Meet Our Faculty
Public Policy Faculty News
- Nancy Miller receives grant to study health care disparities
- New Policy Brief on the Educational Success of Immigrant Children
- New Combined Degree Program with UMB School of Medicine
- Marvin Mandell is president of NASPAA
- Student and faculty contribute to Maryland budget report
- Tim Brennan is writing about electric deregulation
- Nancy Miller discusses aging at home on WYPR Radio
Public Policy Faculty| Affiliated Faculty: Economics - History - Political Science - Psychology - Sociology
Public Policy Faculty
TIMOTHY J. BRENNAN (joint appointment with Economics)
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison
Antitrust law and policy, regulatory economics, electricity markets, telecommunications and broadcasting, copyright and intellectual property, philosophy of economics
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
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
akirk@umbc.edu | CV | Bio
GEORGE R. LANOUE (joint appointment with Political Science)
Ph.D., Yale University
Education policy (K-12 and higher), constitutional law and policy (civil rights and 1st Amendment), public procurement policy
glanoue@umbc.edu | CV | Bio
MARVIN B. MANDELL
Ph.D., Northwestern University
Program and policy evaluation; evidence-based policymaking
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, disability and long term care, health disparities, aging policy
nanmille@umbc.edu | CV | Bio
DONALD F. NORRIS, 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
DAVID SALKEVER
Ph.D., Harvard University
Economics of health policy and health care financing, 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
ROBERT CARPENTER
Ph.D., Washington University; macroeconomics, monetary economics, industrial organization, theory of the firm
bobc@umbc.edu
DENNIS COATES
Ph.D., University of Maryland; public choice, public finance, sports economics
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
TIM GINDLING
Ph.D., Cornell University; economic development
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, industrial relations
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, regional economics
mcconnell@umbc.edu
History
JOHN W. JEFFRIES, Dean, College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
Ph.D., Yale University; 20th century America and American political and policy history
jeffries@.umbc.edu
KRISTE LINDENMEYER, Chair
Ph.D., University of Cincinnati; U.S. social history, public policy, history of childhood, women and gender during 19th and 20th century
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, Professor of Political Science, former Provost
Ph.D., State University of New York, Buffalo; public administration, personnel, management
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; American politics, budgeting, public administration and policy
meyers@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; how social support systems and community involvement help people (especially Baltimore youth) cope and overcome difficult life stresses
(maton@umbc.edu)
LAURA STAPLETON
Ph.D., University of Maryland, College Park; collection and statistical modeling of survey data
lstaplet@umbc.edu
Sociology
MARINA A. ADLER
Ph.D., University of Maryland, College Park; social stratification and inequality, cross-national gender, work and family policy, sociology of women, research methods and statistics
adler@umbc.edu
JERE M. COHEN
Ph.D., University of Chicago; sociology of religion, military veterans, status attainment, sociology of adolescence, sociological theory
cohen@umbc.edu
J. KEVIN ECKERT, Dean, Erickson School of Aging Studies
Ph.D., Northwestern University; environmental gerontology, medical anthropology, aging services management and delivery, residential care/long term care quality, qualitative research
eckert@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, gender, family, seniors' housing
lmorgan@umbc.edu
FRED I. PINCUS
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles; affirmative action, race relations, diversity, education
pincus@umbc.edu
WILLIAM G. 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 relationships, health care delivery in emergency departments and assisted living facilities, social gerontology, research methods
jschma@umbc.edu
MARY STUART
Sc.D., Johns Hopkins University; international best practices in rehabilitation and the prevention and management of chronic disease; health care organization and delivery; decision support for policy and management
stuart@.umbc.edu
JAMES A. TRELA, Chair
Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University; age-related behavior and attitudes, economic well-being and poverty, political behavior
trela@umbc.edu