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FacultyAxelrodBlankChamberlinCharlesChenCohenRobert Axelrod is Arthur W. Bromage DistinguishedUniversity Professor of Political Science and PublicPolicy. His areas of specialization include internationalsecurity, formal models, and complex adaptivesystems. Bob’s books include Conflict of Interest,The Structure of Decision, The Evolution of Cooperation,and The Complexity of Cooperation. His work focuseson questions of how patterns of social behavioremerge and draws on current research in a widerange of disciplines, including biology, psychology,and computer science. He is the winner of severalnational awards and was named a MacArthurFellow. He is a graduate of the University ofChicago and received his Ph.D. from Yale University.Rebecca M. Blank is Dean of the Ford School ofPublic Policy, the Henry Carter Adams CollegiateProfessor of Public Policy, and Professor ofEconomics. She also serves as co-director of theNational Poverty Center. Her research focuses onthe interaction between the macroeconomy, governmentanti-poverty programs, and the behaviorand well-being of low-income families. Her publicationsinclude It Takes a Nation: A New Agenda forFighting Poverty, Finding Jobs: Work and Welfare Reform,and Is the Market Moral? Becky joined the facultyafter serving as a Member of the President’sCouncil of Economic Advisers in Washington,D.C. A graduate of the University of Minnesota,she received her Ph.D. from the MassachusettsInstitute of Technology.John R. Chamberlin is Professor of Political Scienceand Public Policy. His research interests includelocal government accountability, legislative re-districting,representation and elections, and ethicsand public policy. At the Ford School, he teachesValues, Ethics and Public Policy, Policy andManagement in the Nonprofit Sector, AppliedRegression Analysis, and the Applied Policy Seminar.He is a graduate of Lehigh University and receivedhis Ph.D. from the Graduate School of Businessat Stanford University. John joined the Michiganfaculty in 1970.Kerwin K. Charles is Associate Professor of PublicPolicy and Economics. He is also a ResearchAssociate at the National Bureau of EconomicResearch. His research focuses on a range of subjectsin the broad area of empirical labor economics.His work has examined the effects of abortionlegalization on outcomes for children born aroundthe time of legalization, how the racial compositionof neighborhoods affects the social connectionspeople make, causes for the dramatic convergencein completed schooling between recent generationsof American men and women, the effect ofretirement on subjective well-being, how wealth ispropagated across generations within a family,and the many dimensions of the effect of healthshocks—including the effect on family stability andlabor supply. In ongoing work, he is studying theassortative mating in economic models and variousaspects of consumption behavior among lowincome populations. Kerwin received his Ph.D. atCornell University.Anthony S. Chen is Assistant Professor of PublicPolicy and Sociology. His teaching and researchinterests include twentieth-century American politicaldevelopment, social inequality, and publicpolicy with a special emphasis on civil rights,employment, and poverty. With the support of theNational Science Foundation, he recently completeda dissertation on the origins of affirmative actionpolicies in employment which he is expanding intoa book manuscript provisionally titled “Jobs, Politics,and Civil Rights: Equal Employment OpportunityPolicy in the United States 1941–1972”. Tony waseducated in the public schools of Alief, Texas.He holds a B.A. from Rice University and a Ph.D.from the University of California at Berkeley, wherehe was a Soros Fellow.David K. Cohen is John Dewey Collegiate Professorof Education, and Walter H. Annenberg Professorof Education Policy. His current research interestsinclude educational policy, the relations betweenpolicy and instruction, and the improvement ofteaching. His past work has included studies ofthe effects of schooling, various efforts to reformschools and teaching, the evaluation of educationalexperiments and large-scale intervention programs,and the relations between research and policy.WWW.FORDSCHOOL.UMICH.EDU
FACULTY 13With Professors Brian Rowan and DeborahLoewenberg Ball at the School of Education,David co-directs the Study of InstructionalImprovement, a large longitudinal study of effortsto improve instruction and learning in reading/language arts and mathematics in high-povertyelementary schools. David received his Ph.D.from the University of Rochester.Mary E. Corcoran is Professor of Political Science,Public Policy, Social Work, and Women’s Studies.Her research focuses on the effects of gender andrace discrimination on economic status and earningsand on welfare and employment policies.Mary has published articles on intergenerationalmobility, welfare to work, and sex-based economicinequality. She teaches seminars on poverty andinequality and on women and employment andis the faculty director of the Ford School doctoralprogram. Mary received her Ph.D. from theMassachusetts Institute of Technology.Paul N. Courant serves as Provost and ExecutiveVice President for Academic Affairs at theUniversity of Michigan. He is also Professor ofEconomics and Public Policy and served asDirector of the Institute of Public Policy Studies,the forerunner to the Ford School, in the 1980s.His research interests include local economicdevelopment, tax policy, relationships betweeneconomic growth and environmental policy, housing,gender differences in pay, and the economicsof higher education. Paul served in Washington,D.C., as the Senior Staff Economist for thePresident’s Council of Economic Advisors. He isthe author of half a dozen books, including anintroductory text in economics, and more thansixty monographs and papers in economics andpublic policy. He is a graduate of SwarthmoreCollege and received his graduate degrees atPrinceton University.Sandra K. Danziger is Professor of Social Workin the U-M School of Social Work and ResearchProfessor at the Ford School. She is also Directorof the Michigan Program on Poverty and SocialWelfare Policy, an interdisciplinary research programhoused at the Ford School. Sandra’sresearch has focused on how public policies andprograms affect disadvantaged families. Herrecent research focuses on barriers to employmentamong single mothers making the transition fromwelfare to work and welfare reform implementation.Her research topics fall within the more generalareas of poverty policy and social service programs,demographic trends in child and family well-being,gender issues across the life course, program evaluation,and qualitative methods. Sandra completedher undergraduate work at Boston University andreceived her Ph.D. in Sociology there as well.Sheldon H. Danziger is the Henry J. MeyerCollegiate Professor of Public Policy, Co-Directorof the National Poverty Center, Research Professorat the Population Studies Center, and Directorof the Research and Training Program on Povertyand Public Policy. He is co-author or co-editor ofnumerous books and articles, including: DetroitDivided, Understanding Poverty, Investing in Childrenfrom Birth to College, America Unequal, and ConfrontingPoverty: Prescriptions for Change. Sheldon’s researchfocuses on welfare reform and the effects of economic,demographic, and public policy changeson trends in poverty and inequality. He receivedhis Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology.Matthew Davis is Assistant Professor of Pediatricsand Internal Medicine at the University of MichiganMedical School. He works on several collaborativeprojects with the Centers for Disease Control andPrevention and the State of Michigan MedicaidProgram, and pursues a research agenda focusingon financing and insurance issues regarding preventivehealth services for children and their families.In 2002 he initiated Issues in Child and FamilyHealth Policy, a course that introduces students toa broad range of health problems affecting childrenand examines potential policy remedies. Mattreceived his M.D. from Harvard Medical Schooland subsequently obtained his M.A. in publicpolicy from the Harris School at the Universityof Chicago.CorcoranCourantDanzingerDanzingerDavisF ORD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC POLICY
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