Joel Aberbach Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Public Policy Director, Center for American Politics and Public Policy
Ph.D., Political Science (Yale University, 1967) Email: aberbach@polisci.ucla.edu Phone: 310-780-4005 Research Expertise: Consequences of the growth of the administrative state; the role of top-level federal executives in the policy process; implementation and effects of Congressional oversight.
Helmut Anheier Professor of Social Welfare and Public Policy Director, Center for Civil Society Director, Center for Globalization
and Policy Research.
Ph.D. Yale University, 1986 Email: anheier@spa.ucla.edu Phone: (310) 825-2318 Campus Extension: x52318 Research Expertise: Civil society, nonprofit organization, philanthropic foundations, NGOs, globalization and civil society, comparative social and cultural policy, research methodology, social movements and networks.
Dean Baim Visiting Professor of Public Policy (Fall 2008, Winter 2009)
Ph.D. Economics (University of California, Los Angeles, 1988) Email: dean.baim@pepperdine.edu Phone: 310-506-4176 Research Expertise: professional sports stadium financing, Olympic studies
Albert Carnesale UCLA Chancellor Emeritus Professor of Public Policy and Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering, North Carolina State University, 1966 Email: acarnesale@ucla.edu Phone: 310-267-4353 Research Expertise: International security and arms control, with emphasis on nuclear weapons and strategy; nuclear energy; impact of technological change on defense and arms control policy.
Michael Darby Warren C. Cordner Distinguished Professor of Money and Financial Markets and Public Policy
Ph.D., Economics (University of Chicago, 1970) Email: darby@ucla.edu Phone: 310-825-4180 Research Expertise: Money and banking; macroeconomics; international finance; science and technology; innovation; how ideas become products.
J.R. DeShazo Associate Professor of Public Policy Director, Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies
Ph.D., Urban Planning, Economics Concentration (Harvard University, 1997) Email: deshazo@ucla.edu Phone: 310-593-1198 Research Expertise: Environmental economics and policy; local public finance, with applications to urban infrastructure and protected areas; political economy; financial management of public services.
Michael Dukakis Visiting Professor of Public Policy (Each Winter Quarter)
J.D. (Harvard Law School, 1960) Email: duke@spa.ucla.edu Phone: 310-794-4228 Research Expertise: National health care policy reform and the lessons that national policy makers can learn from state reform efforts.
Franklin D. Gilliam, Jr. Dean, School of Public Affairs Professor of Public Policy and Political Science
Ph.D., Political Science (University of Iowa, 1983) Email: fgilliam@spa.ucla.edu Phone: 310-206-3487 Research Expertise: Political attitudes and behavior; public policy issues in minority communities; institutional politics; how television news shapes public debate on criminal justice policy.
Neal Halfon Professor of Pediatrics, Community Health Services, and Public Policy Director, UCLA Center for Healthier Children, Families, and Communities
M.D., University of California, Davis, School of Medicine, 1978 Email: nhalfon@ucla.edu Phone: 310-206-1898 Research Expertise: Poverty and children's health; access to care; child health policy;coordination of services for high risk children; special concerns of children with multiple health care needs, including children in foster care and drug exposed infants.
Joel Handler Distinguished Professor of Law and Public Policy Richard C. Maxwell Professor of Law
J. D., Harvard University Law School Email: handler@law.ucla.edu Phone: 310-825-1746 Research Expertise: Poverty issues in law and administration; the structure and operation of welfare programs; client-agency relationships in education, health care, and other areas; welfare reform.
Michael D. Intriligator Professor of Economics, Political Science, and Public Policy Emeritus
Ph.D. in Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Email: intriligator@econ.ucla.edu Phone: 310-825-4144 Research Expertise: Mathematical economic theory; applications of quantitative economics to strategy and arms control; health economics; the future of the Russian economy.
Sanford Jacoby Professor of Management, History, and Public Policy
Ph.D. in Economics, University of California, Berkeley Email: sanford.jacoby@anderson.ucla.edu Phone: 310-206-6550 Research Expertise: Employment, workplace, and labor policy; social welfare policy; the international political economy of business-government relationships; pension funds, corporate governance, and labor movements.
Robert Jensen Associate Professor of Public Policy
Ph.D. Princeton University in Economics 1998 Email: robertjensen@ucla.edu Phone: 310-825-9865
Matthew Kahn Professor of Economics, Matthew E. Kahn's UCLA Webpage
PHD in Economics, University of Chicago Email: mkahn@ioe.ucla.edu Phone: 310-794-4904 Research Expertise: environmental and urban economics, econometrics, social networks, climate change, energy
Mark A.R. Kleiman Professor of Public Policy Director, Drug Policy Analysis Program
Ph.D. in Public Policy, Harvard Email: kleiman@ucla.edu Phone: 310-825-6148 Research Expertise: Drug abuse control policy, crime control policy, methods of policy analysis, policies toward imperfectly rational behavior.
