Service, $300,000, 3 years. 2005-2006.
United States Forest Service: Improving Collaborative Decision Making and Community Capacity Through Fire Learning Networks. Nov. 1, 2005. Co-Principal Investigator with Bruce Goldstein and Bruce Hull. $161,000, over three years. Ongoing.
Thomas Jefferson Center Foundation, Roanoke, Va. Governing Board Assessment and Capacity Building. Principal Investigator, $8,000. Completed.
Virginia Tech Center for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. “Distance Learning Assessment” grant for Department of Urban Affairs and Planning, 2004-2005. With Rachel Christensen. $5,000. Completed.
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Government, University of Virginia, 1985
M.A.P.A., University of Virginia, 1979
B.A., Political Science and Economics with High Distinction, University of Virginia, 1977
BOOKS
Two edited volumes, American Behavioral Scientist, Democracy in an Age of NetworkedGovernance: Charting the Currents of Democratic Change and Democracy at aCrossroads: Acknowledging Deficiencies, Encouraging Engagement, Vol.52, 6, February 2009, Vol. 52, 7, March, 2009. Editor, (18 articles and introduction). With Joyce Rothschild.
In progress. Editor with Laura Zanotti of theme issue of Journal of Architectural andPlanning Research: “Building Walls, Securitizing Space and the Making of Identity,” 7 articles plus introduction. Final author submissions due: August 17, 2009. We will select, edit and provide an introductory essay as well.
In progress. Editor with James Martin of theme issue of Journal of EmergencyManagement “Reconsidering the Challenge of Theorizing Relief, Reconstruction and Resilience,” based on VTIPG-DRM Davos symposium, August 2008. We will also contribute an introductory essay. Due: Spring 2009. 12 articles.
Conflict Resolution in the Policy Process. National Institute for Dispute Resolution (NIDR), two volumes, August 1987. Distributed to all National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration member schools and available for purchase thereafter.
Conflict Resolution in the Policy process, pp. 1-108.
Conflict Resolution in the Policy Process—Instructor’s Manual, with Gerald Pops,pp. 1-34.
CHAPTERS
“The Theory and Practice of International Humanitarian Relief Coordination” for Rafael Biermann and Joachim Koops (eds.), Palgrave Handbook on Inter-Organizational Relations in World Politics, London: Palgrave-McMillan Publishers, 2015. Forthcoming.
“Theater as a Tool for Building Peace and Justice: DAH Teatr and Bond Street Theatre,” in Max Stephenson Jr. and A. Scott Tate, Eds. Arts and Community Change: Exploring Cultural Development Policies, Practices and Dilemmas Oxford, England: Routledge Publishers, 2015. With Lyusyena Kirakosyan.
“Exploring the Connections among Adaptive Leadership, Facets of Imagination and Social Imaginaries.” in Colette Dumas and Richard Beinecke, (eds.), Change Leadership. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, May 2015. Reprinting of 2009 article of this title.
“Exploring the Roles of NGOs as Promoters of Peace: The Case of the Community Foundation for Northern Ireland,” in Yannis Stivachtis and Christopher Price (eds.), Issues in International Politics, Economy and Governance. Athens: Athens Institute for Education and Research, 2014, pp. 265-288. With Laura Zanotti.
“Reimagining the Links between Graduate Education and Community Engagement,” in Amanda Gilvin, Georgia M. Roberts and Craig Martin (eds.), Collaborative Futures: Critical Reflections on Publicly Active Graduate Education. Syracuse, N.Y.: Graduate School Press/Syracuse University Press, 2012, pp. 275-290. With Marcy Schnitzer.
“Public/Private Housing Partnerships,” in Andrew Carswell (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Housing, 2nd ed. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2012, pp. 574-576.
“The Networked Face of Organizations” in Mohammed Sarlak (ed.), The New Faces of Organizations in the 21st Century. Volume 4. Toronto, Ontario: North American Institute of Science and Information Technology, 2011, pp. 164-203. With Tracy Cooper.
“Learning from the Quest for Environmental Justice in the Niger River Delta,” in Julian Agyeman and JoAnn Carmin (eds), Environmental Inequalities Beyond Borders: Local Perspectives on Global Injustices. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2011, pp.74-112. With Lisa Schweitzer.
“Corporatism,” in Helmut K. Anheier and Stefan Toepler (eds), International Encyclopedia of Civil Society. New York: Springer Publishing Company, 2009, pp. 581-585.
“NGOS in International Humanitarian Relief,” in Helmut K. Anheier and Stefan Toepler (eds), International Encyclopedia of Civil Society. New York: Springer Publishing Company, 2009, pp. 1034-1039.
“American Governance,” in Mark Bevir (ed.), Sage Encyclopedia of Governance, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications 2006, pp. 16-18.
“Policy Implementation,” in Mark Bevir (ed.), Sage Encyclopedia of Governance, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications 2006, pp. 692-695.
“Government Performance and Results Act,” in Mark Bevir (ed.), Sage Encyclopedia of Governance, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications 2006, pp. 393-394.
“The Legacy of Frederick C. Mosher.” Reprinted in Kenneth W. Thompson (ed.), Diplomacy, Administration and Policy: The Ideas and Careers of Frederick E. Nolting Jr., Frederick C. Mosher and Paul T. David. New York, N.Y.: University Press of America, 1995, pp. 43-80.
“Public Administrators and Conflict Resolution: Democratic Theory, Administrative Capacity and the Case of Negotiated Rulemaking,” in Miriam K. Mills (ed.), Dispute Resolution in the Public Sector. New York, N.Y.: Nelson Hall Publishers, 1991, pp. 14-38. With Gerald Pops.
“Managing Conflict in the Policy Process,” in Afzalur Rahim (ed.), Theory and Research in Conflict Management. New York, N.Y.: Praeger Press, 1990, pp. 134-150. With Gerald Pops.
ARTICLES: Policy/Politics, Governance and Civil Society
“International Aid, Local Ownership and Survival: Development and Higher Education in Rural Haiti,” Voluntas: The International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, With Laura Zanotti and Nancy McGehee, 2015, DOI: 10.1007/s11266-015-9618-7.
“Biopolitical and disciplinary Peacebuilding: Sport, reforming bodies and rebuilding societies,” International Peacekeeping, With Laura Zanotti and Marcy Schnitzer. 22(2), February 2015, pp. 186-201. DOI: 10.1080/13533312.2015.1017082
“Planning Development, and the Media: A Case Study of Mediatization and Mass Audiences,” Journal of Planning Education and Research, Accepted with minor revision, November 21, 2014. With Lisa Schweitzer.
“When Empathy Withers,” Spectra, Vol. 3(2), (September), 2014, pp. 54-57.
http://spectrajournal.org/article/view/134/145
“Unforeseen and Unaccounted: The European Union, the Community Foundation for Northern Ireland, Peacebuilding and Accountability,” European Security, Vol. 22(3)(September), 2013, pp.326-337.
“Theorizing the Role of Sport for Development and Peacebuilding,” Sport in Society: Cultures, Commerce, Media, Politics, Vol. 6(5) (June), 2013, pp.595-610. With Marcy Schnitzer Laura Zanotti and Yannis Stivachtis.
“Exploring Producers’, Staff Members’ and Board Members’ Cognitive Frames on Decision-Making in an Appalachian Organic Farming Venture,” Journal of Rural Social Sciences, Vol. 27(1), 2012, pp. 52-83. With Curt Gervich and Marc J. Stern.
“Managing Networks as Learning Organizations in the Public Sector,” International Journal of Management Science and Information Technology, Vol. 1(3), (January-March) 2012, pp.1-36. With Tracy Cooper.
“Implementing the Liberal Peace in Post-Conflict Scenarios: The Case of Women in Black-Serbia,” Global Policy Vol. 3 (1), February 2012, pp.46-57. With Laura Zanotti.
“Considering the Relationships among Social Conflict, Social Imaginaries, Resilience and Community-based Organization Leadership,” Ecology and Society, Vol. 16(1): article 34. 2011. (online) URL:
http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol16/iss1/art34/
“Exploring the Connections Among Adaptive Leadership, Facets of Imagination and Social Imaginaries,” Public Policy and Administration, Vol. 24, (4), October 2009, pp. 417-435.
“The Meaning of Democracy in Nonprofit and Community Organizations,” American Behavioral Scientist, Democracy in an Age of Networked Governance, Vol. 52, 6 February 2009, pp. 800-806. With Joyce Rothschild.
“Nonprofit Governance, Management and Organizational Learning: Exploring the Implications of One ‘Mega-Gift,’” American Review of Public Administration, Vol. 39, (1), January 2009, pp. 43-59. With Marcy Schnitzer and Veronica Arroyave.
“Governance Structures Matter and we must Maintain what we Construct: Considering the Role of Nonprofit Organizations in Public Policy Processes,” Public Administration Review, Vol. 68, (3), May/June 2008, pp. 591-594.
“The ‘Permanent Things’ and the Role of the Moral Imagination in Organizational Life: Revisiting the Foundations of Public and Nonprofit Leadership,” Administrative Theory and Praxis, Vol. 29, (2), June 2007, pp. 260-277.
“Aesthetic Imagination, Civic Imagination, and the Role of the Arts in Community Change and Development,” International Journal of the Arts in Society, Vol. 1, (3). February 2007, pp. 83-92. With Katherine Fox Lanham.
“Environmental Justice: Right Answers, Wrong Questions: Environmental Justice as Urban Research,” Urban Studies, Vol. 44, (2), February 2007, pp. 319-337. With Lisa Schweitzer.
“Developing Community Leadership Through the Arts In Southside Virginia: Social Networks, Civic Identity and Civic Change,” Community Development Journal, Vol. 42, (1), January 2007, pp. 79-96.
“The Nature Conservancy, the Press and Accountability,” Non Profit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly. Vol. 35, (3). September 2006, pp. 1-22. With Elisabeth Chaves.
“The Legacy of Frederick C. Mosher,” Public Administration Review, Vol. 51, (2), March/April 1991, pp. 97-113. With Jeremy Plant.
“Whither the Public Private Partnership: A Critical Overview,” Urban Affairs Quarterly, Vol. 27, (1) September 1991, pp. 109-127.
“Conflict Resolution Methods and the Policy Process,” Public Administration Review, Vol. 49, (5), September/October 1989, pp. 463-473.
“Public Administrators and Conflict Resolution: Problems and Prospects,” Policy Studies Journal, Vol. 16, (3), Spring 1989, pp. 615-626. With Gerald M. Pops.
“The Policy and Premises of Urban Development Action Grant Program Implementation: A Comparative Analysis of the Carter and Reagan Presidencies,” Journal of Urban Affairs, Vol. 9, (1), Spring 1987, pp. 19-35.
“The Office of Management and Budget in a Changing Scene,” Public Budgeting and Finance, Vol. 2, (4), Winter 1982, pp. 23-41. With Frederick C. Mosher (second author).
ARTICLES: Humanitarian Relief and Disaster Mitigation
“The Theory and Practice of Humanitarian Relief Coordination,” in Rafael Biermann and Joachim Koops, Eds. Palgrave Handbook on Inter-Organizational Relations in World Politics, London: Palgrave-MacMillan Publishers, 2015. Accepted and forthcoming. (Chapter 34).
“Engaging IDPs in Sri Lanka: A Buddhist Approach,” Forced Migration Review, Vol. 48, November 2014, pp. 59-60. With Emily Barry-Murphy.
“Introduction: The Maturing Phenomenon of Cross Sector Networks and Disaster Mitigation and Response,” The Journal of Emergency Management, November-December, 2010, pp. 7-12. With James Martin.
“Positing a Framework for Analyzing Disaster Relief, Reconstruction and Resilience Dynamics,” The Journal of Emergency Management, November-December, 2010, pp. 33-40.
“Exploring the Challenges and Prospects for Polycentricity in International Humanitarian Relief,” American Behavioral Scientist, Democracy in an Age of Networked Governance, Vol. 52, 6, February 2009, pp. 919-932. With Marcy Schnitzer.
“Bridging the Organizational Divide: A Comparative Institutional Analysis of United States and International Humanitarian Service Delivery Structures,” Voluntas: The International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, Vol. 18, (3), September 2007, pp. 209-224.
“Interorganizational Trust, Boundary Spanning, and Humanitarian Relief Coordination,” Non-Profit Management and Leadership. Vol. 17, (2), Winter 2006, pp. 211-233. With Marcy Schnitzer.
“Toward a Descriptive Model of Humanitarian Assistance Coordination,” Voluntas: The International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, Vol. 17, (1), March 2006, pp. 41-57.
“Making humanitarian relief networks more effective: operational coordination, trust and sense making,” Disasters, Vol. 29, (4), December 2005, pp. 337-350.*
*Reprinted and posted by International Bureau for Humanitarian NGOS, http://www.humanitarianibh.net/english/article/Making%20humanitarian%20relief%20networks%20more%20effective.htm
ARTICLES: Higher Education and Pedagogy
“Land Grant Engagement with Landcare: A Case Study of Building Community Capacity” Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Research, Vol. 64 (2), 2012, pp. 223-235. With Courtney Kimmel, Bruce Hull, David Robertson and Kim Cowgill.
“Conceiving Land Grant Civic Engagement as Adaptive Leadership,” Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 61(1), 2011, pp. 95-108.
“Charting the Challenges and Paradoxes of Constructivism for Pre-Professional Planning Education,” Teaching in Higher Education, Vol. 13, (5). October 2008, pp. 583-593. With Lisa Schweitzer.
“Mentoring for Doctoral Student Praxis-Centered Learning: Creating a Shared Culture of Intellectual Aspiration,” Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Vol. 36, (4), December 2007, Supplement, pp. 64s-79s. With Rachel Christensen.
“Program Development issues in Nonprofit and Civil Society Studies: Learning from One University’s Experience,” Journal of Public Affairs Education. Vol. 13, (2), Spring/Summer 2007, pp. 301-314.
“Teaching the Missing Pieces of Policy Analysis,” P.S. Political Science and Politics, Vol.24, (2), June 1991, pp. 218-220. With David G. Williams and David J. Webber.
Commentary on Democratic Politics (217 pieces as of July 27, 2015)
http://soundings.spia.vt.edu/
http://tidings.spia.vt.edu/
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KRIS WERNSTEDT, Professor
POSITION & CONTACT INFO
KRIS WERNSTEDT
Professor
krisw@vt.edu
http://www.risk-kris.org
CV
Kris Wernstedt is a Professor of Urban Affairs and Planning at Virginia Tech’s National Capital Region campus in Arlington. Prior to coming to Virginia Tech in August 2006, he spent 15 years as a Fellow at Resources for the Future, a non-profit organization in Washington, DC that conducts research and policy analysis on environmental quality and natural resources.
Wernstedt works on a variety of issues in both the US and developing countries, with topical emphases on natural hazards, solid waste, water and sanitation, resilience, contaminated properties, and climate change and variability. His broad substantive interests include regulatory innovation, decision making under uncertainty, behavioral economics, and institutional responses to risk. Research sponsors have included a range of foundations and federal agencies.
EDUCATION
Ph.D., City and Regional Planning, Cornell University, 1991
M.R.P., City and Regional Planning, Cornell University, 1989
M.S., Water Resources Management, University of Wisconsin, 1983
B.S., Geography, Western Michigan University, 1980
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2018-present Professor, School of Public and International Affairs, Virginia Tech, Arlington, VA
2016-2018 Fullbright Scholar & Visiting Professor, Ardhi University, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
2006-2018 Associate Professor, School of Public and International Affairs, Virginia Tech, Alexandria, VA
1990-2016 Fellow, Resources for the Future, Washington, DC
SPONSORED RESEARCH
Climate Change and Urban Growth: Development of a Sustainable and Resilient Water Management System Portfolio for the Greater Washington, DC Metropolitan Area, with G. Moglen (PI), K. Triantis, P. Murray-Tuite, and J. Wolf, Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Science, Virginia Tech), $300,000.
Volunteering for State Cleanup Programs. Allen Blackman (Resources for the Future), Thomas Lyon (U. of Michigan), and Kris Wernstedt. 2006-2008. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Disaster Management, Climate Signals, and the Use of Science in Public Policy. Kris Wernstedt, Mathew Dull, and Patrick Roberts. 2008. Virginia Tech Institute for Society, Culture, and the Environment.
Barrier and Facilitators for CBO’s Use of Vacant, Abandoned, and Contaminated Land. Kris Wernstedt and Chris Nelson. 2006-2007. Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.
Active Living through Brownfield-to-Greenfield Conversions. Kris Wernstedt and Juha Siikamäki (Resources for the Future). 2005-2006. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Regulating Abandoned Hardrock Mines: State Responses to a Federal Impasse. Kris Wernstedt and Robert Hersh (Center for Public Environmental Oversight). 2004-2006. Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Areawide Brownfield Regeneration through Business-Based Land Trusts and Progressive Finance. Kris Wernstedt. 2004-2005. Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.
Estimating Community Economic Impacts from the Reuse of Contaminated Properties. Katherine Probst (Resources for the Future) and Kris Wernstedt. 2003. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Industrial Economics.
Urban Regeneration through Environmental Remediation: Valuing Market-Based Incentives for Brownfields Development. Kris Wernstedt, Peter Meyer (U. of Louisville), and Anna Alberini (U. of Maryland). 2002-2004. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Brownfield Redevelopers’ Perceptions of Environmental Insurance: An Appraisal and Review of Public Policy Options. Peter Meyer (U. of Louisville), Kristen Yount (Northern Kentucky U.), and Kris Wernstedt. 2001-2002. Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.
Negotiating the Currents of Brownfields Regulation. Kris Wernstedt and Robert Hersh (Resources for the Future). 2000-2002. Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Amplifying the Policy Signal: La Niña Forecasts and Flood Management in the Pacific Northwest. Kris Wernstedt and Robert Hersh (Resources for the Future). 1999-2002. U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
PUBLICATIONS
Kaseva, Mengiseny, Kris Wernstedt, and Jacob Kihila. Forthcoming. “Measurement and Quantification of Residential Solid Waste in a Metropolitan City of a Developing Country: Case Study in Four Selected Informal Settlements in Dar Es Salaam City, Tanzania.” Journal of Solid Waste Technology and Management (February 2020).
Wernstedt, Kris, Patrick S. Roberts, Joseph Arvai, et al. 2019. “How Emergency Managers (Mis?)Interpret Forecasts.” Disasters 43(1), 88-109.
https://doi.org/10.1111/disa.12293
.
Roberts, Patrick and Kris Wernstedt. 2019. “Decision Biases and Heuristics Among Emergency Managers: Just Like the Public They Manage For?” The American Review of Public Administration 49(3), 292–308.
https://doi.org/10.1177/0275074018799490
.
Roberts, Patrick S., and Kris Wernstedt. 2018. “Herbert Simon’s Forgotten Legacy for Improving Decision Processes.” International Public Management Journal:1-26.
https://doi.org/10.1080/10967494.2018.1502223
.
Kontou, Eleftheria, Pamela Murray-Tuite, and Kris Wernstedt. 2017: “Duration of Commute Travel Changes in the Aftermath of Hurricane Sandy using Accelerated Failure Time Modeling.” Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice. 100:170-181.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tra.2017.04.015
.
Lyon, Thomas P., Haitao Yin, Allen Blackman, and Kris Wernstedt. 2017: “Voluntary Cleanup Programs for Brownfield Sites: A Theoretical Analysis.” Environmental and Resource Economics. 1-26.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10640-017-0121-z
.
Kontou, Eleftheria, Pamela Murray-Tuite, and Kris Wernstedt. 2016: “Commuter Adaptation in Response to Hurricane Sandy’s Damage.” Natural Hazards Review,
https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)NH.1527-6996.0000231
.
Roberts, Patrick and Kris Wernstedt. 2016: “Using Climate Forecasts Across a State’s Emergency Management Network.” Natural Hazards Review,
https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)NH.1527-6996.0000222
.
Wernstedt, Kris and Pamela Murray-Tuite. 2015: “The Dynamic Nature of Risk Perceptions after a Fatal Transit Accident.” Risk Analysis, 35(3), 536-552.
https://doi.org/10.1111/risa.12284
.
Wernstedt, Kris and Fanny Carlet. 2014: “Climate Change, Urban Development, and Stormwater: Perspectives from the Field.” Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, 140(4), 543-552.
https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)WR.1943-5452.0000308
.
Murray-Tuite, Pamela, Kris Wernstedt, and Weihao Yin. 2014: “Behavioral Shifts after a Fatal Rapid Transit Accident: A Multinomial Logit Model.” Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour, 24(0), 218-230.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trf.2014.04.014
.
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DIANE ZAHM, Associate Professor
POSITION & CONTACT INFO
DIANE ZAHM
Associate Professor
dzahm@vt.edu
(540) 231-7503
Diane teaches studio courses at Virginia Tech that address “real problems in real places with real people.” Diane and her students take on tasks that otherwise might not be possible by contributing both expertise and manpower to small towns and rural counties with few or no staff. Several of these studios have been recognized at the state and national levels, including the Virginia Chapter APA 2013 Outstanding Student Project Award for
What Would Floyd Be Like . . .?
and the APA Small Town and Rural Division 2009 Jim Segedy Outstanding Student Project Award for
Implementing the Village Plans: Best Practices and Recommendations for Zoning
.
PROFESSIONAL BIO
Diane’s work in land use planning started with her undergraduate thesis. Her academic advisor sent her to the county planning department where she was assigned a redevelopment plan for an industrial area nearby. When she asked people there what they wanted, they said, “Anything, as long as it doesn’t stink.” “Used to be a pickle and sauerkraut factory. Hated the smell.” And that’s why Diane lovingly refers to her senior thesis as the “not-stinky” plan.
Diane completed a master’s degree in planning at the University of Virginia. In her first-ever job out of the master’s program, Charlottesville’s Director of Planning asked, “Diane, what makes you happy?” Diane said it was “working hard, and doing a good job,” which is, of course, what a newly minted professional planner thinks she is expected to say. Today, Diane’s answer is, “What makes me happy is knowing I have made a difference, no matter how small, for one person or for an entire community.”
In the years since the not-stinky plan, Diane has been given the opportunity to make a difference in places around the world, from the New River Valley in southwest Virginia to Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirites. She has held positions as varied as Statistical Analysis Center Administrator; Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design Research and Training Specialist; Grants Analyst and CDBG Coordinator; Watershed Planner; and member of the Safe Schools Assessment Team and the Governor’s Task Force on Domestic Violence.
EDUCATION
Diane holds a bachelor of science degree in environmental resource management from Allegheny College, a master of planning from the University of Virginia and a Ph.D. in land use planning from the State University of New York, Syracuse.
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
1995-2001 Assistant Professor of Urban Affairs and Planning, Virginia Tech
1995 Associate in Research, School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Florida State University
1992-1994 Adjunct Lecturer, School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Florida State University
1986-1994 Instructor, National Crime Prevention Institute, University of Louisville, Kentucky
1986-1988 Asst. Professor, School of Urban Policy, College of Urban and Public Affairs, University of Louisville
ADMINISTRATIVE AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
1989-1995 Director, Florida Statistical Analysis Center, Florida Criminal Justice Executive Institute, Florida Dept. of Law Enforcement
1988-1989 Research and Training Specialist, Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design Program, Bureau of Crime Prevention and Training, Office of the Attorney General, Tallahassee, Florida
1987-1988 Associate Program Director/Associate Faculty, Housing and Economic Development Program, Urban Studies Center, Unviersity of Louisville
1985-1986 Project Director, Robert D. Hennigan, P.E., Engineering Consultant, Syracuse, New York
1985 Planner, Central New York Regional Planning & Devlopment Board, Syracuse, New York
1981-1984 Grants Analyst, Dept. of Community Development, City of Charlottesville, Virginia
SPONSORED RESEARCH
Diane Zahm, John Ryan and Jim Hawdon, Co-PIs. VT Graduate School, $5,000. 2004-2005.
Diane Zahm, Lee Skabelund and Jesse Richardson, Co-PIs. Virginia Department of Forestry, $41,000. January 2005 and April 2005.
Diane Zahm. Old Wythe Neighborhood Plan Technical Assistance, City of Hampton, $4,800. 2002-2003.
Diane Zahm. Neighborhood Watch and Homeland Security, National Sheriffs Association, $64,765. 2002-2003.
BOOKS
Zahm, D. (2007). “Using Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design for Problem Solving.” Community Oriented Policing Center Problem-Oriented Guides for Police (Problem-Solving Tools Series, available at
www.popcenter.org/tools/cpted
).
Zahm, D. Designing Safer Communities: A Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design Handbook. Washington, DC: National Crime Prevention Council, July 1997.
CHAPTERS
Zahm, D. Security by Design. In P. Knox and P. Ozolins, eds., Design Professionals and the Built Environment. Chichester: John Wiley and Sons, Ltd., 2000, pp. 253-264.
Zahm, D. Why Protecting the Public Health, Safety and General Welfare Won’t Protect Us From Crime. In R. Peiser and M. Felson, eds., Reducing Crime Through Real Estate Development and Management. Washington, DC: Urban Land Institute, 1998, pp. 71-89.
Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design, Opportunity Theory and Rational Choice Models with C.R. Jeffery. In R.G. Clarke and M. Felson (Eds.), Advances in criminological theory, 1993.
ARTICLES
Zahm, Diane, “Brighter is better. Or is it? The Devil is in the Details.” Reaction essay for Welsh and Farrington article “Surveillance for Crime Prevention in Public Space: Results and Policy Choices in Britain and America” Criminology and Public Policy, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 535-546 (invited). 2004-2005.
Zahm, Diane, “Learning, Translating and Implementing CPTED,” Journal of Architectural and Planning Research, vol. 22, no 4, Winter 2005, pp. 284-293.
Michael, S.E., Hull, R.B. and Zahm, D. (2001). “Environmental Factors Influencing Auto Burglary: A Case Study.” Environment and Behavior, vol. 33, no. 3, pp. 368-388.1995-
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WENWEN ZHANG, Assistant Professor
POSITION & CONTACT INFO
WENWEN ZHANG
Assistant Professor
wenwenz3@vt.edu
540-232-8431
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
– Innovative Transportation and Land Use Interaction;
– Sustainable Transportation;
– Energy Consumption;
– Urban Simulations;
– Big & Open Data;
– Applied Machine Learning in Urban Studies
PROFESSIONAL BIO
Wenwen Zhang received her Ph.D. from Georgia Tech’s School of City and Regional Planning in 2017. She also earned a Masters in City Planning, Civil Engineering, and Computational Science & Engineering from Georgia Tech. Previously; she was a research assistant at Center of GIS for six years. Her research focuses on leveraging open, big data, data science techniques and data visualization tools to address critical planning issues. Her dissertation explores the interactions between land use and transportation in the era of shared autonomous vehicles using an agent-based discrete event simulation. She has worked extensively in interdisciplinary environments to deliver techniques that can address real-world sustainability problems. Her research received the best student paper runner-up award in 2016 Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) conference.
EDUCATION
GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY:
Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning, 2017 (Expected)
Master in City & Regional Planning May 2013
M.S. in Civil & Environmental Engineering May 2013
M.S. in Computational Science & Engineering May 2017
ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY:
B.E. in City & Regional Planning July 2011
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YANG ZHANG, Assoc. Director SPIA, Assoc. Professor and Assoc. Chair UAP
POSITION & CONTACT INFO
YANG ZHANG
Assoc. Director SPIA, Assoc. Professor and Assoc. Chair UAP
(540) 231-1128
yz@vt.edu
My research looks at environmental planning, climate change adaptation and sustainable development, especially in the area of disasters / hazards mitigation and recovery. I aspire to enhance the livability of urban environment by improving our understanding of the human-environment interaction, and by infusing this understanding to environmental and land use policy debate. In this regard, my research has both theoretical and practical merits.
My projects have both domestic and international (China) focuses. The fundings come from the US National Science Foundation, the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, and the SEA Grant. I am committed to seeking innovative ideas that transcend political and cultural differences. My research is primarily quantitative. My method expertise includes Geographic Information System (GIS), and econometrics.
I am currently a research fellow of the Next Generation of Hazards and Disasters Researchers Program, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). I am also a research fellow of the Peking University (China) – Lincoln Institute of Land Policy (U.S.) Center for Land Use Policy and Urban Development and of the Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center.
SPONSORED RESEARCH
2010 — National Science Foundation, $449,896 (VT portion, $123,051), Developing an Intergovernmental Management Framework for Sustainable Recovery following Catastrophic Disasters
2010 — Virginia Sea Grant, $10,636, Climate Change Adaptation Strategies For Middle Peninsula Counties in the Virginia Coastal Community
2009 — Peking University-Lincoln Institute of Land Policy Center for Urban Development and Land Policy, $ 12,000, Building Resilient Cities in China — International Experiences
2008 — CAUS Strategic Development Fund, Virginia Tech, $33,939
2008 — Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, $49,132, Integrated Land Use Planning: Theory and a Demo Project
2007 — Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, $ 21,804, Evaluating Urban Planning Policy in China
2007 — Mid America Earthquake Center and National Science Foundation, $3,500, Post-disaster Population Dislocation Estimation
2006 — University of Illinois Strategic Academic Initiatives Grant, $7,477, A Survey of Public Domain Data for the State of Illinois
2004 – Vice President Office’s Research Grant, Texas A&M University, $ 500, Examining human settlements within flood zones in Brazos County, TX.
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Urban and Regional Science, Environmental Hazards Management Certificate, Texas A&M University, 2006
M.S., Geography, Beijing University, 2000
B.S., Geography, Beijing University, 1997
CHAPTERS
Zhang, Y., Y. Song, & C. Ding (2009) “Plan Integration for Coordinated Urban Growth in China.” Pp. 116-127. In Yan Song, and Chengri Ding (Eds), Smart Urban Growth for China, Cambridge, MA: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy Press.
Peacock, W.G., N. Dash. & Y. Zhang (2006) “Sheltering and Housing Recovery Following Disaster.” pp. 258 – 274. In Russell Dynes, Havidan Rodriguez, and Enrico Quarantelli (Eds.) Handbook of Disaster Research, New York: Springer.
ARTICLES
Zhang, Y. (2010) “Residential Housing Choice in a Multihazard Environment: Implications for Natural Hazards Mitigation and Community Environmental Justice.” Journal of Planning Education and Research, 30(2): 1-15
Zhang, Y., & W.G. Peacock (2010) “Planning for Housing Recovery? Lessons Learned from Hurricane Andrew.” Journal of American Planning Association. 71 (5): 5-24.
Zhang, Y., S-N. Hwang, & M. Lindell (2010) “Hazard Proximity or Risk Perception? Evaluating Environmental Hazards’ Effect on Housing Value.” Environment and Behavior. 42(5): 597-624
Maranville, A., T-F. Ting, & Y. Zhang (2009) “An Environmental Justice Analysis, Superfund Sites and Surrounding Communities in Illinois.” Environmental Justice. 2 (2): 49-58.
Zhang, Y., M.K. Lindell & C.S. Prater (2009) “Modeling and Managing the Vulnerability of Community Businesses to Environmental Disasters.” Disasters, 33(1): 38-57.
Arlikatti, S., M.K. Lindell, C.S. Prater, & Y. Zhang (2006) “Risk Area Accuracy and Hurricane Evacuation Expectations of Coastal Residents.” Environment and Behavior, 38(2): 226-247.
Zhang, Y., C.S. Prater, & M.K. Lindell (2004) “Risk Area Accuracy and Hurricane Evacuation from Hurricane Bret.” Natural Hazards Review, 5 (3): 115-120.
Li, G. & Y. Zhang (2001) “Industrialization and Urban Form Development in Coal Region, A Case Study on City of Funshun.” Scientia Geographica Sinica, 21(6): 511-518.
Yang, K. & Y. Zhang (1999) “Industrial Structure and Cities’ Comparative Advantage — A Case Study of Tianjin, China.” Scientia Geographica Sinica, 19(6): 510-516.
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ARIEL AHRAM, Associate Professor
ARIEL AHRAM
Associate Professor
(571) 858-3123
ahram@vt.edu
Major Areas of Specialization:
Security and development
Cross-national and cross-regional analysis
Social movements
Middle East regional politics
PROFESSIONAL BIO
Ariel I. Ahram (@ariel_ahram) is associate professor of government and international affairs (GIA) at Virginia Tech. His substantive research focuses on issues of security and development, particularly in the Middle East. His book,
Proxy Warriors: The Rise and Fall of State-Sponsored Militias
(Stanford University Press, 2011), examines the emergence and evolution of armed non-state actors that collaborate with governments. Dissenting from current policy orthodoxy, he argues that efforts to fix weak and frail states are unlikely to reduce the power of militias and that human and international security can often be improved by empowering, not repressing, armed non-state forces.
In addition to this specialization in security and development, Dr. Ahram also works on topics of research methodology. He has published a series of articles dealing with ways of combining qualitative and quantitative cross-national and cross-regional analysis and conducted guest lectures at the
German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA)
in Hamburg. He is currently editing a book (with Paul Goode of the University of Oklahoma) on the unique challenges posed in studying closed, authoritarian regimes.
Dr. Ahram has provided commentary to the BBC, Canadian Broadcast Company, and Regional News Network (NY), and written in such online venues as Dissent, Washington Post’s Monkey Cage, Foreign Policy’s Middle East Channel, and Political Violence at a Glance. Among his most recent works are a study of Iraq’s new national guard program, written with Fred Wehrey of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and an essay on the possible emergence of new “quasi-states” in the Middle East like the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.
Prof. Ahram earned his Ph.D. in government and M.A. in Arab Studies from Georgetown University and a B.A. from Brandeis University. At Virginia Tech, he teaches courses on global security, social movements, Middle East regional politics, and research methods. He taught previously at the University of Oklahoma.
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Government: Georgetown University
M.A., Arab Studies: Georgetown University
B.A.: Brandeis University
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JOYCE BARR, Professor of Practice
JOYCE BARR
Professor of Practice
Joyce Barr is a Professor of Practice in Government and International Affairs at Virginia tech and a former State Department career diplomat. She was the agency’s Assistant Secretary of the Bureau of Administration until 2017. She was also interim Chancellor and Deputy Commandant at the former Industrial College of the Armed Forces and US Ambassador to the Republic of Namibia. She had overseas tours in Sweden, Hungary, Kenya, Sudan, Turkmenistan and Malaysia. Her domestic assignments included work on Human Rights, crises management, and oversight of US facilities abroad.
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MEHRZAD BOROUJERDI, Director SPIA, Professor GIA
MEHRZAD BOROUJERDI
Director SPIA, Professor GIA
(571) 858-3110
mehrzad@vt.edu
Mehrzad Boroujerdi is Director of the School of Public and International Affairs at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech).
From 1992 to 2019, he was a professor of
Political Science
at Syracuse University’s
Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs
. During the 2017-18 academic year, as a
Fellow of the American Council on Education
(ACE), he resided at
California State University – Northridge
(CSUN) where he worked with the university’s senior leadership.
Dr. Boroujerdi is the author of
Iranian Intellectuals and the West: The Tormented Triumph of Nativism
(Syracuse University Press, 1996), and I Carved, Worshiped and Shattered: Essays on Iranian Politics and Identity [
in Persian
] (Nashr-e Negah-e Mo`aser, 2010). He is also the co-author of
Postrevolutionary Iran: A Political Handbook
(Syracuse University Press, 2018), and editor of
Mirror for the Muslim Prince: Islam and Theory of Statecraft
(Syracuse University Press, 2013). In addition, he has authored more than thirty journal articles and book chapters in English and Persian.
Before coming to Virginia Tech, Dr. Boroujerdi served in the following administrative roles at Syracuse University: Chair of the Political Science Department (2014-17), Provost Fellow for Internationalization (2015-17), Co-chair of the Internationalization Council (2016-17), member of the Academic Strategic Plan Committee and co-chair of its Working Group on Enhancing Internationalization (2014-16), Director of Graduate Studies in the Political Science Department (2001-04), Founding director of the Middle Eastern Studies Program (2003-14), Co-founder of the Project on Religion, Media and International Affairs (2006-09), and founding editor of the
Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East
book series published by Syracuse University Press (1996-2014).
Dr. Boroujerdi has also been a visiting scholar at UCLA’s
Center for Near Eastern Studies (2017-18)
, President of the
Association for Iranian Studies
(2012-2014), member of the board of directors of the
Near East Foundation
(2010-19), co-founder of the Iran Data Portal (2009-present), a non-resident scholar at the
Middle East Institute
in Washington, D.C. (2005-16), the book review editor of the
International Journal of Middle East Studies
(2000-07), a Rockefeller Foundation Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin (1991-92), and a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard University (1991-92).
Dr. Boroujerdi has been the recipient of grants and fellowships from American Council on Education, Henry R. Luce Foundation, Princeton University, Social Science Research Council, the Institute of International Education, the U.S. Department of Education, and the United States Institute of Peace, and the Violet Jabara Charitable Trust. Other awards include the Foundation for Iranian Studies Best Doctoral Dissertation (1990), the Maxwell School’s Daniel Patrick Moynihan Award for outstanding teaching, research, and service (1998), Maxwell School’s inaugural
O’Hanley Faculty Scholar
(2014-19), and the Institute of International Education’s Scholar Rescue Fund’s Outstanding Service Award (2011).
Dr. Boroujerdi has been interviewed by numerous national and international media outlets such as Al Jazeera, Associated Press, Guardian, LA Times, NPR, New York Times, Reuters, Spiegel and Washington Post, and is a regular commentator on a number of Persian broadcasting networks.
To see his Persian-language website visit
http://www.mehrzadboroujerdi.com
EDUCATION
Ph.D. International Relations, The American University, 1990
M.A. Political Science, Northeastern University
B.A. Political Science (magna cum laude), Boston University, 1983. Minor: Sociology
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GISELLE DATZ, Associate Professor and Chair
GISELLE DATZ
Associate Professor and Chair
(571) 858-3101
gdatz@vt.edu
Areas of Specialization:
Sovereign debt restructuring
Pension funds
Financial crises and regulation
Latin American politics
Giselle Datz is Associate Professor in the Government and International Affairs Program at the School of Public and International Affairs. She specializes in the field of global political economy with research interests in sovereign debt restructuring processes, economic policy reform (particularly pension reforms), financial crises and financial development. Her regional focus is on Latin America.
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WILMA DUNAWAY, Professor Emerita
WILMA DUNAWAY
Professor Emerita
(540) 231-5298
wdunaway@vt.edu
Wilma A. Dunaway is Professor of Sociology in the Government and International Affairs program at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia. She earned a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Tennessee in 1994. She received a fellowship from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation to complete her ground-breaking dissertation about the integration of antebellum Appalachia into global capitalism, and her subsequent research since then have brought her attention as one of the most acclaimed contemporary scholars about this region of the United States.
ADMINISTRATIVE AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
1978-1988 District Manager, Appalachian Counties Office of Community & Economic Development, Tennessee Valley Authority
1968-1978 Deputy Director Knoxville Area Urban League
SPONSORED RESEARCH
Wilma Dunaway, PI. American Association of University Women Research Grant, $40,000. April 15, 2005.
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Sociology, University of Tennessee, 1994
M.A., Sociology, University of Tennessee, 1973
B.S., Sociology, University of Tennessee, 1966
BOOKS
Wilma A. Dunaway. Women, Work and Family in the Antebellum Mountain South. Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Wilma A. Dunaway. Southern Laboring Women: The Gendered Boundaries of Race, Ethnicity and Class in Antebellum Appalachia, 1700-1860. Forthcoming Cambridge University Press.
Wilma A. Dunaway. The African-American Family in Slavery and Emancipation. Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Wilma A. Dunaway. Slavery in the American Mountain South. Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Wilma A. Dunaway. Crises and Resistance in the 21st Century World-System. Praeger Press, January 2003.
Wilma A. Dunaway, ed. New Theoretical Directions for the 21st Century World- System. Praeger Press, January 2003.
Wilma A. Dunaway, ed. Crises and Resistance in the 21st Century World-System. Praeger Press, 2003.
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Dunaway, W., and M. C. Macabuac. “Aquaculture Commodity Chains and Threats to Food Security and Survival of Philippine Fishing Households,” pp. 117-38 in G. K. Trichur (ed.) Asia and the Transformation of the World-System. Boulder CO: Paradigm Publishers. 2009.
Wilma A. Dunaway. “Did Slavery Destroy the Black Family?,” pp. 49-61 in L. Madaras and J. M. SoRelle (eds.), Taking Sides: Clashing Views in United States History, Volume 1: The Colonial Period to Reconstruction, 13th edition. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2008.
Wilma A. Dunaway. “Diaspora History Construction and the Native American Heritage of Black Appalachian Slaves,” in Robert Turner, ed., Africans-Americans in Rural America, forthcoming University of Illinois Press.
Wilma A. Dunaway. “Has Terrorism Changed the World-System Forever?” In Crises and Resistance in the 21st Century World-System, W.A. Dunaway (ed.), Praeger Press, January 2003.
Wilma A. Dunaway. “Women’s Labor and Nature: The 21st Century World-System from a Radical Ecofeminist Perspective.” In New Theoretical Directions for the 21st Century World-System, W.A. Dunaway (ed.), Praeger Press, January 2003.
ARTICLES
With M. C. Macabuac. “‘The Shrimp Eat Better than We Do’: Philippine Subsistence Fishing Households Sacrificed for the Global Food Chain.” Review, the Journal of the Fernand Braudel Center, 31(4), 2007.
Wilma A. Dunaway. “Revisionist with a Cause: Interview with Wilma Dunaway.” Appalachian Journal 31 (Winter/Spring 2004).
Wilma A. Dunaway. “Ethnic Conflict in the Modern World-System: The Dialectics of Counter-hegemonic Resistance in an Age of Transition.” Journal of World-SystemResearch, Spring 2003.
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CHAD LEVINSON, Assistant Professor
CHAD LEVINSON
Assistant Professor
(571) 858-3113
chadlevinson@vt.edu
Areas of Specialization:
U.S. Foreign Policy
The Presidency
Civil Society
Information Warfare
Chad Levinson is an Assistant Professor in the Government and International Affairs program at Virginia Tech’s School of Public and International Affairs. His research and teaching interests center on U.S. Foreign Policy, the presidency, civil society, and information warfare. He is working on a book project, The Credibility Cartel, about the collaborative relationships between presidential administrations and extra-governmental organizations in the marketing of national security programs beginning in the interwar years through the Cold War and the advent of the Global War on Terror. Professor Levinson earned his doctorate in Political Science from the University of Chicago in 2017. In the 2017-18 academic year, he was the Stanley Kaplan Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Political Science and the Leadership Studies Program at Williams College. He is also a former Research Fellow in the International Security Program of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. Prior to entering graduate school, he worked in the information technology industry designing and programming large-scale databases. He graduated from Columbia University with a bachelor’s in English Literature, where he also performed in musicals with two future Tony Award winners and the Mayor of Los Angeles.
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ILJA LUCIAK, Affiliated Professor
ILJA LUCIAK
Affiliated Professor
(703) 706-8112
iluciak@vt.edu
Research Interests:
Democratic theory and gender politics
Reproductive rights
Globalization
PROFESSIONAL BIO
Professor Luciak’s research interests include democratic theory and gender politics, revolutionary movements, reproductive rights, and globalization. He teaches in the areas of Latin American politics, development theory and revolutionary change and has received teaching awards from the Department of Political Science, the Political Science Honors Society and the College of Arts and Sciences.
For the past thirty years, Dr. Luciak has conducted field research in Central America, Cuba and Colombia focusing on gender equality and democratization. He has been a visiting professor/fellow at the Universidad Centroamericana in Nicaragua, Stockholm University, Sweden, Universität Innsbruck, Austria, and at The Society for the Humanities, Cornell University. Professor Luciak has written for Swedish, Austrian, British, Mexican, Nicaraguan, Salvadoran and North American publications. He has worked as a consultant for the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), the United Nations Women’s Fund (UNIFEM), the Office of the Special Advisor to the Secretary General on Gender Issues and the Advancement of Women (OSAGI) and the Swedish International Development Authority (Sida). He has given numerous invited lectures and organized several international conferences on Central America. He has served as an invited election observer in El Salvador and Nicaragua and has been an official delegate and invited expert to several United Nations conferences.
Recent publications include a multi-year study on “Gender Equality and Democratization in Central America and Cuba” for the European Commission. Based on this study, he published After the Revolution: Gender and Democracy in El Salvador, Nicaragua and Guatemala (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001), which uses a gender lens to examine the transformation of the revolutionary Left from armed guerrilla movements into political parties. The second part of this research project was published by the University Press of Florida (2007, Paperback 2009) and is entitled Gender and Democracy in Cuba.
He is currently completing a book manuscript, entitled The Electrolux King: Reality and Myth in the Life of Axel Wenner-Gren. The book examines the political and social legacy of the founder of the Electrolux Company and major philanthropist. As part of the Wenner-Gren project, Professor Luciak organized an international symposium held in Stockholm, Sweden, in May 2012. The conference proceedings have been published in Reality and Myth: A Symposium on Axel Wenner-Gren, co-edited with Bertil Daneholt (Stockholm: The Wenner-Gren Foundations, 2012).
EDUCATION
Ph.D., University of Iowa, 1987
J.D., University of Vienna, Austria, 1980
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TIM LUKE, University Distinguished Professor
TIM LUKE
University Distinguished Professor
(540) 231-6633
twluke@vt.edu
Research Interests:
Environmental politics and cultural studies
International political economy
Modern critical social and political theory
PROFESSIONAL BIO
Professor Luke’s areas of research include environmental politics and cultural studies as well as comparative politics, international political economy, and modern critical social and political theory. He teaches courses in the history of political thought, contemporary political theory, and comparative and international politics. Dr. Luke serves on the editorial board of Capitalism Nature Socialism,Critical Social Policy, Culture and Politics: An International Journal of Theory, e-Learning and Digital Media, the minnesota review, Fast Capitalism, International Political Sociology, Journal of Information Technology and Policy, Open Geography Journal, Organization & Environment, New Political Science, Current Perspectives in Social Theory, Peace Studies Journal, and Telos. He is an Associate Editor of New Political Science, and has been the Citation Classics and Foundational Works Editor for Organization & Environment since 1999. He also is a founding editor of Fast Capitalism, located at the Center for Theory at the University of Texas at Arlington. He is the book line editor of Telos Press Publishing, where he oversees publication of works by Ernst Juenger, Carl Schmitt, Jean-Claude Paye, Paul Piccone, Victor Zaslavsky, and other works of social theory. He also has served as an editorial board member with Environmental Communication, International Journal of Innovation and Sustainable Development, International Political Economy Yearbook, Journal of Politics, New Political Science, ultiBase, and Post-Communist Cultural Studies with Penn State University Press.
From 1997-2010, Dr. Luke was Director of Graduate Studies, and he founded the OLMA program on the basis of his work with the Virginia Tech Cyberschool from 1994-2003. He continues to direct the Center for Digital Discourse and Culture that also he developed during the Cyberschool experiment. He has been awarded fellowships and grants by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Carter G. Woodson Institute, the Center for Organizational and Technological Advancement, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, International Research and Exchange Board (IREX), the Department of State, and the Council for the International Exchange of Scholars (Fulbright Research/Teaching Award). During 1996, he was named Visiting Research and Teaching Scholar at the Open Polytechnic of New Zealand, and in 1995 he was the Fulbright Professor of Cultural Theory and the Politics of Information Society at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. He has reviewed grant proposals in political science, sociology, and science studies for the National Science Foundation, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Austrian Science Fund, and the Foundation for Research, Science and Technology of New Zealand.
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
1999-pres University Distinguished Professor, Political Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
1990-1999 Professor, Political Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
1996 Visiting Research and Teaching Scholar, Faculty of Human Sciences, The Open Polytechnic of New Zealand, Wellington, New Zealand
1995 Visiting Fulbright Professor for Cultural Theory and the Politics of Information Society, Communications Studies and English, Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand
1985-1990 Associate Professor, Political Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
1981-1985 Assistant Professor, Political Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
1980-1981 Visiting Assistant Professor, Political Science, University of Missouri-Columbia
1979-1980 Visiting Assistant Professor, Political Science, University of Arizona
1978-1979 Lecturer, Political Science, Washington University, St. Louis
1977-1978 Adjunct Instructor, Political Science, University of Missouri-St. Louis
1975 Lecturer, Political Science, University of Arizona
1974-1975 Associate Faculty Instructor, Political Science, Pima College
1973-1975 Graduate Teaching Assistant, Political Science, University of Arizona
ADMINISTRATIVE AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2003-2016 Chair, Government and International Affairs Program, School of Pubic and International Affairs, Virginia Tech
2003-pres Senior Fellow, Arts, Humanities and the Social Sciences, Office of the Provost, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
2002-2003 Associate Dean, Division of Liberal Arts, College of Arts and Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
2002 Department Chair, Political Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
1998-2003 Executive Director, Institute of Distance and Distributed Learning, Office of the Provost, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
1991-1992 Acting Department Chair, Political Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
1986-1987 Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Carter G. Woodson Institute for Afro-American and African Studies, University of Virginia
BOOKS
Ben Agger and Timothy W. Luke, eds. There is a Gunman on Campus: Tragedy and Terror at Virginia Tech. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2008. xi, 263.
Timothy W. Luke, Museum Pieces: Power Plays at the Exhibition. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002. xviii, 298 pp.
Timothy W. Luke, Capitalism, Democracy, and Ecology: Departing from Marx. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1999. xii, 254 pp.
Chris Toulouse and Timothy W. Luke, eds. The Politics of Cyberspace. London: Routledge, 1998. iii, 188.
Timothy W. Luke, Ecocritique: Contesting the Politics of Nature, Economy and Culture. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997. xx, 253 pp.
Timothy W. Luke, Shows of Force: Power, Politics and Ideology in Art Exhibitions. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1992. x, 250 pp.
