C. Leigh Anderson

C. Leigh Anderson
Professor of Public Affairs
Ph.D., University of Washington, 1989

Contact Information:
Parrington Hall, Room 224
cla@u.washington.edu
206.543.0365

Areas of Specialization:
International Development; Trade and Environmental Policy

C. Leigh Anderson joined the Evans School faculty in 1997 as a tenured associate professor after spending eight years at the School of Public Administration at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. She teaches economics, statistics, and courses in international affairs, and her primary field of study is applied microeconomics and property rights in the areas of international development, and trade and environment.

Anderson has also taught or been a visiting researcher at the University of California at Berkeley, Lahore University of Management Sciences in Pakistan, and Renmin University of China in Beijing.

She is currently researching issues in microfinance, and has previously studied the effect of U.S. environmental rules and regulatory processes on corporate behavior, and the effects of market reforms on energy use and greenhouse gas emissions in China and Pakistan.

Anderson is a recipient of the University of Washington’s (UW) Excellence in Teaching Award and the UW’s Department of Economics Henry T. Buechel Award for outstanding undergraduate teaching.

She holds a Ph.D. and MA in Economics from the University of Washington, and a BA in economics from the University of Calgary.

Curriculum Vitae (21KB PDF)

Publications & Links

• Curriculum, Research, and Outreach in Microfinance: A joint microfinance project sponsored by the US State Department. Participants: Baikal Institute of Business and International Management (BIBIM ISU), Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs, University of Washington, Siberian Academy of Public Administration (SAPA).
• Making Progress: Essays in Progress and Public Policy edited by C. Leigh Anderson: Making Progress: Essays in Progress and Public Policy draws on writers from many disciplines to provoke a broad-based discussion on the meaning of, measurement of, and necessary conditions for, progress.

Sandra O. Archibald

Sandra O. Archibald
Dean and Professor of Public Affairs
Ph.D., University of California, Davis, 1984

Contact Information:
Parrington Hall, Room 208E
sarch@u.washington.edu
206.616.1648

Specialization areas:
Applied Economics, Agricultural and Resource Economics and Water Resource Sciences

Dean Sandra O. Archibald joined the Evans School in 2003. Her research interests concern a wide area focusing on the intersection of economics, institutions and public policy.

Archibald previously served in several roles at the Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota from 1993-03, including associate dean, interim dean, associate dean for academic affairs and research programs, and associate dean and director of graduate studies. She also served as the Associate Vice Provost for Faculty Development of the University of Minnesota from 1999-02.

Archibald served as a faculty member at the Humphrey Institute, and an adjunct professor in the Department of Applied Economics. She also had full graduate faculty membership in Water Resources Science and Conservation Biology at the Humphrey Institute. Archibald also served as a faculty member at the Stanford University Food Research Institute from 1983-91. She has taught economics for policy analysis, environmental and natural resource policy, and advanced policy analysis.

Archibald is the recipient of the NASPAA/ASPA Distinguished Research Award of 2004; Humphrey Institute Outstanding Teaching Award of 1993; American Agricultural Economics Association Quality of Research Communication Award of 1989; University of California Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics Outstanding Dissertation Award of 1984; and numerous research grants.

Outside of academics, Archibald is extensively involved in public service and research designed to support sound public policy and management decisions. She has made significant contributions to policy making and civic engagement in the United States and abroad. She was Director of Economic Analysis for Rockefeller’s Commission on Critical Choices for Americans, served in the Office of Research and Development in the Environmental Protection Agency and has worked extensively in Central and Eastern Europe designing environmental curriculum and academic programs for higher education.

Archibald holds a Ph.D. in agricultural and resource economics from the University of California, Davis. She also holds an MA in public administration and BA in history from University of California, Berkeley.

Curriculum Vitae (53KB PDF)

Michael Blake

Michael Blake
Associate Professor of Philosophy and Public Affairs
Ph.D., Stanford University, 1998

Contact Information:
Condon Hall, Room 618
miblake@u.washington.edu
206.221.7859

Areas of Specialization:
Social and Political Philosophy, International Ethics, Philosophy of Economics, Morality and Public Policy

Michael Blake joined the Evans School faculty in 2005. His research and teaching interests include: social and political philosophy, philosophy of law and of economics, public policy, international ethics, and biomedical ethics.

Blake was previously a faculty member at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government where he served as assistant professor of Public Policy and Philosophy, and held positions in the Center for Ethics and the Professions and the Carr Center for Human Rights.

Blake was a Laurance S. Rockefeller Fellow at Princeton University's Center for Human Values from 2001-02. His recent publications include "Agonistic Democracy and Political Liberalism," in Steven Macedo and Melissa Williams, eds., NOMOS XLVI: Political Exclusion (forthcoming, New York University Press).

Blake holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from Stanford University, and a BA in economics and philosophy from University College, University of Toronto. He did his legal training at Yale Law School.

His primary appointment is in the University of Washington's Department of Philosophy.

Curriculum Vitae (118KB PDF)

Ann Bostrom

Ann Bostrom
Associate Professor and Associate Dean for Research
Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University, 1990

Contact Information:
Parrington Hall, Room 327
abostrom@u.washington.edu
206.685.8198

Areas of Specialization:
Risk Perception, Communication, and Management; Environmental Policy and Management

Ann Bostrom joined the Evans School faculty in 2007. Her research focuses on risk perception, communication, and management; and environmental policy and decision making.

Bostrom previously served on the faculty at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) from 1992-2007, where she most recently was Associate Dean for Research at the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts and Professor in the School of Public Policy.

She has authored or contributed to numerous publications, including Risk Communication: A Mental Models Approach (Cambridge University Press, 2002), Risk Assessment, Modeling and Decision Support: Strategic Directions (Berlin: Springer, 2008), and National Academy, U.S. EPA Science Advisory Board, and U.S. EPA Board of Scientific Counselors reports.

She has also served as an editor and/or reviewer for numerous technical journals, including Risk Analysis, the Journal of Risk Research, Human and Ecological Risk Assessment, Psychological Science, Environmental Science & Technology, and the National Political Science Review.

Much of Bostrom's research has been funded by grants from the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

She is the recipient of several assistantships and fellowships, including: the 1991-92 American Statistical Association/ National Science Foundation/Bureau of Labor Statistics Research Associateship; 1989-90 Fulbright Graduate Research Fellowship and Lois Roth Endowment Fund grant for studies at the University of Stockholm; and the 1988-89 Patricia Roberts Harris Fellowship at Carnegie Mellon. She is also the recipient of the 1997 Chauncey Starr award for a young risk analyst from the Society For Risk Analysis for her work on mental models of hazardous processes.

Bostrom worked as director of the Decision Risk and Management Science Program at the National Science Foundation from 1999-2001. While in this position she organized, participated in and made presentations at national and international meetings on research and science policy, including but not limited to the Subcommittee on Natural Disaster Reduction and the National Earthquake Hazard Reduction Program.

Bostrom is a member of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, Society for Risk Analysis, American Statistical Association, and American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Bostrom holds a PhD in public policy analysis from Carnegie Mellon University, an MBA from Western Washington University, and a BA in English from the University of Washington.

Curriculum Vitae (1.65MB PDF)

Publications & Links

Books and Reports

• Risk Assessment, Modeling and Decision Support: Strategic Directions, A Bostrom, S French, and S Gottlieb (Eds). (Berlin: Springer, 2008)
• Risk Communication: A Mental Models Approach, MG Morgan, B Fischhoff, A Bostrom, and CJ Atman (Cambridge University Press, 2002)
• Seafood Choices: Balancing Benefits and Risks, Committee on Nutrient Relationships in Seafood: Selections to Balance Benefits and Risks, Food and Nutrition Board, Institute of Medicine, MC Nesheim and A Yaktine (Eds) (National Academy Press, 2007)
• "Weather it's Climate Change?" A. Bostrom and D. Lashof, in Creating a Climate for Change: Communicating Climate Change and Facilitating Social Change, SC Moser and L Dilling (Eds) (Cambridge University Press, 2007).

Journals and Associations

• Risk Analysis: An International Journal
• Journal of Risk Research
• Human Ecology and Risk Assessment
• Society for Risk Analysis

Leslie K. Breitner

Leslie K. Breitner
Principal Lecturer of Public Affairs
DBA, Boston University Graduate School of Management, 1996

Contact Information:
Parrington Hall, Room 109L
breitner@u.washington.edu
206.616.8698

Areas of Specialization:
Budgeting and Financial Management

Leslie K. Breitner joined the faculty of the Evans School of Public Affairs in 2002. She is a principal lecturer and teaches the Master of Public Administration core budgeting and financial management course, performance management, and nonprofit financial management. Breitner also serves as the faculty director for the Cascade Center where she teaches courses in financial statement analysis, financial management, and performance management.

Prior to joining the Evans School, Breitner taught graduate level financial management and public sector budgeting courses at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. She was also involved with the Kennedy School’s Senior Executives programs for those working in federal, state, and local government.

