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Email: tablanc@asu.edu
Phone: 602.496.0450
Office: UCENT 417

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Education: Ph.D., Public Administration, Arizona State University

Research areas: Civic engagement, direct democracy, political behavior, survey research

Email: thomas.catlaw@asu.edu
Phone: 602.496.0459
Office: UCENT 480E

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Education: Ph.D., Public Administration, George Washington University

Research areas: Public administration theory; legitimacy; the social bond; post-structural, psychoanalytic, and critical theories; race, gender, and sexuality; the body; human/animal relations; biopolitics and  the implications of emerging technologies for democratic governance; post-sectoral and non-representational forms of governance; community building and participation

E-mail: jeffrey.chapman@asu.edu
Phone:  602.496.0454
Office:  UCENT 422H

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Education: Ph.D., Economics, University of California, Berkeley

Research areas: State and Local Government fiscal sustainability, Innovative capital finance strategies (state and local level), Local government finance, Land use taxation, State and local fiscal stress

E-mail: lattie.coor@asu.edu
Phone: 602.496.1360
Office: Downtown Center B5

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Education: Ph.D., Political Science, Washington University

E-mail: elizabeth.corley@asu.edu
Phone: 602.496.0462
Office: UCENT 480B

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Education: Ph.D., Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology
Research areas: Science policy & environmental policy

E-mail: michael.crow@asu.edu
Phone: 480.965.8972
Office: Fulton Center, Suite 410, Tempe campus

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Education: Ph.D., Public Administration, Syracuse University

E-mail: arnold.danzig@asu.edu
Phone: 602.496.0474
Office: UCENT 422J

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Education: Ph.D., Education Policy, Planning & Administration, University of Maryland, College Park

Research areas: Humanistic vision of leadership for schools and democratic institutions, with deep and practical commitment to the betterment of individual and institutional lives

E-mail: Nicole.Darnall@asu.edu
Phone: 602.496.0450
Office: UCENT 419

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Education: Ph.D. Public Policy Analysis, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Research areas: Sustainable enterprise, environmental policy innovation, stakeholder involvement in environmental governance, voluntary environmental programs and eco-labeling, green consumerism

E-mail: jvdenhardt@asu.edu
Phone: 602.496.0447
Office: UCENT 449

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Education: D.P.A., University of Southern California

Research areas: Public Administration Theory, Leadership and Organizational Change

E-mail: catherine.eden@asu.edu
Phone: 602.496.1308
Office: Mercado C110

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Education: Ph.D., Organization and Management, Capella University

E-mail: chris.herbst@asu.edu
Phone: 602.496.0458
Office: UCENT 480J

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Education: Ph.D., Public Policy, University of Maryland, College Park

Research areas: Social policy (welfare, child care and tax policy), public economics, applied econometrics

E-mail: erik.johnston@asu.edu
Phone: 602.496.1103
Office: UCENT 443

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Education: Ph.D., Information, University of Michigan

Research areas: Policy Informatics, collaborative process management focusing on implementing and sustaining collaborations in civic, business, and academic contexts, applying complex systems methodology and theory using agent based modeling as a complement to traditional quantitative and qualitative research methods

E-mail: ykim@asu.edu
Phone: 602.496.1157
Office: UCENT 445

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Education: Ph.D., Public Policy and Management, Ohio State University

Research areas: Public Policy Analysis, Policy Informatics, Health/Welfare Policy

E-mail: koppell@asu.edu
Phone: 602.496.1101
Office: UCENT 461

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Education: Ph.D., Political Science, University of California, Berkeley

Research areas: Global governance, public finance and financial regulation, quasi-government, corporate governance

E-mail: melissa.kovacs@asu.edu
Phone: 602.496.0450
Office: UCENT 417

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Education: Ph.D., Public Policy, University of Maryland, College Park

Research areas: Civic education; youth political participation; education policy; health policy; and service learning and citizenship among undergraduates

E-mail: lan@asu.edu
Phone: 602.496.0453
Office: UCENT 422E

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Education: Ph.D., Public Administration, Syracuse University

Research areas: General public administration theory, research methodology, information technology and resources management/policy, organizational studies, government and business relationships, local government and economic development, and comparative public administration