Archie Kleingartner Founding Dean Professor of Public Policy and Management Emeritus
Ph.D. in Industrial Relations, University of Wisconsin Email: archie.kleingartner@anderson.ucla.edu Phone: 310-206-0337 Research Expertise: U.S. and international human resource management, including the management of creative professionals; industrial relations; arts and entertainment industry.
Arleen Leibowitz Professor of Public Policy
Ph.D., Economics (Columbia University, 1972) Email: arleen@ucla.edu Phone: 310-206-8653 Research Expertise: Health care and health care reform; labor economics; employee benefits; cost and financing of HIV care; cost and financing of mental heath care for children.
Susanne Lohmann Professor of Political Science, Public Policy, and Human Complex Systems Director, Center for Governance
Ph.D, Economics and Political Economy (Carnegie Mellon University, 1991) Email: lohmann@ucla.edu Phone: 310-441-1158 Research Expertise: Collective action; political economy of central banking; German politics; international political economy; formal theory; experimental political economy; and computational models of ethical reasoning; ethics and governance; higher education.
Daniel Mitchell Ho-su Wu Professor of Management and Public Policy Emeritus
Ph.D. in Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Email: daniel.j.b.mitchell@anderson.ucla.edu Phone: 310-825-1504 Research Expertise: Human resource management; labor unions; bargaining; wage controls; the labor market and labor market statistics; the impact of international trade on wages; effects of profit-sharing and mandated benefits.
Barbara Nelson Professor of Public Policy and Social Welfare, Urban Planning and Political Science http://concord.spa.ucla.edu
Ph.D., Political Science (Ohio State University, 1976) Email: nelson@spa.ucla.edu Phone: 310-206-7979 Research Expertise: Conflict mediation in civil society, leadership, social policy, nonprofits, philanthropy, social movements, and women and politics.
Aaron Panofsky Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Center for Society and Genetics
PhD in Sociology, New York University Email: apanofsky@socgen.ucla.edu Phone: 310-825-0462 Research Expertise: Sociology of science and knowledge, social shaping and impacts of
contemporary genetics, expertise and science policy, social movements and
science, sociology of culture, race and ethnicity.
Mark A. Peterson Professor of Public Policy and Political Science
Ph.D. in Political Science, University of Michigan Email: markap@ucla.edu Phone: 310-794-4270 Research Expertise: Health care policy; American national institutions (presidency, Congress, interest groups); presidential-congressional interactions and policy making; policy development and decision-making.
Meredith Phillips Associate Professor of Public Policy and Sociology
Ph.D. in Sociology, Northwestern University Email: phillips@spa.ucla.edu Phone: 310-794-5475 Research Expertise: education policy; social inequality; sociology of education; causes and consequences of differences in academic achievement; effectiveness of educational interventions.
Sarah Reber Assistant Professor of Public Policy
Ph.D., Economics (Harvard University, 2003) Email: sreber@ucla.edu Phone: 310-825-1960 Research Expertise: Budget and Finance, Education and Human Capital, Health Policy, and Race and Gender.
Andrew Sabl Associate Professor of Public Policy and Political Science
Ph.D., Political Science (Harvard University, 1997) Email: sabl@ucla.edu Phone: 310-825-7196 Research Expertise: Political ethics, democratic and constitutional theory, history of political thought, especially David Hume and Scottish Enlightenment; toleration and political pluralism.
Allen J. Scott Distinguished Professor of Public Policy and Geography
Ph.D. in Geography, Northwestern University Email: ajscott@geog.ucla.edu Phone: 310-825-7344 Research Expertise: Industrialization; urbanization; regional development; relationships between industrial organization, technology, local labor markets, and location.
Michael A. Stoll Chair, Department of Public Policy Professor of Public Policy and Urban Planning Associate Director , Center for the Study of Urban Poverty
Ph.D. in Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Email: mstoll@ucla.edu Phone: 310-206-4774 Research Expertise: Interplay of race/ethnicity, urban poverty and labor markets, and urban economic development strategies.
Fernando Torres-Gil Associate Dean, Academic Affairs Professor of Social Welfare and Public Policy Director, Center for Policy Research on Aging
Ph.D. in Social Policy, Planning and Research, Brandeis University Email: torres@spa.ucla.edu Phone: (310) 206-1994 Research Expertise: Gerontology; the politics of aging; long-term care and services to the elderly; social policy; health care, Social Security and welfare reform; urban planning issues.
Charles Young Chancellor Emeritus & Professor
Ph.D., Political Science (University of California, Los Angeles, 1960) Email: cyoung@spa.ucla.edu Phone: 310-825-4326 Research Expertise: Public management; fiscal policy; higher education policy.
Amy Zegart Associate Professor of Public Policy
Ph.D. in Political Science, Stanford University Email: zegart@ucla.edu Phone: 310-825-2455 Research Expertise: U.S. foreign policy (national security); presidential power; organizational effectiveness; international relations theory; American bureaucracy.