Timothy W. Luke, Social Theory and Modernity: Critique, Dissent and Revolution. Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications, Inc., 1990. 273 pp.
Timothy W. Luke, Screens of Power: Ideology, Domination and Resistance in Informational Society. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1989. x, 265 pp.
Timothy W. Luke, Ideology and Soviet Industrialization. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1985. xii, 283.
Victor T. Le Vine and Timothy W. Luke, The Arab-African Connection: Political and Economic Realities. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1979. xiv, 155.
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JOEL PETERS, Professor GIA
JOEL PETERS
Director SPIA and Profesor GIA
(571) 858-3117
peters25@vt.edu
Major Areas of Specialization:
Global security; Conflict resolution; Israeli politics and foreign policy; Arab-Israeli peace process
Joel Peters is Chair of Government and International Affairs Program at Virginia Tech specializing in the field of global security and conflict resolution. Joel Peters’ research interests and publications cover Israeli politics and foreign policy, the Arab-Israeli peace process, regional cooperation in the Middle East and Europe’s relations in the Middle East and the Mediterranean. He is the co-editor (with Rob Geist Pinfold) of Understanding Israel: Political Societal and Security Challenges, the co-editor of (with David Newman) of the Routledge Handbook on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict and currently completing a book on Israeli Foreign Policy since the end of the Cold War.
PROFESSIONAL BIO
Joel Peters is Chair of Government and International Affairs Program at Virginia Tech specializing in the field of global security and conflict resolution. Joel Peters’ research interests and publications cover Israeli politics and foreign policy, the Arab-Israeli peace process, regional cooperation in the Middle East and Europe’s relations in the Middle East and the Mediterranean. He is the author of four books on Israeli foreign policy: –
Uneasy Neighbors: Israel and the European Union
and Israel and Israel and Africa: The Problematic Friendship; and Pathways to Peace: The Multilateral Arab-Israel Peace Talks and is the lead editor of the
Routledge Handbook on the Israel-Palestine Conflict
. He is currently completing a new book on contemporary Israeli foreign policy since the end of the Cold War and editing a book on contemporary Israeli politics and society. He is also the co-editor of a book series on Europe and the World published by Lexington Books.
For the past twenty-five years Joel Peters has been an active participant in various informal, track II meetings between Israelis and Palestinians on issues ranging from Jerusalem, refugees, borders, economic development and regional security. He has lectured widely at universities throughout Europe and the United States on Israeli politics and the Arab-Israeli peace process, and is regularly consulted by the international media.
Joel Peters is also a research fellow at the Center for the Study of European Politics and Society (CSEPS) and is an affiliate professor in the Department of Politics and Government at Ben Gurion University of the Negev Israel and a Policy Fellow at
Mitvim the Israeli Institute for Regional Foreign Policies
. He has also served as a research fellow in the Middle East Program at the Chatham House, London. He received his doctorate in International Relations from St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford, UK.
EDUCATION
D.Phil., International Relations, St. Antony’s College, Oxford, 1988
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
2012 – Full Professor, Government and International Affairs, School of Public and International Affairs, Virginia Tech, USA.
2014 – Policy Fellow, Mitvim, The Israeli Institute for Regional Foreign Policies
2012- Affiliate Professor, Dept. of Politics and Government and Senior Research Fellow, Centre for the Study of European Politics and Society, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel.
2006 -2012 Associate Professor, Government and International Affairs, School of Public and International Affairs, Virginia Tech, USA.
2002-2007 (Founding) Director. Centre for the Study of European Politics and Society, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel.
1999-2007 Senior Lecturer, (tenured) Department of Politics and Government, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel.
1990– 96 Associate Research Fellow, Middle East Programme, The Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House), London, UK.
1989-99 Lecturer (tenured) in International Relations, Department of Politics, The University of Reading, UK.
RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS
2013-16 Visiting Research Fellow, Leonard Davis Institute for International Relations, Hebrew University, Jerusalem.
2005-06 Visiting Scholar, Institute for Conflict Analyses and Resolution (ICAR), George Mason University.
1996 -97 Visiting Scholar, Harry S. Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
1988 -89 Visiting Scholar, Harry S. Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
1987-89 Lady Davis Post Doctoral Research Fellow, Department of International Relations, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
1986-87 Visiting Scholar, Center for International Strategic Affairs (CISA), University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
ADMINISTRATIVE & PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2016- Chair, Government and International Affairs Program, School of Public and International Affairs, Virginia Tech, USA.
2002-2007 (Founding) Director. Centre for the Study of European Politics and Society, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel.
1994-98 Director of International Studies, Graduate School of European and International Studies, The University of Reading, UK.
BOOKS
Books (6)
6. Israel and the World (manuscript under contract with Rowman and Littlefield Publishers – completion December 2016)
5. Israel and the European Union: A Documentary History with Sharon Pardo (Lexington Books, 2012)
4. Uneasy Neighbors: Israel and the European Union, with Sharon Pardo (Lexington Books, 2010)
3. Introduction to International Relations with R.J.Barry.Jones, Peter Jones, and Ken Dark (Manchester University Press, 2001)
2. Pathways to Peace: The Multilateral Arab-Israeli Peace Talks (London: Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1996)
1. Israel and Africa: The Problematic Friendship (London: British Academic Press/I.B. Tauris, 1992)
Monographs (1)
1. Building Bridges: The Multilateral Arab-Israeli Talks (London: Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1994)
Edited Books (4)
4. Understanding Israel: Political, Societal and Security Challenges (with Rob Pinfold) under contract with Routledge – completion December 2016.
3. Co-editor The Routledge Handbook on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (with David Newman, Routledge, 2013). Paperback version published in 2015.
2. The Europe Union and the Arab Spring: Promoting Human Rights and Democracy in the Middle East (Lexington Books, 2012)
1. Whither Israel: The Domestic Challenges (with Keith Kyle – London: I.B.Tauris/ Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1993). Revised and updated paperback version published in 1994. Published in Japan as Isuraeru Wa Doko e Yuku? National Institute for Research Advancement (NIRA), Research Report No. 930016.
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Chapters in Books: (23)
23. (forthcoming) ‘Israel and the World’ in Gisela Dachs (Ed.), Länderbericht Israel, (Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, Bonn 2016)
22. ‘Kibbutz Revisited’, in Gisela Dachs (ed.), Alter- Jüdischer Almanach. (Frankfurt: Jüdischer Verlag 2013), pp. 75-83.
21. ‘Introduction: Understanding the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict’ in Joel Peters and David Newman (eds.)The Routledge Handbook on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (Routledge, 2012), pp. 1-8.
20. ‘Europe and the Arab Spring’ in Joel Peters (ed.) The Europe Union and the Arab Spring: Promoting Human Rights and Democracy in the Middle East (Lexington Books, 2012), pp. xi-xxi.
19. ‘Israel’ in Joel Peters (ed.) The Europe Union and the Arab Spring: Promoting Human Rights and Democracy in the Middle East (Lexington Books, 2012, pp. 73-93.
18. ‘Israel and the Third World’ in Alain Dieckhoff (ed.) The companion to Modern Israel (Routledge, 2012), pp. 246-52.
17. ‘The Gaza Disengagement’ in Joel Peters and David Newman (eds.)The Routledge Handbook on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (Routledge, 2012), pp.196-206.
16. ‘The Camp David Summit’ in Joel Peters and David Newman eds.)The Routledge Handbook on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (Routledge, 2012), pp.69-78.
15. ‘Israel’s Disengagement from Gaza: A Failure of Planning or a Faulty Impementation’ in Richard Caplan (ed,), Exit Strategies and Peace Consolidation (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), pp. 224-241.
14. ‘Israel and the Palestinian Refugee Question’ in Elizabeth Matthews (ed.) The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Parallel Discourses, (London, Routledge, 2011), pp. 21-35.
13. ‘Israel. Europe and Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process: From Divergence to Convergence’ in Stelios Stavridis and Natividad Fernandez Sola, Factores Politicos Y De Seguridad En El Area Euro-Mediterranea (University Of Zaragoza Press, 2009), pp. 149-171.
12. ‘Israel and the Third World’ in Alain Dieckhoff (ed.) L’Etat Israel, (Paris: Fayard, 2008)
11. ‘Practices and their Failure: Arab- Israeli Relations and the Barcelona Process’ in Emanuel Adler, Federica Bicchi, Beverly Crawford and Raffaella A. Del Sarto, The Convergence of Civilizations: Constructing a Mediterranean Region (University of Toronto, 2006) pp. 212-239.
10. (with Orit Gal), ‘International Intervention for Conflict Management and Resolution’ in Mark A. Heller and Rosemary Hollis’ Israel and the Palestinians: Israeli Policy Options, (London: Royal Institute for International Affairs, 2005), pp. 73-99. Published in Hebrew in “Israel Ve’Hapalestinayim: Halufot Ve’Medinut Le’Israel”, (Tel Aviv: Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies. 2005), pp. 53-66.
9. (with Gisella Dachs) “Israel and Europe: The Troubled Relationship Between Perception and Reality” in Roby Nathanson and Stephan Stetter (eds.) Israel and Europe; A Reader (Tel Aviv: Friedrich Ebert Foundation, 2005) pp. 317-333.
8. ‘Europe and Arab-Israeli Peace Process’ in Sven Behrendt and Christian-Hanelt (eds.) Bound to Cooperate – Europe and the Middle East (Gutersloh: Bertelsmann Foundation Publishers, 2000) pp. 150-172.
7. ‘Resurrecting Middle East Peace Prospects’, in Strategic Survey 1999/2000 (London: International Institute for Strategic Studies, 2000) pp.159-174.
6. ‘Europe and the Middle East Peace Process’ in Stelios Stravridis et al The Foreign Policies of Southern European States (London: Macmillan, 1999), pp.295-316.
5. ‘The Emergence of Regional Co-operation in the Middle East’ in The Middle East in the Post Peace Process: The Emerging Regional Order and its International Implications (Tokyo: Institute of Developing Economies, 1996), pp. 75-117.
4. ‘The Multilateral Dimension of the Arab-Israeli Peace Process’ in Richard Gillespie (ed.) Mediterranean Politics Yearbook Volume. 2 (London: Pinter, 1996), pp. 26-40.
3. ‘The Nature of Israeli Politics and Society’ in Keith Kyle and Joel Peters Whither Israel: The Domestic Challenges (London: I.B.Tauris/ Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1994), pp. 1-20.
2. ‘Zionism’ in Michael Foley (ed.) Ideas that Make Politics (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1994), pp. 155-161.
1. The Return of Israel to Africa’ in Steven Wright and Janice Brownfoot (eds.) Africa in World Politics (London: Macmillan, 1987)
Chapters in Yearbooks and Encyclopedias (9):
9. Entry on ‘Israel’ The Annual Register 2001 A Record of World Events (London: Cartermill, 2002,) pp. 218-221.
8. Entry on ‘Israel’ The Annual Register 2000 A Record of World Events (London: Cartermill, 2001), pp. 207-211.
7. Entries on ‘Middle East and North Africa Economic Summits’, (pp. 1016-17) ‘Middle East Regional Development Bank, (p. 1017); Regional Economic Development Working Group’ (p. 1326 in Encyclopedia of International Political Economy (London: Routledge, 2001)
6. Entry on ‘Israel’ The Annual Register 1999 A Record of World Events (London: Cartermill, 2000), pp. 193-196.
5. Entry on ‘Israel’ in The Annual Register 1998: A Record of World Events (London: Cartermill,1999,) pp. 217-221.
4. Entry on ‘Israel’ in The Annual Register 1997: A Record of World Events (London: Cartermill,1998,) pp. 202-206.
3. Entry on ‘Israel’ in Annual Register 1996: A Record of World Events (London: Cartermill, 1997), pp. 197-201.
2. Entry on ‘Israel’ in The Annual Register 1995: A Record of World Events (London: Cartermill, 1996), pp. 200-204.
1. Entry on ‘Israel’ in The Annual Register 1994: A Record of World Events (London: Longman, 1995), pp. 216-220.
Published Reports and Papers (9):
9. ‘Flashpoints on the Horizon: Israel and the European Union’ IEPN Working Papers, Tel Aviv, June 2015 (available at http://www.iepn.org/)
8. ‘Israel and the Challenge of Multilateral Security Governance: From Resistance to Cautious Engagement’ , EU-GRASP Working Paper, July 2009.
7. (with Gisella Dachs) ‘Israel and Europe: The Troubled Relationship Between Perception and Reality’ (IEPN Working Papers, Tel Aviv, October 2004 (http://hsf.bgu.ac.il/europe/iepnpgdjp.aspx)
6. ‘Practices and their Failures: Arab-Israeli Relations and the Barcelona Process’ (April 2, 2004). Institute of European Studies. Paper 040402.
(http://repositories.cdlib.org/ies/040402)
5. (With Rex Brynen, Eileen Alma, Roula El Rifai and Jill Tansley) The Ottawa Process: An examination of Canada Involvement in the Palestinian Refugee Issue (June 2003) (http://network.idrc.ca)
4. (with Jarat Chopra, Yasser Dejani, Amjad Attalah, Orit Gal and Jim McCallum) ‘Planning Considerations for International Involvement in the Israeli Palestinian Conflict April 2003’ (http://www.carlisle.army.mil/usacsl/studies.asp)
3. Europe and Arab-Israeli Peace Process: The Declaration of Berlin and Beyond in Sven Behrendt and Christian-Hanelt (eds) Security in the Middle East (Munich/Guetersloh: Center for Applied Policy Research, 1999) pp. 25-41.
2. The Barcelona Process and the Arab-Israeli Multilateral Talks: Competition or Convergence in The Political role of the European Union in the Middle East (Bertelsman Foundation Working Papers, 1998), pp. 39-50.
1. Israel Under Netanyahu Occasional Paper Series, Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP) (January, 1997), pp. 14.
ARTICLES
Journal Articles (14):
14. (with Rob Pinfold) ‘Consolidating Right-wing Hegemony: the Israeli election 2015, Mediterranean Politics, 20, 3, 2015, pp. 405-12.
13. ‘Israel’s New Government, 2013′ Mediterranean Politics, 18, 2, 2013, pp. 318-24.
12. (with Giselle Datz) ‘Brazil and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in the New Century’ Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs 7, 2, 2013, 43-57.
11. ‘Israel and Gaza: Five Years on’ Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs, IV, 3, 2010, pp. 33-44.
10. ‘Europe and the Israel-Palestinian Peace Process: The Urgency of Now’, European Security, 19, 3, 2010, pp. 511-529
9. (with Orit Gal) ‘Israel, UNRWA, and the Palestinian Refugee Issue’, Refugee Studies Quarterly , 28, 2 &3, 2010, pp. 588-606.
8. (with Amjad Atallah, Jarat Chopra, Yaser M. Dajani, Orit Gal, and Mark Walsh), ‘Planning Considerations for International Involvement in an Israeli Withdrawal from Palestinian Territory’ Journal of Humanitarian Assistance, July 2004.
7. ‘On 9/11’, Geopolitics, 8, 3 , Autumn 2003, pp 281-287.
6. ‘Can the Multilateral Arab-Israeli Talks Be Revived’, Middle East Review of International Affairs MERIA Journal. Vol. 3, No. 4 (December 1999)
5. (With Becky Kook), The Israeli Elections 1999, Mediterranean Politics, 4, 2, Summer, 1999, pp. 194-199.
4. ‘Europe, the Middle East Peace Process and the Barcelona Process: Competition or Convergence?, International Spectator, 33, 4, December, 1998, pp.63- 76.
3. ‘The Multilateral Refugee Talks’ in special edition on the ‘Future of the Palestinians in Lebanon’ Journal of Refugee Studies, 10, 3, 1997, pp. 320-334. Reprinted as ‘Al Mufarwadat Muta’adidat Al Atraf U Wa Maskuat Amal Al La-Je’en’ (The Refugee Working Group) in Qadir Al A-Je’en Wa’al Mufwadat (Palestinian Diaspora and Refugee Centre (Shaml) Ramallah, 1998) pp. 7-30.
2. ‘The Israeli Elections, 1996’ Mediterranean Politics, 3, 1997, pp. 26-40.
1. ‘Israel Under Netanyahu’, Middle East Review of International Affairs (MERIA), Vol. 1, January, 1997)
Chatham House Briefing Papers (3) – peer-reviewed publication
3. Beyond the Impasse: International Intervention and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Chatham House Briefing Paper. (Middle East and North Africa Programme February 2010 | MENAP BP February 2010), pp. 12.
2. New Government, New Agenda for Israel (with Becky Kook) Middle East Briefing Paper, New Series, No 5, August, 1999. (London: Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1999), pp. 6.
Reprinted as ‘Kumat Yisrael Al-Jadiddah, Israel Digest, September 1999, (Al Ahram Centre, Cairo)
1. Israel’s New Government Middle East Briefing Paper, No. 33, July, 1996 (London: Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1996), pp. 7.
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BESNIK PULA, Affiliated Assistant Professor
BESNIK PULA
Affiliated Assistant Professor
Besnik Pula is Assistant Professor of Political Science. He specializes in global and comparative political economy and postcommunist transformations, with research interests in processes of state and institutional restructuring in Central and Eastern Europe under globalization. He also has interests in social and political theory and comparative research methodologies. His book Globalization Under and After Socialism: The Evolution of Transnational Capital in Central and Eastern Europe was published by Stanford University Press in 2018.
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BRYAN RIDDLE, Adjunct Assistant Professor
BRYAN RIDDLE
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Areas of Specialization:
US Foreign Policy, Global Security, Geopolitics.
Bryan Riddle is Adjunct Assistant Professor of Government and International Affairs. He earned a Ph.D. in Planning, Government and Globalization from Virginia Tech in 2016, a M.S. in International Relations from Troy University in 2006, and a B.S. in the American Legal System from the US Military Academy (West Point) in 1998 . Bryan supports the planning and program design for security cooperation programs in the US European Command area for the Defense Security Cooperation Agency. His book, Essence of Desperation: Counterinsurgency Doctrine as the Solution to War-Fighting Failures, was published by Lexington Books in 2018.
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JOYCE ROTHSCHILD, Professor Emerita
JOYCE ROTHSCHILD
Professor Emerita
(804) 360-1001
joycevt@aol.com
Areas of Focus:
– Democratization efforts outside of the state and via cooperative/egalitarian organizations at the local level;
– Comparative economic systems through the lens of how much worker dignity and democracy they afford or deny
PROFESSIONAL BIO
Dr. Joyce Rothschild joined the faculty of the Department of Sociology at Virginia Tech in 1991 as Professor of Sociology. When the School of Public and International Affairs was created in 2003, she joined the faculty of SPIA. Previous to coming to Virginia Tech, she served on the faculties of Boston College, Cornell University (ILR School), the University of Louisville, and served as Chair of the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work at the University of Toledo. In 2007 she served as the Anne Dean Carlsen Distinguished Professor of Social Sciences at West Virginia University in Morgantown, WV.
Within SPIA, Professor Rothschild has created and taught several innovative multi-disciplinary courses for our Master’s and Ph.D. students: Democracy Beyond the Ballot focuses on democratization efforts outside of the state and via cooperative/egalitarian organizations at the local level; Competing Conceptions of the Third Sector; Democratic Governance of the Economy (which focuses on comparative economic systems through the lens of how much worker dignity and democracy they afford or deny); and Power and Policy in the US. In 2016, Joyce was awarded the Excellence in Teaching Award from the University.
Professor Rothschild’s book (with J. Allen Whitt), The Cooperative Workplace: Potentials and Dilemmas of Organizational Democracy and Participation (Cambridge University Press), was awarded the C. Wright Mills Award in 1987 as the “most significant book in the sociological profession” that year. This book develops a post-Weberian model of organization which she calls the “collectivist-democratic” organization, that represents a 4th type of authority and is unified and defined by its ultra-democratic and egalitarian aspirations. This work identifies nine conditions that foster collectivist-democratic organizations, or in their absence that undercut such organizations, and underscores the dilemmas they face in their effort to get work accomplished while still retaining their deliberative democratic form.
SPONSORED RESEARCH
Dr. Rothschild has conducted two major research programs, and is widely published in each. For a list of selected publications, see Books. In her first research program, she examined the prospects for developing non-hierarchical and cooperative organizations at the community level. These are organizations that aspire to being consensus-oriented and participatory democratic in their decisional structures and egalitarian in their relations. About such organizations, Dr. Rothschild has developed a theory of the “collectivist-democratic” organization that is grounded in comparative examination of such organizations and that proposes nine conditions that allow such organizations to flourish. In her second research program, Dr. Rothschild investigates the opposite of the open and participatory organization: She studies the processes within bureaucratic workplaces that give rise to managerial secrecy and misconduct, focusing especially on the dissent and the acts of whistleblowing this sometimes engenders. Rothschild’s research on managerial retaliation against the whistleblowers has been published in many academic journals and featured in many popular magazines and newspapers around the country.
EDUCATION
B.A., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1970. With highest honors; James Scholar; Phi Beta Kappa.
Ph.D., Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1977
BOOKS
Selected Refereed Books & Articles:
(sole authored by Joyce unless otherwise indicated)
Pertaining to a cooperative economy & the collectivist-democratic form of organization:
”How Participatory Democratic Decision-Making has Evolved in Local Level Organizations.” Forthcoming 2018 in Handbook of Community and Local Organizations, Springer Publ.
“The Logic of a Cooperative Economy and Democracy 2.0: Recovering the prospects for social solidarity.” The Sociological Quarterly 57 (1): (Winter 2016): 7-35.
“Co-operative Workplaces, Collaborative Communities: An introduction to economic self-help and mutual aid,” International Journal of Self-Help and Self Care 6:2 (2012): 121-127.
“Worker Cooperatives and Social Enterprises: A Forgotten Route to Social Equity and Democracy.” American Behavioral Scientist, volume 52, number 7 (March 2009): 1023-1041.
“The Meaning of Democracy in Non-profit and Community Organizations: Charting the Currents of Change.” (with Max Stephenson). American Behavioral Scientist, volume 52, number 6 (February 2009): 800- 806.
“Avoid, Talk or Fight: Alternative Cultural Strategies in the Battle against Oligarchy in Collectivist-Democratic Organizations”. (With Darcy Leach). Pp. 346-361 in Handbook on Community Movements and Local Organizations. Ram Cnaan and Carl Milofsky (Editors). New York: Springer , LLC, 2007.
“Can Collectivist-Democracy Bring Gender Equality? The efforts at Twin Oaks.” (with Amy Tomchin). Research in the Sociology of Work, volume 16 (2006): 239-262.
“Creating a Just and Democratic Workplace: More Engagement, Less Hierarchy”. Contemporary Sociology, volume 29, number 1, (January 2000): 195-213.
“Obscuring but not Reducing Managerial Control: Does TQM Measure up to Democracy Standards?” (with Marjukka Ollilainen). Economic and Industrial Democracy, volume 20 (November 1999): 583-624.
“Alternatives to Bureaucracy: Democratic Participation in the Economy”. (with Raymond Russell). Annual Review of Sociology, Volume 12 (1986): 307- 328.
“Worker-Owners as an Emergent Class: Effects of Cooperative Work on Job Satisfaction,Alienation and Stress.” (with J. Allen Whitt). Economic & Industrial Democracy, Volume 7, No. 3 (1986): 297-317.
“Who Will Benefit from ESOPs?“ Labor Research Review, Volume 6 (Spring 1985): 70-80.
“Worker Ownership: Collective Response to an Elite-generated Crisis.” Research in Social Movements, Conflict and Change, Volume 6 (1984): 167-194. JAI Press.
“There’s more than one way to run a democratic enterprise: Self- Management from the Netherlands.” Sociology of Work and Occupations. volume 8 (May 1981): 201-223.
“The Collectivist Organization: An Alternative to Rational Bureaucratic Models.” American Sociological Review, volume 44 (August 1979): 509-527.
Pertaining to Whistleblowing & Organizational Retaliation:
“The Fate of Whistleblowers in Non-Profit Organizations.” Non-profit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 42:5 (October 2013): 886-901.
“Freedom of Speech Denied, Dignity Assaulted: What whistleblowers experience in the U.S.” Current Sociology, volume 56: 6 (November 2008): 884-903.
“Whistleblower Disclosures and Management Retaliation: The Battle to Control Information about Organizational Corruption”. (with Terry Miethe). Work and Occupations, Volume 26, Number 1 (February 1999): 107-128.
“Disclosing Misconduct in Work Organizations: An Empirical Analysis of the Situational Factors that Foster Whistleblowing.” (with Terry Miethe). Research in the Sociology of Work, Volume 8 (1999): 211-227. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press.
“Whistleblowing: A Selected Bibliography”. In Courage Without Martydom. Published by the Government Accountability Project, Washington, D.C., 1994.
“Whistleblowing as Resistance in Modern Work Organizations: The Politics of Revealing Organizational Deception and Abuse”. Pp. 252-273 in Resistance and Power in Organizations: Agency, Subjectivity and the Labor Process, Eds., John Jermier, Walter Nord and David Knights. London: Routlege, Kegan Publishers, 1994.
