Faculty

Directors

Max Stephenson Jr.
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Max Stephenson, Jr.
Director

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Nonprofit/NGO governance, leadership, management & civil society
-Public policy & policy theory
-Peacebuilding, international development & democratization
-Environmental politics, policy & planning
Mary Beth Dunkenberger
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Mary Beth Dunkenberger
Senior Program Director, Blacksburg

Research Areas
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Global connections between social programs & economic & community development

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Melony Price-Rhodes, Ph. D.
Senior Program Director, Alexandria

Research Areas
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Child welfare, revenue maximization, foster care and child protective services
- Federal and state regulations affecting Federal Reimbursement Unit activities

Bruce Goldstein
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Bruce Goldstein
Program Director For Collaborative Learning

Research Areas
-Environmental planning & policymaking
-Long-term, large-scale ecological planning
-Collaborative negotiation and governance


Research Faculty

Bryce Hoflund
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Curriculum Vita
Bryce Hoflund
Project Associate (P/T)

Research Areas
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Regulation, organizational networks, leadership & health care policy
David Moore
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David Moore
Senior Research Associate

Research Areas
-Nonprofit/NGO governance, leadership, management & civil society
-Public policy & policy theory
-Energy policy & planning
-Organizational development & capacity building

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Lisa Poley
Senior Research Associate

Research Areas
-Community building/development
-Collaborative neighborhoods & cooperatives
-Nonprofits & civil society
-International sustainable & local economic development
Aaron Schroeder
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Aaron Schroeder
Research Scientist

Research Areas
-Program evaluation
-Research design
-Methods of data collection
-Quanitative & qualitative data analysis
-Database construction & analysis
-Technology-enabled governmental services

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Nancy White
Senior Research Associate

Research Areas
-Policy design
-Administration
-Nonprofit and nongovernmental organizational evaluations


 


Senior Fellows

Minnis Ridenour
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Minnis Ridenour
VTIPG Senior Fellow, Resource Development

Research Areas
- Resource development
- Financial management for governmental & nonprofit organizations
Edward Weisband
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Edward Weisband
VTIPG Senior Fellow, Endowed Chair, Political Science

Research Areas
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International monitoring regimes
- Global accountabilities
- Core international labor standards


Affiliated Faculty

Chris Barrett
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Chris Barrett
Professor & Director, Network Dynamics & Simulation Science Laboratory, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute

Research Areas
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Simulation of very large systems
-Cognitive science & computationally aided reasoning
Erv Blythe
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Erv Blythe
Vice President , Information Technology

Research Areas
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Technological & market structure obsticles to the emergence of regional & national advanced communications network infrastructure
Isabel Bradburn
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Isabel Bradburn
Research Director, Human Development

Research Areas
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Attachment processes in children & adults
-Socio-emotional development
-The arts, human development & social relationships
John Browder
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John Browder
Professor & Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, College of Architecture and Urban Studies

Research Areas
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International development and environmental policy planning
-Latin American studies
-Environmental ethics
-Planning theory

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William H Butler Visiting Assistant Professor, School of Public and International Affairs, Urban Affairs and Planning

Research Areas
-Environmental Planning
and Policy
-Collaborative Planning
-Community Dispute Resolution and Public Participation
-Social-ecological Resilience
-Interorganizational Networks
-Social Learning
Mido Chang
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Mido Chang
Assistant Professor, Educational Leadership & Policy Studies, School of Education

Research Areas
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Longitudinal growth & multilevel models
-Educational policy issues




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Sang Choi
Assistant Professor, CPAP School of Pub & International Affairs
-Research Areas
- Public and nonprofit management networks and governance
- Homeland security and emergency management
- State and local government expenditure
- Social network analysis
- Public administration and policy

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Larkin Dudley
Associate Professor, School of Public & International Affairs

Research Areas
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Public administration
-Policy Analysis
-Contracting & organizational design
Wilma Dunaway
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Wilma Dunaway
Associate Professor, Government & International Affairs, School of Public & International Affairs


Fenio
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Kenly Greer Fenio
Instructor, Political Science

