In order to fulfill its mission to serve as a link between public policy-makers and the resources of the University, MIPAR regularly draws upon the expertise of members of the UMBC faculty to cooperate in its research endeavors. Faculty members may serve as principal investigators on research projects or they may participate in other ways. Most MIPAR research projects involve one or more faculty associates.

Marina A. Adler, Ph.D., University of Maryland. Associate Professor of Sociology. Comparative gender, work, and family policy; status of women in Eastern and Western Europe; evaluation research, methodology and statistical analysis.

James X. Bembry, Ph.D., University of Maryland at Baltimore. Associate Professor of Social Work. Social welfare policy; at-risk youth; and community service.

Timothy J. Brennan, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin. Professor of Public Policy and Economics. Public utility regulation; telecommunications and cable policy; antitrust; industrial organization; economic analysis of law; and environmental economics.

Robert E. Carpenter, Ph.D., Washington University in St. Louis. Associate Professor of Economics. Corporate governance; financing high-tech firm growth; information and firm investment in the U.S. and E.U.; macroeconomic and monetary policy; industrial organization.

Sarah Chard, Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University. AssistantProfessor of Anthorpology/sociology. Health care utilization, treatment adherence, urban anthropoloy.

Dennis Coates, Ph.D., University of Maryland. Professor of Economics. Political economy of economic growth; sports effects on local economies; education economics.

Carlo C. DiClemente, Ph.D., University of Rhode Island. Professor and Chair of Psychology. Clinical and health psychology; prevention and treatment of addictive behaviors; health behavior change and policy.

Scott Farrow, Ph.D., Washington State University. Professor and Chair of Economics. Industrial Organization, Environmental Economics and Risk Analysis.

Patricia F. Fletcher, Ph.D., Syracuse University. Associate Professor of Public Policy. Public management information systems research.

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 of Economics. Labor economics and labor relations (particularly the economics of labor supply); cost-benefit analysis; and the evaluation of social welfare programs.

John W. Jeffries, Ph.D., Yale University. Dean, College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. Modern American politics and public policy with a focus on the interplay of public opinion, electoral politics, and public policy.

Arthur T. Johnson, Ph.D., State University of New York, Buffalo. Professor of Political Science. Public administration; personnel management; urban politics; and the politics and policy of sports.

Adele Kirk, Ph.D., UCLA. Health economics, labor economics and quantitative methods, private health insurance markets, the relationship between socioeconomic status and health, work disability.

Douglas J. Lamdin, Ph.D., University of Maryland. Associate Professor of Economics. Financial economics; public finance; managerial economics; and the contracting out of educational services.

George R. LaNoue, Ph.D., Yale University. Professor of Political Science. Higher education; civil rights and personnel policy.

Marvin B. Mandell, Ph.D., Northwestern University. Professor of Public Policy. Program evaluation; delivery of public services; and quantitative analysis.

Dave E. Marcotte, Ph.D., University of Maryland. Professor of Public Policy. Labor market effects of education and job training; inequality; mental health; evaluation research and statistical analysis.

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.

Roy T. Meyers, Ph.D., University of Michigan, Associate Professor of Political Science and Director, Sondheim Public Affairs Scholars Program. Government budgeting and financial management; public policy design, analysis and process; public management; American politics.

Cheryl M. Miller, Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Policy. Public administration; public policy analysis; state and local politics; and minority politics.

Nancy A. Miller, Ph.D., University of Chicago. Associate Professor of Public Policy. Health care access; disability and long term care; and Medicare and Medicaid policy.

Leslie A. Morgan, Ph.D., University of Southern California. Professor of Sociology. The life cycle and the family, including family caregiving; housing for elderly and disabled in the community and long-term care settings.

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. Health economics, 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. Globalization and world cities; urban studies; urban environmental issues; environmental policy.