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Curriculum Vitae Biography Homepage	Margo Anderson, PhD Professor, Department of History, Urban Studies Program University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee 414 229 3969 414 229 2435 fax margo@uwm.edu Expertise: Politics of Numbers, US Demographic History, History of the Census

Biography Homepage	Howard R Balanoff, PhD, AICP Chair, William P Hobby Center for Public Service Professor, Department of Political Science Texas State University 512 245 3453 512 331 7293 fax hb02@txstate.edu Expertise: Public Policy, Organizational Theory & Behavior, International & Comparative Public Administration

Curriculum Vitae Biography	Scott J Basinger, PhD Assistant Professor of Methodology, Department of Political Science University of Houston 713 743 3911 713 743 3927 fax sjbasinger@uh.edu Expertise: Statistical and Experimental Methods, Mathematical Models and Game Theory, American Politics and Policy

Curriculum Vitae	David Branham, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Social Sciences University of Houston-Downtown 713 221 8208 branhamd@uhd.edu Expertise: Research Methodology, Public Policy, Public Opinion, State Politics, Representation

Curriculum Vitae Biography Homepage	Kathleen A Brosnan, PhD Associate Professor, Department of History Associate Director, Center for Public History University of Houston 713 743 3120 713 743 3216 fax kbrosnan@uh.edu Expertise: Environmental History, History of U.S. West, Legal History, Urban History

Curriculum Vitae Biography Homepage	Monit Cheung, PhD, LCSW Professor, Graduate College of Social Work University of Houston 713 743 8107 713 743 8149 fax mcheung@uh.edu Expertise: Child Welfare Policies, Child Sexual Abuse, Child Protection Service Workers Training, Clinical Practice with Immigrants

Curriculum Vitae Homepage	Jennifer H Clark, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science University of Houston 713 743 3302 713 743 3827 fax jclark10@uh.edu Expertise: American Politics, Legislative Institutions, Political Parties, State Politics, Representation and Quantitative Research Methods

Curriculum Vitae Biography	Harold Clarke, PhD Ashbel Smith Professor, School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences, University of Texas at Dallas 972 883 4891 hclarke@utdallas.edu Expertise: Voting and Elections, The Political Economy of Party Support, Statistics, Time Series Analysis and Structural Equation Modeling, Public Opinion, Political Attitudes and Political Behavior

Curriculum Vitae Biography Homepage	Kelli Connell-Carrick, PhD, MSW Assistant Professor, Graduate College of Social Work University of Houston 713 743 8105 713 743 8149 fax kconnell-carrick@uh.edu Expertise: Child Maltreatment, Child Neglect, Risk Factors for Child Maltreatment, Foster Care, Aging Out, Professional Development and Training of CPS and APS Workers, Child Welfare Workforce Retention.

Curriculum Vitae Biography Homepage	Jeronimo Cortina, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science University of Houston 713 743 3894 713 743 3927 fax jcortina@central.uh.edu Expertise: Public Opinion, Immigration, American and Comparative Politics, Latino Politics and Quantitative Research Methods

Curriculum Vitae Biography Homepage	Steven G Craig, PhD Professor, Department of Economics University of Houston 713 743 3812 713 743 3798 fax scraig@uh.edu Expertise: State and Local Public Sector Economics, Government Expenditure Policy, Urban Economics and Public Choice

Curriculum Vitae Biography Homepage	Jamison M Day, PhD Assistant Professor, Dept of Decision and Information Sciences, Bauer College of Business University of Houston 713 743 0402 713 743 4622 fax jmday@uh.edu Expertise: Supply Chain Management, Complexity Science, Distributed Coordination Strategies, Disaster Management

Curriculum Vitae Biography	Gordon L Dilmore Center Director, Southwest Public Safety Technology Center, University of Houston 281 356-6693 281 356-1368 fax gdilmore@att.net Expertise: Law Enforcement, Fire Services, EMS, Emergency Management, Public Safety Special Operations, Intelligence Programs, C⁴ISR, Border Security, National Security, Situational Awareness

Curriculum Vitae	Karl Eschbach, PhD Associate Professor, Dept of Demography and Organizational Studies University of Texas-San Antonio Associate and Interim Director, Institute for Demographic and Socioeconomic Research Texas State Data Center, University of Texas-San Antonio 210 458 6798 210 458 6540 fax karl.eschbach@utsa.edu Expertise: Population and Demography, Applied Demography, Aging, Racial and Ethnic Disparities, Research Methods, Urban Sociology

Curriculum Vitae Biography Homepage	Elizabeth Anderson Fletcher, PhD Associate Vice President for Research Operations Associate Professor, Department of Decision and Information Sciences, C. T. Bauer College of Business University of Houston 713 743 4740 713 743 4622 fax EFletcher@uh.edu Expertise: Service Operations Management

Curriculum Vitae Homepage	Timothy Hellwig, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science University of Houston 713 743 3914 713 743 3927 fax thellwig@uh.edu Expertise: Political Economy, Public Opinion and Survey Research, European Politics, Applied Econometrics, Time Series Methods

Curriculum Vitae Biography Homepage	William P Hobby Radoslav Tsanoff Professor of Public Affairs, Rice University Scholar in Residence, University of Houston Visiting Scholar, Inter-University Consortium for Political & Social Research, University of Michigan 713 521 0960 713 521 3950 fax hobby@uh.edu Expertise: State Government, Quantitative Research Methods

Curriculum Vitae Homepage	Scott Imberman, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Economics University of Houston 713 743 3839 simberman@uh.edu Expertise: Public Economics, Economics of Education, Health Economics, Labor Economics

