Staff
Donald F. Norris, Director (norris@umbc.edu)
Professor and Chair, Department of Public Policy
Dave E. Marcotte, Deputy Director (marcotte@umbc.edu)
Professor of Public Policy
Judith Shinogle, Senior Research Scientist (shinogle@umbc.edu)
Linda Brown, Associate Director (librown@umbc.edu)
Anne Roland, Manager of External Relations (anne@umbc.edu)
Deborah Geare, Business Manager (geare@umbc.edu)
Gay Warshaw, Administrative Assistant (warshaw@umbc.edu)
Faculty Associates
MIPAR draws upon the expertise of members of the UMBC faculty to serve as principal investigators or advisors in its research endeavors.
Rebecca Boehling, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, Associate Professor of History. Post-World War II Germany and German-American relations.
Timothy J. Brennan, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin. Professor of Public Policy and Economics. Antitrust law and policy, regulatory economics, electricity markets, telecommunications and broadcasting, copyright and intellectual property, philosophy of economics.
Anne E. Brodsky, Ph.D., University of Maryland. Associate Professor of Psychology. Resilience of women and women's communities in the face of societal risks such as community violence and war, pvoersty, sexism, racism and other forms of oppression.
Robert E. Carpenter, Ph.D., Washington University in St. Louis. Associate Professor of Economics. Macroeconomics, monetary economics, idustrail organization, theory of the firm.
Sarah Chard, Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University. Assistant Professor of Anthropology/Sociology. Healthcare utilization, treatment adherence, urban anthropology
Matthias Cinyabuguma, Ph.D., Brown University, Assistant Professor of Economics. Economic growth, applied economic theory, applied econometrics, economic development.
Dennis Coates, Ph.D., University of Maryland. Professor of Economics. Public choice, public finance, sports economics.
Scott Farrow, Ph.D., Washington State University. Professor and Chair of Economics. Industrial organization, environmental economics and risk analysis.
Patricia Fletcher, Ph.D., Syracuse University. Associate Professor of Public Policy. Electronic government, government information resources management, information policy, information-based organization management, strategic management.
Claudia Galindo, Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University. Assistant Professor, Language, Literacy and Culture. Sociology of education, educational policy, immigration.
Tim Gindling, Ph.D., Cornell University. Professor of Economics. Economic development.
David H. Greenberg, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Professor Emeritus of Economics. Labor economics, industrial relations.
John W. Jeffries, Ph.D., Yale University. Dean, College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. Twentieth-century America and American political and policy history.
Andrea Kalfoglou, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Assistant Professor of Sociology. Bioethics, public health ethics, reproductive policy and ethics, genetics policy and ethics research, public engagement in science and policymaking.
Tyson King-Meadows, Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Assistant Professor of Political Science. Congress, African-American politics, electoral behavior
Adele Kirk, Ph.D., UCLA. Assistant Professor of Public Policy. Health economics, labor economics and quantitative methods, private health insurance markets, the relationship between socioeconomic status and health, work disability.
George R. LaNoue, Ph.D., Yale University. Professor of Political Science. Education policy (K-12 and higher), constitutional law and policy (civil rights and First Amendment), public procurement policy.
William Lord, Ph.D, Indiana University. Professor of Economics. Public Finance, Household economics.
Brian Maguire, Ph.D., George Washington University. Clinical Associate Professor of Emergency Health Services (EHS). Disaster research, EHS workforce issues, occupational risks.
Marvin B. Mandell, Ph.D., Northwestern University. Professor of Public Policy. Program and policy evaluation; evidence-based policymaking.
Seth D. Messenger, Ph.D., Columbia University. Assistant Professor of Anthropology. Medical anthropology, anthropology of cities, anthropology of North America, psychiatry, trauma, social organization of medical work.
Cheryl M. Miller, Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Agenda setting and policy formulation, welfare policy, bureaucratic politics, African-American political participation, political labeling and symbolic politics
Nancy A. Miller, Ph.D., University of Chicago. Associate Professor of Public Policy. Health policy, disability and long term care, health disparities, aging policy.
Sara Z. Poggio, Ph.D., University of Maryland. Associate Professor of Modern Languages and Linguistics. Sociology, Latin American societies, Hispanics in the U.S.
David Salkever, Ph.D., Harvard University. Professor of Public Policy. Economics of health policy and health care financing, economics of mental health, disability studies, economics and behavior of nonprofit organizations.
Thomas F. Schaller, Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Associate Professor of Political Science. American politics, American political institutions
John Rennie Short, Ph.D., University of Bristol. Professor of Public Policy. Urban issues, globalization the city; megalopolis, urban theory, land use planning.
Zeynep Tufekci, Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin. Assistant Professor of Sociology. Social impacts of technology, gender, social stratification and inequality, new media, research methods, networks and complexity