An experienced teacher in distance learning courses, Breitner developed and taught the online financial management curricula for both the Kennedy School and Seton Hall University's Masters in Healthcare Administration program. She has also taught and consulted to medical schools, teaching hospital, foundations, and nonprofit organizations on issues related to financial management and integrated health delivery organizations.

Breitner is co-author of the popular accounting books Essentials of Accounting, 9th Edition and Essentials of Accounting Review, both revised and published in 2006 with the late Professor Robert N. Anthony.

She is the 2004 recipient of the Evans School Teacher of the Year Award, and Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence. She also recently served as a board member of Sustainable Seattle.
Breitner holds a DBA from Boston University Graduate School of Management, an MBA from Simmons College Graduate School of Management, and a BA in French studies from the University of Wisconsin – Madison. She also holds a certificate from Harvard University Institute in Arts Administration.

Curriculum Vitae (22KB PDF)

Jonathan Brock

Jonathan Brock

Associate Professor of Public Affairs
MBA, Harvard University, 1973

Contact Information:

Parrington Hall, Room 227
jbrock@u.washington.edu
206.616.5817

Areas of Specialization:

Public Management, Managing People, Labor-Management Relations, Conflict Resolution and Agency Improvement Strategies

Jonathan Brock joined the Evans School faculty in 1981. His teaching and research activities are related to the activities of people working in and around public and nonprofit organizations. Much of his work has focused on conflict resolution and improving leadership and management skills and judgment.

Brock has also served as the founding director of the Evans School Cascade Center, which became the second largest public executive training center in the country. He continues to regularly instruct on-the-job managers in executive training programs offered through the Cascade Center. Brock also began the Electronic Hallway at the Evans School, which provides case studies on current and classic policy and management issues to public administration programs worldwide.

He is the author of Bargaining Beyond Impasse and Managing People in Public Agencies, co-author of Going Public: The Role of Labor-Management Relations in Producing Quality Public Services, as well as other works on conflict resolution. Brock is also the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award of the International Personnel Management Association for outstanding contributions to research and practice in public sector human resource management.

Outside of academia, Brock has held a variety of policy and management positions in the federal government, including being appointed by the U.S. Secretary of Labor as the executive director for a task force on state and local government labor-management practices. He currently chairs a council dealing with whistle-blower issues at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation.

Brock holds a MBA from the Harvard Business School, and an AB in economics from Franklin and Marshall College.

Curriculum Vitae (24KB PDF)

Joseph H. Cook

Joseph H. Cook
Assistant Professor of Public Affairs
Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2007

Contact Information:
Parrington Hall, Room 207A
jhcook@u.washington.edu
206.685.8927

Areas of Specialization:
Environmental Economics, Health Economics, Water and Sanitation Policy in Developing Countries, Benefit-Cost Analysis

Joseph Cook joined the Evans School faculty in 2007. His research uses tools from economics to inform environmental and health policy in economically-developing countries. His current focus is primarily on water and sanitation policy and vaccine policy. He is also affiliated with the Benefit-Cost Analysis Center at the Evans School.

While at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for his graduate training, Cook studied private demand for cholera and typhoid vaccines using stated preference methodologies (both contingent valuation and stated choice), doing extensive fieldwork in India, Vietnam, and Mozambique. He has also worked as a research assistant at the non-partisan think-tank Resources for the Future in Washington D.C., examining the benefits of natural resource improvements in Adirondack State Park, the costs and benefits of controlling air pollution from informal brick kilns in Mexico, and willingness-to-pay to avoid mortality risks.

Outside of academia, he served as a consultant to the Asian Development Bank on Nepal’s Melamchi water supply project, the International Vaccine Institute, the Hopi Tribe, and Orange County (NC).

Scholarly work by Cook has been published in the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Economic Inquiry, Environment and Development Economics, and the Value in Health. He also co-authored a chapter in Small Firms and the Environment in Developing Countries: Collective Impacts, Collective Action (RFF Press, 2006).

Cook holds a Ph.D. and MS in environmental management and policy from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He also holds a BS in natural resources from Cornell University.

Curriculum Vitae (204KB PDF)

Course Links

• Quantitative Analysis (PBAF527)
• Water and Sanitation Policy in Economically-Developing Countries (PBAF595C)

Alison Cullen

Alison C. Cullen
Associate Professor of Public Affairs
Sc.D., Harvard University, 1992

Contact Information:
Parrington Hall, Room 209B
alison@u.washington.edu
206.616.1654

Areas of Specialization:
Environmental Risk Analysis, Environmental Science and Policy, Quantitative Uncertainty Analysis, Statistical Decision Theory

Alison Cullen joined the Evans School faculty in 1995. Her research involves the analysis of environmental risks, decision making in the face of risks which are uncertain or vary across populations, and the application of value of information and distributional techniques.

Cullen is a 2007-08 visiting professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zürich, Switzerland, and is active in environmental exposure assessment projects in the U.S. and internationally.

She serves on the boards of the University of Washington's Environmental Management Program, the steering committees of the UW's Earth Initiative and Center for the Center for the Study and Improvement of Regulation (in collaboration with Carnegie Mellon). She is also the president-elect of the Society for Risk Analysis (SRA).

She previously served on the faculty of the Harvard University School of Public Health. She is also the 2003 recipient of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Special Recognition in the Field of Air Toxics, the 2002 Chauncey Starr Award from the Society for Risk Analysis, and the 1998 Outstanding Young Scientist Award from the International Society of Exposure Assessment.

Outside of academia, Cullen has held positions in the Water Quality Branch of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and served as a technical consultant to many groups, including the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, the State of Washington's Department of Ecology, the City of Seattle's Office of Sustainability, and the Ministry of Public Health in the Slovak Republic.

She also served on the U.S. National Academy of Sciences Committee on the Coeur d'Alene Superfund site since from 2003-05, and is an affiliate scientist on the National Center for Atmospheric Research's Uncertainty Initiative from 2000-04.

Cullen holds a Sc.D. in Environmental Health Management and a MS in Environmental Health Science, Exposure Assessment, and Engineering from Harvard University School of Public Health. She also holds a BS in civil/environmental engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Curriculum Vitae (219KB PDF)

Course Links

• PBAF 527A - Quantitative Analysis
• PBAF 590A - Environmental Policy Processes
• PBAF 597/ENVIR 500 The Role of Scientific Information in Environmental
  Decision Making

Sara Curran

Sara Curran
Associate Professor of International Studies and Public Affairs
Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1994

Contact Information:
Thomas Hall, Room 417
scurran@u.washington.edu
206.543.6479

Areas of Specialization
Social Demography, Environment, Development and Globalization, Gender

Sara Curran joined the faculty of the Evans School and Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies in 2005. Her research and teaching interests encompass internal migration in developing countries, globalization, family demography, environment and population, and gender.

Curran previously served as an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at Princeton University where she received the 2002 and 2004 outstanding faculty advising award. While at Princeton University, Curran also served as a faculty associate for its Office of Population Research and its Center for International Studies.

Curran is writing a book on her research in Thailand titled Shifting Boundaries, Transforming Lives: Globalization, Gender, and Family Dynamics in Thailand (under contract with Princeton University Press.) In addition to her recent publications listed below, Curran's work has been published in the journals of Asia Pacific Migration Journal, Demography, Globalizations, Population and Development Review, Social Science Research, Teaching Sociology, Journal of International Women’s Studies, and Journal of Marriage and the Family.

Curran holds a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She also holds a MS in sociology and economics from North Carolina State University, and a BS in natural resource management from the University of Michigan.

Her primary appointment is in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies.

Curriculum Vitae (161KB PDF)

Publications

A Handbook for Social Science Field Research: Essays & Bibliographic Sources on Research Design and Methods co-edited with Ellen Perecman for Sage Publications, 2006

Global Governance of Food co-edited for Routledge, 2008

Asia Pacific Migration Journal co-edited special issue, May 2008

Links

Sara Curran's University of Washington Faculty Website

Maria Damon

Maria Damon
Assistant Professor of Public Affairs
Ph.D. University of California, San Diego, 2007

Contact Information:
Parrington Hall, Room 329
mdamon@u.washington.edu
206.685.7527

Areas of Specialization:
Environmental Policy, Public Health, International Development

Maria Damon joined the Evans School faculty in 2007. She teaches courses on environmental policy, quantitative analysis, and the microeconomics of policy analysis.

Damon’s research focuses on environmental policy design, and how understanding decision-making processes can lead to more effective policies. She also studies the relationships between health and natural resource management in developing countries, and ways in which natural resources can be better managed in the face of disease epidemics.

Outside of academics, Damon served a one-year appointment as the staff economist for environmental policy at the White House Council of Economic Advisers and has worked as a research analyst at The World Bank.

Damon holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, San Diego and a B.A. in economics from Cornell University. She also completed an NSF-IGERT joint doctoral program on marine biodiversity and conservation at the University of California, San Diego and Scripps Institute of Oceanography.