Books on cooperative enterprises & organizational democracy:
The Cooperative Workplace: Potentials and Dilemmas of Organizational Democracy and Participation. (With J. Allen Whitt). Cambridge University Press, 1986. 200 pp. Paperback edition 1989. Spanish language editon 1991. Winner of the C. Wright Mills Book Award, 1987.
Workplace Democracy and Social Change. (Edited with Frank Lindenfeld). Boston: Porter Sargent Publ., 1982. 447 pp.
Democracy 2.0. Guest Editor, special issue of The Sociological Quarterly 57:1 (Winter 2016). 203 pp.
Economic Self-Help and Mutual Aid. Guest Editor, special issue of International Journal of Self-Help and Self-Care 6:2 (November 2012): 119-223.
Democracy at a Crossroads: Acknowledging deficiencies, encouraging engagement. With Max Stephenson, guest editors, special issue of American Behavioral Scientist, volume 52, number 7 (March 2009): 955-1108.
The Centrality of Values, Passions and Ethics in the Nonprofit Sector. With Carl Milofsky, guest editors, special issue of Nonprofit Management and Leadership, Volume 17, number 2 (Winter 2006): 135-237. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Gender and Organizational Life. With Celia Davies, guest editors, special issue of Human Relations, volume 47, number 6 (June 1994). 171 pp. London: Plenum Press.
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IOANNIS STIVACHTIS, Affiliated Associate Professor
IOANNIS STIVACHTIS
Affiliated Associate Professor
(540) 231-5816
ystivach@vt.edu
Professor Stivachtis’ research interests include the expansion of international society, conditionality and international order, international society and the civilizing process, EU enlargement, and international/European security. He teaches in the areas of international politics and security studies and has received teaching and advising awards from various academic institutions.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Member of the Academic Committee and Head of the Politics & International Affairs Research Unit of ATINER (Athens Institute of Education and Research)
Senior Advisor and International Security Analyst of the Research Institute for European & American Studies (RIEAS)
Scientific Expert for the Research DG and Culture DG of the European Commission
Secretary of the English School section of the International Studies Association (ISA)
Member of the Executive Council of the Comparative and Interdisciplinary Studies Section (CISS) of ISA.
ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Professor of International Relations at the Geneva School of Diplomacy (Switzerland)
Academic Dean and Professor of International Relations at IFM University (Switzerland)
Diplomacy & International Relations Program Advisor and Professor of International Relations at Schiller International University (Switzerland)
Visiting Professor at The International University-Vienna (Austria)
Visiting Lecturer at the European Institute of the University of Geneva
Research Associate with the Austrian Federal Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Culture & Education
Research Fellow and Project Consultant at the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR)
Senior Fellow at the Institute for Strategic Studies (Austria)
Senior Researcher at ARIS Research & Consulting Office for Security Studies (Austria)
Research Fellow at the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).
He has also taught in various diplomatic and military academies
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Politics & International Relations, University of Lancaster, 1996
M.A., International Relations & Strategic Studies, University of Lancaster, 1990
Postgraduate Certificate, International Law (Panteion, Greece 1989)
B.A., in International Studies (Panteion 1988)
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GERARD TOAL, Professor
GERARD TOAL
Professor
(571) 858-3121
toalg@vt.edu
Gerard Toal (Gearóid Ó Tuathail) has been a founding figure in establishing Critical Geopolitics as a domain of research within Political Geography, and features in the book Key Thinkers on Space and Place (Sage, second edition 2010). His latest book is Bosnia Remade: Ethnic Cleansing and Its Reversal (Oxford, 2011) which he co-authored with Dr Carl Dahlman. The work provides a in-depth analysis of the localized geopolitics of displacement and returns in three Bosnian communities from 1992 to today. He has also conducted comparative work on Bosnia and the Caucasus with Dr John O’Loughlin (also funded, like the Bosnian study, by the National Science Foundation). His current NSF grant is on the impact of Kosovo’s independence on the operation of four Eurasian De Facto States (Transnistria, South Ossetia, Abkhazia and Nagorny Karabakh). For the initial abstract click here. Professor Toal is an associate editor of Geopoliticsand Eurasian Geography and Economics, as well as an editorial board member of Political Geography and Nationalities Papers. He has consulted and written for the World Bank and Conciliation Resources. For further information on his activities and publications see his blog at www.toal.net.
ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2001-2003 Professor, Department of Geography, Virginia Tech
1994-2001 Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Virginia Tech
1989-1994 Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Virginia Tech
1991-1992 Visiting Instructor, Department of Political Science, University of Minnesota
1989 Visiting Instructor, Department of Geography, University of Minnesota
1986-1987 Instructor, Department of Geography, Syracuse University
SPONSORED RESEARCH
“The Dynamics of Unrecognized Quasi-States: Eurasian Secessionist Regions and the Independence of Kosovo.” Human Social Dynamics, National Science Foundation (3 person team). $749,940 award (Virginia Tech component $159,882). Grant number 0827016. 2008.
“Dynamics of Civil War Outcomes in Bosnia and the North Caucasus.” Human Social Dynamics, National Science Foundation (with 5 person team). $650,000 award (Virginia Tech component $93,454). 2004.
“Population change and migration near a war zone: The North Caucasus of Russia.” National Geographic Society Committee on Research and Exploration. Consultant (John O’Loughlin PI). $19,990. 2004.
“Remaking Bosnia: The International Community and the Returnee Policy Process in Three Bosnian Localities.” Geography and Regional Science Program, National Science Foundation, Regular Research Grant Proposal. Collaborative Research with Dr Carl Dahlman. $90,000 award (Virginia Tech component $58,287). 2002.
“Russian Geopolitical Culture and the 9-11 Attacks and Response.” Geography and Regional Science Program, National Science Foundation, Special Grant for Expeditious Research. Co-PI with John O’Loughlin, University of Colorado and Vladimir Kolossov, Russian Academy of Sciences. $49,991 award. 2001.
“Enhancing Geography 2034 with Audio and Visual Content.” Virginia Tech Institute for Distance and Distributed Learning Fellowship. $5,000 award. 2000.
“Developing courses for a ‘Certificate in Information, Policy and Society.”’ Virginia Tech Center for Innovation in Learning, (with Timothy W. Luke). Course buy-out. 1999.
Varenius Seed Grant, Geography and Regional Science Program, National Science Foundation, ‘The Vietnam War and Geopolitical Knowledge.’ $3,000 award. 1998.
Humanities Summer Stipend Award. “Balkanizing Bosnia: The Rhetoric of US Foreign Policy Towards Bosnia.” $5,000. 1998.
“Developing Geography 2034 and 2134 as totally online courses.” Virginia Tech, Teaching Learning Grant, Center for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. Course buy-out. 1998.
“Developing Internet Resources for Geography 2034: Geography of the Global Economy.” Virginia Tech, Teaching Learning Grant, Center for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. 1997.
Humanities Summer Stipend Award. “The Rhetoric of Geopolitics: Representations of the USSR in US Security Discourse.” $5,000. 1990.
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Political Geography, Syracuse University, 1989
M.A., Geography, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 1984
B.A., Geography & History, First Class Honors, National University of Ireland, 1982
BOOKS
G. Ó Tuathail, and C. Dahlman. Forthcoming. Bosnia Remade: Ethnic Cleansing and Return. Oxford UK: Oxford University Press.
G. Ó Tuathail, C. Dahlman, Bosnia Remade: Ethnic Cleansing and Its Reversal. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.
J. Agnew, K. Mitchell and G. Toal, eds., A Companion to Political Geography. Blackwell, 2004.
G. Ó Tuathail, S. Dalby and P. Routledge, A Geopolitics Reader. Second edition. Routledge, 2006. [Ó Tuathail wrote 35,000 words of original text and edited 3 of the 5 sections, a total of 90,000 words]
G. Ó Tuathail, S. Dalby and P. Routledge, A Geopolitics Reader. First edition. Routledge, 1998. [Ó Tuathail wrote 35,000 words and edited 3 of the 5 sections, a total of 85,000 words]
S. Dalby and G. Ó Tuathail, eds., Rethinking Geopolitics. Routledge, 1998.
A. Herod, G. Ó Tuathail and S. Roberts, eds. An Unruly World? Geography, Globalization and Governance. Routledge, 1998.
G. Ó Tuathail, Critical Geopolitics: The Politics of Writing Global Space. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press (Volume 6 in the Borderlines series) and London: Routledge, 1996.
CHAPTERS
G. Ó Tuathail, “Battlefield,” in J. Agnew and D. Livingstone (eds.), Handbook of Geographical Knowledge. London: Sage. Forthcoming.
G. Ó Tuathail, “Without Brussels there can be no Bosnia-Herzegovina”? Managing BiH’s Geopolitical Challenges. In Dayton After Ten Years. Wilson Center, Washington D.C., 2007.
G. Ó Tuathail, C. Dahlman, “Has Ethnic Cleansing Succeeded? Geographies of Minority Return and Its Meaning in Bosnia-Herzegovina.” In Dayton Ten Years After: Conflict Resolution, Co-operation Perspectives, edited by Anton Gosar. Primorska, Slovenia. 2006.
G. Ó Tuathail, C. Dahlman, “The Clash of Governmentalities: Displacement and Return in Bosnia-Herzegovina.” In Global Governmentality, eds. W. Walters and W. Larner. London: Routledge. 2004.
G. Ó Tuathail, F. Shelley, “Political Geography: From the ‘Long 1989′ to the End of the Post-Cold War Peace.” In Geography in America, eds. G. Gale and J. Willmott. Columbus, Ohio: Merrill. 2004.
G. Ó Tuathail, “Geopolitical Structures and Geopolitical Cultures: Towards Conceptual Clarity in the Critical Study of Geopolitics.” In Geopolitical Perspectives on World Politics, ed. by Lasha Tchantouridze, Bison Paper 4, Winnipeg: Centre for Defence and Security Studies, November 2003.
J. Agnew, G. Ó Tuathail, “Cultural Geopolitics.” The Handbook of Cultural Geography, eds. Kay Anderson, Mona Domosh, Steve Pile, and Nigel Thrift. London: Sage, pp. 455-461. 2003.
G. Ó Tuathail, “Post-Cold War Geopolitics: Contrasting Superpowers in a World of Global Dangers.” In Geographies of Global Change, eds. R. J. Johnson, P. Taylor and M. Watts. Second edition. Oxford: Blackwell, 2002.
G. Ó Tuathail, K. Mitchell, J. Agnew, “Introduction” A Companion to Political Geography. Blackwell. 2002.
G. Ó Tuathail, “The Bosnian War and the American Securing of ‘Europe’.” In Europe: Between Political Geography and Geopolitics, Volume II. eds. Marco Antonsich, Vladimir Kolossov and Paolo Pagnini. Roma: Societa Geografica Italiana. 2001.
G. Ó Tuathail, “Spiritual Geopolitics: Father Edmund Walsh and Jesuit Anticommunism.” In Geopolitical Traditions, eds. Klaus Dodds and David Atkinson. Routledge. 2000.
T. Luke, G. Ó Tuathail, “Thinking Geopolitical Space: The Spatiality of War, Speed and Vision in the Work of Paul Virilio. In Thinking Space, eds. Mike Crang and Nigel Thrift. Routledge. 2000.
G. Ó Tuathail, “The Ethnic Cleansing of a “Safe Area”: The Fall of Srebrenica and the Ethics of UN-Governmentality.” In Geography and Ethics, eds. James Proctor and David Smith. Routledge. 1999.
G. Ó Tuathail, S. Dalby, “Re-Thinking Geopolitics: Towards a Critical Geopolitics. Rethinking Geopolitics, Routledge, 1-15. 1998.
G. Ó Tuathail, “Postmodern Geopolitics? The Modern Geopolitical Imagination and Beyond.” In Rethinking Geopolitics, eds. Gearóid Ó Tuathail and Simon Dalby. Routledge, 16-38. 1998.
G. Ó Tuathail, A. Herod, S. Roberts, “Unruly Problematics: Globalization, Governance and Geography. An Unruly World? Geography, Globalization and Governance, eds. Andrew Herod, Gearóid Ó Tuathail and Susan Roberts. Routledge, 1-24. 1998.
T. Luke, G. Ó Tuathail, “Global Flowmations, Local Fundamentalism, and Fast Geopolitics: “America” in an Accelerating World Order.” In An Unruly World? Geography, Globalization and Governance, eds. Andrew Herod, Gearóid Ó Tuathail and Susan Roberts. Routledge, 72-94. 1998.
G. Ó Tuathail, Various entries on post-World War II United States foreign policy for A Dictionary of Geopolitics, ed. John O’Loughlin, (Greenwood Press). 1998.
G. Ó Tuathail, “Japan as Threat: Geo-Economic Discourses on the US-Japan Relationship in US Civil Society, 1989-1991.” In The Political Geography of the New World Order, ed. Colin Williams. Belhaven. 1993.
G. Ó Tuathail, “Foreign Policy and the Hyperreal: The Reagan Administration and the Scripting of “South Africa.”” In Written Worlds: Text, Metaphor and Rhetoric in the Representation of Landscape, eds. James Duncan and Trevor Barnes. Routledge. 1992.
G. Ó Tuathail, “Towards the Creation of a “New” Nicaragua ? A Study of the Processes of Reproduction and Transformation under the Sandinistas, 1979-1985, with Special Emphasis on the Economy.” The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Geography, Occasional Papers. 1987.
ARTICLES
G. Ó Tuathail. 2009. “‘In No Other Country on Earth’: The Presidential Campaign of Barack Obama,” Geopolitics, 14(2): pp. 376-401.
G. Ó Tuathail. 2009. “Placing Blame: Making Sense of Beslan,” Political Geography, 28(1): pp. 4-15.
G. Ó Tuathail. 2009. “Displacing Blame and Counter Terrorist Number One: Response to Commentaries,” Political Geography, 28(1): pp. 28-31.
J. O’Loughlin and G. Ó Tuathail. 2009. “Accounting for Separatist Sentiment: Bosnia-Herzegovina and the North Caucasus of Russia Compared,” Ethnic and Racial Studies, 32(4): pp. 591-615.
G. Ó Tuathail, J. O’Loughlin, “After Ethnic Cleansing: Return Outcomes in Bosnia-Herzegovina a Decade after War.” Annals of the Association of American Geographers, special issue on ‘Geographies of War and Peace.’ Forthcoming 2009.
G. Ó Tuathail, “Russia’s Kosovo: A Critical Geopolitics of the August 2008 War over South Ossetia.” Eurasian Geography and Economics, 49(6), pp. 670-705, 2008.
J. O’Loughlin, G. Ó Tuathail, V. Kolossov, “The Localized Geopolitics of Displacement and Return in Eastern Prigorodnyy Rayon, North Ossetia.” Eurasian Geography and Economics, 49(6), pp. 635-699, 2008.
G. Ó Tuathail, “The Hamiltonian Nationalist: A Conversation with Michael Lind” Geopolitics 13(1), pp. 169-180, 2008.
V. Kolossov, G. Ó Tuathail, “An Empire’s Fraying Edge? The North Caucasus Instability in Russian Geopolitical Culture.” Eurasian Geography and Economics, 48, 202-225. 2007.
J. O’Loughlin, G. Ó Tuathail, “Accounting for Separatist Sentiment: Bosnia-Herzegovina and the North Caucasus of Russia Compared.” Ethnic and Racial Studies. Submitted October 2006.
G. Ó Tuathail, C. Dahlman, “‘The West Bank of the Drina’: Land Allocation and Ethnic Engineering in Republika Srpska” Transactions, Institute of British Geographers 31, 304-322. 2006.
G. Ó Tuathail, J. O’Loughlin, D. Djipa, “Bosnia-Herzegovina Ten Years After Dayton: Constitutional Changes and Public Opinion,” Eurasian Geography and Economics 47, 61-75. 2006.
G. Ó Tuathail, “Geopolitical Discourse: Paddy Ashdown and the Tenth Anniversary of the Dayton Peace Accords.” Geopolitics 11, 141-158. 2006.
G. Ó Tuathail, C. Dahlman, “Post-Domicide Bosnia-Herzegovina: Homes, Homelands and One Million Returns.” International Peacekeeping 13, 242-260. 2006.
J. O’Loughlin, G. Ó Tuathail, V. Kolossov, “The Geopolitical Orientations of Ordinary Russians: A Public Opinion Analysis.” Eurasian Geography and Economics 47, 158-181. 2006.
C. Dahlman, G. Ó Tuathail, “Bosnia’s Third Geopolitical Space: Nationalist Separatism and International Supervision in Bosnia’s Brčko District.” Geopolitics, 11, 651-675. 2006.
C. Dahlman, G. Ó Tuathail, “Broken Bosnia: The Localized Geopolitics of Displacement and Return in Two Bosnian Places.” Annals of the Association of American Geographers 95, 644-662. 2005.
J. O’Loughlin, G. Ó Tuathail, V. Kolossov, “Russian Geopolitical Culture in the Post 9/11 Era: The Masks of Proteus Revisited.” Transactions, Institute of British Geographers 30, 322-335. 2005.
C. Dahlman, G. Ó Tuathail, “The Legacy of Ethnic Cleansing: The Returns Process in Post-Dayton Bosnia.” Political Geography 24, 569-599. 2005.
G. Ó Tuathail, “Embedding Bosnia-Herzegovina in Euro-Atlantic Structures: From Dayton to Brussels.” Eurasian Geography and Economics 46, 145-161. 2005.
G. Ó Tuathail, “The Frustrations of Geopolitics and the Pleasures of War: Behind Enemy Lines and American Geopolitical Culture.” Geopolitics 10, 356–377. Also published as a chapter in Geopolitics and Cinema, eds. M. Power and A. Crampton, London: Routledge, 2005.
G. Ó Tuathail, “Geopolitical Discourse: A Conversation with Peter Galbraith about Iraq and State Building.” Geopolitics 10, 167-183. 2005.
G. Ó Tuathail, “Contradictions of a ‘Two State Solution.’” Arab World Geographer 8, 3, 64-67. 2005.
J. O’Loughlin, G. Ó Tuathail, V. Kolossov, “Russian Geopolitical Storylines and Public Opinion in the Wake of 9-11.” Communist and Post-Communist Studies 37, 3 (September), 281-318. 2004.
J. O’Loughlin, G. Ó Tuathail, V. Kolossov, “A ‘Risky Westward Turn’? Putin’s 9-11 Script and Ordinary Russians.” Europe Asia Studies 56, 1, 3-34. 2004.
G. Ó Tuathail, C. Dahlman, “The Effort to Reverse Ethnic Cleansing in Bosnia-Herzegovina: The Limits of Returns.” Eurasian Geography and Economics 45, 6 (September), 429-453. 2004.
G. Ó Tuathail, “‘Just Out Looking for a Fight:’ American Affect and the Invasion of Iraq.” Antipode 35, 5, 856-870. 2003.
G. Ó Tuathail, “Back to the Regions? Geographic Illiteracy and Political Geography.” Political Geography 22, 6, 653-656. 2003.
G. Ó Tuathail, “Theorizing Practical Geopolitical Reasoning: The Case of U.S. Bosnia Policy in 1992.” Political Geography 21, 601-628. 2002.
G. Ó Tuathail, “Geopolitics @ Millennium: Paranoid Fantasies and Technological Fundamentalism Amidst the Contradictions of Contemporary Modernity.” In Political Geography in the 21st Century: Understanding the Place – Looking Ahead, ed. A. Gosar, Geographica Slovenica 34, 2001.
G. Ó Tuathail, “A Geopolitical Discourse with Robert McNamara.” Geopolitics 5, 129-144. 2001.
G. Ó Tuathail, “Geopolitical Discourses: A New Geopolitics Series.” Geopolitics 5, 125-128. 2001.
G. Ó Tuathail, “The Postmodern Geopolitical Condition: States, Statecraft, and Security at the Millennium.” Annals of the Association of American Geographers 90, 166-178. 2000.
G. Ó Tuathail, “Dis/Placing the Geo-Politics One Cannot Not Want. Reply to commentaries on Critical Geopolitics.” Political Geography 19, 385-396. 2000.
G. Ó Tuathail, “Borderless Worlds: Problematizing Discourses of Deterritorialization.” Geopolitics 4, 139-154. Also published as a chapter in Geopolitic at the End of the Twentieth Century: The Changing World Political Map, eds. Nurit Kliot and David Newman. London: Frank Cass, 2000.
G. Ó Tuathail, “Understanding Critical Geopolitics: Geopolitics and Risk Society.” Journal of Strategic Studies 22 (2/3), 107-124. Also published as a chapter in Geography, Geopolitics and Strategy, eds. Geoffrey Sloan and Colin Gray. London: Frank Cass, 1999.
G. Ó Tuathail, “A Strategic Sign: The Geopolitical Significance of “Bosnia” in U.S. Foreign Policy.” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 17, 515-533. 1999.
G. Ó Tuathail, D. McCormack, “The Technoliteracy Challenge: Teaching Globalization Using the Internet.” Journal of Geography in Higher Education 22, 347-361. 1999.
G. Ó Tuathail, “De-Territorialized Threats and Global Dangers: Geopolitics and Risk Society.” Geopolitics 3 (1), 17-31. Also published as a chapter in Boundaries, Territory and Postmodernity, ed. David Newman. London: Frank Cass, 1999.
G. Ó Tuathail, “Political Geography III: Dealing with Deterritorialization.” Progress in Human Geography 22, 81-93. 1998.T. W. Luke, G. Ó Tuathail, “The Fraying Modern Map: Failed States and Contraband Capitalism.” Geopolitics 3 (3), 14-33. 1998.
G. Ó Tuathail, D. McCormack, “Global Conflicts On-Line: Technoliteracy and the Development of an Internet Based Conflict Archive.” Journal of Geography 97, 1-22. 1998.G. Ó Tuathail, “Emerging Markets and Other Simulations: Mexico, Chiapas and the Geofinancial Panopticon.” Ecumune 4, 300-317. 1997.
G. Ó Tuathail, “At the End of Geopolitics? Reflections on a Pluralizing Problematic at the Century’s End.” Alternatives: Social Transformation and Humane Governance 22, 35-55. 1997.
T. W. Luke, G. Ó Tuathail, “On Videocameralistics: The Geopolitics of Failed States, the CNN International and (UN) Governmentality.” Review of International Political Economy (RIPE) 4, 709-33. 1997.
G. Ó Tuathail, “An Anti-Geopolitical Eye? Maggie O’Kane in Bosnia, 1992-94.” Gender, Place and Culture 3, 171-185. 1996.
A. Crampton, G. Ó Tuathail, “Intellectuals, Institutions and Ideology: The Case of Robert Strausz-Hupé and American Geopolitics.” Political Geography 15, 553-556. 1996.
G. Ó Tuathail, “Political Geography II: (Counter) Revolutionary Times.” Progress in Human Geography 20, 404-412. 1996.
G. Ó Tuathail, S. Dalby, “The Critical Geopolitics Constellation: Problematizing Fusions of Geographical Knowledge and Power.” Political Geography 15, 451-456. 1996.
G. Ó Tuathail, “The Patterned Mess of History and the Writing of Critical Geopolitics: A Reply to Dalby.” Political Geography 15, 661-665. 1996.
G. Ó Tuathail, J. Agnew, “Geopolitics and Discourse: Practical Geopolitical Reasoning and American Foreign Policy.” Political Geography 11, 190-204. Article reprinted in Exploring Human Geography: A Reader, edited by Stephen Daniels and Roger Lee. London: Edward Arnold, 1996. Reprinted in The Geopolitics Reader.
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G. Ó Tuathail, “Political Geography I: Theorizing History, Gender and World Order Amidst Crises of Global Governance.” Progress in Human Geography 19, 260-272. 1995.
G. Ó Tuathail, “The Interpretation of Dreams: A Response to Blacksell.” Progress in Human Geography 19, 1, 103-104. 1995.
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EDWARD WEISBAND, Affiliated Professor, Edward S. Diggs Endowed Chair Professorship
EDWARD WEISBAND
Affiliated Professor, Edward S. Diggs; Endowed Chair Professorship
(540) 231-5298
weisband@vt.edu
Edward Weisband holds the Edward S. Diggs Endowed Chair Professorship in the Department of Political Science of the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences. He is also a member of the faculty of the Government and International Affairs Program of the Virginia Tech School of Public and International Affairs and a Senior Fellow of the Virginia Tech Institute for Governance and Accountability.
PROFESSIONAL BIO
Professor Weisband has completed several studies focusing on accountability and transparency in U.S. foreign policy. In 1969, he co-edited a study of regionalism and free trade, The Politics and Economics of Cooperation: A Free Trade Association among Canada, Britain and the United States, New York University Press. In 1971, he coauthored, Word Politics: Verbal Strategy between the Superpowers, Oxford University Press, that contrasted American and Russian interventions in Latin American and Eastern Europe. In 1973, he wrote, A Paradigm of Lockean Liberalism: The Ideology of American Foreign Policy, Sage Publications, a critical examination of U.S. justification for military interventions in Indochina.
