Current Faculty H - Z

H - K

Joaquín Herranz, Jr., Assistant Professor of Public Affairs, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004 (Urban Political Economy and Policy): Urban and Social Policy, Public and Nonprofit Relations, Workforce Development, and Community Culture and Creativity

Paul Hill, Research Professor of Public Affairs, Ph.D., Ohio State University, 1972 (Political Science): Politics and Reform of K-12 Education, Business and Public Policy, Urban Politics

Charles Hirschman, Professor of Public Affairs and Boeing International Professor of Sociology, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1972 (Sociology): Sociology, Demographics, International Development Policy

Sanjeev Khagram, Associate Professor of Public Affairs and International Studies, Ph.D., Stanford University, 1999 (Political Science): Transnational Dynamics, Global Governance, Humanitarian Relief, and International Development

Marieka M. Klawitter, Associate Professor of Public Affairs, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1991 (Economics): Family and Employment Policy, Gender Issues, Policy Analysis, Sexual Orientation Policy

Rachel Garshick Kleit, Associate Professor of Public Affairs, Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1999 (City & Regional Planning): Affordable Housing Policy, Mixed-Income Housing, Public Housing Self-Sufficiency Programs, Poverty

L - O

David Layton, Associate Professor of Public Affairs, Ph.D., University of Washington, 1995 (Economics): Environmental and Natural Resource Policy

Andrew Light, Associate Professor of Public Affairs and Philosophy, Ph.D., University of California, Riverside, 1996 (Philosophy): Environmental Ethics and Policy, Philosophy of Technology, and Philosophical Issues in Architecture and Urban Planning

Mark C. Long, Assistant Professor of Public Affairs, Ph.D., University of Michigan, 2002 (Economics): Public Economics, Labor Economics, Economics of Education, Race and Inequality, Applied Econometrics

Marcia Meyers, Associate Professor of Social Work and Public Affairs, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1995 (Social Work): Income and Social Inequality, Work/Family Reconciliation Policies, Policy Implementation

Edward L. Miles, Professor of Marine Studies and Public Affairs, Ph.D., University of Denver, 1965 (International Relations): International Law and Organization, Marine Policy, International Ocean Management

P - S

Stephen Page, Associate Professor of Public Affairs, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999 (Political Science): Human Services Policy, Network Analysis, Public Management

Robert D. Plotnick, Professor of Public Affairs, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1976 (Economics): Economic Analysis, Income Maintenance, Anti-Poverty and Social Welfare Policy

Steven Rathgeb Smith, Nancy Bell Evans Professor in Public Affairs, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1988 (Political Science): Nonprofit and Public Management, State and Local Government, Health and Social Policy, American Politics

Anne C. Steinemann, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Public Affairs, Ph.D., Stanford University, 1993 (Civil and Environmental Engineering): Environmental Policy and Impact Assessment, Public Sector Economics, Pollutant Exposures and Health Effects, Climate Impacts and Adaptation, Water Resources and Drought Management, Sustainability

T - Z

Craig Thomas, Associate Professor of Public Affairs, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1997 (Political Science): Environmental Policy, Public Management, Collaborative Processes

Paul A. Waddell, Professor of Public Affairs and Urban Design & Planning, Ph.D., University of Texas at Dallas, 1989 (Political Economy): Urban Policy, Housing and Transportation Policy, Public Policy Models

Richard O. Zerbe, Jr., Professor of Public Affairs, Ph.D., Duke University, 1969 (Economics): Law and Economics, Benefit-Cost Analysis, Antitrust, Environmental Economics, Economic History

William M. Zumeta, Professor of Public Affairs and Education, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1978 (Public Policy): Education and Higher Education Policy, Work Force Training Policy, Budgeting, Policy Analysis and Implementation

Additional faculty information is available for Current Faculty A-G, Lecturers, Researchers, & Practitioners, Adjunct & Affiliate Faculty, and Emeritus Faculty.

Joaquín Herranz, Jr.

Joaquín Herranz, Jr.
Assistant Professor of Public Affairs
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004

Contact Information:
Parrington Hall, 209F
jherranz@u.washington.edu
206.616.1647

Areas of Specialization:
Urban and Social Policy, Public and Nonprofit Relations, Workforce Development, and Community Culture and Creativity

Joaquín Herranz, Jr., joined the Evans School faculty in 2004. His research interests include strategic management of public and nonprofit agencies, inter-organizational networks, workforce development, as well as the intersections of community development and arts and culture.