Curriculum Vitae (101KB PDF)

Course Links

• Quantitative Methods II (PBAF 528-C), Spring Quarter 2008
• Economic Approaches to Environmental Management (PBAF 594), Winter Quarter 2008

J. Patrick Dobel

J. Patrick Dobel
Professor of Public Affairs
Adjunct Professor of Political Science
Ph.D., Princeton University, 1976

Contact Information:
Parrington Hall, room 230
pdobel@u.washington.edu
206.616.1680

Areas of Specialization:
Ethics, Leadership, Public Management, Political Theory

J. Patrick Dobel joined the Evans School faculty in 1986. His interests concern a wide area, encompassing the intersection of politics and institutions with ethics. He teaches public ethics, public management, strategy, and leadership. His research focuses on leadership, managerial strategy, public management, and ethics in public life.

Dobel also serves as the University of Washington's faculty Ahtletic Representative at the PAC 10 and NCAA, overseeing the academic integrity of the athletic program and governance.

Dobel previously served as faculty from 1974-86 at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. He is the author of several academic award winning articles as well as many others on public ethics and integrity. His books, Compromise and Political Action-Political Morality in Liberal and Democratic Life and Public Integrity study the reality of ethics in public life.

Outside of academia, Dobel has chaired the King County Ethics Board, and has served as a consultant on management, leadership, and ethics issues to numerous public and nonprofit agencies.

Dobel holds a Ph.D. and AM in Politics and Political Philosophy from Princeton University. He also holds a AB in political science from Boston College.

Curriculum Vitae (36KB PDF)

Mark A. Emmert

Mark A. Emmert
Professor of Public Affairs & President of the University of Washington
Ph.D., Maxwell School of Syracuse University, 1983

Contact Information:
Gerberding Hall, Room 301
emmert@u.washington.edu
206.543.5010

Areas of Specialization:
Public Policy and Administration, Science Policy, Research Policy and Higher Education Policy

Mark A. Emmert was appointed as the 30th president of the University of Washington and professor with tenure at the Evans School on June 14, 2004.

President Emmert's top goal is to further expand the University's stellar national and international standing. With the UW already ranked as the leading public university in terms of research grants and contracts, he hopes to work with faculty and staff to support continued growth of seminal research and to provide students with even greater educational opportunities. These efforts must also offer access and affordability for students, promote diversity across the University, and provide the resources needed to recruit and retain the finest faculty in all academic fields. Emmert has a long history with the UW, having earned his bachelor's degree in political science here in 1975. View full presidential biography.

Prior to joining the Evans School's faculty, Emmert served as Chancellor of Louisiana State University and Professor of Business Administration. Prior to that, he served five years as Chancellor and Professor of Political Science of the University of Connecticut and was Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at Montana State University. Earlier, he held faculty positions in the Graduate School of Public Affairs and administrative positions in the president's office of the University of Colorado.

Emmert has been an American Council on Education Fellow, a Fulbright Fellow in Germany, and a visiting scholar or lecturer in numerous countries. He is co-chair of the Board of Oceans and Atmosphere of the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges (NASULGC). Emmert is the author of numerous refereed journal articles, monographs, book chapters and technical reports.

Curiculum Vitae

Publications & Links

"Legos and New Building Blocks: Transforming, Refocusing, and Reallocation within Universities," Proceedings, Association of Research Libraries. Forthcoming.

"The Tyranny of Our Traditions: Leading Change in Our Colleges and Universities, Trusteeship," Association of Governing Boards, 6(4), July/August, 1998.

"Public Management in the Future: A Designer's Guide" with M. Crow, in B. Bozeman, et al. (eds.), Public Management Theory. San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, 1993.

"Public Sector Professionals: The Effects of Public Sector Jobs on Motivation, Job Satisfaction and Work Involvement" with W. Taher, American Review of Public Administration, 22(1):37-48, 1992.

"Government-Supported Industrial Research Institutes in the United States," with M. Crow and C. Jacobson, Policy Studies Journal, 19(1): 59-74, 1991.

"Research Paradigms and Knowledge Utilization," Journal of Management Science and Policy Analysis, 7(4): 291-300, 1990.

"Improving Business-Government Relations: What are the Roles and Responsibilities of Schools of Public Affairs," American Review of Public Administration, 19(2): 163-173, 1989.

"The Cooperative University Research Laboratory: Policy Implications for Higher Education," with M. Crow, Journal of Higher Education, 60(4): 27-37, 1989.

Laura Evans

Laura E. Evans
Assistant Professor of Public Affairs
Ph.D., University of Michigan, 2005

Contact Information:
Parrington Hall, Room 207B
evansle@u.washington.edu
206.543.4900
On leave through summer 2009

Areas of Specialization:
Intergovernmental Relations, Urban and Regional Affairs, Race and Ethnicity, Political Institutions

Laura Evans joined the Evans School faculty in 2004. Her research explores intergovernmental relations and public sector decision-making in the United States. She examines the forces shaping regional policy coordination, with particular attention to the effects of racial and economic divisions on interactions between governments, and with particular interest in the ways that government organization matters for policy design and implementation.

Her current research examines relations between Native American tribal governments and states and localities. This study addresses how federal institutions structure political outcomes and how politically marginalized groups approach politics. Also, Evans is initiating a study of how regional policy coordination and competition affect health policy in metropolitan areas. Finally, in co-authored work, she analyzes how state legislatures govern local affairs.

Evans is a recipient of a Robert Wood Johnson Scholars in Health Policy Research Fellowship, a University of Washington Research Royalty Fund Award, a Brookings Institution Research Fellowship, and the 2006 Best Dissertation Award from the Urban Politics Section of the American Political Science Association

Outside of academia, Evans has worked for the Department of Commerce Office of Inspector General.

Evans holds a Ph.D. in Political Science and a MPP from the University of Michigan. She also holds a BA in political science from the University of California, Berkeley.

Curriculum Vitae (83KB PDF)

Diana Fletschner

Diana Fletschner
Assistant Professor of Public Affairs
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2002

Contact Information:
Parrington Hall, Room 229
fletschn@u.washington.edu
206.616.1297

Areas of Specialization:
Development Economics, Intrahousehold Decision-Making, Economics of Gender, Group Effects, Rural Microfinance, and Food Security in Developing Countries

Diana Fletschner joined the Evans School faculty in 2002. Her current research evaluates the potential impact of enhancing rural women’s access to credit. She analyzes the notion that rural women’s more restricted access to capital may not be compensated with intrafamily transfers once spouses’ preferences and bargaining power are taken into account. In addition, she explores the idea that rural women’s demand for capital may be socially-constructed as their role in the economy is shaped by social norms. She has done research and worked with NGOs in Paraguay, Nicaragua, and Colombia.

She is a board member of the Foundation for International Understanding Through Students (FIUTS) and has served as a member of the Oversight Committee of the Nicaraguan Credit Alternatives Fund (NICA Fund). She was awarded the Henry Taylor Doctoral Dissertation Award (2003); received the University of Wisconsin’s Graduate Student Mentor Award (2001); and was a MacArthur Foundation Global Studies Scholar (1998 and 1999).

Before coming to the United States, she lived in Paraguay working as a computer consultant and severing as an assistant professor in the Economics and Computer Science Departments of the Universidad Nacional and Universidad Católica.

Fletschner holds a Ph.D. in agricultural and applied economics and a M.Sc. in agricultural economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She also holds a BA in economics and a BA in computer science from the Universidad Nacional de Asunción-Paraguay.

Curriculum Vitae (18KB PDF)

Publications & Links

• Foundation for International Understanding Through Students (FIUTS)
• Nicaraguan Credit Alternatives Fund (NICA Fund)

Andrew C. Gordon

Andrew C. Gordon
Professor of Public Affairs
Ph.D., Columbia University, 1970

Contact Information:
Parrington Hall, Room 209G
acg@u.washington.edu
206.616.1657

Areas of Specialization:
Microcomputers, Ethnographic Data Analysis, Information Systems and International Information Exchange, Community Organizations

Andrew Gordon joined the Evans School faculty in 1988. His recent research is in the areas of bureaucratic information sources and distortions, microcomputers and public policy, and community organizations.

Gordon previously served for 19 years on the faculty at Northwestern University in the departments of Sociology, Psychology, and Urban Affairs.

Gordon holds a Ph.D. in social psychology from Columbia University.

Mary Kay Gugerty

Mary Kay Gugerty
Assistant Professor of Public Affairs
Ph.D. Harvard University, 2001

Contact Information:
Parrington Hall, Room 220
gugerty@u.washington.edu
206.221.4599

Areas of Specialization:
International development; nonprofit and public management; program analysis and evaluation

Mary Kay Gugerty joined the Evans School faculty in 2001. Her research interests focus on governance and the emergence and design of collective action institutions among individuals and organizations, with a particular focus on developing countries.

