Faculty

Directors

Max Stephenson Jr. Max Stephenson, Jr.
Director

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Research Areas:

  • Nonprofit/NGO governance, leadership, management & civil society
  • Public policy & policy theory
  • Peacebuilding, international development & democratization
  • Environmental politics, policy & planning

Mary Beth Dunkenberger Mary Beth Dunkenberger
Senior Program Director,
Blacksburg

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Research Areas:

  • Connections between social programs, economic & community development
  • Organizational and program assessments
  • Policy and program innovations

Melony Price-Rhodes,
Ph. D.

Senior Program Director,
Alexandria

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Research Areas:

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



Research Faculty

Jeremy Adams
Project Associate

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No Picture available Jonathan Howard
Java Application Engineer

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Holly Lesko
Holly Lesko
Community Engagement Research Faculty

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Suzanne Lo
Suzanne Lo
Project Associate

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Nancy White
Austin Mills
Business Systems Analyst

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David Moore David Moore
Senior Research Associate

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Research Areas:

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

Aaron Schroeder Aaron Schroeder
Research Scientist

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Research Areas:

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

Nancy White
Nancy White
Senior Research Associate

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Research Areas:

  • Policy design
  • Administration
  • Nonprofit and nongovernmental organizational evaluations


Fellows

Andy Morikawa Andy Morikawa
VTIPG Fellow


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Minnis Ridenour Minnis Ridenour
VTIPG Fellow,
Resource Development

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Research Areas:

  • Resource development
  • Financial management for governmental & nonprofit organizations

Edward Weisband Edward Weisband VTIPG Fellow, Endowed Chair, Political Science

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Research Areas:

  • International monitoring regimes
  • Global accountabilities
  • Core international labor standard



Affiliated Faculty

Chris Barrett Chris Barrett Director, Network Dynamics and Simulation Science Laboratory;
Professor, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute and Department of Computer Science
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Research Areas:

  • Simulation of very large systems
  • Cognitive science & computationally aided reasoning

Erv Blythe Erv Blythe
Vice President, Information Technology

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Research Areas:

  • Technological & market structure obsticles to the emergence of regional & national advanced communications network infrastructure

Isabel Bradburn
Isabel Bradburn Research Director,
Human Development

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Research Areas:

  • Early childhood education and health
  • Childhood program and policy evaluation

John Browder John Browder Professor & Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, College of Architecture and Urban Studies

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Research Areas:

  • International development & environmental policy planning
  • Latin American studies
  • Environmental ethics
  • Planning theory

No Picture available William H Butler Visiting Assistant Professor, School of Public and International Affairs, Urban Affairs and Planning

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Research Areas:

  • Environmental Planning & Policy
  • Collaborative Planning
  • Community Dispute Resolution & Public Participation
  • Social-ecological Resilience
  • Interorganizational Networks
  • Social Learning

Mido Chang
Mido Chang Assistant Professor, Educational Leadership & Policy Studies, School of Education

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Research Areas:

  • Longitudinal growth & multilevel models
  • Educational policy issues

Larkin Dudley Larkin Dudley
Associate Professor, School of Public & International Affairs

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Research Areas:

  • Public administration
  • Policy Analysis
  • Contracting & organizational design

Wilma Dunaway Wilma Dunaway
Associate Professor, Government & International Affairs, School of Public & International Affairs

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Victoria Fu Victoria Fu
Professor, Human Development

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Research Areas:

  • Contextual influences on learning processes
  • Informal science education for children, youth & families

Bruce Hull
Bruce Hull
Professor of Forestry

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Research Areas:

  • Social ecology
  • Creating thriving & sustainable communities

Shannon Jarrott Shannon Jarrott
Associate Professor, Human Development

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Research Areas:

  • Gerontology
  • Service-learning in adult care settings
  • International aging research (Sweden)

Laura Jensen
Laura Jensen
Chair & Associate Professor, Center for Public Administration & Policy

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Research Areas:

  • Social policy & welfare state development
  • Federalism & intergovernmental relations
  • Government accountability

Anne Khademian Anne Khademian
Associate Professor, Center for Public Administration & Policy

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Research Areas:

  • Public Management & policy
  • Organizational learning
  • Homeland security

Ann Kilkelly
Ann Kilkelly
Professor, Department for Interdisciplinary Studies

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Research Areas:

  • Community arts
  • Dance & movement
  • Women's studies

Ted Koebel
Ted Koebel
Professor, Urban Affairs & Planning, School of Public & International Affairs

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Research Areas:

  • Housing & community development
  • Nonprofit housing
  • Housing policy develoment
  • Affordable housing development & redevelopment
  • Real estate market analysis

Bob Leonard

Bob Leonard
Professor of Theatre Arts

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Research Areas:

  • Directing & performance skills
  • Community partnerships & the arts

Tim Luke

Tim Luke
University Distinguished Professor, Political Science

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Research Areas:

  • Environmental & cultural studies
  • Comparative politics
  • International political economy
  • Modern critical, social & political theory

James Martin, Jr.
James Martin, Jr.
Director, World Institute for Disaster & Risk Management, Professor Civil & Environmental Engineering

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Research Areas:

  • Earthquake engineering
  • Environmental geo-technics

No picture available Deborah J. Milly
Associate Professor, Political Science

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Research Areas:

  • Japanese politics
  • Comparative public & social policy
  • Comparative & regional Asian political economy

Anne Moore
Anne Moore
Associate Vice President, Learning Technologies & Director, Information Technology

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Research Areas:

  • Modern societal technology
  • Assisting communities with educational technology integration

Wolfgang Natter
Wolfgang Natter
Dean of Arts & Sciences
St. Bonaventure University

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Research Areas:

  • Globalization, democracy, sustainability
  • Poststructural social science

Lisa Poley
Senior Research Associate
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Research Areas:

  • Community building/development
  • Collaborative neighborhoods & cooperatives
  • Nonprofits & civil society
  • International sustainable & local economic development

Patrick Roberts
Patrick S. Roberts
Assistant Professor, Center for Public Administration & Policy, School of Public & International Affairs

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Research Areas:

  • Institutions & organizations
  • American political development
  • Public administration and policy

Joyce Rothschild
Joyce Rothschild
Professor, Government & International Affairs

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Research Areas:

  • Sociology of work & organizations
  • Economic restructuring & global change
  • Associational democracy
  • Workplace & economic democracy
  • Gender & work

Suchitra Samanta
Suchitra Samanta
Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Interdisciplinary Studies

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Research Areas:

  • Issues of minority status & cultural obstacles for poor women in India

Tom Sanchez
Tom Sanchez
Professor, Urban Affairs and Planning

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Research Areas:

  • Environmental justice, technology, and the social aspects of planning and policy

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

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Research Areas:

  • International Security
  • Conflict Analysis
  • Cooperative Security
  • Arms Control and Disarmament
  • Peaceful Settlement of Disputes

Scott Tate
Scott Tate
Virginia Cooperative Extention Office

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Research Areas:

  • Community change processes and civic innovation
  • Inclusion, diversity, and participatory methods
  • The role of arts and culture in commuity change

  • Laura Zanotti
    Laura Zanotti
    Associate Professor, Political Science

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    Research Areas:

    • Critical political & international relations theory
    • International organization, security, peacekeeping & democratization

    Yang Zhang
    Yang Zhang
    Associate Professor, Urban Affairs and Planning Program

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    Research Areas:

    • Environmental planning
    • Land use planning
    • Sustainable development

    Chris Zobel
    Chris Zobel
    Associate Professor, Business Information Technology

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    Research Areas:

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