SPEA - School of Public and Environmental Affairs

Human rights, sustainable development, democratization and state reconstruction in Africa, U.S.-African/Third World relations, and UN Security Council reform

Energy policy, energy efficiency and conservation, behavioral economics, social dilemmas, risk communication, and sustainable development

Intersection of foreign aid and sustainable development; international forest policy; energy efficiency; public administration; environmental education; undergraduate honors education

Environmental law, domestic and international environmental policy, ethics and the public official, mediation and alternative dispute resolution, law and public policy

Survey methodology, human resource management including management of contingent employees, positive organizational scholarship

Energy Policy, Electricity Technology Innovation Policy, Applied Econometrics, and Policy Instruments

Aquatic and terrestrial habitats, working closely with the Indiana Clean Lakes Program, water resources and water quality, implementing sustainability initiatives on campus and community.

Wetland restoration and ecosystem development, wetlands and water quality, wetlands and climate change, including carbon sequestration and peat accretion

Entrepreneurship, innovation and economic development policy; political economy and allocation of entrepreneurship in areas of political instability, conflict and disaster; postconflict reconstruction; social entrepreneurship

Service learning, hydrogen storage materials, recruitment, retention and graduation of under-represented students in the Science Technology Engineer and Mathematics (STEM) disciplines

Public management and organization theory, with a focus on privatization and contracting out, public sector leadership, and organizational change and innovation

Health Economics, Public Economics, Labor Economics

Quantitative policy modeling, productivity measurement in public and regulated industries, urban policy analysis

Nonprofit and public sector relationships. Current work examines the scope and community dimensions of the Indiana nonprofit sector. Other major areas of research focus on the American welfare system, nonprofit funding relations, and nonprofit data sources.

Behavioral impact of tax policies on labor supply, consumption, income and earnings, employment mode, health insurance purchases, charitable giving, and retirement savings; analysis of labor, business, and household income dynamics.

Touring Jazz Pianist, Jazz History, Concert Promotion, Music Industry, Jazz Education

Human resource management/training and development

Governmental and Non-Profit Accounting and Reporting. Financial Management in Non Profit Organizations. Governmental Budgeting and Finance. Financial (Corporate) Management.

Applied econometrics and program evaluation; crime policy, public policy for low-income families

Theory and practice of benefit-cost analysis, environmental and energy policy analysis, environmental and energy program evaluation; natural resource management in developing countries.

Nonprofits and public policy, civil society in comparative perspective, institutional grant-makers, volunteering and civic engagement, and education and social welfare policy, social entrepreneurship

Public finance, urban and regional economics, international trade, economic development, public budgeting and financial management

Ecology and management of rare species, landscape-level conservation under climate change, obstacles to conservation under climate change, integrating ecosystem research and endangered species management within adaptive management

Environmental law, conservation easements, invasive species, environmental impact of shipping on the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Seaway.

Exploring how institutional rules affect the structure of action situations within which individuals face incentives, make choices, and jointly affect each other. Problems involving collective goods and common-pool resource systems, and how various types of institutions enhance or detract from the capabilities of individuals to achieve equitable, workable, efficient solutions are a central theoretical concern.

Bioremediation, environmental microbiology, and biogeochemistry with a focus on the microbial reduction of iron oxides and nitrate, microbial iron oxidation, biotransformation of metals and chlorinated hydrocarbons, and combined microbial:geochemical interactions

Local government and the United States Constitution

Applying interdisciplinary approaches to understand how thermal and photochemical reactions on surfaces affect the fate of pollutants in the environment and impact global climate

Financial management, information systems, and entrepreneurship

International political economy with emphasis on globalization; rise and fall of major powers; political conflict and how it interacts with international trade, democracy, and the environment; sustainable development; Middle East political economy

Public policy process and evaluation, with substantive interests in environmental and energy policy, research methodology, bureaucratic behavior, and democratic influences in policy making.

Aquatic biogeochemistry, water resources, nutrient and carbon cycling in streams and rivers, water quality and nutrient standards

Cultural economics, policy and administration; nonprofit organizations; tax policy. Current research concerns cultural districts, and tax policy towards nonprofit organizations and charitable donations.

Poverty and low-income families in the United States, Housing instability, Implementation of programs serving low-income families

Environmental Toxicology, Environmental Genomics, Comparative Physiology

Health economics and policy—investigates the impact of state and federal regulations attempting to ease the availability of private and public health insurance for vulnerable populations on health insurance, health and labor market outcomes

Accounting, Project Management, Audit, Information Systems, Financial Reporting, Budgeting

Characterization of the chemical mechanisms in the atmosphere that influence regional air quality and global climate change

Development of growth simulation models for sustainable management of indigenous community forests, experimental designs in tropical forestry research, service-learning research, classroom action research on student active learning via group research projects in undergraduate introductory statistical techniques courses, and how pre-service teachers conceptualize mathematics (philosophically) indexed with their beliefs and conceptions about mathematics learning and teaching.

Public management, comparative public administration, employment policies and practices, work motivation

State and local finance, transportation safety, economic development, gaming policy