At the heart of our program is a nationally recognized full-time core faculty in public policy, distinguished by their excellence in teaching as well as their research, publications and public service.
Core Public Policy Faculty
The interdisciplinary public policy program includes outstanding affiliate faculty from related social science departments on the UMBC campus.
Affiliate Faculty
Salem Abo-Zaid
Ph.D., University of Maryland, College Park; monetary economics, macroeconomics, fiscal policy
Maria Bernedo Del Carpio
Ph.D., Georgia State University; environmental, behavioral, experimental, urban and regional economics
Robert Carpenter
Ph.D., Washington University; macroeconomics, monetary economics, industrial organization, theory of the firm
Dennis Coates
Ph.D., University of Maryland, College Park; public economics, public finance, sports economics
Lisa Dickson
Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin; labor economics, economics of education, econometrics
Thomas Gindling, Jr.
Ph.D., Cornell University; economic development (Economics advisor)
Douglas Lamdin
Ph.D., University of Maryland; corporate finance, managerial economics
David Mitch, Chair
Ph.D., University of Chicago; American and European economic history
Morgan Rose
Ph.D., Washington University; Applied microeconomics, corporate finance, corporate governance, industrial organization, financial institutions
Christelle Viauroux
Ph.D., University of Toulouse, France; theoretical and applied econometrics, structural applied microeconomics, structural applied game theory, microeconomics
Christine Yee
Ph.D., University of California-Berkeley; health economics, public policy, applied econometrics, labor economics
Chungming Yuan
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles; international economics and finance, financial economics, econometrics
Christopher Rakes
Ph.D., University of Louisville; mathematics education, secondary education, mathematics misconceptions, teacher knowledge, research methodology, research quality
Eugene Shaffer
Ed.D., Temple University; international education, classroom interaction, school reform, school effectiveness, schools high-reliability, students placed at-risk
Michele Stites
Ed.D., George Washington University; early childhood mathematics, special education
J. Lee Jenkins, Chair
M.D., The George Washington University School of Medicine; Emergency Public Health and Disaster Health
Lucy E. Wilson
M.D., University of Maryland School of Medicine; public health response, epidemiology, infectious diseases, emerging infectious diseases, and antibiotic resistance
GEOGRAPHY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS
Matthew Baker
Ph.D., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; watershed ecology, riparian ecosystems, ecosystem/landscape ecology, watershed hydrology and biogeochemistry
Dawn Biehler
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin – Madison; historical geography of public health in US cities, environmental justice, urban and feminist political ecology, housing, human-animal interactions
Erle C. Ellis
Ph.D., Cornell University; global ecology, landscape ecology, biogeochemistry, land-use change and sustainable land management
Margaret B. Holland
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison; human dimensions of environmental change, land tenure, environmental conservation and resource management, land use dynamics, rural livelihood strategies
David Lansing
Ph.D., Ohio State University; Rural livelihoods, political ecology, environmental governance, climate change policy
Alan Yeakley, Chair
Ph.D., University of Virginia; ecosystem ecology, watershed hydrology, with emphases on urban ecology and riparian ecosystems
Rebecca Boehling
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison; Holocaust, post-World War II Germany and German-American relations
Christy Ford Chapin
Ph.D., University of Virginia; political business, and economic history and capitalism studies
Amy Froide, Chair
Ph.D., Duke University; Early Modern Britain, Women’s and Economic History
Marjoleine Kars
Ph.D., Duke University; U.S. colonial, Atlantic World, American women’s history
Meredith Oyen
Ph.D., Georgetown; Sino-American relations, the role of migrants, transnational networks, and nongovernmental organizations in bilateral relations in the twentieth century
Daniel Ritschel
Ph.D., Oxford; Great Britain, economic and social policy, historiography (policy history advisor)
Carolyn Forestiere, Chair
Ph.D., Emory University; comparative politics, Western Europe, institutions, research methodology
Laura Hussey
Ph.D., University of Maryland, College Park; social welfare and morality policy; public opinion on policy issues; American public policy, politics, and administration
Tyson King-Meadows
Ph.D.; University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Congress, African-American politics, electoral behavior
Roy T. Meyers
Ph.D., University of Michigan; American politics, budgeting, public administration and policy
Thomas Schaller
Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; American politics, campaigns, elections, parties, media politics
Kenneth I. Maton
Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; how social support systems and community involvement help people (especially Baltimore youth) cope and overcome difficult life stresses
SOCIOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY
Marina A. Adler
Ph.D., University of Maryland; social stratification and inequality; cross-national gender, work and family policy; sociology of women; research methods and statistics
J. Kevin Eckert, Chair
Ph.D., Northwestern University; environmental gerontology, medical anthropology,aging services management and delivery, residential care//long-term care quality, qualitative research
Loren Henderson
Ph.D., University of Illinois; diversity issues, stratification and inequality, health disparities, and race, class, gender and sexuality
Andrea Kalfoglou
Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University; bioethics, public health ethics, reproductive policy and ethics, genetics policy and ethics, research ethics, public engagement in science and policymaking
John G. Schumacher
Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University; medical sociology, physician-patient relationships, health care delivery in emergency departments and assisted living facilities, social gerontology, research methods