Since coming to Virginia Tech in 1990, Professor Weisband has focused his research on international monitoring regimes, global accountabilities, the International Labor Organization (ILO), and core international labor standards. In 1991, Professor Weisband was the first American to be invited to participate as a Scholar-in-Residence by the ILO International Institute of Labor Studies in its International Labor Studies Program. In 1995, the ILO commissioned him to examine Industrial and Sectoral Committees, its largest multilateral program dealing with international labor issues on a sectoral or industry-to-industry basis. The ILO subsequently published his analysis that, in turn, generated a series of sectoral committee reform proposals. These proposals were subsequently included in an ILO working document submitted to the ILO Governing Body. During 1996-1997, this document, which included several proposals initiated by the Weisband report, was debated, amended and in some instances adopted by delegations representing over 160 ILO member states.
Turkish Foreign Policy: Small State Diplomacy and Great Power Politics
While at SAIS, he was a four-year recipient of the congressionally funded National Defense Foreign Language Act (NDFL) grant. This permitted him to develop advanced language proficiency in both French and Turkish as well as to complete his dissertation field work in Turkey. At this time, he conducted extensive interviews with the second founding President of the Turkish Republic, Ismet Inonu, and with a generation of Turkish foreign policy leaders who had influenced Turkish foreign policy during the interwar and wartime period. This research led in 1973 to publication of Turkish Foreign Policy: Small State Diplomacy and Great Power Politics, Princeton University Press. This book subsequently was translated into Turkish and published in book and newspaper serialized form by MILLIYET Press. It has attained a near classic status in Turkish historiography and is considered to be a major study of modern Turkish political history. In 1998, Professor Weisband, at the behest of the Inonu Foundation, delivered the keynote address at a conference held where the original meeting occurred on the 55th anniversary of the November 1943 Cairo meeting between Inonu, Roosevelt and Churchill. His recent chapter, “Freedom of Association Rights in Turkey,” written with Sera Oner, a former Virginia Tech Political Science graduate student, was published by the University of Pennsylvania Press in 2007 in Human Rights in Turkey: Policy and Prospects, edited by Zehra Kabasakal Arat.
SPONSORED RESEARCH
His 1975 study, Resignation-In-Protest: Loyalty to Team versus Loyalty to Conscience, that compared resignation policies and practices at Cabinet and sub-Cabinet levels in U.S. and British governments, was published in the aftermath of Watergate and U.S. engagement in Indochina. Widely reviewed in the American and British press, it was selected by The New York Times Book Review as the “Editor’s Choice” and among the “Most Noteworthy Books” published in 1975. During the same year, the Christopher Society bestowed its National Literary Award on this study citing its contribution to ethical discourse in American public life. Originally published in hardback by the Viking Press, Penguin published it in soft cover for distribution in the U.K. as well as the United States. In 1974, Professor Weisband co-edited a comparative study of secrecy and freedom of information policies, Secrecy and Foreign Policy, Oxford University Press. In 1979, he also co-authored, Foreign Policy By Congress, Oxford University Press, a study of the 93rd Congress and its attempt to transform U.S. foreign policy decision-making in ways designed to make foreign policy more accountable to Congress. Professor Weisband has edited two books oriented to pedagogy and teaching, both published by Westview Press. The first, Teaching World Politics: Contending Pedagogies for a New World Order, and the second, Poverty Amidst Plenty: World Political Economy and Distributive Justice received a wide audience in Europe as well as the United States, the former as a guide to national academic evaluation in several European educational systems, the latter as a widely adopted text with respect to equality and development. Major portions of Poverty Amidst Plenty are included in the customized text assigned in Harvard University’s core curricular course on Ethics and International Relations.
In addition to his focus on ILO sectoral activities, Professor Weisband has examined core international labor standards by applying quantitative as well as qualitative methods in evaluating the ILO monitoring or supervisory machinery. He authored a now often cited quantitative analysis of core labor standards and state behavior using his own data set to assess state behaviors against world averages and standard deviations, “Discursive Multilateralism: Global Benchmarks, Shame and Learning in the ILO Labor Standards Monitoring Regime,” International Studies Quarterly, 44 (no. 4, 2000). He co-authored, with a former Virginia Tech undergraduate, a companion study, “Freedom of Association Violations: An Empirical Analysis of the Annual Reports of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions,” Human Rights Quarterly, 22, No. 1, (no. 1, 2000). In 2004, he completed a quantitatively grounded discourse analysis using performative speech act theory to investigate over 2000 cases of complaints brought before the ILO Committee on Freedom of Association,”Verdictive Discourses, Shame and Judicialization in Pursuit of Freedom of Rights.”
PUBLICATIONS
In 2007, Professor Weisband (with Alnoor Ebrahim) completed an edited volume, Forging Global Accountabilities: Participation, Pluralism, and Public Ethics, Cambridge University Press, which aims to bring analytical framing and coherence to the diverse debates on accountability in three sectors of society–civil society and nonprofit organizations, public and intergovernmental agencies, and private corporations.
Currently Professor Weisband is completing a project on genocide, crimes against humanity, and political evil. It focuses on human psychology and emotionality as well as culture and ideology as factors that help to explain how and why intense and widespread suffering occurs at certain periods in modern political history. His chapter (with Courtney I. P. Thomas) “The Biocorporeality of Evil: A Taxonomy” was published in a 2009 e-Book on “Evil, Law, and the State” under the auspices of InterDisciplinary.Net. Also in 2009, he presented a paper, “Nationality, Catastrophic Annihilation, and Political Evil,” at the 8th Biennial Conference for the International Society of Genocide Scholars, and published “On the Aporetic Borderlines of Forgiveness: Bereavement as a Political Form” in Alternatives. In 2010, Professor Weisband published (with Courtney I.P. Thomas), International Political Economy: Navigating the Logic Streams–An Introduction (Kendall/Hunt).
ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Throughout his career, Professor Weisband has devoted primary attention to teaching and pedagogy and is nationally recognized for contributions to distinguished teaching, especially of introductory subjects. In 1983, he was promoted to Distinguished Teaching Professor, a rank above full professor, by the State University of New York (SUNY), having received numerous citations for teaching excellence including the Danforth Foundation Associateship for Excellence in Teaching and the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Teaching Excellence in 1979. His reputation as a teaching scholar was further enhanced in 1987 when the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) in cooperation with the Carnegie Foundation, selected him as the Gold Medal Finalist in its National Professor of the Year competition. Professor Weisband also was named by CASE as the New York State Professor of the Year during the same year. In 1990, Professor Weisband inaugurated the Edward Singleton Diggs Endowed Chair at Virginia Tech. In 1992, he received the Philip and Sadie Sporn Award for Outstanding Teaching of Introductory Subjects and has also been cited twice by the Pi Sigma Alpha Political Science Honors Society as the outstanding professor of the year. Upon coming to Virginia Tech, Professor Weisband initiated the proposal to establish at Virginia Tech the Diggs Teaching Roundtable and Teaching Scholar Award, a program that has now emerged as a form of major recognition of teaching excellence and as an important Virginia Tech faculty forum to explore pedagogical approaches and instructional methods. Professor Weisband has served as the academic director of the Virginia Tech summer Washington Semester program seven times and has conducted the Virginia Tech academic program at the Virginia Tech Center for European Studies and Architecture in Riva San Vitale, Switzerland, during three separate semesters. In 1996, Professor Weisband introduced “Nations and Nationalities: Cultural Constructions of Collective Identity,” the first undergraduate and core curricular offering officially sponsored by the Virginia Tech School of Public and International Affairs. Professor Weisband also contributed a chapter, “Celebration of Teaching and of the Pedagogical Calling: The Plenitude of Learning in Large Lectures,” to an edited collection on teaching sponsored by the Virginia Tech Academy for Teaching Excellence, published by Pearson Publications in 2007.
Professor Weisband has served in various consultantships and visiting scholarly capacities throughout his career. He has been a project evaluator for the U.S. Agency for International Development in connection with its Title IX program designed to encourage capacity building in developing and newly industrializing countries with respect to human rights and civic participation. As a result, he worked in Kenya, Uganda, Turkey as well as Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand. Professor Weisband has also been invited to act as a Scholar-in-Residence in a program sponsored by the Rene Cassin International Institute of Human Rights, Faculty of Law and Political Science of the University of Strasbourg, France.
HONORS
Professor Weisband has been interviewed on National Public Radio, NBC’s Today Show, CBS National Radio, “Cross Talk” on the Canadian Broadcasting System, and other similar programs. He regularly lectures abroad and in 1997 was invited by Khulamani, a South African organization seeking compensation for the victims of Apartheid, to conduct lectures in townships throughout the Capetown area regarding human rights and workers rights. He has been an editorial reviewer for a wide range of publishers and professional organizations, including Oxford University Press, St. Martin’s Press, Prentice-Hall, Longman & Son, Westview Press, American Political Science Association, International Studies Quarterly, and the Peace Science Society. He is actively engaged in numerous disciplinary and professional organizations and in 1997 was inducted into the Phi Beta Delta Honorary Society for International Scholars.
EDUCATION
Ph.D., School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of the Johns Hopkins University, 1969
M.A., Stanford University
B.A., Princeton University, 1961
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BILL ANDERSON, SPIA Professor of Practice
BILL ANDERSON
Affiliated Professor of Practice
(540) 885-2484
grant46@vt.edu
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Major Areas of Specialization:
International Development
International Relations
Foreign Policy
PROFESSIONAL BIO
Mr. Anderson served (2006-08) as the USAID Senior Development Advisor to the US European Command (EUCOM) as well as the US African Command (AFRICOM) in its initial stages. In 2009-2010, he served in the US Mission to the European Union (EU) as the USAID Representative and Development Counselor to the EU at the moment when the Lisbon Treaty (with major changes in the EU’s leadership structure) took effect and when the US-EU Development Dialogue was re-launched. He is an independent consultant; A Professor of Practice with the School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA) at Virginia Tech University; and an executive coach. He is also a principal member of the Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network (MFAN), a reform coalition of international development and foreign policy practicioners,policy advocates and experts, and private sector organizations. Current articles and book chapters focus on USAID/DoD collaboration and DoD’s role in development.
He is a former USAID Senior Foreign Service Officer, with long-term overseas service in Senegal, DRC-Congo, Tanzania (Deputy Mission Director), and Eritrea (USAID Mission Director) and Legislative Director for a former Chairman of the House Foreign Aid Appropriations Subcommittee. He was USAID Director in Eritrea prior to the outbreak of the Eritrea-Ethiopia Border War in 1998 through the first year of the conflict. From 1999-2001, he directed the Office of East and South Asia in USAID’s Asia Near East Bureau (ANE).
Between 2001-2006, Mr. Anderson was an independent consultant focusing on foreign assistance reform; interagency collaboration in national security and foreign affairs; and strategic planning, program design, and evaluation. He has varied experience as a senior leader/manager and troubleshooter in multi-cultural situations as well as in team building, facilitation/training, and executive/organizational coaching.
EDUCATION
M.P.A., International Development; Princeton University; 1970-1972
B.A., Davidson College; French Language and Literature
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2001 – 2018 Independent Consultant, international development; team building, facilitation, executive coaching, and training; strategic planning, program/project design, program monitoring and evaluation; civil-military affairs and interagency collaboration; international donor collaboration; trouble-shooting; languages French (fluent); Kiswahili (basic)
2009 – 2010 USAID Representative to the European Union
2006 – 2008 USAID Senior Development Advisor to the US European Command (DoD)
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CHRISTIAN MATHEIS, SPIA Visiting Assistant Professor
CHRISTIAN MATHEIS
Visiting Assistant Professor
(540) 231-7507
matheisc@vt.edu
Areas of Specialization:
Social and Political Philosophy, Ethics, Public Policy, Public Engagement
Areas of Concentration:
Solidarity, Global Justice, Migration & Refugees, Feminism, Race, Philosophy of Liberation, Social Movements
Areas of Application and Practice:
Grassroots/Direct-Action Organizing, Policy Advocacy, Human Relations Facilitation, Intergroup Dialogue
PROFESSIONAL BIO
Christian Matheis is a visiting assistant professor of Government and International Affairs in the School of Public and International Affairs at Virginia Tech. He specializes in scholarship and practice that bridge social and political philosophy and public policy, with concentrations in migration, refugees, feminism, race, indigeneity, and global justice. His recent research focuses on philosophical conceptions of solidarity in liberatory movements, problems of recognition and identity politics in liberal models of social justice, moral criteria for regulating how state administrative agencies treat refugees, critiques of immigration and border policies, critiques of whiteness studies, and the aesthetics of race. Christian is the co-editor of
Migration Policy and Practice: Interventions and Solutions
(Palgrave 2016), an emeritus editor of the journal
SPECTRA: the Social, Political, Ethical, and Cultural Theory Archives
(2012-2015), member and treasurer of the Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World (SPCW), and a Voices contributor to
The Anarres Project for Alternative Futures
. Christian’s work appears in various anthologies and edited collections, including:
Phenomenology and the Political
(2016),
Philosophy in the Contemporary World
(2011, 2015), the
APA Newsletter on Hispanic/Latino Issues in Philosophy
(2014), as well as in the forthcoming Women’s Lives Encyclopedia (ABC-CLIO Greenwood 2016).
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Ethics and Political Philosophy (2015)
— ASPECT: Alliance for Social, Political, Ethical, and Cultural Thought
— Virginia Tech
M.A., Applied Ethics (2004)
— Minors: Ethnic Studies, Sociology
— Oregon State University
B.S., Psychology (2001)
— Oregon State University
COURSES TAUGHT
Public and International Affairs + Urban Affairs and Planning + Political Science
GIA/PSCI 6144: Refugees and Transnational Migration – Virginia Tech
GIA/PSCI 5434: Politics of Developing Areas – Virginia Tech
UAP 5424: Practices of Public Engagement – Facilitating Group Dialogue – Virginia Tech
GIA/PSCI 5224: Liberation and Social Movements – Virginia Tech
GIA/UAP 5004: Power and Policy in the U.S. – Virginia Tech
GRAD 5004: Contemporary Pedagogy – Virginia Tech
PSCI/UAP 3774: Marxian Political Analysis – Virginia Tech
Philosophy
PHL 111: Knowledge, Reality, and the Human Condition – Radford University
PHL 114: Origins of Western Philosophy – Radford University
PHL 280: Ethics of Diversity (course assistant) – Oregon State University
PHIL 1304: Morality and Justice (on-site and online) – Virginia Tech
PHIL 2304: Global Ethics (on-site and online) – Virginia Tech
PHIL/PSCI 3016: Political Theory (on-site and online) – Virginia Tech
PHIL 4994: Philosophies of Relation – Virginia Tech
Pedagogy
GRAD 5114: Contemporary Pedagogies – Virginia Tech
Adult Education & Higher Education Leadership
AHE 199: Students, Politics, and Social Change – Oregon State University
AHE 406/506: Organizing for Social Change – I – Oregon State University
AHE 406/506: Organizing for Social Change – II – Oregon State University
AHE 499/599: Community, Solidarity, and Action – Oregon State University
Bio-Behavioral Health
BBH 251: Intro to Sexuality and Gender Studies – Penn State
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
Visiting Assistant Professor – School of Public and International Affairs (2015-Present)
— Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
Instructor – German Global Education, Summer School (Summer 2017)
— German Global Education Summer School, Greifswald
Instructor – Philosophy, Political Science (2011-2015)
— Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
Instructor – Philosophy (2012-2015)
— Radford University, Radford
Instructor – Adult Education and Higher Education Leadership (2007-2011)
— Oregon State University, Corvallis
Instructor – Bio-Behavioral Health (2005-2007)
— The Pennsylvania State University, University Park
ADMINISTRATIVE AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Consultant and Trainer: Public Engagement, Human Relations Facilitation, Direct-Action Organizing (2005-Present)
— private consulting
Advocate & Political Organizer (2007-2011)
— Oregon State University, Corvallis
Assistant Director, LGBTA Student Resource Center (2005-2007)
— The Pennsylvania State University, University Park
Program Coordinator, Difference, Power, and Discrimination Program (2004-2005)
— Oregon State University, Corvallis
Program Advisor, Office of LGBT Outreach and Services (2004-2005)
— Oregon State University, Corvallis
ADMINISTRATIVE AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Migration Policy and Practice: Interventions and Solutions (2016, Palgrave)
Harald Bauder & Christian Matheis, Co-Editors
America the Bioethical: Vitality, Trauma, and Questions of Bioethics in the 21st Century – A special issue of Journal of Philosophy in the Contemporary World (forthcoming 2017)
Christian Matheis & Charles W. Harvey, Co-Editors
CHAPTERS
Matheis, C. “Morocco.” Women’s Lives around the World: A Global Encyclopedia. Eds. Susan Shaw, Patti Duncan, Kryn Freehling-Burton, Jane Nichols, and Nancy Barbour. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO Greenwood Press. (Completed, accepted for publication).
Matheis, C. “Of Politics and Pentagons: for whom does phenomenology advance political philosophy?” in Phenomenology and the Political. Eds. Geoff Pfeifer and S. West Gurley. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2016: 311-327.
Matheis, C. “Refuge, Refusal, and Consent: How Should Resettlement Agencies Treat People Seeking Refuge?” Re: Reflections and Explorations : Essays on Politics, Public Policy, and Governance. Eds. Max O. Stephenson and Lyusyena Kirakosyan. Blacksburg, Virginia: Virginia Tech Institute for Policy and Governance, 2015: 217-226.
Matheis, C. “’To live on the soil we cultivate’: Legitimacy and Expediency in Thoreau’s Political Ethics.” Re: Reflections and Explorations : Essays on Politics, Public Policy, and Governance. Eds. Max O. Stephenson and Lyusyena Kirakosyan. Blacksburg, Virginia: Virginia Tech Institute for Policy and Governance, 2015: 172-181.
Matheis, C, Virginia Roach, Michelle Sutherland, and James Hawdon. “Selecting Targets: Judgments, Mobility, and Gender Influencing Inter-Group Violence among Tamil Refugees” From Bullies to Terrorists: The Causes and Consequences of Group Violence. Eds. James Hawdon and John Ryan. Lanham: Lexington, 2014: 183-196.
Matheis, C. “Campus Resources & Supports for LGBTQQIA Students, Faculty and Staff.” Gender and Higher Education. Ed. Barbara Bank. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011: 273-279.
Roper, Larry, and Christian Matheis. “Engaging Conflict.” Student Services: A Handbook for the Profession. Eds. John H. Schuh, Susan R. Jones, Shaun R. Harper, and Associates. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2010: 433-447.
Rankin, Susan, Liz Roosa-Millar, and Christian Matheis. “Safe Campuses for LGBTQA Students: Systemic Transformation through Re(a)Wakened Senior Leaders.” Creating and Maintaining Safe College Campuses: A Sourcebook for Evaluating and Enhancing Safety Programs. Ed. Melvin Terrell. Sterling: Stylus, 2007: 75-98.
Matheis, C., and Roni Sue. “Difference, Power, and Discrimination and Graduate Education: Earning an Advanced Degree in a Fragmented Curriculum.” Teaching for Change. Ed. Jun Xing. Lanham: Lexington, 2007: 169-182.
ARTICLES
Matheis, C. “Hegel’s Reproduction Issues: On Identity Politics, International Relations, and the Desire for Recognition of Oneself in the Other.” Journal of Philosophy in the Contemporary World 22:2 (2015): 12-27.
Matheis, C. “On Various ‘Relations’ in Enrique Dussel’s Philosophy of Liberation.” American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Hispanic/Latino Issues in Philosophy 13.2 (2014): 9-15. Online.
Matheis, C. “U.S. American Border Crossings: Immigrants, Poverty and Suzanne Pharr’s ‘Myth of Scarcity’.” Journal of Philosophy in the Contemporary World 18.2 (2011): 47-59.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Matheis, C. “Political Education for the Furious and Sick at Heart: Franz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth.” Public Knowledge 4.1 (2012). Online.
Matheis, C. “Review of Queer Ecologies: Sex, Nature, Politics, Desire.” Edited by Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands and Bruce Erickson.” Hypatia 27.3 (2012): 685-689.
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JIM MORAN, SPIA Professor of Practice
JAMES MORAN
Affiliated Professor of Practice
(703) 706-8115
james45@vt.edu
Major Areas of Specialization:
Defense
Government contracting
Foreign governments
Economic development
Renewable energy and technology
PROFESSIONAL BIO
James P. “Jim” Moran is a senior legislative advisor in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP and is based in the Firm’s Washington, D.C., office. Jim is a former U.S. Congressman who served Virginia’s 8th congressional district from 1991 to 2015. He advises the Firm’s lobbying practice in such specialty areas as defense, government contracting, trade, foreign governments, economic development, renewable energy and technology.
Throughout his 24 years of service in Congress, Jim became known for his abilities to work across the aisle and resolve complex issues, gaining great respect from members of both parties. He was a senior member of the House Appropriations Committee and served as Chairman and Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on the Interior and Environment. He was also a senior member on the Defense and Military Construction Subcommittees, helping to establish his excellent reputation within the government contracting community. As a progressive leader, Jim served as a member of the Steering and Policy Committee for the House Democratic Leadership.
As Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on the Interior and Environment, Jim oversaw the budgets for the Environmental Protection Agency, the Interior Department, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Forest Service, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, the Smithsonian, the Kennedy Center, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and the National Endowment for the Arts and the Humanities.
As a senior member of the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, he oversaw all aspects of the defense budget. Specifically, weapons procurement, cyber security, innovative research and development, military medical research, military base closures, civilian personnel and overseas contingency operations.
Jim supported major projects in Northern Virginia to the tune of billions of dollars over the course of his Congressional career. This included $1.5 billion for extending Metro rail to Dulles, $2.5 billion to replace the Woodrow Wilson Bridge and hundreds of millions in support of Virginia schools, health centers and support services for the needy. Jim was successful in adding 20,000 military personnel to his Congressional districts in the latest round of military Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission (BRAC) closures.
Near and dear to Jim’s heart is the welfare of animals and he served as co-chair of the bipartisan Animal Protection Caucus. In this role he worked closely with the Interior Department’s efforts to manage the United States’ wild horse population, and led passage of countless bills to ensure the safety and welfare of cats, dogs and endangered species.
In 1997, Jim co-founded the New Democratic Coalition (NDC), which was established to represent the pro-business sector of the Democratic caucus. He went on to establish himself as a champion of the local business community in Northern Virginia’s “Dulles Technology Corridor” and beyond. The NDC provided the necessary Democratic votes for passage of trade agreements, Welfare reform and the Balanced Budget Amendment during the Clinton administration and continues to be one of the most influential “moderate” causes in the Congress.
Prior to his run for Congress, Jim was the mayor of Alexandria, Virginia from 1985 to 1990 and was a member of the City Council from 1979-1984. During this period, Alexandria experienced unparalleled economic growth, raised its bond rating to AAA and reduced the property tax rate substantially.
Prior to running for office, he worked at the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, as a budget officer, then became a senior specialist for budgetary and fiscal policy at the Library of Congress and, in his final non-elected position, was senior staff of the U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations.
EDUCATION
M.P.A., University of Pittsburgh, 1970
B.A., College of the Holy Cross, 1967
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RANDY MURCH, SPIA Professor of Practice
RANDY MURCH
Affiliated Professor of Practice
(703) 518-2719
rmurch@vt.edu
Major Areas of Specialization:
Current research focus on security in complex systems; integrative security through science, technology, policy and operations; biosecurity.
PROFESSIONAL BIO
Randall S. Murch, Ph.D., is the Associate Director, Research Development Team, National Capital Region, Virginia Tech. He is also a Professor in Practice in the School of Public and International Affairs and an Adjunct Professor in Department of Plant Pathology and Physiology. He joined Virginia Tech in December, 2004, where he develops research programs with special emphasis in topic areas in which science and technology, operations, law, policy and security converge. Currently, his funded research activities are focused on advancing forensic science, biosecurity and microbial forensics. He advises PhD students in several graduate programs and teaches graduate courses in two programs. He also holds a Visiting Professorship in the Science and Security Program, Department of War Studies, King’s College London, UK.
Following completion of the PhD and brief service in the U.S. Army Reserve, Dr. Murch’s first career was with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), where he was a Special Agent. In his early years with the FBI, he was assigned to the Indianapolis and Los Angeles Field Offices where he performed counterterrorism, counterintelligence and other investigations. During his career, he was assigned to the FBI Laboratory as a forensic biologist, research scientist, department head and deputy director at various times. While department head and deputy director, he was instrumental in leading the overhaul of the FBI Laboratory and navigating various investigations and inquiries of Laboratory science, operations, personnel and services. Interspersed with his Laboratory assignments were four assignments in the Bureau’s technical investigative program: as a program manager for complex operations planning, FBI Headquarters; chief of a technology development and deployment unit, Investigative Technology Division, Quantico, Virginia; technical squad supervisor, New York Field Office; and, deputy director, Investigative Technology Division, Quantico, Virginia (now Operational Technology Division; at the time 600 FBI personnel, 200 contractors, $650M budget). These assignments, which had increasing responsibility and authority, involved the development and application of sensitive technologies in complex, high-risk investigative and operational situations and environments and the management of associated personnel, organizations and their operations and budgets, as well as outreach and liaison.
