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16 F A CULTYFord School students participate in acommunity service project in Detroit.LinMcCraryRabeScheveSchoeniSeefeldtAnn Chih Lin is Associate Professor of PublicPolicy and Political Science. She studies how peopleinterpret policies, laws, and regulations, andthe effect those beliefs have on the implementationof policy. Her book, Reform in the Making,examined the implementation of prison rehabilitationprograms. Ann has also written on crime,immigration, poverty, race, and the aftermath ofSeptember 11th. She is on the board of variouslocal and national organizations and was formerlya social worker and administrator. She teachescourses on policymaking, immigration, governanceand implementation, and qualitative researchtechniques. Ann received her A.B. from Princetonand her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago.Justin McCrary is Assistant Professor of Economicsand Public Policy. His primary research focus todate has been an examination of the role of thefederal courts in the racial integration of municipalpolice departments in the United States. He isalso interested in crime, health, development, andeconometric theory. At the Ford School, Justinteaches courses in statistics and in social policy.He received his Ph.D. in Economics from theUniversity of California at Berkeley.Barry Rabe is Professor of Public Policy at theFord School and Professor of EnvironmentalPolicy in the School of Natural Resources andEnvironment. He serves as Director of the Programon the Environment, a campus-wide undergraduateinitiative in environmental policy and science.Barry’s research examines a wide range of intergovernmentaland cross-boundary environmentalconcerns, focusing on the United States andCanada. Much of his recent work examines thepolitics of climate change and explores whyAmerican states have become far more active thatthe federal government in reducing greenhouse gasemissions. Barry serves as president of the publicpolicy section of the American Political ScienceAssociation and has just completed a 10-year termas editor of the American Governance and PublicPolicy book series for Georgetown University Press.He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago.Kenneth Scheve is Associate Professor of PublicPolicy. His research focuses on international economicpolicymaking and comparative politicalbehavior. Ken has published articles on the politicsof trade, immigration, foreign investment, regionaleconomic integration, and macroeconomic policies.His current research interests also include studyingthe electoral behavior of voters and elites in ethnicallyheterogeneous societies. A graduate of theUniversity of Notre Dame, Ken received his Ph.D.from Harvard University.Robert F. Schoeni is Associate Professor of PublicPolicy and Research Associate Professor at theUniversity of Michigan Institute for Social Research.Trained as an economist, Bob’s research interestsinclude the economics and demography of aging,labor economics, welfare reform, and immigration.He has served as a senior economist for thePresident’s Council of Economic Advisers inWashington, D.C. and as Associate Director ofthe Labor and Population Program at RAND. Agraduate of Bowling Green State University, Bobreceived his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.Kristin Seefeldt is a Research Investigator at theFord School. Her primary research interests arepolicy development and implementation, in particularstate welfare and employment and trainingpolicies, as well as outcomes for current and formerwelfare recipients after welfare reform. She iscurrently engaged in a project tracking the wellbeingof a group of women transitioning from welfareto work. Kristin is the author of CQ Vital IssuesSeries: Welfare Reform as well as author or co-authorof numerous journal articles and policy reports.Prior to coming to the University of Michigan, sheworked at the Urban Institute and at the Centerfor Law and Social Policy. A graduate of GeorgetownUniversity, Kristin received her M.P.P. from theFord School.Carl Simon is Professor of Economics, Math, andPublic Policy. He is also the Director of the Centerfor the Study of Complex Systems. His researchinterests center around mathematical modelswhich involve natural dynamics or motion overWWW.FORDSCHOOL.UMICH.EDU
FACULTY 17time. He has applied dynamic modeling to themovements of an economy over time, the spreadof AIDS, and the evolution of biological and economicsystems. Carl has also conducted researchon how political office holders manipulate economicparameters to achieve their goals. He isco-author of a textbook, Mathematics for Economists.Carl teaches calculus and courses focused onquantitative decision analysis. He received hisPh.D. from Northwestern University.Robert M. Stern is Professor Emeritus ofEconomics and Public Policy. His research focuseson multilateral trade agreements, the economiceffects of regional trading arrangements, and“sweatshop” issues including child labor exploitation.With Alan Deardorff, he has developed theMichigan Model of World Production and Trade.Bob is author of numerous publications on trade,international commodity problems, and balanceof-paymentpolicies. He has served as a consultantto the U.S. Departments of Labor, State, andTreasury, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative,and the United Nations Conference on Trade andDevelopment. Bob teaches courses on internationaleconomic policy. He received his Ph.D. fromColumbia University.Katherine Terrell is Professor of InternationalBusiness and Business Economics and Professorof Public Policy. Her research interests are in laboreconomics and its applications in Latin Americaand Central and Eastern Europe. Her publishedwork includes analyses of income inequality, theincentive effects of unemployment insurance,labor mobility, female-male earnings differentials,and public-private wage differentials. Kathy servesas a consultant to the World Bank and is a memberof the Centre of Economic Policy Research.She teaches international labor markets and publicpolicy. Kathy received her Ph.D. at CornellUniversity.David Thacher is Assistant Professor of PublicPolicy and Urban Planning. Most of his researchcenters on the use of case studies and other socialscience methods to study values and ethics in publicpolicy, particularly in criminal justice policy,public management, and housing policy. He hasrecently published articles about order maintenancepolicing, inequality in criminal victimization, andthe management of interorganizational partnerships.He teaches courses in crime policy, publicmanagement, housing policy, and values andethics in public policy. David received his Ph.D.from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.Robert P. Van Houweling is Assistant Professorof Political Science and Public Policy. He has beenselected as a Robert Wood Johnson FoundationScholar in Health Policy. As a result he is currentlyon leave, pursuing research at the University ofCalifornia at Berkeley. Rob’s research and teachingfocus on American politics, with an emphasis onlegislative organization and behavior. His currentwork examines the role of party organizations in themodern U.S. Congress. Rob also studies electionsand representation, recently publishing an articleon the effects of a variety of voting technologieson the racial discrepancy in spoiled ballots in the2000 presidential election. A University of Michigangraduate, Rob received his Ph.D. at Harvard.Before entering graduate school, he served as alegislative assistant to Senator Tom Daschle.Maris A. Vinovskis is the A.M. Bentley Professorof History, Professor of Public Policy, and ResearchProfessor at the Center for Political Studies in theU-M Institute for Social Research. He hasauthored or co-authored nine books, the mostrecent, The Birth of Head Start: Preschool EducationPolicies in the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations,forthcoming from the University of Chicago Pressin 2005. Maris has served in Washington, DC asDeputy Staff Director of the U.S. House SelectCommittee on Population and as ResearchAdvisor to the Assistant Secretary of the Officeof Educational Research and Improvement. Hehas also been a consultant to the U.S. Departmentsof Education and Health and Human Services.Currently he is a member of the IndependentReview Panel for the Department of Education.Maris received his Ph.D. from Harvard University.SimonSternTerrellThatcherVan LouwelingVinovskisF ORD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC POLICY
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