Herranz current research includes studies for The Urban Institute, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, World Bank, and the International Labour Organization.

Prior to his doctoral studies, Herranz was director of research at the Urban Strategies Council.

Herranz holds a Ph.D. in urban political economy and policy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and a Master of City Planning from the University of California, Berkeley. He also holds a AB in urban political economy from Occidental College.

Curriculum Vitae (140KB PDF)

Paul T. Hill

Paul T. Hill
Professor of Public Affairs
Ph.D., Ohio State University, 1972

Contact Information:
2101 N. 34th Street, Suite 195
Seattle, WA 98103
bicycle@u.washington.edu
206.685.2214

Areas of Specialization
Politics and Reform of K-12 Education, Business and Public Policy, Urban Politics

Paul T. Hill joined the Evans School faculty in 1993, and served as acting dean from 2002-03.

Hill is the director of the Center on Reinventing Public Education at the Evans School, a program funded by foundations and businesses to study alternative governance systems for public elementary and secondary education. He is also a non-resident Senior Fellow of the Brookings Institution.

Hill previously served for 17 years as a Senior Social Scientist at RAND's Washington Office in the positions of Director of the Education and Human Resources Program and Director of Washington Operations. Most of his research at RAND focused on the reform of elementary and secondary education. He conducted studies of site-based management, governance of decentralized school systems, effective high schools, business-led education reforms, and immigrant education. He also contributed to studies of defense research, development, and acquisition policy.

While a government employee, Hill directed the National Institute of Education's Compensatory Education Study (a congressionally-mandated assessment of federal aid to elementary and secondary education), and conducted research on housing and education for the Office of Economic Opportunity. He also served two years as a Congressional Fellow and Congressional staff member.

Hill holds a Ph.D. and MA in political science from Ohio State University, and a BA in political science from Seattle University.

Curriculum Vitae (40KB PDF)

Publications & Links

Charles Hirschman

Charles Hirschman
Professor of Public Affairs and Boeing International Professor of Sociology
Ph.D., Wisconsin-Madison, 1972

Contact Information:
Condon Hall, Room 328
charles@u.washington.edu
206.543.5035

Areas of Specialization:
Demography and Ecology, Immigration and Ethnicity, Fertility and Family, Social Stratification and Mobility, Southeast Asia

Charles Hirschman joined the Evans School faculty in 2002. Hirschman serves a dual appointment in the University of Washington's Department of Sociology, where he has been on the faculty since 1987, most currently serving in the role of the departments Boeing International Professor.

Hirschman teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on demography, immigration and ethnicity, and Southeast Asia; and he conducts research on immigration and ethnicity in the United States and on social change in Southeast Asia. He also directs the University of Washington-Beyond High School project, a longitudinal study of educational attainment and the early life course of young adults.

He previously held faculty positions at Duke University from 1972-81, and at Cornell University from 1981-87.

He is the author of Ethnic and Social Stratification in Peninsular Malaysia (1975), and is the co-editor of Southeast Asian Studies in the Balance: Reflections from America (1992) and The Handbook of International Migration (1999). He has also written more than one hundred journal articles and book chapters.

Hirschman was elected president of the Population Association of America in 2005, and is also an elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has also served as the chairman of Section K (Social, Economic, and Political Sciences) of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences from 2004-05.

He has been a visiting fellow at: the University of Malaya in 1984, the Australian National University in 1985, the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences from 1993-94, the Russell Sage Foundation from 1998-99, and the Population Reference Bureau from 2005-06. He also served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in a rural village in Malaysia from 1965 to 1967.

Hirschman holds a Ph.D. and MA in sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a BA in sociology from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.

Curriculum Vitae (55KB PDF)

Publications & Links

Research Projects

Sanjeev Khagram

Sanjeev Khagram
Associate Professor of Public Affairs and International Studies
Ph.D., Stanford University, 1999

Contact Information:
Parrington Hall, Room 321
skhagram@u.washington.edu
206.897.1410

Areas of Specialization:
Transnational Studies, Global Governance, Civil Society, Corporate Citizenship, Human Security, and Sustainable Development

Sanjeev Khagram holds a joint faculty appointment with the Evans School and Jackson School of International Studies. He serves as the director of the Marc Lindenberg Center for Humanitarian Action, International Development, and Global Citizenship at the Evans School.