While in the FBI he created the FBI’s and US’s WMD forensic investigative program, served as the FBI’s science advisor to the 1996 Olympic Games, led forensic investigative aspects of a number of major domestic and international terrorism cases, and initiated a number of new and innovative programs for both the FBI Laboratory and technical investigative program. In 1996, Dr. Murch created the FBI’s Hazardous Materials Response Unit, the nation’s focal point for the forensic investigation of WMD threats, events and hoaxes; this laid the foundation for the creation of new fields in nuclear, chemical and biological weapons forensics and national programs in several U.S. Government departments and agencies. Since that time, he has published and presented extensively in the field of microbial forensics and has recently presented in several high-level international fora on this topic.
Throughout his FBI career, he also was involved with extensive liaison at the national and international levels in furthering science and technology for law enforcement, counterterrorism and national security purposes. Between his last two FBI assignments, he was detailed to the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), Department of Defense (DoD), where he was the director of the Advanced Systems and Concepts Office, where he led advanced studies on complex current and future challenges dealing with weapons of mass destruction. He retired from the FBI in November, 2002 after nearly 23 years of service, and as a member of the Senior Executive Service for the last seven years with that agency.
From December 2002-December 2004, Dr. Murch was employed as a Research Staff Member, Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA), a leading Federally Funded Research and Development Center, where he led and participated in studies for the defense and national security communities. While there, he led the first-ever comprehensive baseline study of microbial forensics for the US national security community.
From February 2007 to January 2008 he was on loan from Virginia Tech to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Directorate of Science and Technology, Office of Research, as Senior Principal Counselor for Science and Technology, with wide ranging duties and responsibilities.
He has been member of or advised a number of study and standing committees of the US National Academy of Sciences (NAS) and the Institute of Medicine (IOM). Two of the NAS studies he has been part of have focused on strategic assessments of national forensic capabilities, one focused on emerging science and technology and global biosecurity, another for a science and technology roadmap for DHS and another focused on core capabilities of the Department of Defense Chemical and Biological Defense Program. He served for six years on the Board of Life Sciences, National Research Council, and is currently on the NAS Division of Earth and Life Sciences Advisory Committee which assists the National Research Council with oversight of 13 of its boards and committees. Dr. Murch has also advised the US Department of Defense’s (DoD) Defense Science Board (DSB), the DTRA Threat Reduction Advisory Committee, and is currently a member of an Intelligence Community senior science advisory panel. Dr. Murch served on the US National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB) from December 2009 – May 2012. He is also a member of the Interagency Microbial Forensics Advisory Board, which is overseen by the Office of Science and Technology Policy, Executive Office of the President, for one of his sponsors. Dr. Murch is also a member of the President’s Advisory Board of the Research Corporation for Science Advancement. He has been a member of special study committees for National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), Department of Energy (DOE), the US Department of Defense’s Cooperative Threat Reduction Program and the Intelligence Community.
Murch received his Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from the University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, Washington in 1974, his Master of Science degree in Botanical Sciences from the University of Hawai’i in 1976 and his Doctor of Philosophy degree in Plant Pathology from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 1979. Thus far in his career, he has published over 40 scholarly papers, reports and chapters and made over ca. 150 invited presentations to a wide variety of audiences. He has also testified in U.S. courts of law as an expert witness on over 100 occasions, and testified before the U.S. Congress on several occasions.
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Plant Pathology, University of Illinois, 1979
M.S., Botanical Sciences, University of Hawaii, 1976
B.S., Biology, University of Puget Sound, 1974
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
Adjunct Professor, Center for Public Administration and Policy and the School of Public and International Affairs
Adjunct Professor, Plant Pathology, Physiology and Weed Science
Visiting Professor, Science and Security, Department of War Studies, King’s College London (UK)
ADMINISTRATIVE AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Associate Director, Research Program Development
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PATRICIA NICKEL, Associate Professor
PATRICIA NICKEL
Associate Professor
(540) 231-3549
nickel@vt.edu
Full CV
Research Areas:
– Critical theory
– Cultural politics
– Knowledge production
– Philanthropy and the nonprofit sector
– Social policy
PROFESSIONAL BIO
Patricia Nickel is a political sociologist interested in critical theory and governing as it is manifest in spaces outside the formal boundaries of government. She has published in the areas of cultural production, governance, knowledge production, philanthropy, public sociology, and the epistemological practices of non-governmental organizations. Many of these themes are addressed through the lens of critical theory in her book Public Sociology and Civil Society: Governance, Politics, and Power, published by Paradigm Publishers in 2012. She is also editor of North American Critical Theory after Postmodernism: Contemporary Dialogues, published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2012. She recently completed a book project titled
Culture, Politics, and Governing: The Contemporary Ascetics of Knowledge Production (2015)
(Palgrave Macmillan 2015). She teaches in the areas of philanthropy, collaboration, governance, social theory, and global social policy.
EDUCATION
University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX
School of Urban and Public Affairs
Ph.D. August 2006, Urban and Public Affairs
University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha NE
Master of Arts May 1999, Education
Bachelor of Science Magna Cum Laude, December 1996, Political Science
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
Assistant Professor
School of Public and International Affairs
Core Faculty, Alliance for Social, Political, Ethical, and Cultural Thought (ASPECT)
Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
August 2012 – August 2016
Lecturer (U.S. Equivalent: Assistant Professor)
School of Social and Cultural Studies
Victoria University of Wellington
Wellington, New Zealand
September 2007 – June 2012
Visiting Assistant Professor
Government and International Affairs
School of Public and International Affairs
Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
August 2006 – August 2007
ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE
University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX
Academic Affairs: Assessment Services: Coordinator of Testing Programs: December 2001 – July 2006 (50%)
School of Urban and Public Affairs: Graduate Research Assistant: August 2002 – May 2003 (50%)
Center for Distance Education: Instructional Designer/Project Manager: November 2000 – December 2001 (100%)
School of Urban and Public Affairs: Center for Economic Development, Research and Service: Social Science Research Associate: August 2000 – November 2000 (50%)
Assessment Services: Coordinator Computer Proficiency Testing Program: University of Texas at Arlington: July 1999 – July 2000 (100%)
University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, NE
College of Education, Dean’s Office/Metropolitan Omaha Educational Consortium: Graduate Assistant: August 1997-August 1999 (50%)
BOOKS
Nickel P.M. (2015) Culture, Politics, and Governing: The Contemporary Ascetics of Knowledge Production. Palgrave Macmillan.
– Reviewed in New Political Science and The Sociological Review
Nickel P.M., Ed. (2012) North American Critical Theory after Postmodernism: Contemporary Dialogues. Palgrave Macmillan.
– Reviewed in Thesis Eleven
Nickel, P.M. (2012) Public Sociology and Civil Society: Governance, Politics, and Power. Paradigm Publishers. Paperback 2013.
– Reviewed in Social Forces, Contemporary Sociology, and Canadian Journal of Sociology
CHAPTERS
Nickel, P.M. (2014). “Late Capitalism.” Encyclopedia of Political Thought. Oxford: Blackwell. Invited peer-reviewed contribution.
Nickel P.M. and A.M. Eikenberry (2010) “Philanthropy in an Era of Global Governance.” Invited contribution to Third Sector Research. Edited by Rupert Taylor. Springer, New York: 269-279.
Nickel P.M. (2008). “There is an Unknown on Campus: From Normative to Performative Violence in Academia.” Tragedy and Terror at Virginia Tech: There Is a Gunman on Campus, pp. 161-186. Edited by Ben Agger and Tim Luke. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield. Invited contribution.
ARTICLES
Nickel, P.M. (2018, in press) “Philanthropy and the Politics of Well-Being.” PS: Political Science & Politics Vol. 51, No. 1.
Nickel, P.M. (2017, in press) “Philanthropy, Hermeneutics, and Power: An Inquiry into Keywords and the ‘New’ Logic.” Cultural Politics Vol. 13, No. 3.
Nickel, P.M. (2016) “Thrift Shop Philanthropy: Charity, Value, and Ascetic Rehabilitation.” Cultural Politics Vol. 12, No. 2: 173-189.
Nickel, P.M. (2016) “Luxury Lines.” Invited peer-reviewed symposium contribution. Cultural Politics Vol. 12, No. 1: 54-65.
Nickel, P.M. (2015). “Haute Philanthropy: Luxury, Benevolence, and Value.” Luxury: History, Culture, Consumption Vol. 2, No. 2: 11-31.
Nickel, P.M. and Eikenberry, A.M. (2015) “Knowing and Governing: The Mapping of the Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector as Statecraft.” VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations.
Nickel, P.M. (2013) “Celebration and Governing: The Production of the Author as Ascetic Practice.” Journal of Political Power. Vol. 6, No. 2: 289–308.
Nickel, P.M. (2013) “The Institutionalization of Author Production and the Performance Imperative as an Ontological Fiction.” Cultural Politics. Vol. 9, No. 1: 53–69.
Nickel, P.M. and Eikenberry, A.M. (2013) “Gastrophilanthropy: Utopian Aspiration and Aspirational Consumption as Political Retreat.” Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture. 12.4.
Nickel, P.M. (2012) “Philanthromentality: Celebrity Parables as Technologies of Transfer.” Celebrity Studies. Vol. 3, No. 2: 1–19.
Nickel, P.M. (2011) “The Man from Somewhere: From the Author Function to the Affiliation Function.” Fast Capitalism. 8.2.
Nickel, P.M. (2010) “Public Sociology and the Public Turn in the Social Sciences.” Sociology Compass. Vol. 4, No. 9: 694–704. Invited contribution.
Nickel, P.M. (2010) “Public Sociology for Human Rights as Rites of Rule.” Current Sociology. Vol. 58, No. 3: 420–442. Nickel, P.M. (2009) “Public Intellectuality: Academies of Exhibition and the New Disciplinary Secession.” Theory and Event. Vol. 12, No 4.
Nickel, P.M. (2009) “Power, Text and Portrayal: A Critique of the Transformation of the State Thesis.” Journal of Power. Vol. 2, No. 3: 383–401.
Grey, S. and Nickel, P.M. (2009). “kiwibrand Resistance: Banking on Artificial Negativity.” Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture. 9.4.
Nickel, P.M. (2009) “Liberalism, Postmodernism, and Welfare: A Response to Martin.” New Political Science. Vol. 31, No. 1: 69–86.
Nickel, P.M. (2009) “Public Administration and/or Public Sociology: Disciplinary Convergence and the Disciplinary Dispersal of Public Sentimentality.” Administration and Society. Vol. 41, No. 2: 185–212.
Nickel, P.M. and A. M. Eikenberry. (2009) “A Critique of the Discourse of Marketized Philanthropy.” Symposium in American Behavioral Scientist, edited by Max Stephenson and Joyce Rothschild, Vol. 52, No. 7: 974–989.
Nickel, P.M. (2007) “Network Governance and the New Constitutionalism.” Symposium: Theorizing Governance Beyond the State. Administrative Theory & Praxis. Vol. 29, No. 2: 198–224.
Nickel, P.M. and A.M. Eikenberry. (2007) “Responding to ‘Natural’ Disasters: The Ethical Implications of the Voluntary State.” Symposium: “Naming and Framing Public Administration Theory in Natural Disaster Planning and Response.” Administrative Theory & Praxis Vol. 29, No. 4: 534–545.
Nickel, P.M. and A.M. Eikenberry (2006) “Beyond Public vs. Private Management: The Transformative Potential of Democratic Feminist Management.” Symposium: “Feminisms of Public Administration.”Administrative Theory & Praxis. Vol. 28, No. 3: 359–380.
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MINNIS RIDENOUR, SPIA Affiliated Faculty and Senior Fellow for Resource Development
MINNIS RIDENOUR
SPIA Affiliated Faculty and Senior Fellow for Resource Development
(540) 231-0823
ridem@vt.edu
Mr. Ridenour earned both his bachelor’s degree in marketing and retailing, and his master’s degree in public finance and higher education administration, from the University of Tennessee.
Major Areas of Specialization:
Currently assisting the University with special initiatives such as the Arts Initiative, the NCAA Recertification Process and the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech Scientific Review, as well as teaching graduate courses in financial management for governmental and non-profit entities.
Other Current Positions:
Board of Directors, Carilion Foundation; Board of CCS-Inc.; and the Board of the Blacksburg Partnership.
Mr. Ridenour is also Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Emeritus
PROFESSIONAL BIO
Mr. Minnis E. Ridenour served as Executive Vice President of Virginia Tech Foundation Incorporated since 1987 and served as its Chief Operating Officer. Mr. Ridenour came to Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (the university) in 1974 as the university’s Budget Director and Chief Business Officer and also served as its Vice President for Finance until 1987. Since May 2001, he served the university as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer. Mr. Ridenour also served as Executive Vice President of the Virginia Tech Foundation and serves on the boards of other university related corporations. He began his career as Assistant Administrator with the United Methodist Homes and Health Care Facilities of the Holston Conference. He was employed in Marketing Research and Planning with the First Union National Bank in Charlotte, North Carolina, and also held positions as Data Analyst, Research Associate, Coordinator and Director of the Office of Institutional Research at The University of Tennessee. Mr. Ridenour served as President of the Greater Blacksburg Chamber of Commerce; President of the Council for Finance and Administration, Virginia Conference of the United Methodist Church and also served on the Pensions Board of the Virginia Conference of the United Methodist Church. Mr. Ridenour served as Chairman of the board of directors of Rocco, Incorporated and the Montgomery Regional Hospital. He has been a Member of Advisory Board at Comprehensive Computer Solutions, Incorporated (CCS) since 2005. He serves on the board of directors of Petroleum Marketing, Incorporated (PMI). He serves on the Virginia United Methodist Homes Board. He has been a Trustee of Virginia Health Care Foundation since July 2006. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in financial management for governmental and non-profit organizations. Mr. Ridenour serves as President on the board of directors of the Eastern Association of College and University Business Officers (EACUBO); as a member of the business affairs executive committee for the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges; and on the board of directors for the Science Museum of Western Virginia. He is a member of the board of directors for the Western Virginia Foundation for the Arts and Sciences; and is a member of the 2001 NACUBO Research Universities Council (National Association of College and University Business Officers). He is Senior Fellow for Resource Development at Virginia Tech. Mr. Ridenour received both his bachelors’ degree, in marketing and retailing and his master’s degree, in public finance and higher education administration, from The University of Tennessee.
EDUCATION
Bachelor’s Degree, The University of Tennessee
Master’s Degree, The University of Tennessee
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ROBERT STALZER, SPIA Professor of Practice
ROBERT STALZER
Affiliated Professor of Practice
(703) 507-5330
Rob.Stalzer@fairfaxcounty.gov
Major Areas of Specialization:
Community Development
Economic Development
Local Government
Public Policy
PROFESSIONAL BIO
Rob Stalzer has over thirty years of local government experience and has served as Deputy County Executive of Fairfax County, Virginia since June 2000. As Deputy County Executive, Mr. Stalzer is responsible for public works and environmental services, planning and zoning, community revitalization, transportation and code compliance. He serves as liaison to the Fairfax County Park Authority, Economic Development Authority and Water Authority. Mr. Stalzer has led several countywide cross-functional teams focused on community building, environmental stewardship and emergency preparedness. Currently, he is working with the Board of Supervisors and the Economic Advisory Commission to implement the adopted “Strategic Plan to Facilitate the Economic Success of Fairfax County.” Mr. Stalzer provided executive leadership for the West Ox/MPSTOC complex, a $250 million development project involving Fairfax County and the Commonwealth of Virginia. He led the County’s efforts to construct a $100 million public-private mixed-use transit-oriented development project adjacent to the new Wiehle Avenue/Reston East Metrorail station and is involved in several other significant public-private partnership initiatives throughout the County. From June 2000 to September 2012, in addition to his current duties, Mr. Stalzer was responsible for police, fire and rescue, the 9-1-1 center and emergency management. He led one of two Northern Virginia regional teams deployed to New Orleans in 2005 to assist with the city’s recovery from Hurricane Katrina.
From 1988 to June 2000, Mr. Stalzer served as the Town Manager of Herndon, Virginia and from 1983 to 1988, as the Director of Planning and Zoning for Roanoke County, Virginia. He has an MBA from Syracuse University, a Master’s in Regional and City Planning (MRCP) from the University of Oklahoma and a BA from Clark University. He is a graduate of the Senior Executive Institute of the University of Virginia. Mr. Stalzer has taught numerous graduate level courses at George Mason University and Virginia Tech and is a Professor of Practice in the Virginia Tech School of Public and International Affairs.
Mr. Stalzer is a member of the International City/County Management Association, the American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP), the International Economic Development Council (IEDC) and a past president of the Virginia Local Government Management Association.
EDUCATION
M.B.A., Business Administration, Syracuse University 2002
M.R.C.P., Regional and City Planning, University of Oklahoma
B.A., Geography, Clark University 1974
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SPIA STAFF AND ADMINISTRATIVE FACULTY
LEIGH BOWER, Graduate Student Coordinator UAP Blacksburg
LEIGH BOWER
Graduate Student Coordinator UAP Blacksburg
(540) 231-5485
leighb14@vt.edu
Leigh Bower is the Administrative Assistant and Graduate Student Coordinator for SPIA’s Urban Affairs and Planning program. She joined UAP in August of 2014 after relocating from Georgia. In Atlanta she spent over 20 years as a licensed commercial real estate agent acting, primarily, as a Landlord Representative for asset managers such as JP Morgan, Invesco, and Mass Mutual for office properties located throughout Atlanta. She is a 10-year award member in both the Atlanta Commercial Million Dollar Club and the National Association of Industrial and Office Parks (NAIOP) as well as receiving the Phoenix Award for achieving the continuous 10-year membership in the Million Dollar Club.
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MEHRZAD BOROUJERDI, Director SPIA, Professor GIA
MEHRZAD BOROUJERDI
Director SPIA, Professor GIA
(571) 858-3110
mehrzad@vt.edu
Mehrzad Boroujerdi is Director of the School of Public and International Affairs at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech).
From 1992 to 2019, he was a professor of
Political Science
at Syracuse University’s
Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs
. During the 2017-18 academic year, as a
Fellow of the American Council on Education
(ACE), he resided at
California State University – Northridge
(CSUN) where he worked with the university’s senior leadership.
Dr. Boroujerdi is the author of
Iranian Intellectuals and the West: The Tormented Triumph of Nativism
(Syracuse University Press, 1996), and I Carved, Worshiped and Shattered: Essays on Iranian Politics and Identity [
in Persian
] (Nashr-e Negah-e Mo`aser, 2010). He is also the co-author of
Postrevolutionary Iran: A Political Handbook
(Syracuse University Press, 2018), and editor of
Mirror for the Muslim Prince: Islam and Theory of Statecraft
(Syracuse University Press, 2013). In addition, he has authored more than thirty journal articles and book chapters in English and Persian.
Before coming to Virginia Tech, Dr. Boroujerdi served in the following administrative roles at Syracuse University: Chair of the Political Science Department (2014-17), Provost Fellow for Internationalization (2015-17), Co-chair of the Internationalization Council (2016-17), member of the Academic Strategic Plan Committee and co-chair of its Working Group on Enhancing Internationalization (2014-16), Director of Graduate Studies in the Political Science Department (2001-04), Founding director of the Middle Eastern Studies Program (2003-14), Co-founder of the Project on Religion, Media and International Affairs (2006-09), and founding editor of the
Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East
book series published by Syracuse University Press (1996-2014).
Dr. Boroujerdi has also been a visiting scholar at UCLA’s
Center for Near Eastern Studies (2017-18)
, President of the
Association for Iranian Studies
(2012-2014), member of the board of directors of the
Near East Foundation
(2010-19), co-founder of the Iran Data Portal (2009-present), a non-resident scholar at the
Middle East Institute
in Washington, D.C. (2005-16), the book review editor of the
International Journal of Middle East Studies
(2000-07), a Rockefeller Foundation Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin (1991-92), and a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard University (1991-92).
Dr. Boroujerdi has been the recipient of grants and fellowships from American Council on Education, Henry R. Luce Foundation, Princeton University, Social Science Research Council, the Institute of International Education, the U.S. Department of Education, and the United States Institute of Peace, and the Violet Jabara Charitable Trust. Other awards include the Foundation for Iranian Studies Best Doctoral Dissertation (1990), the Maxwell School’s Daniel Patrick Moynihan Award for outstanding teaching, research, and service (1998), Maxwell School’s inaugural
O’Hanley Faculty Scholar
(2014-19), and the Institute of International Education’s Scholar Rescue Fund’s Outstanding Service Award (2011).
Dr. Boroujerdi has been interviewed by numerous national and international media outlets such as Al Jazeera, Associated Press, Guardian, LA Times, NPR, New York Times, Reuters, Spiegel and Washington Post, and is a regular commentator on a number of Persian broadcasting networks.
To see his Persian-language website visit
http://www.mehrzadboroujerdi.com
EDUCATION
Ph.D. International Relations, The American University, 1990
M.A. Political Science, Northeastern University
B.A. Political Science (magna cum laude), Boston University, 1983. Minor: Sociology
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KELLY CRIST, Graduate Student Coordinator CPAP Blacksburg
KELLY CRIST
Graduate Student Coordinator CPAP Blacksburg
(540) 231-5133
kcrist@vt.edu
Kelly is the office manager for CPAP’s Blacksburg office. She is also the Graduate Staff Coordinator for CPAP’s Master’s and PhD programs.
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LESLIE DAY, SPIA Business Manager
LESLIE DAY
SPIA Business Manager
(540) 231-5176
lday@vt.edu
B.S., Business Administration (Finance) cum laude, Concord University, 2005 Certificate in Business Administration, Monroe County Technical Center, 2002
Leslie is SPIA’s Fiscal Manager.
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AMANDA FAWKES, SPIA Program Coordinator Richmond
AMANDA FAWKES
SPIA Program Coordinator Richmond
(804) 464-8355
amandafawkes@vt.edu
EDUCATION
M.P.A., Public and Nonprofit Financial Management, Virginia Tech
B.S., Health and Physical Education/Fitness, Laurentian University
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RALPH HALL, Director Undergraduate Programs and Associate Professor UAP
RALPH HALL
Director Undergraduate Programs and Associate Professor UAP
(540) 231-7332
rphall@vt.edu
Personal Website
Research Gate
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LinkedIn
YouTube
Major Areas of Specialization:
– Provision of sustainable water supply services in developing countries
– Sustainable transportation in developed countries
– Strategies to transform the industrial state towards sustainable development
PROFESSIONAL BIO
My research and teaching interests lie in several domains that are connected by the underlying goal of making progress towards more sustainable forms of development. My first research area focuses on the provision of sustainable water supply services in developing countries. Since arriving at Virginia Tech, I have co-led two major research projects that studied the emerging concept of multiple-use water services (MUS) in Colombia, Senegal, and Kenya for the World Bank’s Water and Sanitation Program (WSP), and evaluated a rural water program in Nampula, Mozambique for the US Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC). This research has been published in various journals, including Water Alternatives, Sustainability, the Journal of Development Studies, the Journal of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene for Development, and Science and Engineering Ethics.
My second research area focuses on sustainable transportation in developed countries. In this area, I have co-authored a book with international scholars entitled
Sustainable Transportation: Indicators, Frameworks, and Performance Management
. I also serve as a member of the National Academies Transportation Research Board’s (TRB’s) Transportation and Sustainability Committee, and led its research subcommittee from 2012 to 2016.
My third research area focuses on strategies to transform the industrial state towards sustainable development. In this area, specific emphasis is given to nurturing disruptive innovation and addressing inequality, developing meaningful and well-paid employment, and expanding earning capacity (leveraging ideas such as binary economics) while ensuring human activity remains within ecosystem limits. In this area, I am currently preparing a second edition of my co-authored textbook entitled
Technology, Globalization, and Sustainable Development: Transforming the Industrial State
. I also plan to advance research focused on inclusive economics through SPIA’s Beloved Community Initiative that will be launched this fall.
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Technology, Management & Policy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006.
MEng., Civil Engineering, University of Southampton 1999
M.S., Civil & Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002
M.S., Technology & Policy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
Associate Professor, Virginia Tech, 2016-present
Affiliated Scholar of the Global Forum on Urban and Regional Resilience (GFURR), 2014-present
Affiliate Member of the Myers-Lawson School of Construction, 2013-present
Coordinator of the VT Graduate Certificate in Global Planning and International Development Studies, 2012-present
Faculty Fellow, Metropolitan Institute, 2011- present
Assistant Professor, Virginia Tech, 2009-2016
Postdoctoral Scholar, Stanford University, 2006-2008
Graduate Research Assistant, MIT, 2000-2006
Curriculum Development Advisor, Judge Institute of Business, Cambridge University, Summer of 2002
ADMINISTRATIVE & PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Technical Advisory Team Member,
Transform International
, 2016-present
Committee Member, Transportation Research Board (TRB)
Committee on Transportation and Sustainability
, ADD40, 2012-present
Research Chair for the Transportation Research Board (TRB) Committee on Transportation and Sustainability, ADD40, 2012-2016
Committee Research Coordinator, TRB, ADD40, 2012-2016
Policy Analyst, Office of the Secretary of Transportation, U.S. DOT, Summers of 2001 and 2003
Civil Engineer, Halcrow Group, Swindon, UK 1999-2000
SPONSORED RESEARCH
2017-2018: Virginia Tech, “The Beloved Community Initiative,” Co-PI.