She has a particular interest in the political economy of development in sub-Saharan Africa. Together with Evans School faculty members Sara Curran and Sanjeev Khagram, Gugerty received funding from the Gates Foundation for a project exploring the nature and structure of public health networks and partnerships in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia. The next phase of the project seeks to develop new methodologies for evaluating the impact of public health advocacy on public health policies and outcomes in these regions.

Gugerty’s other current research focuses on the emergence of voluntary regulation and accountability programs among nonprofits and NGOs globally. She applies her research to a number of domains: the global development of nonprofit accountability programs; the impact of NGO umbrella associations on NGO-state relationships in Africa; and the impact of donor funding and ethnic diversity on NGOs, community groups, and governments in developing countries.

At the Evans School, Gugerty teaches courses on nonprofit and public management, the political economy of NGOs and foreign aid, program evaluation, international policy analysis and management, and African development. She is the recipient of the 2005 Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching and Service at the Evans School.

She is the lead editor of a new volume title Nonprofit Accountability Clubs: Voluntary Regulation of Nonprofit and Nongovernmental Organizations that she co-edited with Evans School adjunct faculty member Aseem Prakash. This project develops a new theoretical approach to understanding nonprofit collective accountability problems, drawing on data on these programs from around the world.

Outside of academia, Gugerty has served as a consultant to the World Bank and USAID studying the impact of economic growth on poverty alleviation, structural barriers to trade in sub-Saharan Africa, and the impact of agricultural commercialization on intra-household resource allocation in Kenya.

She holds a Ph.D. in political economy and government from Harvard University and a MPA from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. She also holds a BA in political science and economics from Georgetown University.

Curriculum Vitae (174KB PDF)

Joaquín Herranz, Jr.

Joaquín Herranz, Jr.
Assistant Professor of Public Affairs
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004

Contact Information:
Parrington Hall, 209F
jherranz@u.washington.edu
206.616.1647

Areas of Specialization:
Urban and Social Policy, Public and Nonprofit Relations, Workforce Development, and Community Culture and Creativity

Joaquín Herranz, Jr., joined the Evans School faculty in 2004. His research interests include strategic management of public and nonprofit agencies, inter-organizational networks, workforce development, as well as the intersections of community development and arts and culture.

Herranz current research includes studies for The Urban Institute, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, World Bank, and the International Labour Organization.

Prior to his doctoral studies, Herranz was director of research at the Urban Strategies Council.

Herranz holds a Ph.D. in urban political economy and policy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and a Master of City Planning from the University of California, Berkeley. He also holds a AB in urban political economy from Occidental College.

Curriculum Vitae (140KB PDF)

Charles Hirschman

Charles Hirschman
Professor of Public Affairs and Boeing International Professor of Sociology
Ph.D., Wisconsin-Madison, 1972

Contact Information:
Condon Hall, Room 328
charles@u.washington.edu
206.543.5035

Areas of Specialization:
Demography and Ecology, Immigration and Ethnicity, Fertility and Family, Social Stratification and Mobility, Southeast Asia

Charles Hirschman joined the Evans School faculty in 2002. Hirschman serves a dual appointment in the University of Washington's Department of Sociology, where he has been on the faculty since 1987, most currently serving in the role of the departments Boeing International Professor.

Hirschman teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on demography, immigration and ethnicity, and Southeast Asia; and he conducts research on immigration and ethnicity in the United States and on social change in Southeast Asia. He also directs the University of Washington-Beyond High School project, a longitudinal study of educational attainment and the early life course of young adults.

He previously held faculty positions at Duke University from 1972-81, and at Cornell University from 1981-87.

He is the author of Ethnic and Social Stratification in Peninsular Malaysia (1975), and is the co-editor of Southeast Asian Studies in the Balance: Reflections from America (1992) and The Handbook of International Migration (1999). He has also written more than one hundred journal articles and book chapters.

Hirschman was elected president of the Population Association of America in 2005, and is also an elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has also served as the chairman of Section K (Social, Economic, and Political Sciences) of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences from 2004-05.

He has been a visiting fellow at: the University of Malaya in 1984, the Australian National University in 1985, the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences from 1993-94, the Russell Sage Foundation from 1998-99, and the Population Reference Bureau from 2005-06. He also served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in a rural village in Malaysia from 1965 to 1967.

Hirschman holds a Ph.D. and MA in sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a BA in sociology from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.

Curriculum Vitae (55KB PDF)

Publications & Links

• Charles Hirschman's University of Washington Faculty Page (selected publications are available here)
• UW Department of Sociology
• UW Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology
• UW Southeast Asia Program
• Additional Sociology Links

Research Projects

• Vietnam Longitudinal Survey
• Southeast Asia Fertility Project
• The Transition to Higher Education in Washington State

Contact Information:
Parrington Hall, Room 321
skhagram@u.washington.edu
206.897.1410

Areas of Specialization:
Transnational Studies, Global Governance, Civil Society, Corporate Citizenship, Human Security, and Sustainable Development

Sanjeev Khagram holds a joint faculty appointment with the Evans School and Jackson School of International Studies. He serves as the director of the Marc Lindenberg Center for Humanitarian Action, International Development, and Global Citizenship at the Evans School.

Khagram previously held faculty positions at Stanford University’s Institute for International Studies, and Harvard University’s JFK School of Government.

He is the author of many publications, including: Restructuring World Politics (University of Minnesota Press), Dams and Development (Cornell University Press and Oxford University Press, India), “Inequality and Corruption” in the American Journal of Sociology, “Future Architectures of Global Governance: A Transnational Perspective/ Prospective” in the Global Governance journal, and “Environment and Security” in the Annual Review of Environment and Resources.

From 2003-05 he was acting dean of the Desmond Tutu Peace Centre, and from 1998-00 he was a senior policy advisor with the World Commission on Dams.

He has also worked extensively with global action networks, multilateral agencies, governments, corporations, civil society organizations, professional associations, and universities all over the world with extended periods in: Brazil, India, Mexico, Nigeria, South Africa, Thailand, and the United Kingdom.

Born and a refugee of Idi Amin’s Uganda, he is of Asian Indian heritage and currently resides with his family in Seattle.

Khagram holds a Ph.D. in political science from Standford University. He also holds a MA of economics and BA in development studies/engineering from the Food Research Institute at Stanford.

Marieka M. Klawitter

Marieka M. Klawitter
Associate Professor of Public Affairs
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1992

Contact Information:
Parrington Hall, Room 221
marieka@u.washington.edu
206.616.1673

Areas of Specialization:
Family and Employment Policy, Gender Issues, Policy Analysis, and Sexual Orientation Policy

Marieka M. Klawitter joined the Evans School faculty in 1990. Her research focuses on public policies that affect work and income, including studies of: the effects of child support policies, welfare policies, and anti-discrimination policies for sexual orientation.

Klawitter teaches courses on public policy analysis, quantitative methods, women and work, and sexual orientation and public policy.

She previously worked at the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin researching how changes in child support policies affected income for children and welfare payments.

Klawitter holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Wisconsin, and a MPP and AB in economics from the University of Michigan.

Curriculum Vitae (33KB PDF)

Rachel Garshick Kleit

Rachel Garshick Kleit
Associate Professor of Public Affairs,
Adjunct Associate Professor Urban Design & Planning
Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1999

Contact Information:
Parrington Hall, Room 209C
kleit@u.washington.edu
206.221.3063

Areas of Specialization:
Housing Policy, Public Housing, Urban and Social Policy, and Social Networks and Social Capital

Rachel Garshick Kleit joined the Evans School faculty in 1999. Her research interests include public and assisted housing self-sufficiency programs; the impacts of housing programs that mix income groups; and connections between housing location, neighborhood composition, social networks, and access to opportunity.

Kleit teaches urban policy, social capital and social policy, U.S. housing policy, and quantitative methods.

She is the recipient of the 1998 Young Scholar Award from the Urban Affairs Association and Sage Publications, and the 1999 Best Student Paper Award in Housing and Community Development from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning and the Fannie Mae Foundation. She is also a recipient of a U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Urban Scholar Postdoctoral Fellowship to support research on the New Holly HOPE VI site in Seattle.

Kleit holds a Ph.D. in city and regional planning from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, and a MA in urban and environmental policy from Tufts University. She also holds a BA in history from Brandeis University.

