Meet Our Faculty
Public Policy Faculty News
- Student and faculty contribute to Maryland budget report
- Tim Brennan is writing about electric deregulation
- Nancy Miller discusses aging at home on WYPR Radio
- Dave Marcotte's research on antidepressants and suicide receiving wide review
- Tim Brennan participates in Governor's Energy Summit
- John Rennie Short in the Baltimore Sun
Public Policy Faculty| Affiliated Faculty: Economics - History - Political Science - Psychology - Sociology
Public Policy Faculty
DONALD F. NORRIS, Professor and Chair
Director, Maryland Institute for Policy Analysis and Research
Ph.D., University of Virginia
Urban and metropolitan politics, public management, information systems in public organizations (including electronic government)
norris@umbc.edu | CV | Bio
TIMOTHY J. BRENNAN (joint appointment with Economics)
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison
Antitrust and regulation, electricity markets, telecommunications and broadcast policy, copyright, philosophy of economics, philosophy of social science
brennan@umbc.edu | CV | Bio
PATRICIA FLETCHER
Ph.D., Syracuse University
Electronic government, government information resources management, information policy, information-based organization management, strategic management
pfletcher@umbc.edu | Web site | Bio
GEORGE R. LANOUE (joint appointment with Political Science)
Ph.D., Yale University
Civil rights law and policy focusing on education and public contracting
glanoue@umbc.edu | CV | Bio
MARVIN B. MANDELL
Ph.D., Northwestern University
Quantitative analysis, program evaluation, delivery of public services
mandell@umbc.edu | CV | Bio
DAVE E. MARCOTTE (Graduate Program Director)
Ph.D., University of Maryland, College Park
Research methods and statistics, social policy, labor markets and job training, mental health policy
marcotte@umbc.edu | CV 
| Web site | Bio
CHERYL M. MILLER (joint appointment with Political Science)
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
cmiller@umbc.edu| CV | Web site | Bio
NANCY A. MILLER
Ph.D., University of Chicago
Health policy, health care financing, health care evaluation
nanmille@umbc.edu | CV | Bio
DAVID SALKEVER
Ph.D., Harvard University
Health economics, economics of mental health, disability studies, economics and behavior of nonprofit organizations
salkever@umbc.edu | CV | Bio
JOHN RENNIE SHORT
Ph.D., University of Bristol, UK
Urban issues, globalization and the city, megalopolis, urban theory, land use planning
jrs@umbc.edu | CV | Web site | Bio
Affiliated Faculty by Department
Economics
DENNIS COATES
Ph.D., University of Maryland; public economics, econometrics
coates@umbc.edu
LISA DICKSON
Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin; labor economics, economics of education, econometrics
ldickson@umbc.edu
SCOTT FARROW, Chair
Ph.D., Washington State University; industrial organization, environmental economics and risk analysis
farrow@umbc.edu
THOMAS H. GINDLING, JR.
Ph.D., Cornell University; economics of developing countries, labor economics, poverty and income inequality, econometric methods
(gindling@umbc.edu)
MARSHA G. GOLDFARB
Ph.D., Northwestern University; health economics, economics of education
(goldfarb@umbc.edu)
DAVID H. GREENBERG (Emeritus)
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology; labor economics, benefit-cost analysis, economics of income transfer and manpower programs
DOUGLAS LAMDIN
Ph.D., University of Maryland; corporate finance, managerial economics
lamdin@umbc.edu
VIRGINIA D. MCCONNELL
Ph.D., University of Maryland, College Park; environmental economics, cost-benefit analysis, air pollution policy, land use policy
(mcconnell@umbc.edu)
History
JOHN W. JEFFRIES, Dean, College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
Ph.D., Yale University; 20th century U.S. political and policy history
(jeffries@.umbc.edu)
KRISTE LINDENMEYER, Chair
Ph.D., University of Cincinnati; gilded age and progressive era, women and gender, immigration and ethnicity, history of childhood and historical methods
(lindenme@umbc.edu)
JOSEPH N. TATAREWICZ
Ph.D., Indiana University; history of science and technology, science and technology policy and public history
(tatarewicz@umbc.edu)
Political Science
JEFFREY DAVIS
Ph.D., Georgia State University, School of Law; public law and American politics
(davisj@umbc.edu)
ARTHUR T. JOHNSON, Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs
Ph.D., State University of New York, Buffalo; public administration, personnel, management, sports policy
(ajohnson@umbc.edu)
TYSON KING-MEADOWS
Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Congress, African-American politics, electoral behavior
tkingme@umbc.edu
ROY T. MEYERS, Director, Sondheim Public Affairs Scholars Program
Ph.D., University of Michigan; budgeting, public policy and politics administration, American politics
(meyers@umbc.edu)
NICHOLAS R. MILLER
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley; American politics, elections, methodology, theory
(nmiller@umbc.edu )
THOMAS F. SCHALLER
Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; American politics, American political institutions
schaller@umbc.edu
Psychology
KENNETH I. MATON
Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; program evaluation, prevention, at risk youth, community/social psychology, education
(maton@umbc.edu)
Sociology
MARINA A. ADLER
Ph.D., University of Maryland, College Park; social science methodology and statistics, cross- national gender, work and family issues, the welfare state and social policy in international perspective
(adler@umbc.edu)
JERE M. COHEN
Ph.D., University of Chicago; sociological theory, sociology of religion, sociology of education, small groups, sociology of adolescence, status attainment
(cohen@umbc.edu)
J. KEVIN ECKERT, Dean, Erickson School of Aging Studies
Ph.D., Northwestern University; health and aging policy, social gerontology, research design, qualitative methods, case studies
(eckert@umbc.edu)
CHRISTOPHER J. HEWITT
Ph.D., Brown University; political sociology, sociological theory, social stratification, violence and terrorism
hewitt@umbc.edu
SETH D. MESSINGER
Ph.D., Columbia University; medical anthropology, anthropology of cities, anthropology of North America, psychiatry, trauma, social organization of medical work
sethm@umbc.edu
LESLIE A. MORGAN
Ph.D., University of Southern California; aging, women's roles, family, labor force participation, social change
(lmorgan@umbc.edu)
FRED L. PINCUS
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles; race and ethnic relations, sociology of education, higher education policy
(pincus@umbc.edu)
BILL ROTHSTEIN
Ph.D., Cornell University; medical sociology, history of medicine, sociology of occupations and professions
(rothstei@umbc.edu)
ROBERT L. RUBINSTEIN
Ph.D., Bryn Mawr College; cultural and medical anthropology, anthropology of aging, gerontology, gender, qualitative research methods
(rrubinst@umbc.edu)
JOHN SCHUMACHER
Ph.D., Case Western Reserve; medical sociology, physician-patient relations, social gerontology, bioethics, research methods
(jschma@umbc.edu)
MARY STUART
Sc.D., Johns Hopkins University; issues in health, health care organization and delivery, decision support for health policy and management
(stuart@.umbc.edu)
JAMES A. TRELA, Chair
Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University; sociology of aging, social political behaviors, social problems (trela@umbc.edu)