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A

John Accordino
Phone: (804) 827-0525
E-mail: jjaccord@vcu.edu

Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Associate professor and coordinator, Master of Urban and Regional Planning Program and Graduate Certificates in Urban Revitalization, Historic Preservation and Geographic Information Systems. 

Interests include: commercial and neighborhood revitalization methods, impacts of community revitalization policies and comparative (U.S. and European) urban revitalization policies.

 

Jay S. Albanese
Phone: (804) 828-2721
E-mail: jsalbane@vcu.edu

Ph.D., Rutgers University

Professor and Graduate Director, Criminal Justice

Interests include: transnational crime, organized crime, human trafficking and corruption; ethics – ethics and criminal justice, white-collar crime, gambling and crime; the future of crime, emerging crimes (intellectual property theft, smuggling of natural resources, etc.) and new ethical dilemmas (and new manifestations of old problems).

 

Carl Ameringer
Phone: (804) 827-4566
E-mail: cfameringer@vcu.edu

J.D. University of Virginia; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University

Professor, Health Policy and Politics

Interests include: the politics of health care access and delivery with an emphasis on professional regimes and market theory.

 

Jason Ross Arnold
E-mail: jrarnold@vcu.edu
Ph.D., University of Minnesota

Assistant professor

Interests include: comparative study of democracy, elections, and public opinion; political economy; Latin American and European politics; and electoral authoritarian regimes.

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B

William C. Bosher, Jr.
Phone: (804) 828-3382
E-mail: wcbosher@vcu.edu

Ed.D., University of Virginia

Distinguished professor of education and public policy

Interests include: federal, state and local policy development, school finance, educational accountability and leadership for reform.

 

Judy Bradford
Phone: (804) 828-6033
E-mail: jbbradfo@vcu.edu

Ph.D.

Assistant professor and director of the Community Health Research Initiative. 

Interests include: community research with disadvantaged populations.

 

Deborah Brock
Phone: (804) 828-2922
E-mail: dmbrock@vcu.edu

Ph.D., Virginia Commonwealth University

Assistant professor and associate director for operations, L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs

Interests include: public human resources, job satisfaction and public financial management.

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C

Xueming (Jimmy) Chen
Phone: (804) 828-1254
E-mail: xchen2@vcu.edu

Ph.D. Urban and Regional Planning, University of Southern California, M.S. Urban and Regional Planning, Nanjing University, China and B.S. Urban and Regional Planning, Nanjing University, China

Associate professor

Interests include: transportation policy and planning, urban land uses, travel demand forecasting models, traffic impact studies, general plan amendments, zoning changes and GIS applications.

 

Mark Christie
Phone: (804) 828-6037
E-mail: mchristie@scc.state.va.us

J.D., Georgetown University

Visiting professor

Interests include: constitutional law and policy, comparative government and politics.

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D

Robyn Diehl
Phone: (804) 828-2759
E-mail: rdlacks@vcu.edu

Ph.D., Virginia Commonwealth University

Assistant professor

Interests include: program evaluation, project impact and the impact of violent crime on youth and community development. 

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F

David Farmer
Phone: (804) 828-8131
E-mail: dfarmer@vcu.edu

Ph.D., University of London; Ph.D., University of Virginia

Professor

Interests include: political philosophy and administrative theory.

 

Carolyn L. Funk
Phone: (804) 827-1212
E-mail: clfunk@vcu.edu

Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

Associate professor, director of the Commonwealth Poll, director of the Ph.D. Program in Public Policy and Administration

Interests include: public opinion about government programs and policies, science and technology policy, survey research methods.

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G

Susan Gooden
Phone: (804) 828-8033
E-mail: stgooden@vcu.edu

Ph. D., Syracuse University

Associate professor and director of Graduate Programs

Interests include: social policy and social equity.

 

Jill Gordon
Phone: (804) 828-0901
E-mail: jagordon@vcu.edu

Ph.D., University of Cincinnati

Associate professor

Interests include: evaluative studies of correctional policy encompassing both adult and juvenile systems; correctional employees’ attitudes towards work, clients and overall organizational issues; domestic violence issues related to the criminal justice response.

 

Morton Gulak
Phone: (804) 827-0778
E-mail: mbgulak@vcu.edu

Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania

Associate professor

Interests include: neighborhood planning, high-speed and commuter rail impacts on local community development, crime prevention through environmental design and international planning and education, with an emphasis on Indonesia and Southeast Asia.   

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H

Richard Huff
Phone: (804) 827-1430
E-mail: rrhuff@vcu.edu

Ph.D., Virginia Commonwealth University

Assistant professor

Interests include: performance measurement, organization behavior, comparative public administration and public administration history.

