Program Faculty

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William C. Adams

Professor of Public Policy and Public Administration

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Steven Balla

Associate Professor of Political Science, Public Policy and Public Administration, and International Affairs; Co-Director, GW Regulatory Studies Center

Burt Barnow
Burt Barnow

Amsterdam Professor of Public Service and Economics and Director of the PhD Program

Domonic Bearfield
Domonic Bearfield

Associate Director; Professor of Public Policy and Public Administration

Lori Brainard
Lori A. Brainard

Professor of Public Policy and Public Administration

Jennifer Brinkerhoff
Jennifer M. Brinkerhoff

Professor of Public Administration and International Affairs

Chris Carrigan
Christopher Carrigan

Co-Director, GW Regulatory Studies Center; Associate Professor of Public Policy and Public Administration, Trachtenberg School

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Stephanie Riegg Cellini

Professor of Public Policy and Public Administration, and Economics

Dylan Conger
Dylan Conger

Professor of Public Policy and Public Administration

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Joseph J. Cordes

Professor of Economics, Public Policy and Public Administration, and International Affairs; Co-Director, GW Regulatory Studies Center

Susan Dudley
Susan Dudley

Distinguished Professor of Practice, Trachtenberg School of Public Policy & Public Administration

Rachel Emas
Rachel Emas

Associate Teaching Professor of Public Policy and Public Administration and Director of the Master of Arts in Environmental and Sustainability Policy (MA-ESP)

Jasmine McGinnis Johnson
Jasmine McGinnis Johnson

Associate Professor of Public Policy and Public Administration

Jill Kassle
Jill F. Kasle

Associate Professor of Public Policy and Public Administration

Nina Kelsey
Nina Kelsey

Associate Professor

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Ivy Ken

Associate Professor of Public Policy and Public Administration, Sociology, and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program

Yas Kaib
Yas Nakib

Associate Professor of Education Policy, and Public Policy and Public Administration

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Anil Nathan

MPP and MPA Program Director; Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Public Administration

Kathryn Newcomer
Kathryn Newcomer

Professor of Public Policy and Public Administration

Scott Pace
Scott Pace

Professor of the Practice of International Affairs; Director, Space Policy Institute

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Sanjay K Pandey

Shapiro Professor of Public Policy and Public Administration

Elizabeth Rigby
Elizabeth Rigby

Associate Professor of Public Policy and Public Administration

Professor Hilary Silver
Hilary Silver

Professor, Sociology

Robert Stoker
Robert Stoker

Professor of Political Science, and Public Policy and Public Administration

Eiko Strader
Eiko Strader

Associate Professor of Public Policy and Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies

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Mary Tschirhart

Director, Trachtenberg School and Stephen Joel Trachtenberg Professor in Public Service

Steven Tuch
Steven A. Tuch

Professor of Sociology and Public Policy and Public Administration

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Elizabeth Vaquera

Director, Cisneros Hispanic Leadership Institute and Associate Professor of Public Policy & Public Administration and Sociology

Nicholas Vonortas
Nicholas Vonortas

Professor of Economics and International Affairs / Director, Center for International Science and Technology Policy / Program Director, Science, Technology, and Public Policy

Michael Worth
Michael Worth

Professor of Nonprofit Management

Lang Kate Yang
Lang (Kate) Yang

Associate Professor

Gary Young
Garry Young

Professorial Lecturer and Interim Director, George Washington Institute of Public Policy and Co-Director, Center for Washington Area Studies