Curriculum Vitae (28KB PDF)

Publications & Links

• "To Move or Not To Move: Relationships to Place and Relocation Choices in Hope VI" (256 KB PDF) with Lynne C. Manzo for Housing Policy Debate; Volume 17, Issue 2; © Fannie Mae Foundation, 2006
• HOPE VI New Communities: Neighborhood Relationships in Mixed-Income Housing © Pion, 2005
• Park Lake Homes Baseline and Interim HOPE VI Evaluation with Lynne C. Manzo and Dawn Couch, March 2005
• HOPE VI for High Point Interim Report: Panel Study Baseline and Initial Relocation Outcomes (961KB PDF) with Sheri Reder and Allegra Abramo, March 2004
• Holly Park and Roxbury HOPE VI Redevelopments Evaluation Report with Daniel Carlson and Tam Kutzmark, December 2003
• HOPE VI for High Point, Baseline Report (1.10MB PDF) with Jennifer Allison, July 2002
• "The Role of Neighborhood Social Networks in Scattered-Site Public Housing Residents' Search for Jobs" (130KB PDF) in Housing Policy Debate; Volume 12, Issue 3; © Fannie Mae Foundation, 2001
• "Housing, Welfare Reform, and Self-Sufficiency: An Assessment of the Family Self-Sufficiency Program" (136KB PDF) with William M. Rohe for Housing Policy Debate; Volume 10, Issue 2; © Fannie Mae Foundation, 1999
• "From Dependency to Self-Sufficiency: An Appraisal of the Gateway Transitional Families Program" (152KB PDF) with William M. Rohe for Housing Policy Debate; Volume 8, Issue 1; © Fannie Mae Foundation, 1997

• Course Websites

• Policy and Research Links
  • The Brookings Institution
  • Center for Budget and Policy Priorities
  • The Housing and Community Development Knowledgeplex
  • Housing Information Gateway (Elaborates the Encyclopedia of Housing)
  • HUD User
  • Institute for Research on Poverty
  • Joint Center for Housing Studies
  • Local Initiatives Support Collaborative (LISC)
  • Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation
  • National Low Income Housing Coalition
  • National Housing Institute
  • National Housing Law Project
  • The Research Institute for Housing America (Mortgage Banking Association of America)
  • The Urban Institute

• Data Resources Links
  • Global Urban Indicators
  • HUD User Data Sets

• Seattle Housing Issues Links
  • Housing Development Consortium of Seattle-King County
  • Impact Capital
  • Property Tax Exemptions for MultiFamily Housing
  • Seattle Housing Authority Programs

• Links to Foundations Doing Work in Housing and Community Development
  • The Enterprise Foundation Web Site
  • Annie E. Casey Foundation
  • Fannie Mae Foundation

• Fair Housing Links
  • Cityscape: A Journal of Policy Development and Research, Vol. 4, No. 3: an issue all about fair housing
  • Testing for Discrimination in Home Insurance
  • Expanding Housing Choices for HUD-Assisted Families

David Layton

David Layton
Associate Professor of Public Affairs
Adjunct Associate Professor of Economics
Ph.D., University of Washington, 1995

Contact Information:
Parrington Hall, Room 330
dflayton@u.washington.edu
206.221.3585

Areas of Specialization:
Environmental and Natural Resource Policy

David Layton joined the Evans School faculty in 2001. He teaches environmental and natural resource policy and quantitative analysis.

Layton's research focuses on environmental valuation, with particular emphasis on valuing programs that are composed of multiple attributes. His research lies at the interface of applied econometrics, applied microeconomics, and environmental policy. Most of the environmental programs he has considered focus on the conservation of endangered species and ecosystems.

He previously served on the faculty at the University of California, Davis for five years in the Department of Environmental Science and Policy.

Layton holds a Ph.D. and MA in economics from the University of Washignton, and a BA in economics from the University of Virginia.

Curriculum Vitae (155KB PDF)

Andrew Light

Andrew Light
Associate Professor of Public Affairs and Philosophy
Ph.D., University of California, Riverside, 1996

Contact Information:
Parrington Hall, Room 205
Condon Hall, Room 612
alight@u.washington.edu
206.543.9888

Areas of Specialization:
Environmental Ethics and Policy, Philosophy of Technology, and Philosophical Issues in Architecture and Urban Planning

Andrew Light joined the Evans School faculty in 2005. His work focuses on environmental ethics and policy, philosophy of technology, and philosophical issues in architecture and urban planning.

Light holds a joint appointment in the University of Washington's Department of Philosophy, and adjunct appointments in the Department of Geography and the Institute for Public Health Genetics.

He is also: a research fellow at the Institute for Environment, Philosophy and Public Policy at Lancaster University in the United Kingdom; a faculty fellow at the Center for Sustainable Development in the School of Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin; and an affiliate faculty member at the Center for Environmental Policy at Bard College in New York.

Light previously served as an assistant professor of environmental philosophy at New York University (tenured 2005), where he also directed the Environmental Conservation Education Program and the Applied Philosophy Group.

A prolific author, Light has written, edited, or co-edited 17 books, most recently Environment and Values with J. O'Neill and A. Holland (Routledge Press, 2006).

Light holds a Ph.D. and MA in philosophy from the University of California, Riverside, and a BA in history, political science, and philosophy from Mercer University.

Curriculum Vitae (142KB PDF)

Publications & Links

Andrew Light's University of Washington Faculty Page

Mark C. Long

Mark C. Long
Assistant Professor of Public Affairs
Ph.D., University of Michigan, 2002

Contact Information:
Parrington Hall, Room 209E
marklong@u.washington.edu
206.543.3787

Areas of Specialization:
Public Economics, Labor Economics, Economics of Education, Race and Inequality, and Applied Econometrics

Mark C. Long joined the Evans School faculty in 2004. His research focuses on the effects of affirmative action and alternative college admissions policies on college entry; the effects of college financial aid on household savings; the effects of high school course-taking and school and college quality on test scores, educational attainment, labor market outcomes, family formation, and other behaviors; and the economics of nursing labor markets.

Long previously served on the faculty of George Washington University as an assistant professor of economics and public policy and administration from 2002-04.

He has publications in The Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Econometrics, Economics of Education Review, Education Finance and Policy, and Public Administration Review.

He is the winner of The Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management's 2002 Ph.D. Dissertation Award for the Best Ph.D. Dissertation in Public Policy and Management.

Long holds a Ph.D. and MA in economics from the University of Michigan. He also holds an MPP from the University of Michigan, and a BA from DePauw University.

Curriculum Vitae (62 KB PDF)

Marcia Meyers

Marcia Meyers
Associate Professor of Social Work and Public Affairs
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1995

Contact Information:
4101 15th Avenue NE
Seattle, WA 98105-6250
mkm36@u.washington.edu
206.616.4409

Areas of Specialization:
Income and Social Inequality, Work/Family Reconciliation Policies, Policy Implementation

Marcia K. Meyers joined the Evans School faculty in 2001. Her research focuses on public policies and programs for vulnerable populations, with a particular focus on issues of poverty, inequality, and policy implementation.

Meyers holds a joint appointment with the University of Washington's School of Social Work, and is the director and principal investigator of the West Coast Poverty Center at the Evans School. She is also an affiliate of the Social Indicators Survey Center at Columbia University.

Meyers' current research projects examine the impact of U.S. state policy regimes on the labor force participation of mothers, on inequality in access to early childhood education and care, and on disposable family income. She is in collaboration with researchers at the Rockefeller Institute of Government studying the front-line delivery of welfare reforms in 11 sites around the country, and working with colleagues at the Social Indicators Survey Center to conduct a biannual survey monitoring the economic and social well-being of the residents of New York City.

Meyers previously served on the faculty of Columbia University from 1996-01, and the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University from 1993-96.

She has received funding for her work from: the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (OASPE and Child Care Bureau), the State of California (Department of Social Services), the MacArthur Foundation, the Russell Sage Foundation, the Public Policy Institute of California, the Ford Foundation, the Foundation for Child Development, and other sources.

She is co-author of Families That Work: Policies for Reconciling Parenthood and Employment, and her papers have recently appeared in the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, the Journal of European Social Policy, the Social Service Review, the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Social Science Quarterly, and Demography.

Meyers holds a Ph.D. and Master of Social Work from the University of California at Berkley, a MPA from Harvard University, and a BA from Evergreen State College.

Curriculum Vitae (55KB PDF)

Edward L. Miles

Edward L. Miles
Professor of Marine Studies and Public Affairs
Ph.D., University of Denver, 1965

Contact Information:
3707 Brooklyn Avenue NE
Seattle, WA 98105
edmiles@u.washington.edu
206.685.1837

Areas of Specialization:
International Law and Organization, Science Technology and International Relations, Marine Policy and Ocean Management, Impacts of Climate Variability and Climate Change on Natural Resources and Human Social Systems

Edward L. Miles serves on the faculty of the Evans School and the School of Marine Affairs in the University of Washington's College of Ocean and Fishery Sciences. He teaches international science and technology policy and marine policy.

Miles' research focuses primarily on problems of international science and technology policy, management of world fisheries, nuclear waste disposal, the law of the sea, comparative national marine policy, and global climate change.

He has been a Ford Foundation Fellow; a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow; a James P. Warburg Fellow at the Center for International Affairs, Harvard University; and a Senior Fellow at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

He is currently a senior fellow a the Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Oceans (JISAO), Virginia and Prentice M. Bloedel Professor of Marine Studies and Public Affairs, and co-director of the Center for Science in the Earth System (CSES).