Research Areas
- African politics and policy political economy and informal institutions -HIV/AIDS and community mobilization - Women in the public realm
- the intersection between infectious disease, animals and local populations -security studies (AFRICOM)
- post-conflict state-society relations
- governance and democracy
Victoria Fu
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Victoria Fu
Professor, Human Development

Research Areas
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Contextual influences on learning processes
-Informal science education for children, youth & families
David Gring
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David Gring
Affiliated Faculty

Research Areas
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Strategic leadership, governance & accountability in nonprofit organizations

Bruce Hull
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Bruce Hull
Professor, Forestry

Research Areas
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Social ecology
-Creating thriving & sustainable communities
Shannon Jarrott
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Shannon Jarrott
Associate Professor, Human Development

Research Areas
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Gerontology
-Service-learning in adult care settings
-International aging research (Sweden)
Laura Jensen
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Laura Jensen
Chair & Associate Professor, Center for Public Administration & Policy

Research Areas
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Social policy & welfare state development
-Federalism & intergovernmental relations
-Government accountability
Anne Khademian
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Anne Khademian
Associate Professor, Center for Public Administration & Policy

Research Areas
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Public Management & policy
-Organizational learning
-Homeland security
Ann Kilkelly
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Ann Kilkelly
Professor, Department for Interdisciplinary Studies

Research Areas
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Community arts
-Dance & movement
-Women's studies
Ted Koebel
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Ted Koebel
Professor, Urban Affairs & Planning, School of Public & International Affairs

Research Areas
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Housing & community development
-Nonprofit housing
-Housing policy develoment
-Affordable housing development & redevelopment
-Real estate market analysis
Bob Leonard
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Bob Leonard
Professor, Theatre Arts

Research Areas-Directing & performance skills
- Community partnerships & the arts
Tim Luke
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Tim Luke
University Distinguished Professor, Political Science

Research Areas
-Environmental & cultural studies
-Comparative politics
-International political economy
-Modern critical, social & political theory
James Martin, Jr.
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James Martin, Jr.
Director, World Institute for Disaster & Risk Management, Professor Civil & Environmental Engineering

Research Areas
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Earthquake engineering
-Environmental geo-technics

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Deborah J. Milly
Associate Professor, Political Science

Research Areas
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Japanese politics
-Comparative public & social policy
-Comparative & regional Asian political economy
Anne Moore
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Anne Moore
Associate Vice President, Learning Technologies & Director, Information Technology

Research Areas
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Modern societal technology
-Assisting communities with educational technology integration
Wolfgang Natter
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Wolfgang Natter
Professor, Political Science

Research Areas
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Globalization, democracy, sustainability
-Poststructural social science
Patrick Roberts
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Patrick S. Roberts
Assistant Professor, Center for Public Administration & Policy, School of Public & International Affairs

Research Areas-Institutions & organizations
- American political development
- Public administration and policy
Joyce Rothschild
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Joyce Rothschild
Professor, Government & International Affairs

Research Areas
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Sociology of work & organizations
-Economic restructuring & global change
-Associational democracy
-Workplace & economic democracy
-Gender & work
Suchitra Samanta
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Suchitra Samanta
Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Interdisciplinary Studies

Research Areas
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Issues of minority status & cultural obstacles for poor women in India
Bruno Sobral
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Bruno Sobral
Professor & Executive & Scientific Director, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute

Research Areas
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Transdisciplinary partnerships supporting development of vaccines, diagnostics & therapeutics against infectious agents

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Yannis Stivachtis
Associate Professor of International Relations & Director, International Studies Program

Research Areas
-International Security -Conflict Analysis -Cooperative Security -Arms Control and Disarmament
- Peaceful Settlement of Disputes
Laura Zanotti
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Laura Zanotti
Associate Professor, Political Science

Research Areas
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Critical political & international relations theory
-International organization, security, peacekeeping & democratization
Chris Zobel
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Chris Zobel
Associate Professor, Business Information Technology

Research Areas
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Intelligent decision support systems
-Knowledge engineering
-Large-scale stochastic decision problems, heuristic problem solving