2017-2018: Global Systems Science (GSS) Destination Area, Virginia Tech. “Expanding the Mzuni-Virginia Tech Library Design Partnership to Include GSS-Related Research and Education Opportunities,” Co-PI.
2015-2016: ISCE Grant, “Interdisciplinary Exploratory Research: Visualizing Water Services for Community Decision Making,” PI.
2013-2015: VT, Center for Innovation in Learning, “Peering into the Black Box of Learning via Cognitive Life Logging,” Google Glass, Single PI.
2012-2015: University Grants Commission, India, “Creating an International Program for Sustainable Infrastructure Development between the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur (IITK) and VT,” PI.
2012-2014: VT, AdvanceVT, “Mentoring micro-grant to work with Prof. Robert Ashford,” Single PI.
2010-2013: Millennium Challenge Corporation, “Impact Evaluation of the Millennium Challenge Corporation-supported Rural Water Investment in Nampula, Mozambique,” Co-PI.
2009-2010: National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP), “Sustainability Performance Measures for State Departments of Transportation and Other Transportation Agencies,” Senior Advisor.
2007-2010: Water and Sanitation Program (WSP), World Bank, “Assessing the Link between Productive Use of Domestic Water, Poverty Reduction, and Sustainability (Colombia, Senegal, and Kenya),” Postdoc (2007-2008, Stanford University) / Co-PI (2009-2010, VT).
BOOKS
Ashford, N. A., and Hall, R. P. (forthcoming) Transforming the Industrial State.
Gudmundsson, H., Hall, R. P., Marsden, G., and Zietsman, J. (2015)
Sustainable Transportation: Indicators, Frameworks, and Performance Management
. Springer or Samfundslitteratur, pages 304.
Ashford, N. A., and Hall, R. P. (2011)
Technology, Globalization, and Sustainable Development: Transforming the Industrial State
. Yale University Press, New Haven, pages 752.
CHAPTERS
Hall, R. P., Gudmundsson, H., Marsden, G., and Zietsman, J. (2014)
Sustainable Transportation
. The Encyclopedia of Transportation: Social Science and Policy, SAGE, pp. 1300-1305.
Cutcher-Gershenfeld, J., Field, F., Hall, R.P., Kirchain, R., Marks, D.H., Oye, K., and Sussman, J.M. (2004) “Sustainability as an Organizing Design Principle for Large-Scale Engineering Systems”. Chapter 8 of the MIT Engineering Systems Division’s (ESD’s) Engineering Systems Monograph.
ARTICLES
An, Y., Garvin, M., and Hall, R. P. (2017) Pathways to Better Project Delivery: the Link between Capacity Factors and Urban Infrastructure Projects in India. World Development, 94, 393–405.
Hall, R. P., Ranganathan, S, and Raj, G. C. (2017) A General Micro-level Modeling Approach to Analyzing Interconnected SDGs: Achieving SDG 6 and More through Multiple-Use Water Services (MUS). Sustainability, 9(2), 314.
Chirwa, C. F. C, Holm, R. H., Hall, R. P., Krometis, L-A, H., Vance, E., Edwards, A., and Guan, T. (2017) Pit latrine fecal sludge resistance using a dynamic cone penetrometer in low income areas in Mzuzu city, Malawi. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 14(2), 87.
Van Houweling, E., Hall, R. P., Carzolio, M., and Vance, E. (2016) My neighbor drinks clean water, while I continue to suffer;” an analysis of the intra-community and intra-household impacts of a rural water project in Mozambique. Journal of Development Studies. DOI: 10.1080/00220388.2016.1224852.
Hall, R. P., Van Houweling, E., Huang, W., and Vance, E. (2015) Willingness to Pay for VIP Latrines in Rural Senegal. Journal of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene for Development. 5(4) 586-593.
Hall, R. P., Vance, E., and Van Houweling, E. (2015) Upgrading Domestic-Plus Systems in Rural Senegal: An Incremental Income-Cost (I-C) Analysis. Water Alternatives 8(3): 317-336.
Hall, R. P., Vance, E., and Van Houweling, E. (2014) The Productive Use of Rural Piped Water in Senegal. Water Alternatives 7(3): 480-498.
Bryce, J, Flintsch, G., and Hall, R. P. (2014) A Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis Technique for Sustainable Infrastructure Management Business Practices. Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment 32: 435–445. DOI: 10.1016/j.trd.2014.08.019.
Seiss, M., Vance, E., and, Hall, R. P. (2014) The Importance of Cleaning Data During Fieldwork: Evidence from Mozambique. Survey Practice 7(4).
Hall, R. P. (2014) Teaching Using Google Glass and Apps: Creating a platform to enable the fluid and continuous exchange of ideas and information. The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy.
Hall, R. P., Van Koppen, B., and Van Houweling, E. (2013) The Human Right to Water: The Importance of Domestic and Productive Uses of Water. Science and Engineering Ethics. 20(4):849–868.
Ashford, N. A., Hall, R. P., and Ashford, R. (2012) Addressing the Crisis in Employment and Consumer Demand: Reconciliation with Environmental and Financial Sustainability. The European Financial Review, October-November, 2012, pp. 63-68.
Ashford, R., Hall, R. P., and Ashford, N. A. (2012) Broadening Capital Acquisition with the Earnings of Capital as a Means of Sustainable Growth and Environmental Sustainability. The European Financial Review, October-November, 2012, pp. 70-74.
Van Houweling, E.; Hall, R.P.; Sakho Diop, A.; Davis, J. and Seiss, M. (2012) The role of productive water use in women’s livelihoods: Evidence from rural Senegal. Water Alternatives 5(3): 658-677.
Ashford, N. A., and Hall, R. P. (2012) Regulation-Induced Innovation for Sustainable Development. Administrative & Regulatory Law News, Spring 2012, 37(3): 21-23.
Ashford, N. A., Hall, R. P., and Ashford, R. (2012) The Crisis in Employment and Consumer Demand: Reconciliation with Environmental Sustainability. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 2, 1-22.
Ashford, N. A., and Hall, R. P. (2011) The Importance of Regulation-Induced Innovation for Sustainable Development. Sustainability, 3(1), 270-292. [See theEuropean Commission’s summary of the paper.]
Ramani, T. L., Zietsman, J., Gudmundsson, H., Hall, R. P. , and Marsden, G. (2011) Framework for Sustainability Assessment by Transportation Agencies. Transportation Research Record, No. 2242, 2011, pp. 9–18.
Burton, M.A. and Hall, R. P. (1999) Asset Management for Irrigation Systems: Addressing the Issue of Serviceability. Irrigation and Drainage Systems, 13(2): 145-163.
RESEARCH REPORTS
Hall, R. P., Van Houweling, E., Polys, N., Wenzel, S., and Williams, P. (2015) “Interdisciplinary Exploratory Research: Visualizing Water Services for Decision Making. Field Report.” Submitted to the Institute for Society, Culture, and Environment, Virginia Tech, August 2015.
Hall, R. P., Davis, J., Van Houweling, E., Vance, E., Carzolio, M., Seiss, M., and Russel, K. (2014) “Impact Evaluation of the Mozambique Rural Water Supply Activity Under a Cooperative Agreement between MCC and Stanford University.” Submitted to the Millennium Challenge Corporation, April 15, 2014, 120 pages. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.1.1498.9844.
Hall, R. P., Van Houweling, E., Vance, E., Carzolio, M., and Davis, J. (2014) “Evaluation of Eight Small-Scale Solar Systems in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique.” Submitted to the Millennium Challenge Corporation, April 15, 2014, 51 pages.
Hall, R. P., Davis, J., Vance, E., Van Houweling, E., Carzolio, M., and Russel, K. (2013) “Impact Evaluation Design and Implementation Report. Impact Evaluation of the Rural Water Activity in Nampula, Mozambique.” Submitted to the Millennium Challenge Corporation, April 30, 2013, 35 pages.
Hall, R. P. and Puckett, E. (2013) Analysis of TRB’s Research Needs Statements (RNS) Database for Records Related to Sustainability, Virginia Tech, pages 22.
Hall, R. P. Davis, J., et al. (2012) “Impact Evaluation of the Millennium Challenge Corporation-Supported Rural Water Supply Activity (RWSA) in Nampula, Mozambique. Mid-Term Report.” Submitted to the Millennium Challenge Corporation, June 30, 2012, pages 94.
Hall, R. P., Van Houweling, E., Vance, E., Hope, R., and Davis, J. (2011) “Assessing the Link between Productive use of Domestic Water, Poverty Reduction, and Sustainability. Senegal Country Report.” Submitted to the Water and Sanitation Program, World Bank, September 9, 2011, pages 95.
Davis, J., Hall, R. P., Hope, R., Marks, S., and Van Houweling, E. (2011) “Assessing the Link between Productive use of Domestic Water, Poverty Reduction, and Sustainability. Synthesis Report.” Submitted to the Water and Sanitation Program, World Bank, September 9, 2011, pages 35.
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IDIRIS HAGI, Systems Administrator NCR
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IDIRIS HAGI
Systems Administrator NCR
(703) 706-8107
idiris@vt.edu
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JULIE HUDSON, Operations Manager NCR
JULIE HUDSON
Operations Manager NCR
jmhudson@vt. edu
Prior to joining SPIA as Operations Manager in the NCR, Julie was Director of Payroll and Employee Services for the Community College of Vermont (CCV). In addition to human resources responsibilities, she oversaw CCV’s short-term Study Abroad Program, including travel logistics and accompanying the student groups on trips.
Julie spent eight years as an Account Manager for the direct mail/fulfillment company Softrac America, where her clients included the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA), Bank of America, Chase Manhattan and U.S. Bank. As the Conference and Communications Coordinator for the nonprofit Missouri Association of Community Task Forces, she coordinated the planning and logistics of the multi-day Partnering for Success conference.
Julie holds a bachelor’s degree from Western Carolina University and a master’s degree from the University of Missouri.
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MATTHEW JEZIERSKI, SPIA IT Manager
MATTHEW JEZIERSKI
SPIA IT Manager
(540) 231-1490
mattwj6@vt.edu
Matthew is SPIA’s IT Specialist.
EDUCATION
B.S., Computer Engineering, Virginia Tech
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CHRIS LAPLANTE, Undergraduate Advisor
CHRIS LAPLANTE
Undergraduate Advisor
(540) 231-3831
chrisl@vt.edu
Chris LaPlante is the Undergraduate Advisor in the Department of Urban Affairs and Planning. He advises the students in the Public and Urban Affairs (PUA) and the Environmental Policy and Planning (EPP) programs.
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LEISHA LARIVIERE, Associate Director SPIA Richmond and Adjunct Faculty CPAP
POSITION & CONTACT INFO
LEISHA LARIVIERE
Adjunct Faculty and Associate Director SPIA Richmond
(804) 556-1703
llariviere@vt.edu
Research Areas:
Policy and practice in government and NGO professional development
Organizational theory and context
Facilitative and participative leadership
PROFESSIONAL BIO
Leisha LaRiviere is Associate Director of SPIA for the Virginia Tech Richmond campus. She leads School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA) academic initiatives emphasizing community-based research, sponsored programs, and government leadership and management development initiatives. Leisha is an adjunct professor in the Center for Public Administration & Policy (CPAP), where her teaching foci include personnel-related processes and policies, public management behavioral skills, and graduate student capstone projects. Working cross-functionally with faculty in Blacksburg, the National Capital Region (Alexandria and Arlington), and Richmond, Leisha develops public partnerships, strategic research opportunities, and special lecture series.
Leisha is the Director of the Virginia Management Fellows (VMF) program, an innovative training partnership with SPIA and the Commonwealth of Virginia. Leisha also leads the Virginia Public Sector Leader (VPSL) program, a theory-to-practice management and leadership program designed for state agencies and NGOs. Leisha directs the Master of Public Administration (MPA) Mentoring Program for CPAP Richmond, and facilitates graduate assistant-ships and internship opportunities. Experienced in nonprofit organizational development and policy advocacy, Leisha is a former President & CEO of a major regional nonprofit. where she successfully advocated Virginia’s General Assembly for community land trust development law. Leisha currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Urban Land Institute (ULI) of Virginia, on the Board of Directors of the Virginia Leadership Advisory Council, and is a Leadership Metro Richmond Graduate.
Her research interests include: policy and practice in government and NGO professional development; organizational theory and context; and, facilitative and participative leadership. Leisha is a doctoral student in public administration and policy, and holds a Master of Public Administration degree from Virginia Tech. Her BS in general business and merchandising is from the University of Montevallo.
EDUCATION
PhD Program, Public Administration and Policy, Virginia Tech (current)
MPA, Public Administration, Virginia Tech (2013)
BS, Business and Merchandising, University of Montevallo (1990)
ADMINISTRATIVE & PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Urban Land Institute (ULI) of Virginia, Board of Directors
Virginia Leadership Advisory Council, Board of Directors
Leadership Metro Richmond Graduate
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HAN LE, SPIA Fiscal Tech
HAN LE
SPIA Fiscal Tech
(571) 858-3103
han79@vt.edu
B.S., Biology, College of Science, George Mason University Graduate Coursework: Microbial Physiology and Metabolism
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MYRIAM LECHUGA, Graduate Student Coordinator NCR
MYRIAM LECHUGA
Graduate Student Coordinator NCR
(571) 858-3102
mlechuga@vt.edu
Myriam Lechuga is the Graduate Student Coordinator for Urban Affairs and Planning and Government and International Affairs at Virginia Tech’s Alexandria Center, and the Public Administration and Public Policy programs in Alexandria and Richmond. She has an M.A. in Arts Management from American University and a B.A. in International Affairs from George Washington University. Prior to coming to Virginia Tech, Ms. Lechuga was a Senior Program Specialist at George Washington University’s Center for Professional Development.
For almost a decade she worked for the American Society of Travel Agents, an international travel trade association, as Manager of the ASTA Foundation. Ms. Lechuga has also worked for several off-campus university programs in the DC Metro Area, including graduate programs with the University of Southern California, University of Denver, and Florida Institute of Technology.
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ANDREA MORRIS, Director Washington Semester & Living Lab
ANDREA MORRIS
Director Washington Semester & Living Lab
(703) 507-5330
andrea.morris@vt.edu
PROFESSIONAL BIO
Andrea’s thirst for answers behind why some communities succeed and some do not was birthed as a 7th grade student on the west side of Indianapolis, IN. Having lived and thrived in a close-knit neighborhood where she played in the streets, ate at friend’s homes and was disciplined by trusted adults who lived there, she began noticing businesses leaving, empty buildings and strange faces. Eventually, Andrea lost the sense of safety she once enjoyed and her family, too, moved away. The questions of why and how never left her and indeed led to her career in public policy and her passion for urban communities.
Andrea has a twenty-five-year history working in and on-behalf of urban communities in economic development, policy analysis and development, program development and expansion, workforce development, cyber security, education and resilient infrastructures. As a result, she has liaised with the Department of Defense, the State Department, Homeland Security and the Department of Labor, working to establish and strengthen collaborations that support a community’s position as a healthy and vital economic engine in their region. Her work involves identifying and mitigating vulnerabilities and risks, while exploring and advancing economic opportunities. Andrea also believes that exposing students to real world issues that demonstrate the connectedness of sectors will equip and prepare them to establish policies, plans and programs that are effective, responsive and resilient. She has presented at local, regional, and national meetings and conferences, has been a featured guest on Federal News Radio, WAMU and the Kojo Nnamdi show and has authored/co-authored articles on economic resilience.
Andrea began her educational career by earning a Bachelor’s degree in Public Affairs from Indiana University, her Master’s degree in Urban Studies from Long Island University and her PhD in Public Policy from George Mason University.
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Public Policy, George Mason University
M.A., Urban Studies, Long Island University
B.A., Public Affairs, Indiana University
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GEORGETA POURCHOT, Director, Two Capitals, Two Masters; Associate Director Recruitment & Alumni Initiatives; and Adjunct Faculty GIA
GEORGETA POURCHOT
Director, Two Capitals, Two Masters; Associate Director Recruitment & Alumni Initiatives; and Adjunct Faculty GIA
(703) 721-0595
georgeta@vt.edu
PROFESSIONAL BIO
Georgeta Pourchot’s path was laid during her formative years in communist Romania, where she was born. Having witnessed lack of freedom, social injustice, and government oppression, she developed a keen desire to study governments and how they work – in particular why democratic governments work better than other types. During high-school, she developed an interest in studying history. Alas, she found that history had been truncated to fit the communist government’s goals of presenting Western democracy as the worst possible governance on earth, and Eastern communist dictatorship as the best solution for the future of humanity.
Georgeta had a further chance to experience the communist ‘heaven’ when she got her first job, working in a government factory as a data collector and analyst. She found that merit and performance had little bearing on her annual evaluations because she was not a communist party member. There were no incentives to perform well on the job, to be creative or innovative, and that made a strong impression on her. She quietly made a decision that if she was ever offered an opportunity to leave the system she had come to consider oppressive, she would.
The revolutions of 1989 and the end of the Cold War found her protesting the communist government in the streets of Bucharest with millions of other people. The end of the Ceausescu regime infused new hope that her country would become free of political oppression. She became a founding member of the Romanian Green Party and ran for office in the first free elections of May 1990. She was elected to the House of Deputees (equivalent of House of Representatives in the US), where she became involved in legislation to reform the education system, and to address the environmental crisis. She served in the House for a few months before the miners were invited to Bucharest by then president Ilie Iliescu, a former communist, now reformed democrat. She experienced firsthand the mayhem that the miners brought and decided that whatever governance was coming to Romania was not the kind in which she could thrive.
She had an opportunity to come to the US to research the democratic process, authoritarian regimes and what makes them last, media freedom and biases, and security aspects of all types of states. Her Master’s thesis focused on an analysis of the media discourse developed in Romania between the end of the Cold War and the first free elections of 1990, in order to identify what frames had been used by those who controlled the media message to sell the country an image of democratic governance. Her doctoral thesis focused on identifying a measurement mechanism to gauge the level of representative democracy in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe. As suspected, Central Europe was faring better than countries further east, such as Romania and Bulgaria.
Her first job in the US put her in touch with Central Europe again. Working at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington DC think tank, she managed hands-on programs to develop legislative and policy reform in a variety of sectors. She returned to academia at Virginia Tech, teaching and developing courses about the democratization of Eastern Europe and the aftermath of the Iraq war. It had become clear that 9/11 changed how American policy makers viewed the world. She prepared students for a change of leadership and foreign policy paradigm. She also invited international policy makers to be guests in her classes, to offer students an opportunity to interact.
More recently, she studies the theoretical framework of analysis of the English School of international relations, searching for a paradigm that better explains why international relations unfold the way they do. The English School introduces two new units of analysis, international society, and world society, which account for the inter-connectedness between global, regional and local actors in the process of governance. Her current research focus is on Russia and Central Asia, American foreign policy, and the international refugee crisis. She manages a recent International Refugee Partnership special project that VT launched in 2017.
Georgeta has been involved in recruitment and alumni relations efforts at the School for Public and International Affairs at Virginia Tech. Cultivating alumni, engaging them in course work, inviting them to present practical aspects of their work to current generations of students has amounted to a wealth of knowledge and perspective for faculty, students and alumni alike.
She was instrumental in launching a new program at the School, Two Capitals, Two Masters, which offers students the opportunity to earn two MA degrees from two different institutions (VT and Kent University in Brussels), in two years of full-time work. This gives students an international and domestic experience, exposure to NATO and EU internships and the ability to be very competitive in the international relations field.
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PAMELA STARKEY, Pre-Award Associate
PAMELA STARKEY
Pre-Award Associate
(540) 232-8737
pamsvt.edu
Pam Starkey is the Pre-Award Associate.
B.A., Political Science and English, Honors Program, Christopher Newport University
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MAX STEPHENSON, Director IPG and Professor UAP
POSITION & CONTACT INFO
MAX STEPHENSON
Director IPG and Professor UAP
mstephen@vt.edu
(540) 231-6775
RESEARCH/TEACHING INTERESTS:
– Nonprofit/Nongovernmental Organizations, Governance, Leadership, Management and Civil Society
– Higher Education: Policy and Practice
– Humanitarian and Refugee Relief and Disaster Risk Mitigation
– Public Policy and Policy Theory
– Peacebuilding, International Development and Democratization
– Environmental Politics, Policy and Planning
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
2008-present Coordinator (MURP Program), Master’s International Program, United States Peace Corps
2007-present Faculty, Alliance for Social, Political, Ethical and Cultural Thought (ASPECT) Doctoral Program
2006-present Director, Virginia Tech Institute for Policy and Governance
2006-2007 Program Chair, Center for Public Administration and Policy, Virginia Tech
2005-present Coordinator, Graduate Certificate in Nonprofit and Nongovernmental Organization Management
2003-2005 Program Chair, Urban Affairs and Planning, Virginia Tech
2003-2006 Co-Director Institute for Governance and Accountabilities, Virginia Tech
2002-2003 Co-Director, Institute for Innovative Governance, Virginia Tech
1997-2002 Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, College of Architecture and Urban Studies, Virginia Tech
1997-2002 Director, Doctoral Program in Environmental Design and Planning, College of Architecture and Urban Studies, Virginia Tech
March/April 1995 Visiting Professor, University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia, (Under the auspices of the United States Baltic Foundation)
SPONSORED RESEARCH
Ford Foundation, “Accountability and Representation in Negotiated Contexts,” September 2006-September 2009, $102,152. Co-Principal Investigator, 2006-2008, Principal Investigator, 2008-2009. With Alnoor Ebrahim.
Bernard and Patricia Goldstein Family Foundation for “Enhancing Resilience through Communicative Planning,” June, 2008. Principal Investigator, $71,784. Ongoing.
Bertelsmann Foundation (Bertelsmann Stiftung) with Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, Transatlantic Community Foundation Peer Exchange, April13-16, 2007, “Governance,” Mountain Lake, Pembroke, Virginia. Principal Investigator with Andrew Morikawa, Executive Director, New River Valley Community Foundation, $21.000
Virginia Tech Office of International Affairs, Mini-grant for International Program Development, Awarded, $4,000. Awarded April 14, 2007.
Office of Economic Development, Arlington County, Va. for capacity building program for county nonprofits. March 2007. Co-principal investigator with Russell Cargo. $90,000. Completed August 2008.
World Disaster Risk Management Institute. Exploring Innovative and Sustainable Approaches to Global Disaster Risk Reduction. Principal investigator. $113,000. Awarded May 2007, 1 year. With Professor James Martin, Civil and Environmental Engineering.
Arlington County, Va. Office of Economic Development, $70,000 for capacity building program for county nonprofi ts. Co-principal investigator With Russell Cargo. Awarded March 2007.
World Disaster Risk Management Institute. Exploring Innovative and Sustainable Approaches to Global Disaster Risk Reduction. $50,000. Principal investigator. Awarded August 2007, Ongoing. With Professor James Martin, Civil and Environmental Engineering.
VT Institute for Society, Culture and the Environment. $3500 grant to begin research on peace building in Belfast, Ireland with Professor Laura Zanotti.
Roanoke Times: “Building the Capacity of Nonprofi t Organizations in the Roanoke Region. through Improved Governance” Principal Investigator. $45,000 over two years. Awarded June 15, 2006.
Co-PI with Bruce Goldstein and Bruce Hull. U.S. Forest Service, $300,000, 3 years. 2005-2006.
United States Forest Service: Improving Collaborative Decision Making and Community Capacity Through Fire Learning Networks. Nov. 1, 2005. Co-Principal Investigator with Bruce Goldstein and Bruce Hull. $161,000, over three years. Ongoing.
Thomas Jefferson Center Foundation, Roanoke, Va. Governing Board Assessment and Capacity Building. Principal Investigator, $8,000. Completed.
Virginia Tech Center for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. “Distance Learning Assessment” grant for Department of Urban Affairs and Planning, 2004-2005. With Rachel Christensen. $5,000. Completed.
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Government, University of Virginia, 1985
M.A.P.A., University of Virginia, 1979
B.A., Political Science and Economics with High Distinction, University of Virginia, 1977
BOOKS
Two edited volumes, American Behavioral Scientist, Democracy in an Age of NetworkedGovernance: Charting the Currents of Democratic Change and Democracy at aCrossroads: Acknowledging Deficiencies, Encouraging Engagement, Vol.52, 6, February 2009, Vol. 52, 7, March, 2009. Editor, (18 articles and introduction). With Joyce Rothschild.