Khagram previously held faculty positions at Stanford University’s Institute for International Studies, and Harvard University’s JFK School of Government.

He is the author of many publications, including: Restructuring World Politics (University of Minnesota Press), Dams and Development (Cornell University Press and Oxford University Press, India), “Inequality and Corruption” in the American Journal of Sociology, “Future Architectures of Global Governance: A Transnational Perspective/ Prospective” in the Global Governance journal, and “Environment and Security” in the Annual Review of Environment and Resources.

From 2003-05 he was acting dean of the Desmond Tutu Peace Centre, and from 1998-00 he was a senior policy advisor with the World Commission on Dams.

He has also worked extensively with global action networks, multilateral agencies, governments, corporations, civil society organizations, professional associations, and universities all over the world with extended periods in: Brazil, India, Mexico, Nigeria, South Africa, Thailand, and the United Kingdom.

Born and a refugee of Idi Amin’s Uganda, he is of Asian Indian heritage and currently resides with his family in Seattle.

Khagram holds a Ph.D. in political science from Standford University. He also holds a MA of economics and BA in development studies/engineering from the Food Research Institute at Stanford.

Marieka M. Klawitter

Marieka M. Klawitter
Associate Professor of Public Affairs
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1992

Contact Information:
Parrington Hall, Room 221
marieka@u.washington.edu
206.616.1673

Areas of Specialization:
Family and Employment Policy, Gender Issues, Policy Analysis, and Sexual Orientation Policy

Marieka M. Klawitter joined the Evans School faculty in 1990. Her research focuses on public policies that affect work and income, including studies of: the effects of child support policies, welfare policies, and anti-discrimination policies for sexual orientation.

Klawitter teaches courses on public policy analysis, quantitative methods, women and work, and sexual orientation and public policy.

She previously worked at the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin researching how changes in child support policies affected income for children and welfare payments.

Klawitter holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Wisconsin, and a MPP and AB in economics from the University of Michigan.

Curriculum Vitae (33KB PDF)

Rachel Garshick Kleit

Rachel Garshick Kleit
Associate Professor of Public Affairs,
Adjunct Associate Professor Urban Design & Planning
Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1999

Contact Information:
Parrington Hall, Room 209C
kleit@u.washington.edu
206.221.3063

Areas of Specialization:
Housing Policy, Public Housing, Urban and Social Policy, and Social Networks and Social Capital

Rachel Garshick Kleit joined the Evans School faculty in 1999. Her research interests include public and assisted housing self-sufficiency programs; the impacts of housing programs that mix income groups; and connections between housing location, neighborhood composition, social networks, and access to opportunity.

Kleit teaches urban policy, social capital and social policy, U.S. housing policy, and quantitative methods.

She is the recipient of the 1998 Young Scholar Award from the Urban Affairs Association and Sage Publications, and the 1999 Best Student Paper Award in Housing and Community Development from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning and the Fannie Mae Foundation. She is also a recipient of a U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Urban Scholar Postdoctoral Fellowship to support research on the New Holly HOPE VI site in Seattle.

Kleit holds a Ph.D. in city and regional planning from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, and a MA in urban and environmental policy from Tufts University. She also holds a BA in history from Brandeis University.

Curriculum Vitae (28KB PDF)

Publications & Links

David Layton

David Layton
Associate Professor of Public Affairs
Adjunct Associate Professor of Economics
Ph.D., University of Washington, 1995

Contact Information:
Parrington Hall, Room 330
dflayton@u.washington.edu
206.221.3585

Areas of Specialization:
Environmental and Natural Resource Policy

David Layton joined the Evans School faculty in 2001. He teaches environmental and natural resource policy and quantitative analysis.

Layton's research focuses on environmental valuation, with particular emphasis on valuing programs that are composed of multiple attributes. His research lies at the interface of applied econometrics, applied microeconomics, and environmental policy. Most of the environmental programs he has considered focus on the conservation of endangered species and ecosystems.