Miles previously served as: chairman of the Ocean Policy Committee, National Research Council; joint appointee and chief negotiator for the Micronesian Maritime Authority, Federated States of Micronesia; chairman of the Advisory Group on the International Implications of Disposal of High-Level Radioactive Waste into the Seabed, Nuclear Energy Agency, OECD, Paris; and chairman of the Advisory Committee on International Programs, National Science Foundation. He has also been a member of the Advisory Committee on Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences for the National Science Foundation.

He is the lead author of marine policy for the working Group II-B of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for the 2nd 1995 assessment. He was also a 2003 member of The National Academy of Sciences and fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Miles holds a Ph.D. in international relations from the University of Denver, and a BA in history from Howard University.

Curriculum Vitae (51KB PDF)

Stephen Page

Stephen B. Page
Associate Professor of Public Affairs
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999

Contact Information:
Parrington Hall, Room 209A
sbp@u.washington.edu
206.221.7784

Areas of Specialization:
Public Management, Social and Health Policy and Administration, Interagency Collaboration, Public-Private Partnerships, Bureaucracy and Organizations

Stephen B. Page joined the Evans School faculty in 1999. His research studies changes in policies, administration, and service delivery arrangements within and across the public and non-governmental sectors over time, with specific attention to dilemmas of collaboration, accountability, and performance.

Page's published work examines his areas of research in health and human services, and parallels and differences in education and welfare reform.

He has previously worked as a research associate at the National Center for Children in Poverty at the Columbia University School of Public Health, and as an independent consultant to state and local governments, nonprofits, and private foundations.

Page holds a Ph.D. and SM in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and a BA in political science from Williams College.

Curriculum Vitae (18KB PDF)

Robert D. Plotnick

Robert D. Plotnick
Professor of Public Affairs
Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley, 1976

Contact Information:
Parrington Hall, Room 225
plotnick@u.washington.edu
206.685.2055

Areas of Specialization:
Labor Economics, Social Demography, Social Welfare Policy

Robert D. Plotnick joined the Evans School faculty in 1984, and served as associate dean from 1990-95 and acting dean from 1994-95. He teaches courses in economic analysis and social welfare policy. His research primarily focuses on poverty, income inequality, income support policy, and related social policy issues.

Plotnick also serves as an adjunct professor in the University of Washington's (UW) Department of Economics, and is senior adviser to the UW's Population Leadership Program. He is also a research affiliate with: the West Coast Poverty Center at the Evans School, Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology at the UW, and the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin.

Plotnick's current research projects address the effects of being childless, the health and economic well-being of the elderly, the effect of child support policies on nonmarital childbearing, and teenagers' views of marriage and parenthood.

He previously served on the faculty at Bates College from 1975-77, and Dartmouth College from 1977-84.

He has been a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation, and former director of UW's Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology from 1997-02.

Plotnick holds a Ph.D. and MA in economics from University of California, Berkeley, and BA in mathematics from Princeton University.

Curriculum Vitae (214 KB PDF)

Steven Rathgeb Smith

Steven Rathgeb Smith
Nancy Bell Evans Professor of Public Affairs
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1988

Contact Information:
Parrington Hall, Room 203
smithsr@u.washington.edu
206.616.1674

Areas of Specialization:
Nonprofit and Public Management, Community Development, and the Changing Roles of Nonprofit Organizations and Government in Civil Society

Steven Rathgeb Smith joined the Evans School faculty in 1996. His teaching and research interests include: nonprofit organizations, nonprofit and public management, public policy, comparative social policy, and social services.

Smith also serves as the director of the Nancy Bell Evans Center on Nonprofits & Philanthropy and the Electronic Hallway at the Evans School. He served as an associate dean at the Evans School from 2005-2007.

Smith previously served on the faculty at Duke University from 1988-96, and Washington University at St. Louis from 1987-88.

He is co-author of Nonprofits for Hire: The Welfare State in the Age of Contracting and Adjusting the Balance: Federal Policy and Victim Services, and co-editor of Public Policy for Democracy.

His recent publications examine government financing of nonprofit organizations, the role of faith-related service agencies in social welfare policy, and the government-nonprofit relationship in the US and abroad.

Smith also serves as president of the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA). He served as the editor of ARNOVA's journal from 1999-04.

Smith holds a Ph.D. in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Techonology, and Master of Social Work from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. He also holds a BA from Brown University.

Curriculum Vitae (34KB PDF)

Publications & Links

Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA)

Anne C. Steinemann

Anne C. Steinemann
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Public Affairs
Ph.D., Stanford University, 1993

Contact Information
103 Wilson Lab
acstein@u.washington.edu
206.616.2661

Areas of Specialization:
Environmental Policy and Impact Assessment, Public Sector Economics, Pollutant Exposures and Health Effects, Climate Impacts and Adaptation, Water Resources and Drought Management, Sustainability

Anne Steinemann joined the Evans School faculty in 2005. She serves a joint appointment with the University of Washington's (UW) Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and is director The Water Center, a joint program between the Evans School and UW colleges of Ocean and Fishery Sciences, Forest Resources, and Engineering.

She has directed more than $5 million worth of funded research, and recently published two textbooks: Microeconomics for Public Decisions (South-Western, 2005) and Exposure Analysis (CRC Press, 2006).

She previously served on the faculty of the Georgia Institute of Technology in city and regional planning, and as a visiting scientist at the Climate Research Division, Scripps Institute of Oceanography.

Steinemann is the recipient of the National Science Foundation's CAREER Award, and various university and national teaching awards.

Outside of academia, Steinemann advises public and private agencies on water and environmental issues by combining her problem-solving expertise in engineering, economics, public health, environmental science, and public policy.

Steinemann holds a Ph.D. in civil and environmental engineering from Standford University, and a MS in civil engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles. She also holds a BS in civil engineering from the University of California, Irvine.

Curriculum Vitae (345KB PDF)

Craig Thomas

Craig Thomas
Associate Professor of Public Affairs
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1997

Contact Information:
Parrington Hall, Room 205
thomasc@washington.edu
206.221.3669

Areas of Specialization:
Environmental Policy, Public Management, Collaborative Governance

Craig Thomas joined the Evans School faculty in 2006. Thomas teaches courses in policy process, environmental policy, performance management, and research design.

His current research analyzes collaboration among public, private, and nonprofit partners as an alternative form of governance to centralized planning and command-and-control regulation, focusing in particular on habitat conservation planning under the Endangered Species Act and watershed organizations.

Thomas previously served on the faculty at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst from 1997-06.

He is the author of Bureaucratic Landscapes: Interagency Cooperation and the Preservation of Biodiversity (MIT Press, 2003), and co-author of Collaborative Environmental Management: What Roles for Government? (RFF Press, 2004). He has also published numerous articles in interdisciplinary journals and serves on the editorial board of Polity.

He is the 1998 recipient of the American Political Science Association's Leonard D. White Award, which recognizes the best dissertation in the field of public administration.

Outside of academia, Thomas has worked professionally as an administrative analyst for the University of California, a consultant to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Energy, and in positions for two environmental nonprofits in Washington, D.C.

Thomas holds a Ph.D. in political science and an MPP from the University of California, Berkeley. He also holds a BA in international studies from the University of Washington.

Curriculum Vitae (27KB PDF)

Paul A. Waddell

Paul A. Waddell
Professor of Public Affairs and Urban Design & Planning
Adjunct Associate Professor of Geography and Civil and Environmental Engineering
Ph.D. University of Texas at Dallas, 1989

Contact Information:
Parrington Hall, Room 331
pwaddell@u.washington.edu
206.221.4161

Areas of Specialization:
Land Use and Transportation Policy, Urban Simulation Modeling

Paul Waddell joined the Evans School faculty in 1997. His current research interests focus on development of simulation models for urban land use, transportation and environmental policy and planning.

Waddell holds joint faculty appointments with the University of Washington's departments of Urban Design and Planning, Geography, and Civil and Environmental Engineering. He is also the the director of the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program in Urban Design and Planning.

He previously served on the faculty at the University of Texas at Dallas from 1991-97, and as the technical director of the university's Bruton Center for Development Studies from 1989-91.

Outside of academia, Waddell has worked in local government as the director of regional services in the North Central Texas Council of Governments.

Waddell holds a Ph.D. in political economy from the University of Texas at Dallas, and a MS in human ecology from the University of Texas School of Public Health at Houston. He also holds a BS in marine sciences from Texas A&M University.

Curriculum Vitae (68KB PDF)

Richard O. Zerbe, Jr.

Richard O. Zerbe, Jr.
Associate Dean for Academics and Daniel J. Evans Distinguished Professor of Public Affairs
Ph.D., Duke University, 1969

Contact Information:
Parrington Hall, Room 226
zerbe@u.washington.edu
206.616.5470

Areas of Specialization:
Law and Economics, Benefit-Cost Analysis, Antitrust, Environmental Economics, Economic History

Richard O. Zerbe, Jr. joined the Evans School faculty in 1981, and holds and adjunct appoint with the University of Washington School of Law. He teaches environmental ethics, microeconomics, government regulation, law and economics, and benefit-cost analysis.