E-mail: joanna.duke@asu.edu
Phone: 602.496.0449
Office: UCENT 422K

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Education: Ph.D., Urban and Public Administration, The University of Texas at Arlington

Research areas: Urban Governance and Policy, Mixed income and affordable housing policy, Diversity, Citizenship

E-mail: Spiro.Maroulis@asu.edu
Phone: 602.496.0450
Office: UCENT 447

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Education: Ph.D., Learning Sciences, Northwestern University

Research areas: Public policy analysis; Policy informatics;  Social network analysis;  Agent-based modeling; Innovation implementation; Educational policy and entrepreneurship

E-mail: gerald.j.miller@asu.edu
Phone: 602.496.1102
Office: UCENT 453

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Education: Ph.D., Political Science, University of Georgia

Research areas: Government budgeting and finance, financial management issues, municipal debt, Debt networks and accountability, Interpretive Financial Management, Executive Budgeting Models and Practice, Incentives, Certification and Targets in Performance Budgeting

E-mail: kathryn.mohrman@asu.edu
Phone: 602.496.0463
Office: UCENT 457

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Education: Ph.D., Public Policy, George Washington University

Research areas: Comparative/international public policy, higher education policy, Chinese education and society, world class universities

E-mail: anahavandi@asu.edu
Phone: 602.496.1158
Office: UCENT 422F

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Education: Ph.D., Social Psychology, University of Utah

Research areas: Leadership, Cross-cultural leadership, Ethics, Teams

E-mail: laura.peck@asu.edu
Phone: 602.496.0460
Office: UCENT 480

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Education: Ph.D., Public Administration, New York University

Research areas: Public policy, policy analysis and program evaluation, Social policy, including poverty and welfare, research methods, including statistics and advanced analytic techniques, microeconomics and public economics

E-mail: daniel.schugurensky@asu.edu
Phone: 602.496.1565
Office: UCENT 449

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Education: Ph.D., Education Policy, University of Alberta

Research areas: Lifelong citizenship learning and participatory democracy; community development and popular education; political economy of adult education; globalization dynamics and educational reforms; relationships between educational institutions and the community; civic engagement and political learning of immigrants

E-mail: rick.shangraw@asu.edu
Phone: 480.965.4087
Office: Fulton Center Suite 310, Tempe campus

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Education: Ph.D., Public Administration, Syracuse University

E-mail: james.svara@asu.edu
Phone: 602.496.0448
Office: UCENT 415

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Education: Ph.D., Political Science, Yale University

Research areas: Local government politics, management, ethics, and innovation with a special interest in the roles and responsibilities of elected and administrative officials

Nicole Boryczka
Academic Success Specialist
Nicole.Boryczka@asu.edu
Phone: 602-496-0450
Office: UCENT 435
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Julie Jackson
Front Desk
jnjacks5@asu.edu
Phone: 602.496.0450
Office: UCENT 450

Linda Garcia
Administrative Assistant
Phone: 602.496.0450
Office: UCENT 450

Dina Milstead
Executive Assistant
Dina.Milstead@asu.edu
Phone: 602.496.1432
Office: UCENT 459
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Paola Garcia Hicks
Manager, Spirit of
Service Scholars
pgarciah@asu.edu
Phone: 602.496.2090
Office: UCENT 462
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Sheri Wakefield-Saenz
Liaison, Public Policy Initiatives
sheri.wakefield@asu.edu
Phone: 602.496.1035
Office: UCENT 455
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Chris Hiryak
Specialist, Sr
chris.hiryak@asu.edu
Phone: 602.496.0450
Office: UCENT 433
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Lynn Wallin
Career Center Manager
lynn.wallin@asu.edu
Phone: 602.496.0264
Office: UCENT 414
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N. Joseph Cayer
Professor Emeritus
joe.cayer@asu.edu
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Lawrence Mankin
Professor Emeritus
mankin@asu.edu

Bette DeGraw
Dean Emeritus
bette.degraw@asu.edu
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Dickinson McGaw
Professor Emeritus
mcgaw@asu.edu

Robert Denhardt
Professor Emeritus
ASU Regents' Professor
rbd@asu.edu
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Ronald Perry
Professor Emeritus
ron.perry@asu.edu
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John Hall
Professor Emeritus
john.hall@asu.edu
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Louis Weschler
Professor Emeritus
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