He previously served on the faculty at the University of California, Davis for five years in the Department of Environmental Science and Policy.

Layton holds a Ph.D. and MA in economics from the University of Washignton, and a BA in economics from the University of Virginia.

Curriculum Vitae (155KB PDF)

Andrew Light

Andrew Light
Associate Professor of Public Affairs and Philosophy
Ph.D., University of California, Riverside, 1996

Contact Information:
Parrington Hall, Room 205
Condon Hall, Room 612
alight@u.washington.edu
206.543.9888

Areas of Specialization:
Environmental Ethics and Policy, Philosophy of Technology, and Philosophical Issues in Architecture and Urban Planning

Andrew Light joined the Evans School faculty in 2005. His work focuses on environmental ethics and policy, philosophy of technology, and philosophical issues in architecture and urban planning.

Light holds a joint appointment in the University of Washington's Department of Philosophy, and adjunct appointments in the Department of Geography and the Institute for Public Health Genetics.

He is also: a research fellow at the Institute for Environment, Philosophy and Public Policy at Lancaster University in the United Kingdom; a faculty fellow at the Center for Sustainable Development in the School of Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin; and an affiliate faculty member at the Center for Environmental Policy at Bard College in New York.

Light previously served as an assistant professor of environmental philosophy at New York University (tenured 2005), where he also directed the Environmental Conservation Education Program and the Applied Philosophy Group.

A prolific author, Light has written, edited, or co-edited 17 books, most recently Environment and Values with J. O'Neill and A. Holland (Routledge Press, 2006).

Light holds a Ph.D. and MA in philosophy from the University of California, Riverside, and a BA in history, political science, and philosophy from Mercer University.

Curriculum Vitae (142KB PDF)

Publications & Links

Andrew Light's University of Washington Faculty Page

Mark C. Long

Mark C. Long
Assistant Professor of Public Affairs
Ph.D., University of Michigan, 2002

Contact Information:
Parrington Hall, Room 209E
marklong@u.washington.edu
206.543.3787

Areas of Specialization:
Public Economics, Labor Economics, Economics of Education, Race and Inequality, and Applied Econometrics

Mark C. Long joined the Evans School faculty in 2004. His research focuses on the effects of affirmative action and alternative college admissions policies on college entry; the effects of college financial aid on household savings; the effects of high school course-taking and school and college quality on test scores, educational attainment, labor market outcomes, family formation, and other behaviors; and the economics of nursing labor markets.

Long previously served on the faculty of George Washington University as an assistant professor of economics and public policy and administration from 2002-04.

He has publications in The Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Econometrics, Economics of Education Review, Education Finance and Policy, and Public Administration Review.

He is the winner of The Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management's 2002 Ph.D. Dissertation Award for the Best Ph.D. Dissertation in Public Policy and Management.

Long holds a Ph.D. and MA in economics from the University of Michigan. He also holds an MPP from the University of Michigan, and a BA from DePauw University.

Curriculum Vitae (62 KB PDF)

Marcia Meyers

Marcia Meyers
Associate Professor of Social Work and Public Affairs
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1995

Contact Information:
4101 15th Avenue NE
Seattle, WA 98105-6250
mkm36@u.washington.edu
206.616.4409

Areas of Specialization:
Income and Social Inequality, Work/Family Reconciliation Policies, Policy Implementation

Marcia K. Meyers joined the Evans School faculty in 2001. Her research focuses on public policies and programs for vulnerable populations, with a particular focus on issues of poverty, inequality, and policy implementation.

Meyers holds a joint appointment with the University of Washington's School of Social Work, and is the director and principal investigator of the West Coast Poverty Center at the Evans School. She is also an affiliate of the Social Indicators Survey Center at Columbia University.

Meyers' current research projects examine the impact of U.S. state policy regimes on the labor force participation of mothers, on inequality in access to early childhood education and care, and on disposable family income. She is in collaboration with researchers at the Rockefeller Institute of Government studying the front-line delivery of welfare reforms in 11 sites around the country, and working with colleagues at the Social Indicators Survey Center to conduct a biannual survey monitoring the economic and social well-being of the residents of New York City.

Meyers previously served on the faculty of Columbia University from 1996-01, and the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University from 1993-96.

