Faculty and Staff

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

 

Public Policy Staff

Shelley Morris
Graduate Program Coordinator
shelleym@umbc.edu

Myriam Ralston
External Relations Coordinator
myriam@umbc.edu

Dianna Kearney
Administrative Assistant
diannak1@umbc.edu

 

The interdisciplinary public policy program includes outstanding affiliate faculty from related social science departments on the UMBC campus.

Affiliate Faculty

ECONOMICS

Salem Abo-Zaid 
Ph.D., University of Maryland, College Park; monetary economics, macroeconomics, fiscal policy

Robert Carpenter
Ph.D., Washington University; macroeconomics, monetary economics, industrial organization, theory of the firm

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

Chungming Yuan
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles; international economics and finance, financial economics, econometrics

EDUCATION

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

EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICES

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

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

HISTORY

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

Daniel Ritschel
Ph.D., Oxford; Great Britain, economic and social policy, historiography (policy history advisor)

POLITICAL SCIENCE

Laura Antkowiak
Ph.D., University of Maryland, College Park; social welfare and morality policy; public opinion on policy issues; American public policy, politics, and administration

Roy T. Meyers
Ph.D., University of Michigan; American politics, budgeting, public administration and policy

PSYCHOLOGY

 

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

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