 

Janet R. Hutchinson 
Phone: (804) 828-8041
E-mail: jhutch@vcu.edu

Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh

Associate professor and coordinator, Public Administration Program, director On-Line Learning

Interests include: issues in child and family policy, feminist theory particularly in relation to organizational behavior and development in the field of public administration and the sociology of knowledge use.   

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L

Jason K. Levy
Phone: (804) 828-8040
E-mail: jklevy@vcu.edu

Ph.D., University of Waterloo

Associate professor

Interests include: homeland security, emergency management, risk assessment, natural hazards, geomatics engineering, sensor integration.

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M

John V. Moeser 
E-mail: jvmoeser@vcu.edu

Ph.D., George Washington University

Professor emeritus

Interests include: urban politics, policy-making and implementation.

 

Laura J. Moriarty
Phone: (804) 828-1674
E-mail: ljmoriar@vcu.edu

Ph.D., Sam Houston State University

Professor and vice provost for Academic and Faculty Affairs

Interests include: victimology, research methods and program evaluation

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N

William Newmann
Phone: (804) 828-8038
E-mail: wnewmann@vcu.edu

Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh

Associate professor, program coordinator political science, undergraduate program coordinator Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness

Interests include: national security decision-making, terrorism and homeland security, presidential policy making and East Asian security.

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P

Steven P. Peterson
Phone: (804) 828-3186
E-mail: sppeters@vcu.edu

Ph.D., Indiana University

Director of Research, Virginia Retirement System

Interests include: econometrics of financial markets, risk and distress models, and neural networks.

 

Michael Pratt
Phone: (804) 828-1835
E-mail: mdpratt@vcu.edu

Ph.D., University of Kansas

Professor of economics

Interests include: the effects of regulations and institutional characteristics on business decisions and market outcomes and the impact of work force training on low literacy adults.

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R

John Reitzel
Phone: (804) 827-0879
E-mail: jdreitzel@vcu.edu

Ph.D., University of Florida

Assistant professor

Interests include: the interaction between race/ethnicity, crime and the criminal justice system, particularly policing and correctional institutions.

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S

Avrum J. (A.J.) Shriar
Phone: (804) 827-0788 
E-mail: ajshriar@vcu.edu

Ph.D., University of Florida

Associate professor

Interests include: rural development, farming systems and land use, natural resource management and conservation, environmental planning and impact assessment, cultural and political ecology, Latin America and the Caribbean.

 

I-Shian (Ivan) Suen
Phone: (804) 828-2721 
E-mail: isuen@vcu.edu

Ph.D. University of Washington

Associate professor

Interests include: land use planning, geographic information systems, decision support systems, e-government services and their integration in planning education and practice.

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T

Judyth Twigg
Phone: (804) 828-8051
E-mail: jtwigg@vcu.edu

Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Associate professor

Interests include: international relations, comparative politics, international political economy, politics of Russia and the Former Soviet Union, and issues of health, demographic change and health care reform in Russia. 

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U

Melvin I. Urofsky
Phone: (804) 828-6037
E-mail: murofsky@vcu.edu

Ph.D., Columbia University; J.D., University of Virginia

Professor emeritus

Interests include: legal history and campaign-finance reform laws.

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W

Nelson Wikstrom
Phone: (804) 828-8068
E-mail: nwikstro@vcu.edu 

Ph.D., University of Connecticut

Professor

Interests include: vertical and horizontal intergovernmental relations, government and politics of metropolitan areas.

 

Mark C. Williams
Phone: (804) 827-4207
E-mail: williamsmc@vcu.edu

Ph.D., Virginia Commonwealth University

Assistant professor, director of the Survey and Evaluation Research Laboratory

Interests include: research methods and statistics, human resources and social services, and survey research and analysis.

 

Blue Wooldridge
Phone: (804) 828-8037
E-mail: bwooldri@vcu.edu

DPA, University of Southern California.

Professor and fellow, National Academy of Public Administration

Interests include: social equity, strategies for increasing the effectiveness of management education and training, procedures and content of local government budgets, strategies used to improve productivity and the implications for public managers of the increased diversity of the workforce.

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Z

Michela Zonta
Phone: (804) 827-0787
E-mail: mmzonta2@vcu.edu

Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

Assistant professor

Interests include: housing policy, geographic information systems.

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Virginia Commonwealth University
College of Humanities and Sciences
L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs
Center for Public Policy
Ph.D. in Public Policy and Administration
P.O. Box 843061
Richmond, Virginia 23284-3061
Phone: (804) 828-6837
E-mail: ppa@vcu.edu

Updated: 11/05/2009