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The University of Texas at Austin

Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs

Permanent Teaching Faculty

Jacqueline L. Angel, Professor. Policy interests: social policy and programs on aging; health care policy; demographic methods; gender roles.

Robert D. Auerbach, Professor. Policy interests: money and banking; macroeconomics; applied econometrics.

Leigh B. Boske, Professor. Policy interests: national and international transportation/logistics; international trade and development; applied microeconomics.

Joshua W. Busby, Assistant Professor. Policy interests: climate change; developing country debt relief; HIV/AIDS; transatlantic relations; energy security; foreign policy of advanced industrialized countries.

Edwin Dorn, Professor. Policy interests: defense; education; human resources; civil rights.

David J. Eaton, Bess Harris Jones Centennial Professor in Natural Resource Policy Studies. Policy interests: environmental engineering; health; agriculture; international affairs.

Kenneth S. Flamm, Dean Rusk Chair. Policy interests: international trade; investments and markets; technology policy.

Peter Frumkin, Professor and Director, RGK Center for Philanthropy and Community Service. Policy interests: nonprofit management; philanthropy.

James K. Galbraith, Lloyd M. Bentsen Jr. Chair in Government/Business Relations and Professor of Government. Policy interests: macroeconomics; political economy; industrial policy; comparative economic policy; wage inequality.

Shama Gamkhar, Associate Professor. Policy interests: public finance; environmental economics; industrial organization.

Francis J. Gavin, Tom Slick Professor of International Affairs and Director of Studies, Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law. Policy interests: U.S. foreign policy; international relations; national security affairs; international monetary relations; presidential policymaking; historical methodology.

Eugene Gholz, Associate Professor. Policy interests: strategic trade policy; national security planning; military effectiveness.

Michael H. Granof, Ernst & Young Distinguished Centennial Professor in Accounting and Distinguished Teaching Professor of Business and Public Affairs. Policy interests: financial accounting; accounting in governmental and nonprofit organizations.

Charles G. Groat, John A. and Katherine G. Jackson Chair in Energy and Mineral Resources, Department of Geological Sciences and Professor of Geological Sciences and Public Affairs.

Bobby R. Inman, Lyndon B. Johnson Centennial Chair in National Policy. Policy interests: national security, international trade, technological innovation.

Alan J. Kuperman, Assistant Professor. Policy interests: international relations; conflict management; ethnic conflict and humanitarian intervention.

Jeanne M. Lambrew, Associate Professor. Policy interests: health care policy; Medicaid; Medicare; long-term care.

Jane Arnold Lincove, Assistant Professor. Policy interests: education policy, international development, women's human capital.

James M. Lindsay, Tom Slick Chair for International Affairs and Director, Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law.

Laurence E. Lynn, Professor.

Cynthia Osborne, Assistant Professor. Policy interests: family policy; poverty and social policy; urban population dynamics.

Francie Ostrower, Professor.

Howard T. Prince, II, Clinical Professor and holder of the Loyd Hackler Endowed Chair in Ethical Leadership; Director, Center for Ethical Leadership. Policy interests: leadership; ethics; behavioral science.

Lodis Rhodes, Professor. Policy interests: education; science and telecommunications; community development.

Victoria Rodriguez, UT Austin Vice Provost and Dean of Graduate Studies, Ashbel Smith Professor of Public Affairs (nonteaching, Fall 2007). Policy interests: Mexican politics and public policy; women and public policy; women in Latin America; policy development; theory of public policy.

Benjamin Sasse, Assistant Professor (on leave 2007-08). Policy interests: strategic management of large organizations (governmental, for-profit, and nonprofit); social entrepreneurship; civil society and religious organizations; education policy/markets; public rhetoric in American history.

Richard L. Schott, Professor. Policy interests: public administration; congressional-executive branch relations; psychology of organizations; education policy.

William Spelman, Professor. Policy interests: urban policy and local government administration; operations research and evaluation; crime policy.

James B. Steinberg, Dean and J.J. "Jake" Pickle Regents Chair in Public Affairs. Policy interests: national security, foreign policy, information technology.

Paul Stekler, Professor of Public Affairs and Professor of Radio-Television-Film. Policy interests: politics and the media; political campaigns.

Chandler Stolp, Ph.D. Coordinator; Associate Professor; Director, Brazil Center; and Director, Center for Inter-American Policy Studies. Policy interests: manufacturing, technology, and trade policy; Latin American development; applied statistics; information management.

Peter M. Ward, C.B. Smith Sr. Centennial Chair in US-Mexico Relations and Professor of Public Affairs and Sociology. Policy interests: Mexican politics and urban administration; housing and land development in Third World countries; local leadership.

David C. Warner, Professor and Wilbur J. Cohen Fellow in Health and Social Policy. Policy interests: health policy; health finance; mental health policy; border health; diabetes and health planning.

Robert H. Wilson, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Research, Mike Hogg Professor in Urban Policy. Policy interests: local and state economic development policy; urban policy; telecommunications policy; community development; public policy in Brazil.

Pat Wong, Associate Professor. Policy interests: social policy; family and child welfare; income transfer and employment programs; research methods and statistics.