Directory

Shobita Parthasarathy is Professor of Public Policy and Women's and Gender Studies, and co-founder and director of the Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program, at  University of Michigan. She studies the political economy of innovation and…

Javed Ali is an associate professor of practice at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy where he delivers courses on counterterrorism and domestic terrorism, cybersecurity, and national security law and policy. Ali brings more than 20 years of…

Robert Axelrod is the William D. Hamilton Distinguished University Professor Emeritus at the University of Michigan, having held appointments at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and Department of Political Science. His areas of…

Ben Green Ben Green is an assistant professor in the University of Michigan School of Information and an assistant professor (by courtesy) in the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. He holds a PhD in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University,…

Robert C. Hampshire is an associate professor of public policy at the Ford School, a research associate professor in both the U-M Transportation Research Institute's (UMTRI) Human Factors group and Michigan Institute for Data Science (MIDAS), and an…

Yousif Hassan is an assistant professor at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. His work examines the social, economic, and political implications of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain, and big data focusing…

Catie Hausman is an Associate Professor in the School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Her work focuses on environmental and energy economics. Recent projects have…

Judge-Lord is a political scientist who studies interactions among interest groups, legislators, and bureaucracies. His current work focuses on how public pressure campaigns affect agency rulemaking, especially climate and environmental justice campaigns. His other research projects address legislator behavior and capacity, money in politics, lobbying, and private governance.

Paula Lantz is the James B. Hudak Professor of Health Policy and director of undergraduate programs at the University of Michigan's Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. She also is a University Professor of Diversity and Social Transformation and…

Daniel Little is professor of philosophy at the University of Michigan-Dearborn and professor of sociology and public policy in Ann Arbor. His academic interests encompass a range of interdisciplinary topics involving philosophy, history, and the…

Barry Rabe is the J. Ira and Nicki Harris Family Professor of Public Policy at the Ford School. He is also the Arthur Thurnau Professor of Environmental Policy, with courtesy appointments in the Program in the Environment, the Department of Political…

Daniel Raimi is a fellow at Resources for the Future and a lecturer at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan. He works on a range of energy policy issues with a focus on tools to enable an equitable energy…

Kaitlin Raimi is an associate professor of public policy at the Ford School. As a social/environmental psychologist, her interests center on how individuals can promote or prevent sustainable behaviors and policies. She has three broad areas of…

Joy Rohde is an associate professor of public policy at the University of Michigan's Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. She is a historian who works at the intersection of science and technology studies, U.S. intellectual and political history,…

Dr. Todd Allen is the Chihiro Kikuchi Collegiate Professor and Glenn F. and Gladys H. Knoll Department Chair of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences at the University of Michigan. He is also the Director of the Michigan Memorial Phoenix…

Jesse Austin-Breneman is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He earned his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from MIT. Previous to his academic career, he worked as a development engineer in Peru, working with rural…

Avik Basu is a faculty member in the School for Environment and Sustainability (SEAS), focusing on the behavioral side of environmental challenges. His recent work focuses on climate adaptation in the developing world through scenario planning,…

Elizabeth Popp Berman is a sociologist whose work is at the intersection of organizations, economic sociology, and the sociology of science and knowledge. Much of her work focuses on recent U.S. history and emphasizes the role of public policy. Her…

Dr. Rosina Bierbaum is a Professor and Dean Emerita of the University of Michigan’s School of Natural Resources and Environment (now School for Environment and Sustainability) and the Roy F. Weston Chair in Natural Economics at the University of…

Dr. Matthew Bui (he/him) is an assistant professor at the University of Michigan School of Information, and a faculty affiliate with the NYU Center for Critical Race and Digital Studies (CR+DS) and UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry (C2i2).…

Bilal Butt is faculty member in the new School for Environment and Sustainability and a faculty affiliate of the African Studies Center. His research is concerned with the political ecology of pastoralism and protected areas in East Africa. He places…

Michael Craig is an Assistant Professor of Energy Systems at the School for Environment and Sustainability. He primarily researches how to reduce global and local environmental impacts of electric power and other energy systems. In prior work, he…

Melissa Creary is an Assistant Professor in the School of Public Health, Department of Health Management and Policy. She received her PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies (Health, History, and Culture) at the Graduate Institute for the Liberal Arts (ILA)…

John M. DeCicco is a research professor at the University of Michigan Energy Institute where he addresses energy and environmental challenges through an interdisciplinary approach anchored in physical science while drawing insights from economics and…

Tawanna Dillahunt is an Associate Professor at the University of Michigan’s School of Information (UMSI). Working at the intersection of human-computer interaction; environmental, economic, and social sustainability; and equity, her research…

Denia Djokić is an Assistant Research Scientist at the Fastest Path to Zero Initiative. Concurrently, Djokić is also a 2021 Levenick Resident Scholar in Sustainability Leadership at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.Djokić assists the…

Dr. Paul Fleming focuses his work on the root causes of racial health inequities and policy and programmatic strategies to address them. He conducts community-based participatory research focused on the health needs of Latinx immigrants in Michigan…

Dr. Terri Friedline writes, organizes, and teaches about racial capitalism, technology, and the financial system. She is an associate professor of social work at the University of Michigan and is the author of “Banking on a Revolution: Why Financial…

Rajiv Ghimire is a faculty member in the School for Environment and Sustainability focusing on Sustainability and Development. His teaching and research are centered on global development, climate and energy, adaptation and resilience, sustainable…

Robert Goodspeed, is an Associate Professor of Urban Planning. He teaches in the areas of geographic information systems (GIS), collaborative planning, and scenario planning theory and methods. His research investigates how new information…