Jun 27, 2025  
2016 - 2017 Graduate Catalog 
    
2016 - 2017 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Public Policy Faculty


Program Director

Sarah L. Stafford Professor of Economics, Public Policy and Law (Ph.D., Johns Hopkins).

Graduate Director

Elaine S. McBeth Associate Director and Adjunct Professor of Economics and Public Policy (M.A., Virginia).

Professors

Berhanu Abegaz (Economics) (Ph.D., Pennsylvania), David P. Aday, Jr. (Sociology) (Ph.D., Kansas), Lynda L. Butler (Law) (J.D., Virginia), Donald E. Campbell (CSX Professor of Economics and Public Policy) (Ph.D., Princeton), Neal E. Devins (Law) (J.D., Vanderbilt), Davison M. Douglas (Law) (LL.B. and Ph.D., Yale), Pamela L. Eddy (Education) (Ph.D., Michigan State), C. Lawrence Evans (Government) (Ph.D., Rochester), David H. Feldman (Economics) (Ph.D., Duke), John B. Gilmour (Verkuil Professor of Government and Public Policy) (Ph.D., University of California-Berkeley), William J. Hausman (Economics) (Ph.D., Illinois), James S. Heller (Law) (J.D., San Diego), Carl H. Hershner (Marine Science) (Ph.D., Virginia), Robert L. Hicks (Economics) (Ph.D., Maryland), Christopher D. Howard (Harriman Professor of Government and Public Policy) (Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Eric Kades (Law) (J.D. Yale), Linda A. Malone (Marshall-Wythe Foundation Professor of Law) (J.D., Duke), Paul Manna (Government) (Ph.D., Wisconsin), John J. McGlennon (Government) (Ph.D., Johns Hopkins), Alan J. Meese (Law) (J.D., Chicago), Jennifer M. Mellor (Economics and Director, Schroeder Center for Health Policy ) (Ph.D., Maryland), Carlisle E. Moody, Jr. (Economics) (Ph.D., Connecticut), Roy L. Pearson (Chancellor Professor of Business Administration) (Ph.D., Virginia), Alfredo M. Pereira (Economics) (Ph.D., Stanford), Ronald B. Rapoport (John Marshall Professor of Government) (Ph.D., Michigan), Ronald H. Rosenberg (Law) (J.D., University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill), Martin Schmidt (Economics) (Ph.D., Colorado State), Dennis L. Taylor (A. Marshall Acuff, Jr. Professor of Marine Science) (Ph.D., Wales), and Michael J. Tierney (George and Mary Hylton Professor of International Relations) (Ph.D., University of California-San Diego).

Associate Professors

Dorothy E. Finnegan (Education) (Ph.D., Pennsylvania State), Susan S. Grover (Law) (J.D., Georgetown), and Peter McHenry (Economics) (Ph.D., Yale).

Assistant Professors

Brian Beach (Economics) (University of Pittsburgh), Christopher Freiman (Philosophy)(Ph.D., University of Arizona),  John Lopresti (Economics) (Ph.D., Purdue), Priya Mukherjee (Economics) (Cornell University), John Parman (Economics)(Ph.D., Northwestern), and Ariel Ben-Yishay (Economics) (University of Maryland).

Adjunct Professors

Christopher Able (Law) (J.D., William and Mary), and Christopher Byrne (Head of Law Research and Instructional Services) (J.D., Harvard).

Research Professors

Carrie Dolan (Schroeder Health Policy Center) (M.P.H., Tulane), Harriet O. Duleep (Center for Public Policy Research) (Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Troy W. Hartley (Virginia Sea Grant) (Ph.D., University of Michigan), Ingo Keilitz (Center for Public Policy Research) (Ph.D. Kansas State University), and Louis F. Rossiter (Center for Public Policy Research) (Ph.D., University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill).

Lecturer

Alexandra Josse (Ph.D., Arizona).

Emeritus Professor

David H. Finifter (Ph.D., Pittsburgh).