Zerbe previously served on the faculty at the University of Chicago, a visiting appointment at Northwestern University, and a fellowship at Yale Law School.

He has also worked on the the executive board of the Western Economic Association, and with the American Bar Foundation. His also founding board member of the American Law and Economics Association.

He is the author of more than 100 publications, and editor of the Research in Law and Economics journal.

Outside of academia, Zerbe serves as a consultant to the Federal Trade Commission and other government agencies.

Zerbe holds a Ph.D. in economics from Duke University, and a AB in mathematics, general science, and political science from the University of Oklahoma.

Curriculum Vitae (35KB PDF)

Publications & Links

• Richard Zerbe's University of Washington Faculty Page
• Working Papers
  • The Merger of Superior Propane and ICG Propane: A Case Study (63KB PDF) with Sunny Knott
  • Can Law and Economics Stand the Purchase of Moral Satisfaction? (168KB PDF)
  • The Purchase of Moral Satisfaction (81KB PDF)
• Student Work
  • The Lower Snake Dams: Ethical, Economic, and Environmental Implications of the Status Quo by Allegra Abramo, Jason Smith, Shira Bieler, Michael Miller & Jeffrey Payne
  • The Many Dimensions of the Cedar River Watershed by Janel Duffy, Patricia Cardinal & Jennifer Kennedy

William M. Zumeta

William M. Zumeta
Professor of Public Affairs and Education
Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley, 1978

Contact Information:
Parrington Hall, Room 213
zumeta@u.washington.edu
206.543.0743

Areas of Specialization:
Policy Analysis and Implementation, Education Policy, and Education and the Workforce

William Zumeta joined the Evans School Faculty in Fall 1985. He served as associate dean from 2001-05, and acting dean from March-August in 1988.

Zumeta teaches in the areas of policy analysis and public policies toward education and higher education. His research interests focus higher education and worker training policies and higher education finance.

His research has been supported by a wide range of government agencies, foundations and national groups.

He previously taught at the University of British Columbia, University of California-Los Angeles, and the Claremont Graduate University.

Outside of academia, Zumeta has been employed by or consulted with various private and nonprofit organizations, universities, and federal, state, and local government agencies.

Zumeta holds a Ph.D. in public policy and a MPP from the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley. He also holds a BA in political science from Haverford College.

Curriculum Vitae (366 KB PDF)

Publications & Links

• "Financing Higher Education in Challenging Times" in The NEA 2007 Almanac of Higher Education
• California Community Colleges: Making Them Stronger and More Affordable from the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, March 2007, with D. Frankle
• "The New Accountability: The Potential of Performance Compacts in Higher Education" in National CrossTalk 15, Winter 2007

• "Public Higher Education in Washington State: Aspirations Are Misaligned with Fiscal Structure and Politics" (127 KB PDF) in R. Ehrenberg's What's Happening to Public Higher Education?, Greenwood Press for the American Council on Education, 2006.

• "State Higher Education Financing: Demand Imperatives Meet Structural, Cyclical, and Political Constraints" (286 KB PDF) Chapter in E.P. St. John and M. D. Parsons' Public Funding of Higher Education: Changing Contexts and New Rationales (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004)
• "Attracting the Best and the Brightest" (21 KB PDF) with Joyce S. Raveling
  in Issues in Science & Technology, January 10, 2003

Course Syllabi

• PbAf 513: Policy Analysis, Fall 2007 (190 KB PDF)
• PbAf 537a: Higher Education and Public Policy, Winter 2008 (134 KB PDF)

Norman B. Rice

Norman B. Rice
Distinguished Practitioner-In-Residence
MPA, Evans School of Public Affairs, University of Washington, 1974

Contact Information:
Parrington Hall, Room 228
normrice@u.washington.edu
206.221.3893

Norman B. Rice, the former mayor of Seattle from 1989-97, joined the Evans School as a distinguished practitioner-in-residence in 2006 after retiring as the CEO and president of Federal Home Loan Bank of Seattle. His appointment at the Evans School is to oversee the Civic Engagement for the 21st Century Project, aimed at designing a new model for civic engagement through seminars, workshops, and research.

Rice, an Evans School alum and current Visiting Committee member, entered the political arena in 1978 when elected to the Seattle City Council through a special election. He served three consecutive terms on the city council until being elected mayor in 1989, becoming the first African American and first city council member in 25 years to serve as mayor of Seattle. During his two terms in office, Rice also became the first Seattle mayor to serve as president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors.

Much of his work with the Civic Engagement for the 21st Century project draws on the successes he had with several major projects while serving as mayor, including:

• Revitalizing Seattle’s dying downtown area into Washington state’s epicenter of art, music, sports, and shopping by securing federal, state, and local funding for public-private partnerships in redevelopment efforts.

• Leading a comprehensive growth management effort in neighborhood planning that engaged Seattle residents in a meaningful dialogue and gave them ownership in decisions affecting their communities. These strong neighborhood collaborations continue in Seattle today.

• Strengthening the Seattle’s public schools through a citywide education summit attended by 2,500 people at 32 different meetings, which eventually helped pass a $69 million levy for the Seattle Public School District.

• Championing crime prevention efforts that helped Seattle’s crime rate drop to a 16-year low.

• Addressing Seattle’s growing number of homeless residents through a working partnership between city officials and social workers to find private funding for services.

Rice has also led instrumental change outside of politics in his role as the CEO and president of Federal Home Loan Bank of Seattle, a company recognized nationally for its innovations in housing and community development finance. In his six years at the bank, Rice helped develop a new mortgage purchase product line and created innovative homeownership programs and funding strategies to help low- and moderate- income families and neighborhoods.

Prior to his work in public service, Rice served as the governmental affairs director for the Puget Sound Council of Governments and manager of corporate contributions and social policy for Rainer National Bank, which is now part of Bank of America.

Rice continues his commitment to fostering the development of vibrant, diverse, self-sustaining communities through the many boards and committees he serves on, including: the Brookings Institution’s Advisory Committee for Sustainable Communities, Enterprise Foundation and the Corporation for Supportive Housing, the YMCA, and the Seattle Urban League.

His work has been recognized through many professional and community awards, including:

• Municipal League of King County’s James. R. Ellis Regional Leadership Award (with John Stanton)
• The American Jewish Federation’s Human Relations Award (with wife Constance Rice)
• National Neighborhood Coalition’s National Award for Leadership on Behalf of Neighborhoods
• King County Chapter of the YWCA’s Isabel Coleman Pierce Award
• Washington Council on Crime and Delinquency’s Mark F. Cooper Leadership Award
• American Association of Community College Students’ Outstanding Alumni Award

Rice holds a Master of Public Administration (MPA) from the Evans School at the University of Washington (UW), which he attended when it was still known as the Graduate School of Public Affairs. He also holds a bachelor’s degree in communications from the UW, and honorary doctorate degrees from Seattle University, the University of Puget Sound, and Whitman College.

Tanja Srebotnjak

Tanja Srebotnjak
Post Doctoral Research Associate
Ph.D., Yale University, 2007

Contact Information:
Parrington Hall, Room 408
tanjas@u.washington.edu
206.685.7303

Areas of Specialization:
Development of Composite Indicators; Methods for Missing Data; and Performance Measurement and Evaluation in Environmental, Health and Social Policy

Tanja Srebotnjak joined the Evans School in 2006 as a consultant and has worked as a part-time lecturer and post doctoral research associate since 2007. Her research and teaching interests include the development of composite indicators, methods for missing data, and performance measurement and evaluation in environmental, health and social policy.

Prior to coming to the Evans School, Srebotnjak worked as a statistician from 2006-07 for the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, and project director from 2003-06 for the Environmental Performance Measurement Project at the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy. She has also served as a teaching assistant at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and Dortmund University in Germany.

Srebotnjak is the recipient of several awards and fellowships and fellowships from the Martin Schmeisser Foundation in Dortmund, Germany, and the Deutsche Studienstiftung in Bonn, Germany.

Outside of academics, Srebotnjak worked as a statistician from 2000-03 for the United Nations Statistics Division in New York.

She is a member of The International Environmetrics Society and American Statistical Assocation, Section on the Environment.

Srebotnjak holds a Ph.D. from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and School of Forestry and Environmental Studies at Yale University, a MA from Yale University, a MS in statistics from the University of Auckland in New Zealand, and a Diploma in statistics from Dortmund University in Germany.

Publications

2008 Environmental Performance Index with Daniel C. Esty, Marc A. Levy, Christine H. Kim, Alexander de Sherbinin, and Valentina Mara. New Haven: Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy, 2008

“Environmental Performance Index” edited by E. Melnick and B. Everett for the Encyclopedia of Quantitative Risk Assessment, Wiley New York, Oxford, in press.