She has received funding for her work from: the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (OASPE and Child Care Bureau), the State of California (Department of Social Services), the MacArthur Foundation, the Russell Sage Foundation, the Public Policy Institute of California, the Ford Foundation, the Foundation for Child Development, and other sources.

She is co-author of Families That Work: Policies for Reconciling Parenthood and Employment, and her papers have recently appeared in the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, the Journal of European Social Policy, the Social Service Review, the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Social Science Quarterly, and Demography.

Meyers holds a Ph.D. and Master of Social Work from the University of California at Berkley, a MPA from Harvard University, and a BA from Evergreen State College.

Curriculum Vitae (55KB PDF)

Edward L. Miles

Edward L. Miles
Professor of Marine Studies and Public Affairs
Ph.D., University of Denver, 1965

Contact Information:
3707 Brooklyn Avenue NE
Seattle, WA 98105
edmiles@u.washington.edu
206.685.1837

Areas of Specialization:
International Law and Organization, Science Technology and International Relations, Marine Policy and Ocean Management, Impacts of Climate Variability and Climate Change on Natural Resources and Human Social Systems

Edward L. Miles serves on the faculty of the Evans School and the School of Marine Affairs in the University of Washington's College of Ocean and Fishery Sciences. He teaches international science and technology policy and marine policy.

Miles' research focuses primarily on problems of international science and technology policy, management of world fisheries, nuclear waste disposal, the law of the sea, comparative national marine policy, and global climate change.

He has been a Ford Foundation Fellow; a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow; a James P. Warburg Fellow at the Center for International Affairs, Harvard University; and a Senior Fellow at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

He is currently a senior fellow a the Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Oceans (JISAO), Virginia and Prentice M. Bloedel Professor of Marine Studies and Public Affairs, and co-director of the Center for Science in the Earth System (CSES).

Miles previously served as: chairman of the Ocean Policy Committee, National Research Council; joint appointee and chief negotiator for the Micronesian Maritime Authority, Federated States of Micronesia; chairman of the Advisory Group on the International Implications of Disposal of High-Level Radioactive Waste into the Seabed, Nuclear Energy Agency, OECD, Paris; and chairman of the Advisory Committee on International Programs, National Science Foundation. He has also been a member of the Advisory Committee on Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences for the National Science Foundation.

He is the lead author of marine policy for the working Group II-B of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for the 2nd 1995 assessment. He was also a 2003 member of The National Academy of Sciences and fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Miles holds a Ph.D. in international relations from the University of Denver, and a BA in history from Howard University.

Curriculum Vitae (51KB PDF)

Stephen Page

Stephen B. Page
Associate Professor of Public Affairs
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999

Contact Information:
Parrington Hall, Room 209A
sbp@u.washington.edu
206.221.7784

Areas of Specialization:
Public Management, Social and Health Policy and Administration, Interagency Collaboration, Public-Private Partnerships, Bureaucracy and Organizations

Stephen B. Page joined the Evans School faculty in 1999. His research studies changes in policies, administration, and service delivery arrangements within and across the public and non-governmental sectors over time, with specific attention to dilemmas of collaboration, accountability, and performance.

Page's published work examines his areas of research in health and human services, and parallels and differences in education and welfare reform.

He has previously worked as a research associate at the National Center for Children in Poverty at the Columbia University School of Public Health, and as an independent consultant to state and local governments, nonprofits, and private foundations.

Page holds a Ph.D. and SM in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and a BA in political science from Williams College.

Curriculum Vitae (18KB PDF)

Robert D. Plotnick

Robert D. Plotnick
Professor of Public Affairs
Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley, 1976

Contact Information:
Parrington Hall, Room 225
plotnick@u.washington.edu
206.685.2055

Areas of Specialization:
Labor Economics, Social Demography, Social Welfare Policy

Robert D. Plotnick joined the Evans School faculty in 1984, and served as associate dean from 1990-95 and acting dean from 1994-95. He teaches courses in economic analysis and social welfare policy. His research primarily focuses on poverty, income inequality, income support policy, and related social policy issues.

Plotnick also serves as an adjunct professor in the University of Washington's (UW) Department of Economics, and is senior adviser to the UW's Population Leadership Program. He is also a research affiliate with: the West Coast Poverty Center at the Evans School, Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology at the UW, and the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin.

Plotnick's current research projects address the effects of being childless, the health and economic well-being of the elderly, the effect of child support policies on nonmarital childbearing, and teenagers' views of marriage and parenthood.

He previously served on the faculty at Bates College from 1975-77, and Dartmouth College from 1977-84.

He has been a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation, and former director of UW's Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology from 1997-02.

Plotnick holds a Ph.D. and MA in economics from University of California, Berkeley, and BA in mathematics from Princeton University.

Curriculum Vitae (214 KB PDF)

Steven Rathgeb Smith

Steven Rathgeb Smith
Nancy Bell Evans Professor of Public Affairs
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1988

Contact Information:
Parrington Hall, Room 203
smithsr@u.washington.edu
206.616.1674

Areas of Specialization:
Nonprofit and Public Management, Community Development, and the Changing Roles of Nonprofit Organizations and Government in Civil Society

Steven Rathgeb Smith joined the Evans School faculty in 1996. His teaching and research interests include: nonprofit organizations, nonprofit and public management, public policy, comparative social policy, and social services.

Smith also serves as the director of the Nancy Bell Evans Center on Nonprofits & Philanthropy and the Electronic Hallway at the Evans School. He served as an associate dean at the Evans School from 2005-2007.

Smith previously served on the faculty at Duke University from 1988-96, and Washington University at St. Louis from 1987-88.

He is co-author of Nonprofits for Hire: The Welfare State in the Age of Contracting and Adjusting the Balance: Federal Policy and Victim Services, and co-editor of Public Policy for Democracy.

His recent publications examine government financing of nonprofit organizations, the role of faith-related service agencies in social welfare policy, and the government-nonprofit relationship in the US and abroad.

Smith also serves as president of the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA). He served as the editor of ARNOVA's journal from 1999-04.

Smith holds a Ph.D. in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Techonology, and Master of Social Work from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. He also holds a BA from Brown University.

Curriculum Vitae (34KB PDF)

Publications & Links

Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA)

Anne C. Steinemann

Anne C. Steinemann
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Public Affairs
Ph.D., Stanford University, 1993

Contact Information
103 Wilson Lab
acstein@u.washington.edu
206.616.2661

Areas of Specialization:
Environmental Policy and Impact Assessment, Public Sector Economics, Pollutant Exposures and Health Effects, Climate Impacts and Adaptation, Water Resources and Drought Management, Sustainability

Anne Steinemann joined the Evans School faculty in 2005. She serves a joint appointment with the University of Washington's (UW) Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and is director The Water Center, a joint program between the Evans School and UW colleges of Ocean and Fishery Sciences, Forest Resources, and Engineering.

She has directed more than $5 million worth of funded research, and recently published two textbooks: Microeconomics for Public Decisions (South-Western, 2005) and Exposure Analysis (CRC Press, 2006).

She previously served on the faculty of the Georgia Institute of Technology in city and regional planning, and as a visiting scientist at the Climate Research Division, Scripps Institute of Oceanography.

Steinemann is the recipient of the National Science Foundation's CAREER Award, and various university and national teaching awards.

Outside of academia, Steinemann advises public and private agencies on water and environmental issues by combining her problem-solving expertise in engineering, economics, public health, environmental science, and public policy.

Steinemann holds a Ph.D. in civil and environmental engineering from Standford University, and a MS in civil engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles. She also holds a BS in civil engineering from the University of California, Irvine.

Curriculum Vitae (345KB PDF)

Craig Thomas

Craig Thomas
Associate Professor of Public Affairs
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1997

Contact Information:
Parrington Hall, Room 205
thomasc@washington.edu
206.221.3669

Areas of Specialization:
Environmental Policy, Public Management, Collaborative Governance

Craig Thomas joined the Evans School faculty in 2006. Thomas teaches courses in policy process, environmental policy, performance management, and research design.

His current research analyzes collaboration among public, private, and nonprofit partners as an alternative form of governance to centralized planning and command-and-control regulation, focusing in particular on habitat conservation planning under the Endangered Species Act and watershed organizations.

Thomas previously served on the faculty at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst from 1997-06.

He is the author of Bureaucratic Landscapes: Interagency Cooperation and the Preservation of Biodiversity (MIT Press, 2003), and co-author of Collaborative Environmental Management: What Roles for Government? (RFF Press, 2004). He has also published numerous articles in interdisciplinary journals and serves on the editorial board of Polity.

He is the 1998 recipient of the American Political Science Association's Leonard D. White Award, which recognizes the best dissertation in the field of public administration.

Outside of academia, Thomas has worked professionally as an administrative analyst for the University of California, a consultant to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Energy, and in positions for two environmental nonprofits in Washington, D.C.

Thomas holds a Ph.D. in political science and an MPP from the University of California, Berkeley. He also holds a BA in international studies from the University of Washington.

Curriculum Vitae (27KB PDF)

Paul A. Waddell

Paul A. Waddell
Professor of Public Affairs and Urban Design & Planning
Adjunct Associate Professor of Geography and Civil and Environmental Engineering
Ph.D. University of Texas at Dallas, 1989

Contact Information:
Parrington Hall, Room 331
pwaddell@u.washington.edu
206.221.4161

Areas of Specialization:
Land Use and Transportation Policy, Urban Simulation Modeling

Paul Waddell joined the Evans School faculty in 1997. His current research interests focus on development of simulation models for urban land use, transportation and environmental policy and planning.

Waddell holds joint faculty appointments with the University of Washington's departments of Urban Design and Planning, Geography, and Civil and Environmental Engineering. He is also the the director of the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program in Urban Design and Planning.

He previously served on the faculty at the University of Texas at Dallas from 1991-97, and as the technical director of the university's Bruton Center for Development Studies from 1989-91.

Outside of academia, Waddell has worked in local government as the director of regional services in the North Central Texas Council of Governments.

Waddell holds a Ph.D. in political economy from the University of Texas at Dallas, and a MS in human ecology from the University of Texas School of Public Health at Houston. He also holds a BS in marine sciences from Texas A&M University.

Curriculum Vitae (68KB PDF)

Richard O. Zerbe, Jr.

Richard O. Zerbe, Jr.
Associate Dean for Academics and Daniel J. Evans Distinguished Professor of Public Affairs
Ph.D., Duke University, 1969

Contact Information:
Parrington Hall, Room 226
zerbe@u.washington.edu
206.616.5470

Areas of Specialization:
Law and Economics, Benefit-Cost Analysis, Antitrust, Environmental Economics, Economic History

Richard O. Zerbe, Jr. joined the Evans School faculty in 1981, and holds and adjunct appoint with the University of Washington School of Law. He teaches environmental ethics, microeconomics, government regulation, law and economics, and benefit-cost analysis.

Zerbe previously served on the faculty at the University of Chicago, a visiting appointment at Northwestern University, and a fellowship at Yale Law School.

He has also worked on the the executive board of the Western Economic Association, and with the American Bar Foundation. His also founding board member of the American Law and Economics Association.

He is the author of more than 100 publications, and editor of the Research in Law and Economics journal.

Outside of academia, Zerbe serves as a consultant to the Federal Trade Commission and other government agencies.

Zerbe holds a Ph.D. in economics from Duke University, and a AB in mathematics, general science, and political science from the University of Oklahoma.

Curriculum Vitae (35KB PDF)

Publications & Links

William M. Zumeta

William M. Zumeta
Professor of Public Affairs and Education
Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley, 1978

Contact Information:
Parrington Hall, Room 213
zumeta@u.washington.edu
206.543.0743

Areas of Specialization:
Policy Analysis and Implementation, Education Policy, and Education and the Workforce

William Zumeta joined the Evans School Faculty in Fall 1985. He served as associate dean from 2001-05, and acting dean from March-August in 1988.

Zumeta teaches in the areas of policy analysis and public policies toward education and higher education. His research interests focus higher education and worker training policies and higher education finance.

His research has been supported by a wide range of government agencies, foundations and national groups.

He previously taught at the University of British Columbia, University of California-Los Angeles, and the Claremont Graduate University.

Outside of academia, Zumeta has been employed by or consulted with various private and nonprofit organizations, universities, and federal, state, and local government agencies.

Zumeta holds a Ph.D. in public policy and a MPP from the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley. He also holds a BA in political science from Haverford College.

Curriculum Vitae (366 KB PDF)

Publications & Links

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