In progress. Editor with Laura Zanotti of theme issue of Journal of Architectural andPlanning Research: “Building Walls, Securitizing Space and the Making of Identity,” 7 articles plus introduction. Final author submissions due: August 17, 2009. We will select, edit and provide an introductory essay as well.
In progress. Editor with James Martin of theme issue of Journal of EmergencyManagement “Reconsidering the Challenge of Theorizing Relief, Reconstruction and Resilience,” based on VTIPG-DRM Davos symposium, August 2008. We will also contribute an introductory essay. Due: Spring 2009. 12 articles.
Conflict Resolution in the Policy Process. National Institute for Dispute Resolution (NIDR), two volumes, August 1987. Distributed to all National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration member schools and available for purchase thereafter.
Conflict Resolution in the Policy process, pp. 1-108.
Conflict Resolution in the Policy Process—Instructor’s Manual, with Gerald Pops,pp. 1-34.
CHAPTERS
“The Theory and Practice of International Humanitarian Relief Coordination” for Rafael Biermann and Joachim Koops (eds.), Palgrave Handbook on Inter-Organizational Relations in World Politics, London: Palgrave-McMillan Publishers, 2015. Forthcoming.
“Theater as a Tool for Building Peace and Justice: DAH Teatr and Bond Street Theatre,” in Max Stephenson Jr. and A. Scott Tate, Eds. Arts and Community Change: Exploring Cultural Development Policies, Practices and Dilemmas Oxford, England: Routledge Publishers, 2015. With Lyusyena Kirakosyan.
“Exploring the Connections among Adaptive Leadership, Facets of Imagination and Social Imaginaries.” in Colette Dumas and Richard Beinecke, (eds.), Change Leadership. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, May 2015. Reprinting of 2009 article of this title.
“Exploring the Roles of NGOs as Promoters of Peace: The Case of the Community Foundation for Northern Ireland,” in Yannis Stivachtis and Christopher Price (eds.), Issues in International Politics, Economy and Governance. Athens: Athens Institute for Education and Research, 2014, pp. 265-288. With Laura Zanotti.
“Reimagining the Links between Graduate Education and Community Engagement,” in Amanda Gilvin, Georgia M. Roberts and Craig Martin (eds.), Collaborative Futures: Critical Reflections on Publicly Active Graduate Education. Syracuse, N.Y.: Graduate School Press/Syracuse University Press, 2012, pp. 275-290. With Marcy Schnitzer.
“Public/Private Housing Partnerships,” in Andrew Carswell (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Housing, 2nd ed. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2012, pp. 574-576.
“The Networked Face of Organizations” in Mohammed Sarlak (ed.), The New Faces of Organizations in the 21st Century. Volume 4. Toronto, Ontario: North American Institute of Science and Information Technology, 2011, pp. 164-203. With Tracy Cooper.
“Learning from the Quest for Environmental Justice in the Niger River Delta,” in Julian Agyeman and JoAnn Carmin (eds), Environmental Inequalities Beyond Borders: Local Perspectives on Global Injustices. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2011, pp.74-112. With Lisa Schweitzer.
“Corporatism,” in Helmut K. Anheier and Stefan Toepler (eds), International Encyclopedia of Civil Society. New York: Springer Publishing Company, 2009, pp. 581-585.
“NGOS in International Humanitarian Relief,” in Helmut K. Anheier and Stefan Toepler (eds), International Encyclopedia of Civil Society. New York: Springer Publishing Company, 2009, pp. 1034-1039.
“American Governance,” in Mark Bevir (ed.), Sage Encyclopedia of Governance, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications 2006, pp. 16-18.
“Policy Implementation,” in Mark Bevir (ed.), Sage Encyclopedia of Governance, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications 2006, pp. 692-695.
“Government Performance and Results Act,” in Mark Bevir (ed.), Sage Encyclopedia of Governance, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications 2006, pp. 393-394.
“The Legacy of Frederick C. Mosher.” Reprinted in Kenneth W. Thompson (ed.), Diplomacy, Administration and Policy: The Ideas and Careers of Frederick E. Nolting Jr., Frederick C. Mosher and Paul T. David. New York, N.Y.: University Press of America, 1995, pp. 43-80.
“Public Administrators and Conflict Resolution: Democratic Theory, Administrative Capacity and the Case of Negotiated Rulemaking,” in Miriam K. Mills (ed.), Dispute Resolution in the Public Sector. New York, N.Y.: Nelson Hall Publishers, 1991, pp. 14-38. With Gerald Pops.
“Managing Conflict in the Policy Process,” in Afzalur Rahim (ed.), Theory and Research in Conflict Management. New York, N.Y.: Praeger Press, 1990, pp. 134-150. With Gerald Pops.
ARTICLES: Policy/Politics, Governance and Civil Society
“International Aid, Local Ownership and Survival: Development and Higher Education in Rural Haiti,” Voluntas: The International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, With Laura Zanotti and Nancy McGehee, 2015, DOI: 10.1007/s11266-015-9618-7.
“Biopolitical and disciplinary Peacebuilding: Sport, reforming bodies and rebuilding societies,” International Peacekeeping, With Laura Zanotti and Marcy Schnitzer. 22(2), February 2015, pp. 186-201. DOI: 10.1080/13533312.2015.1017082
“Planning Development, and the Media: A Case Study of Mediatization and Mass Audiences,” Journal of Planning Education and Research, Accepted with minor revision, November 21, 2014. With Lisa Schweitzer.
“When Empathy Withers,” Spectra, Vol. 3(2), (September), 2014, pp. 54-57.
http://spectrajournal.org/article/view/134/145
“Unforeseen and Unaccounted: The European Union, the Community Foundation for Northern Ireland, Peacebuilding and Accountability,” European Security, Vol. 22(3)(September), 2013, pp.326-337.
“Theorizing the Role of Sport for Development and Peacebuilding,” Sport in Society: Cultures, Commerce, Media, Politics, Vol. 6(5) (June), 2013, pp.595-610. With Marcy Schnitzer Laura Zanotti and Yannis Stivachtis.
“Exploring Producers’, Staff Members’ and Board Members’ Cognitive Frames on Decision-Making in an Appalachian Organic Farming Venture,” Journal of Rural Social Sciences, Vol. 27(1), 2012, pp. 52-83. With Curt Gervich and Marc J. Stern.
“Managing Networks as Learning Organizations in the Public Sector,” International Journal of Management Science and Information Technology, Vol. 1(3), (January-March) 2012, pp.1-36. With Tracy Cooper.
“Implementing the Liberal Peace in Post-Conflict Scenarios: The Case of Women in Black-Serbia,” Global Policy Vol. 3 (1), February 2012, pp.46-57. With Laura Zanotti.
“Considering the Relationships among Social Conflict, Social Imaginaries, Resilience and Community-based Organization Leadership,” Ecology and Society, Vol. 16(1): article 34. 2011. (online) URL:
http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol16/iss1/art34/
“Exploring the Connections Among Adaptive Leadership, Facets of Imagination and Social Imaginaries,” Public Policy and Administration, Vol. 24, (4), October 2009, pp. 417-435.
“The Meaning of Democracy in Nonprofit and Community Organizations,” American Behavioral Scientist, Democracy in an Age of Networked Governance, Vol. 52, 6 February 2009, pp. 800-806. With Joyce Rothschild.
“Nonprofit Governance, Management and Organizational Learning: Exploring the Implications of One ‘Mega-Gift,’” American Review of Public Administration, Vol. 39, (1), January 2009, pp. 43-59. With Marcy Schnitzer and Veronica Arroyave.
“Governance Structures Matter and we must Maintain what we Construct: Considering the Role of Nonprofit Organizations in Public Policy Processes,” Public Administration Review, Vol. 68, (3), May/June 2008, pp. 591-594.
“The ‘Permanent Things’ and the Role of the Moral Imagination in Organizational Life: Revisiting the Foundations of Public and Nonprofit Leadership,” Administrative Theory and Praxis, Vol. 29, (2), June 2007, pp. 260-277.
“Aesthetic Imagination, Civic Imagination, and the Role of the Arts in Community Change and Development,” International Journal of the Arts in Society, Vol. 1, (3). February 2007, pp. 83-92. With Katherine Fox Lanham.
“Environmental Justice: Right Answers, Wrong Questions: Environmental Justice as Urban Research,” Urban Studies, Vol. 44, (2), February 2007, pp. 319-337. With Lisa Schweitzer.
“Developing Community Leadership Through the Arts In Southside Virginia: Social Networks, Civic Identity and Civic Change,” Community Development Journal, Vol. 42, (1), January 2007, pp. 79-96.
“The Nature Conservancy, the Press and Accountability,” Non Profit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly. Vol. 35, (3). September 2006, pp. 1-22. With Elisabeth Chaves.
“The Legacy of Frederick C. Mosher,” Public Administration Review, Vol. 51, (2), March/April 1991, pp. 97-113. With Jeremy Plant.
“Whither the Public Private Partnership: A Critical Overview,” Urban Affairs Quarterly, Vol. 27, (1) September 1991, pp. 109-127.
“Conflict Resolution Methods and the Policy Process,” Public Administration Review, Vol. 49, (5), September/October 1989, pp. 463-473.
“Public Administrators and Conflict Resolution: Problems and Prospects,” Policy Studies Journal, Vol. 16, (3), Spring 1989, pp. 615-626. With Gerald M. Pops.
“The Policy and Premises of Urban Development Action Grant Program Implementation: A Comparative Analysis of the Carter and Reagan Presidencies,” Journal of Urban Affairs, Vol. 9, (1), Spring 1987, pp. 19-35.
“The Office of Management and Budget in a Changing Scene,” Public Budgeting and Finance, Vol. 2, (4), Winter 1982, pp. 23-41. With Frederick C. Mosher (second author).
ARTICLES: Humanitarian Relief and Disaster Mitigation
“The Theory and Practice of Humanitarian Relief Coordination,” in Rafael Biermann and Joachim Koops, Eds. Palgrave Handbook on Inter-Organizational Relations in World Politics, London: Palgrave-MacMillan Publishers, 2015. Accepted and forthcoming. (Chapter 34).
“Engaging IDPs in Sri Lanka: A Buddhist Approach,” Forced Migration Review, Vol. 48, November 2014, pp. 59-60. With Emily Barry-Murphy.
“Introduction: The Maturing Phenomenon of Cross Sector Networks and Disaster Mitigation and Response,” The Journal of Emergency Management, November-December, 2010, pp. 7-12. With James Martin.
“Positing a Framework for Analyzing Disaster Relief, Reconstruction and Resilience Dynamics,” The Journal of Emergency Management, November-December, 2010, pp. 33-40.
“Exploring the Challenges and Prospects for Polycentricity in International Humanitarian Relief,” American Behavioral Scientist, Democracy in an Age of Networked Governance, Vol. 52, 6, February 2009, pp. 919-932. With Marcy Schnitzer.
“Bridging the Organizational Divide: A Comparative Institutional Analysis of United States and International Humanitarian Service Delivery Structures,” Voluntas: The International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, Vol. 18, (3), September 2007, pp. 209-224.
“Interorganizational Trust, Boundary Spanning, and Humanitarian Relief Coordination,” Non-Profit Management and Leadership. Vol. 17, (2), Winter 2006, pp. 211-233. With Marcy Schnitzer.
“Toward a Descriptive Model of Humanitarian Assistance Coordination,” Voluntas: The International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, Vol. 17, (1), March 2006, pp. 41-57.
“Making humanitarian relief networks more effective: operational coordination, trust and sense making,” Disasters, Vol. 29, (4), December 2005, pp. 337-350.*
*Reprinted and posted by International Bureau for Humanitarian NGOS, http://www.humanitarianibh.net/english/article/Making%20humanitarian%20relief%20networks%20more%20effective.htm
ARTICLES: Higher Education and Pedagogy
“Land Grant Engagement with Landcare: A Case Study of Building Community Capacity” Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Research, Vol. 64 (2), 2012, pp. 223-235. With Courtney Kimmel, Bruce Hull, David Robertson and Kim Cowgill.
“Conceiving Land Grant Civic Engagement as Adaptive Leadership,” Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 61(1), 2011, pp. 95-108.
“Charting the Challenges and Paradoxes of Constructivism for Pre-Professional Planning Education,” Teaching in Higher Education, Vol. 13, (5). October 2008, pp. 583-593. With Lisa Schweitzer.
“Mentoring for Doctoral Student Praxis-Centered Learning: Creating a Shared Culture of Intellectual Aspiration,” Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Vol. 36, (4), December 2007, Supplement, pp. 64s-79s. With Rachel Christensen.
“Program Development issues in Nonprofit and Civil Society Studies: Learning from One University’s Experience,” Journal of Public Affairs Education. Vol. 13, (2), Spring/Summer 2007, pp. 301-314.
“Teaching the Missing Pieces of Policy Analysis,” P.S. Political Science and Politics, Vol.24, (2), June 1991, pp. 218-220. With David G. Williams and David J. Webber.
Commentary on Democratic Politics (217 pieces as of July 27, 2015)
http://soundings.spia.vt.edu/
http://tidings.spia.vt.edu/
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KRYSTAL WRIGHT, Manager of SPIA Faculty Affairs; Graduate Coordinator, PGG Ph.D. Program
KRYSTAL WRIGHT
Manager of SPIA Faculty Affairs
Graduate Coordinator, PGG Ph.D. Program
(540) 231-2291
krystal@vt.edu
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YANG ZHANG, Assoc. Director SPIA, Assoc. Professor and Assoc. Chair UAP
POSITION & CONTACT INFO
YANG ZHANG
Assoc. Director SPIA, Assoc. Professor and Assoc. Chair UAP
(540) 231-1128
yz@vt.edu
My research looks at environmental planning, climate change adaptation and sustainable development, especially in the area of disasters / hazards mitigation and recovery. I aspire to enhance the livability of urban environment by improving our understanding of the human-environment interaction, and by infusing this understanding to environmental and land use policy debate. In this regard, my research has both theoretical and practical merits.
My projects have both domestic and international (China) focuses. The fundings come from the US National Science Foundation, the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, and the SEA Grant. I am committed to seeking innovative ideas that transcend political and cultural differences. My research is primarily quantitative. My method expertise includes Geographic Information System (GIS), and econometrics.
I am currently a research fellow of the Next Generation of Hazards and Disasters Researchers Program, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). I am also a research fellow of the Peking University (China) – Lincoln Institute of Land Policy (U.S.) Center for Land Use Policy and Urban Development and of the Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center.
SPONSORED RESEARCH
2010 — National Science Foundation, $449,896 (VT portion, $123,051), Developing an Intergovernmental Management Framework for Sustainable Recovery following Catastrophic Disasters
2010 — Virginia Sea Grant, $10,636, Climate Change Adaptation Strategies For Middle Peninsula Counties in the Virginia Coastal Community
2009 — Peking University-Lincoln Institute of Land Policy Center for Urban Development and Land Policy, $ 12,000, Building Resilient Cities in China — International Experiences
2008 — CAUS Strategic Development Fund, Virginia Tech, $33,939
2008 — Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, $49,132, Integrated Land Use Planning: Theory and a Demo Project
2007 — Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, $ 21,804, Evaluating Urban Planning Policy in China
2007 — Mid America Earthquake Center and National Science Foundation, $3,500, Post-disaster Population Dislocation Estimation
2006 — University of Illinois Strategic Academic Initiatives Grant, $7,477, A Survey of Public Domain Data for the State of Illinois
2004 – Vice President Office’s Research Grant, Texas A&M University, $ 500, Examining human settlements within flood zones in Brazos County, TX.
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Urban and Regional Science, Environmental Hazards Management Certificate, Texas A&M University, 2006
M.S., Geography, Beijing University, 2000
B.S., Geography, Beijing University, 1997
CHAPTERS
Zhang, Y., Y. Song, & C. Ding (2009) “Plan Integration for Coordinated Urban Growth in China.” Pp. 116-127. In Yan Song, and Chengri Ding (Eds), Smart Urban Growth for China, Cambridge, MA: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy Press.
Peacock, W.G., N. Dash. & Y. Zhang (2006) “Sheltering and Housing Recovery Following Disaster.” pp. 258 – 274. In Russell Dynes, Havidan Rodriguez, and Enrico Quarantelli (Eds.) Handbook of Disaster Research, New York: Springer.
ARTICLES
Zhang, Y. (2010) “Residential Housing Choice in a Multihazard Environment: Implications for Natural Hazards Mitigation and Community Environmental Justice.” Journal of Planning Education and Research, 30(2): 1-15
Zhang, Y., & W.G. Peacock (2010) “Planning for Housing Recovery? Lessons Learned from Hurricane Andrew.” Journal of American Planning Association. 71 (5): 5-24.
Zhang, Y., S-N. Hwang, & M. Lindell (2010) “Hazard Proximity or Risk Perception? Evaluating Environmental Hazards’ Effect on Housing Value.” Environment and Behavior. 42(5): 597-624
Maranville, A., T-F. Ting, & Y. Zhang (2009) “An Environmental Justice Analysis, Superfund Sites and Surrounding Communities in Illinois.” Environmental Justice. 2 (2): 49-58.
Zhang, Y., M.K. Lindell & C.S. Prater (2009) “Modeling and Managing the Vulnerability of Community Businesses to Environmental Disasters.” Disasters, 33(1): 38-57.
Arlikatti, S., M.K. Lindell, C.S. Prater, & Y. Zhang (2006) “Risk Area Accuracy and Hurricane Evacuation Expectations of Coastal Residents.” Environment and Behavior, 38(2): 226-247.
Zhang, Y., C.S. Prater, & M.K. Lindell (2004) “Risk Area Accuracy and Hurricane Evacuation from Hurricane Bret.” Natural Hazards Review, 5 (3): 115-120.
Li, G. & Y. Zhang (2001) “Industrialization and Urban Form Development in Coal Region, A Case Study on City of Funshun.” Scientia Geographica Sinica, 21(6): 511-518.
Yang, K. & Y. Zhang (1999) “Industrial Structure and Cities’ Comparative Advantage — A Case Study of Tianjin, China.” Scientia Geographica Sinica, 19(6): 510-516.
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MPA: Master of Public Administration
> The Master's in Public Administration (MPA)
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Graduate Certificate in Local Government Management
> The Graduate Certificate in Local Government Management
Provides the next generation of local government managers with the tools to advance their careers and provide exceptional leadership within the communities where they work. Students are exposed to a full spectrum of local government issues, service delivery options, and management tools. The analysis of a real life, local government case study is central to each classroom experience.
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Designed to develop students’ understanding of the concepts and practice of financial management in government, university, and complex non-profit organizations. Available throughout the commonwealth through virtual classroom technology, the Public and Non-Profit Financial Management certificate is designed for full-time students as well as part-time and working professional students.
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Focuses on domestic security and emergency management issues from a policy perspective. The certificate addresses issues of homeland security strategy, policy design, planning, operations, managing across and among networks, and implementation.
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Graduate Certificate in Local Government Management (Online)
> Online Certificate in Local Government Management
Provides the next generation of local government managers with the tools to advance their careers and provide exceptional leadership within the communities where they work. Students are exposed to a full spectrum of local government issues, service delivery options, and management tools. Online lectures by the faculty are a mixture of streaming video and powerpoint slides. Watch as often as you wish, download the notes, and of course, email the professor with questions.
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CPAP FACULTY
DAVID BREDENKAMP
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Assistant Professor
DAVID BREDENKAMP
Assistant Professor
(540) 231-7895
bredenkamp@vt.edu
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Research areas:
Public Management
Organizational Behavior
Public Service
Civil Service Employee Attitudes
Human Resources
PROFESSIONAL BIO
David M. Bredenkamp obtained his Ph.D. in Public Affairs, with fields of study in public management and policy analysis, from Indiana University’s School of Public and Environmental Affairs (SPEA) in Bloomington. His research interests include public management, organizational behavior, public service, and human resources. His current work investigates the relationships between government contracting decisions and civil servant employee attitudes on public service. His Master of Public Affairs degree, also from IU, focused on public management and nonprofit management. David’s teaching has focused on classes pertaining to management in public, nonprofit, and private settings with specific attention to organizational behavior and human resources topics. Past service experience includes over three years on the advisory board of the LGBTQ+ Culture Center at IU and volunteering for Bloomington’s regional National Public Radio affiliate, WFIU. Prior to his seven years of sales and management experience in the private sector, he obtained his undergraduate degree from the IU Jacobs School of Music where he studied voice and theater.
EDUCATION
PhD., Public Affairs, Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs, 2018
Master of Public Affairs, Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs, 2012
B.S., Voice, Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, 2002
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BRIAN COOK
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Professor Emeritus
BRIAN COOK
Professor Emeritus
(703) 706-8111
brml27@vt.edu
Research areas:
Public administration and constitutionalism
Public administration and American political development
Politics of public policy design and implementation
Environmental policy
PROFESSIONAL BIO
Brian J. Cook (MA and PhD in Government and Politics, University of Maryland) is Professor, Center for Public Administration and Policy, School of Public and International Affairs, Virginia Tech. He is editor in chief of the scholarly journal Administration & Society, published by Sage. He is co-editor, with Doug Morgan, of New Public Governance: A Regime-Centered Perspective (2014), and he recently published the second edition of Bureaucracy and Self-Government: Reconsidering the Role of Public Administration in American Politics (2014). Dr. Cook’s teaching and scholarly interests center on public administration and constitutionalism, public administration and American political development, and the politics of public policy design and implementation, especially in the area of environmental policy. In addition to his teaching and research, he has served as a practicing policy analyst and a research consultant providing research design and data analysis services to federal agencies, local governments, and not-for-profit organizations. He also serves as a Decision Desk Analyst for ABC News, coordinating a team of analysts that project the outcomes of elections for the U.S. House of Representatives on election night.
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
2014 Senior Visiting Scholar, Mark O. Hatfield School of Government, Portland State University
2010-2014 Professor & Chair, Center for Public Administration and Policy, Virginia Tech
2008-2010 Professor, Center for Public Administration and Policy, Virginia Tech
1999-2008 Professor, Department of Government and International Relations, Clark University
1991-1999 Associate Professor, Department of Government, Clark University
1984-1990 Assistant Professor, Department of Government, Clark University
1982-1984 Research Assistant and Instructor, Department of Government and Politics, University of Maryland, College Park
ADMINISTRATIVE & PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2010-2014 Chair, Center for Public Administration & Policy, School of Public & International Affairs, Virginia Tech
2006-2008 Director, Master of Public Administration Program, College of Profession and Continuing Education, Clark University
1997-1998 Policy Advisor, Office of Policy Analysis and Review, Office of Air and Radiation, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
1996-1998 Analyst, State Decision Desk, Election Night Decision Desk, ABC News
1990-1991 Senior Research Associate, Gordon Public Policy Center, Brandeis University
1982-1984 Research Consultant, National Institute for the Conservation of Cultural Property, National Survey of the Conservation Needs of Historic Buildings
1979-1983 Director, Research and Policy Development, The American Institute of Architects
EDUCATION
Ph.D., University of Maryland, College Park, 1984
M.A., University of Maryland, College Park, 1982
B.A., magna cum laude, Cleveland State University, 1977
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STEPHANIE DAVIS
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Assistant Professor of Practice
STEPHANIE DAVIS
Assistant Professor of Practice
(540) 231-7302
sddavis@vt.edu
Research Areas:
Organizational theory
Collaboration theory
Local Government
PROFESSIONAL BIO
Stephanie Dean Davis is the Director of the Graduate Certificate in Local Government Management and the Graduate Certificate in Public and Nonprofit Financial Management with the Center for Public Administration and Policy at Virginia Tech. Prior to her position with Virginia Tech, she served as Vice President for Springsted, Inc. and worked with local governments in Virginia and North Carolina. In addition, Ms. Davis has served in local government for over 18 years as the Finance Director for Powhatan, VA, and Budget and Management Analyst for Chesterfield, VA. Ms. Davis has a Bachelors of Science degree in Economics from Virginia Tech, a Masters of public administration from Virginia Commonwealth University and a PhD in Public Policy and Administration from Virginia Commonwealth University.. Her research interests include organizational theory and collaboration theory in the context of local government.
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SUZETTE DENSLOW
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Adjunct Professor
SUZETTE DENSLOW
Adjunct Professor
(804) 225-4803
sd@virginia.gov
Major Areas of Specialization:
Public administration
Legislative relations
Public budget and finance
Education:
B.S. Urban Studies, Virginia Commonwealth University
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JOHN DICKEY
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Professor Emeritus
JOHN DICKEY
Professor Emeritus
(540) 552-6878
jdickey@vt.edu
Major Areas of Specialization:
“Genes” of Public Administration
Computer Support Systems
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Civil Engineering (Transportation), Northwestern University
M.S., Civil Engineering (Transportation), Northwestern University
B.S., Civil Engineering, Lehigh University
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LARKIN DUDLEY
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Professor Emerita
LARKIN DUDLEY
Professor Emerita
(540) 231-5133
dudleyl@vt.edu
Major Areas of Specialization:
