Susan Moffitt

Director of Academic Programs
Associate Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs

Areas of Interest: Education policy, regulatory policy, health policy.

• +1 401 863 9335
• susan_moffitt@brown.edu

William J. Allen

Senior Fellow in International and Public Affairs

Areas of Interest: Nonprofit practice and policy and high performance, high impact and innovative nonprofit organizations, social entrepreneurship, strategic thinking and planning.

• +1 401 863 2201
• bill_allen@brown.edu

Peter Andreas

John Hay Professor of International Studies and Political Science

Areas of Interest: Transnational crime and crime control, borders and border security, immigration and drug control policy.

• +1 401 863 9839
• peter_andreas@brown.edu

Richard Arenberg

Senior Fellow in International and Public Affairs
Visiting Professor of the Practice of Political Science

Areas of Interest: Legislative behavior, use and abuse of Congressional procedure; campaigns and elections; appropriations process, the budget process and earmarks; roots and history of ideological and partisan polarization in the American political culture.

• richard_arenberg@brown.edu

Geri Augusto

Senior Fellow in International and Public Affairs

Areas of Interest: Indigenous and other subjugated knowledge systems, science and technology policy in the Global South, Black transnationalism and history of black resistance (USA, Southern Africa, Brazil), critical black geographies, transformation of higher education systems.

• +1 401 863 9068
• geri_augusto@brown.edu

Dany Bahar

Associate Professor of the Practice of International and Public Affairs, Faculty Affiliate of the Economics Department

Areas of Interest: Gains from Migration, Economic Growth and Development, Productivity, Innovation, Structural Transformation.

• +1 401 863 2809
• dany_bahar@brown.edu

Robert Blair

Arkadij Eisler Goldman Sachs Associate Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs

Areas of Interest: Peacekeeping, statebuilding, security sector reform, quantitative and experimental methods.

• +1 401 863 9728
• robert_blair@brown.edu

Angela Blanchard

Visiting Scholar in International and Public Affairs

• angela_blanchard@brown.edu

David Blanding

Associate Professor of the Practice of International and Public Affairs

Areas of Interest: Race and Public Policy, Civil Rights

• +1 401 863 7698
• david_blanding@brown.edu

Mark Blyth

Director of the William R. Rhodes Center for International Economics and Finance
The William R. Rhodes ’57 Professor of International Economics
Professor of International and Public Affairs

Areas of Interest: Political Economy and finance.

• +1 401 863 1567
• mark_blyth@brown.edu

Elizabeth Burke Bryant

Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy

Ross Cheit

Professor of Political Science
Professor of International and Public Affairs

Areas of Interest: Criminal justice, child abuse, ethics in government, the politics of food.

• +1 401 863 3523
• ross_cheit@brown.edu

David N. Cicilline

Adjunct Lecturer in International and Public Affairs
Congressman, Rhode Island District One

Jeff Colgan

Richard Holbrooke Associate Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs

Areas of Interest: Energy politics, causes of war, political revolutions.

• jeff_colgan@brown.edu

Jonathan Collins

Mary Tefft and John Hazen White, Sr. Assistant Professor of Political Science, Public Policy, and Education

Areas of Interest: Race and ethnic politics, education politics and policy, urban politics, state and local politics, democratic theory

• jonathan_collins@brown.edu

John N. Friedman

Briger Family Distinguished Professor of Economics and International and Public Affairs
Chair of the Economics Department

Areas of Interest: Public Economics and Political Economy

• +1 401 863 9590
• john_friedman@brown.edu

Ari Gabinet

Adjunct Lecturer in International and Public Affairs

Areas of Interest: Securities law and regulation, management, leadership.

• arthur_gabinet@brown.edu

Patrick Heller

Professor of Sociology and International and Public Affairs
Director of the Graduate Program in Development

Areas of Interest: Development, globalization, social theory, democratization, governance, urban transformation.

• +1 401 863 7465
• patrick_heller@brown.edu

Michael Kennedy

Professor of Sociology and International and Public Affairs

Areas of Interest: Globalizing knowledge and universities, social movements, cultural politics and social change in Europe and Eurasia, cultural politics and energy security in Europe and Eurasia.

• +1 401 863 6990
• michael_kennedy@brown.edu

Anthony Levitas

Policy & Governance Track Director, Undergraduate International and Public Affairs Concentration
Director, Undergraduate Public Policy Concentration
Senior Fellow in International and Public Affairs

Areas of Interest: Intergovernmental fiscal relations, education finance and governments, post-communist Europe, 'decentralization'

• +1 401 863 9197
• anthony_levitas@brown.edu

Richard M. Locke

Provost, Brown University
Schreiber Family Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs

Areas of Interest: Globalization and labor standards, global supply chains, sustainability.

• +1 401 863 2706
• richard_locke@brown.edu

Glenn Loury

Professor of Economics
Merton P. Stoltz Professor of the Social Sciences

Areas of Interest: Applied microeconomic theory, game theory, industrial organization, natural resource economics, and the economics of race and inequality.

• +1 401 863 2606
• glenn_loury@brown.edu

Jim Lucht

Adjunct Lecturer in International and Public Affairs
Business Intelligence and Geographic Information Systems Consultant

Areas of Interest: GIS, database architecture and administration, data system integration, business intelligence, data visualization, community data systems, urban and environmental planning, crime analysis, web development.

• james_lucht1@brown.edu

Catherine Lutz

Thomas J. Watson, Jr. Family Professor of International Studies, Professor of Anthropology

Areas of Interest: War and security, militarization, peacekeeping, automobility, photographic representation, gender.

• +1 401 863 2779
• catherine_lutz@brown.edu

Rose McDermott

Director of Postdoctoral Program
David and Marianna Fisher University Professor of International Relations

Areas of Interest: International relations, American Foreign and Defense Policy, psychological aspects of decision-making, especially risk taking and emotion, gender, biological and genetic aspects of political attitudes and preferences, social identity, experiments, intelligence, cyber

• +1 401 863 2833
• rose_mcdermott@brown.edu

Bryce Millett Steinberg

IJC Assistant Professor of Economics and International and Public Affairs

Areas of Interest: Development economics, labor economics, public economics.

• +1 401 863 5443
• bryce_steinberg@brown.edu

James A. Morone

John Hazen White Professor of Public Policy
Professor of Political Science and Urban Studies

Areas of Interest: Health care politics, politics and history, urban politics, religion and politics, race politics, democratic social movements.

• +1 401 863 1573
• james_morone@brown.edu

Carrie Nordlund

Adjunct Lecturer in International and Public Affairs

• +1 401 863 5178
• carrie_nordlund@brown.edu

Emily Oster

JJE Goldman Sachs University Professor in Economics

Areas of Interest: Health economics, development economics.

Jayanti Owens

Mary Tefft and John Hazen White, Sr. Assistant Professor of Public and International Affairs and Sociology

Areas of Interest: Social stratification, education, race/ethnicity, gender, organizations, social demography, population health.

• +1 401 863 1114
• jayanti_owens@brown.edu

Eric M. Patashnik

Julis-Rabinowitz Professor of Public Policy
Professor of Political Science
Chair, Department of Political Science

Areas of Interest: The politics of policymaking, health policy, fiscal politics, policy reform, implementation, the welfare state, Congress.

• +1 401 863 6428
• eric_patashnik@brown.edu

Alex Poterack

Adjunct Lecturer in International and Public Affairs

Areas of Interest: Decision theory, behavioral economics, political economy, health economics

• alex_poterack@brown.edu

Wendy J. Schiller

Royce Family Professor of Teaching Excellence in Political Science
Professor of Political Science
Director of the A. Alfred Taubman Center for American Politics and Policy

Areas of Interest: United States Congress, political history, gender and politics.

• +1 401 863 1569
• wendy_schiller@brown.edu

Andrew Schrank

Olive C. Watson Professor of Sociology and International and Public Affairs

Areas of Interest: Latin America, globalization, supply chains, labor standards, regulation.

• +1 401 863 2326
• andrew_schrank@brown.edu

Prerna Singh

Mahatma Gandhi Assistant Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs

Areas of Interest: Comparative politics, political economy of development, social welfare, identity politics including ethnic politics and nationalism, and gender politics, politics of South Asia and East Asia.

• prerna_singh@brown.edu

Edward Steinfeld

Howard R. Swearer Director of the Thomas J. Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs
Dean's Professor of China Studies
Professor of Political Science
Director of the China Initiative

Areas of Interest: Political economy of contemporary China, political economy of global production and innovation, political economy of energy.

• +1 401 863 3596
• edward_steinfeld@brown.edu

Paul Stey

Adjunct Lecturer in International and Public Affairs
Director of Data Science, Lead Data Scientist, Brown University

Areas of Interest: Statistical inference, ensemble methods for machine learning, high-performance computing, parallel algorithm design, GPU programming, environmental policy

• paul_stey@brown.edu

Nina Tannenwald

Director, International Relations Concentration
Senior Lecturer in Political Science

Areas of Interest: International security, arms control and nonproliferation, human rights, laws of war.

• +1 401 863 7431
• ninat@brown.edu

Neil Thakral

Nancy Donohue and Diane Elam Assistant Professor of International and Public Affairs and Economics

Areas of Interest: Behavioral economics, Housing policy, Labor markets

• +1 401 863 9735
• neil_thakral@brown.edu

Ashutosh Varshney

Sol Goldman Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs
Director of the Brown-India Initiative

Areas of Interest: lndian politics, political economy of development, ethnic conflict and nationalism.

• +1 401 863 6059
• ashutosh_varshney@brown.edu

Margaret Weir

Wilson Professor of International and Public Affairs and Political Science

Areas of Interest: Social policy in the US and Europe, urban politics and policy.

• +1 401 863 9652
• margaret_weir@brown.edu

Kenneth K. Wong

Walter and Leonore Annenberg Professor for Education Policy
Professor of Political Science, Public Policy, and Urban Studies
Director, Urban Education Policy Program

Areas of Interest: Education governance and politics, school funding reform, accountability and equity issues in the US.

• +1 401 863 1486
• kenneth_wong@brown.edu

J. Nicholas Ziegler

Interim Director of the Watson Postdoctoral Fellows Program
Professor of International and Public Affairs (Research)

Areas of Interest: Comparative politics, political economy of Europe, comparative financial regulation, ideology and party politics in France and Germany.

• + 1 401 863 9083
• j_ziegler@brown.edu