“Biofuels: Silver Bullet or Pipedream” for Environment: Yale Magazine, Fall 2007

“Understanding the North-South Knowledge Divide and Its Implications for Policy: A Quantitative Analysis of the Generation of Scientific Knowledge in the Environmental Sciences” with Sylvia Karlsson and Patricia Gonzales for the Journal of Environmental Science and Policy, 10:668-684; 2007

“The Role of Environmental Statisticians in Environmental Policy: The Case of Performance Measurement” for the Journal of Environmental Science and Policy, 10:405-418; 2007

Pilot 2006 Environmental Performance Index with Daniel C. Esty, Marc A. Levy, and Alexander de Sherbinin. New Haven: Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy, 2006

The Performance of the ASEAN Member State in the 2005 Environmental Sustainability Index (ESI): A Synthesis of Findings for the 3rd ASEAN State of the Environment Report, 2005

“Pushing the Frontier of Benchmarking National Environmental Stewardship” with Daniel C. Esty for the Yale Journal for International Affairs, 1(1): 156-168; 2005

“A Critical Analysis of the 2005 Environmental Sustainability Index as a Tool for Environmental Policymaking” for the Proceedings of the Eminent Environmental Economist Symposium at the 5th Ministerial Conference on Environment and Development in Asia, Seoul, South Korea, March 24-25, 2005

2005 Environmental Sustainability Index: Benchmarking National Environmental Stewardship with Daniel C. Esty, Marc Levy, and Alexander de Sherbinin. New Haven: Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy, 2005

“Young Environmetricians Profile” for The International Environmetrics Society (TIES) Newsletter, 10 (2): 10-11; 2004

Deriving a Model for Missing Date in the 2002 Environmental Sustainability Index for the Proceedings of the 2002 Joint Statistical Meetings of the American Statistical Association, New York, 2002

“Environmental Sustainability Indicators – Developing Measures for Quantitative Analysis of Environmental Sustainability” for the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change Newsletter, UPDATE 2: 14, 2002

“Imputing Missing Values” with Kobi A. Abayomi and Andrew Gelman for the 2002 Environmental Sustainability Index. New Haven: Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy, 2002

Daniel Carlson

Daniel Carlson
Senior Lecturer of Public Affairs
MA, City and Regional Planning, UC Berkeley, 1972

Contact Information:
Parrington Hall, Room 411
kareli@u.washington.edu
206.616.8785

Areas of Specialization:
Community and Economic Development, Transportation, Land Use, Public Service Clinics

Daniel Carlson is a senior lecturer and director of the Public Service Clinics at the Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs. The Public Service Clinics enable second year MPA students to conduct a major research project with a non profit or public agency.

Dan's work focuses in the areas of community and economic development and transportation and land use. He is the co-author (with the late Cy Ulberg and Lisa Wormser) of At Road's End: Transportation and Land Use Choices for Communities (Island Press, 1995), a book that examines present transportation paradigms and case studies from around the country which model change toward holistic transportation planning. Dan is the author of Reusing America's Schools (Preservation Press, 1991) which highlights adaptive use of closed schools for community development. His study, with Evans School grad Don Billen, Transportation Corridor Management: Are We Linking Transportation and Land Use Yet? (1996) focuses specifically on innovations and lessons learned from transportation corridor management in regions across the country. Dan has recently co-authored several studies at the regional and state level in Washington State on transportation concurrency: Options For Making Concurrency More Multimodal, The Eastside Transportation Concurrency Project, transportation demand management: WSDOT'S Role In Transportation Demand Management, and commute trip reduction performance grants: The CTR Performance Grant Program: Strengthening The Program's Structure and Market, and on special transportation programs: Homeless Student Transportation Project Evaluation.

Dan and Evans School colleagues have provided advice, assistance, and evaluation to the City of Seattle's Enterprise Community program and the community development corporations working in the city's most distressed neighborhoods. He has also developed Neighborhood Revitalization Strategies for the International, Central, Southeast, Delridge, and Pioneer Square communities that were adopted by the City Council.

On the regional/metropolitan level, Dan and Paul Sommers have prepared two studies for the Brookings Institution, Ten Steps to a High Tech Future: The New Economy in Metropolitan Seattle and What the IT Revolution means for Regional Economic Development. The studies provide new understanding about the high tech sector, its urban/suburban location preferences, and the role public officials can play in attracting and benefiting from high tech firms. Dan and Shishir Mathur authored a chapter "Does Growth Management Aid or Thwart the Provision of Affordable Housing?" in the book Growth Management and Affordable Housing: Do they Conflict? (Brookings Institution, 2004). Dan's research on Turning Regional Visions Into Regional Results led to a collaboration with the Wallace Stegner Center on Land Resources and the Environment and a February 2001 symposium on the topic.

A skilled facilitator, Dan led a Transportation Pricing Working Group of elected officials and stakeholders from the developer, environment, labor, and business communities as a joint project of the Puget Sound Regional Council and The Forum at the Evans School. He facilitated a regional fare integration forum for the Regional Transit Authority which successfully reached agreement amongst the five transit operating agencies in King, Pierce and Snohomish counties. Dan is an experienced focus group leader, recently employing this qualitative research method to learn about housing needs in the university community, residents' experiences at the New Holly Hope VI development, and to learn from truck drivers who work in dense urban areas.

In his consulting practice, Dan provides services to public and nonprofit agencies involved in community development activities. He works with community development corporations and their intermediaries to develop strategic and business plans. He has developed an economic element for the City of Bainbridge Island's comprehensive plan, and developed Tacoma School District's Facilities Plan.

Dan draws on thirty-five years' experience in the public and non profit sectors as a big city mayoral aide, foundation executive director, county planner, educator, applied researcher and small businessperson. Dan is a board member of the White Center Community Development Association.

Curriculum Vitae (20KB PDF)

Publications & Links

• Options For Making Concurrency More Multimodal (599KB PDF) December 2006
• Homeless Student Transportation Project Evaluation (606KB PDF) December 2006
• WSDOT'S Role In Transportation Demand Management: Strategic Interest, Structure, And Responsibilities (394KB PDF) 2005
• The CTR Performance Grant Program: Strengthening The Program's Structure and Market (520KB PDF) 2005
• What the IT Revolution Means for Regional Economic Development, February 2003
• The Possibilities of Transportation Concurrency, October 2003
• Turning Regional Visions Into Real Results, with Ellen Schroer, February 2001
• THE NEW ECONOMY IN METROPOLITAN SEATTLE: High Tech Firm Location Decisions Within the Metropolitan Landscape, with Paul Sommers, September 2000
• Linking Transportation and Land Use by Fostering Inter-Jurisdictional Cooperation: Enabling Legislation in Eight States (755KB PDF) May 1998
• LEARNING FROM TRUCKERS: Moving Goods in Compact, Livable Urban Areas with Gary Pivo, June 1997
• TRANSPORTATION CORRIDOR MANAGEMENT: Are We Linking Transportation and Land Use Yet? with Don Billen, October 1996

David S. Harrison

David S. Harrison
Lecturer of Public Affairs
MPA, Harvard University, 1979

Contact Information:
Parrington Hall, Room 412
dsharr@u.washington.edu
206.221.4601

Areas of Specialization:
Nonprofit Organizations, Regional Economic Development, Growth Management

David S. Harrison is a lecturer at the Evans School of Public Affairs at the University of Washington. He currently teaches policy analysis and new program design in the Evans School's Masters in Public Administration program, and is faculty coordinator of the Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship program.

Harrison's career has been devoted to creating bridges between the policymaking community, policy researchers, and citizens. He came to the Northwest in 1986 to found and direct the Northwest Policy Center, which for many years provided policy assistance on economic vitality issues to governmental leaders throughout the region. In that position, Harrison devised a number of new tools to help policymakers shape new strategies, including a policy "mock trial" that has been utilized by nearly 100 organizations and agencies of government. He is an experienced and skilled facilitator of public meetings and governmental strategic planning processes. His clients have included King County, the City of Seattle, the Washington Department of Licensing, Seattle Public Library, and the Puget Sound Regional Council. He carries out his consulting practice through Triangle Associates of Seattle.

In 2003, Washington Governor Gary Locke named him chair of the Washington Workforce Training and Education Coordinating Board. He was reappointed by Governor Christine Gregoire in 2005. The WTECB brings together business, labor, education and government to devise, implement and evaluate workforce training strategies for the state of Washington. In 2005, Harrison also served as Chair of the Governor's Task Force on Welfare Reform.

In 2006, Harrison initiated Strategies to Eliminate Poverty under the auspices of the Seattle Foundation. Made possible by a five year commitment from the Northwest Area Foundation, this new program will assist researchers in developing new governmental policies to combat poverty.

Harrison holds a Master's degree in Public Administration from Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. He is the founder and former director of the Forum at the Evans School. He served as senior policy advisor to Senator Maria Cantwell from 2001-2003 and as a member of the Bainbridge Island School Board from 1993-1997. He and his wife Cynthia have lived on Bainbridge Island since 1986.

Jane Cover

Jane Cover
Post Doctoral Research Associate