Curriculum Vitae Biography	Guillermina Jasso, PhD Professor, Department of Sociology New York University 212 998 8368 212 995 4140 fax gj1@nyu.edu Expertise: Basic Socio-Behavioral Theory, International Migration, Inequality and Stratification, Justice, Status, Mathematical Methods for Theoretical Analysis, Factorial Survey Methods for Empirical Analysis

Curriculum Vitae Homepage	Mark Jones, PhD Professor, Department of Political Science Rice University 713 348 2107 713 348 5273 fax mpjones@rice.edu Expertise: Elections and Electoral Systems, Latin American Politics, Legislatures, Political Parties, Public Opinion

	William Keech, PhD Professor Emeritus, Carnegie Mellon University 412 268 8364 412 268 6938 fax keech@andrew.cmu.edu Expertise: Political Economy, Electoral Systems, American Political Institutions

Curriculum Vitae Biography	Ryan Kennedy, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science University of Houston 713 743 1663 713 743 3927 fax rkennedy@uh.edu Expertise: Democratization, Authoritarian and Leadership Stability, Natural Resource Politics, Political Economy, Political Violence

Curriculum Vitae Homepage	Janet Kohlhase, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Economics University of Houston 713 743 3799 713 743 3798 fax jkohlhase@uh.edu Expertise: Urban Economics, Regional Economics, Environmental Economics

Curriculum Vitae Biography Homepage	Patrick Leung, PhD Professor, Graduate College of Social Work University of Houston 713 743 8111 713 743 8149 fax pleung@uh.edu Expertise: Child Welfare, Asian Study, Mental Health, Immigrant Issues

Curriculum Vitae Biography	Christine S Lipsmeyer, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science Texas A&M University 979 845 2511 979 847 8924 fax lipsmeyer@tamu.edu Expertise: Public Policy, Welfare Policy, Political Economy, Political Institutions, European Politics

Curriculum Vitae	Melody Lo, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Economics University of Texas at San Antonio 210 458 4910 melody.lo@utsa.edu Expertise: Monetary Policy, Central Banking, Exchange Rate Policies, Trading Behavior in Currency Markets, (Firms' Choices on) Capital Structure, and Empirical Implications of Theoretical Models (EITM)

Curriculum Vitae Biography	Martin V Melosi, PhD Distinguished University Professor, Department of History Director, Center for Public History University of Houston 713 743 3090 713 743 3216 fax mmelosi@uh.edu Expertise: Urban Environmental History, History of Technology, City Services and Infrastructure, Energy History, Public History

Curriculum Vitae Biography	Richard Murray, PhD Director, Center for Public Policy's Survey Research Institute Lanier Chair in Public Policy, Political Science University of Houston 713 743 3909 713 743 3927 fax rmurray@uh.edu Expertise: Public Opinion, Political Parties, Elections, Political Marketing, Texas Politics, Congress/Legislature, Houston Politics

Biography Homepage	Joseph A Pratt, PhD NEH-Cullen Professor of History and Management Department of History / Management University of Houston 713 743 3088 joepratt@uh.edu Expertise: Energy History, Houston History, History of Regulation

Curriculum Vitae Homepage	William Reed, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Political Science Rice University 713 348 2108 713 348 5273 strandvej@rice.edu Expertise: World Politics, International Conflict, International Political Economy, Applied Game Theory and Econometrics, Natural Experiments and Regression Discontinuity Designs

Curriculum Vitae Homepage	Elizabeth Rigby, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science University of Houston 713 743 3905 713 743-3927 fax erigby@uh.edu Expertise: Child and Family Policy; Politics of the Policy Process; State Politics

Curriculum Vitae Biography Homepage	Adolfo Santos, PhD Chair, Department of Social Sciences Associate Professor, Political Science University of Houston-Downtown 713 221 8232 santosa@uhd.edu Expertise: Hispanic Representation; Post-Congressional Lobbying; Education Policy

Curriculum Vitae Biography JERHRE Homepage	Joan E Sieber, PhD Professor Emerita, Department of Psychology California State University, East Bay Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics (JERHRE) 510 538 5424 510 881 2153 fax joan.sieber@csueastbay.edu Expertise: Ethics of Human Research, Empirical Research on Questions of Scientific Ethics, Culturally Sensitive Methods of Research and Intervention, Data Sharing Methodology, Whistle-blowing

Curriculum Vitae Homepage	Robert Stein, PhD Lena Gohlman Fox Professor, Department of Political Science Rice University 713 348 4824 713 348 5273 fax stein@rice.edu Expertise: Urban Politics, Public Policy

Curriculum Vitae Biography Homepage	Jill M Sundie, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Marketing & Entrepreneurship, University of Houston 713 743 4166 713-743-4572 fax jsundie@uh.edu Expertise: Consumer Psychology and Behavior, Social Influence, Emotions and Behavior, Evolutionary Psychology

Curriculum Vitae Biography Homepage	Lydia B Tiede, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Houston lbtiede@uh.edu Expertise: American and comparative judicial politics, legal reform and judicial decision-making, criminal law policy

Curriculum Vitae Biography	Miao Wang, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Economics Marquette University 414 288 7310 414 288 5757 fax grace.wang@mu.edu Expertise: Foreign Direct Investment, International Trade, Economic Growth

Curriculum Vitae Biography Homepage	Nathaniel T Wilcox, PhD Professor, Department of Economics University of Houston 713 743 3840 713 743 3798 fax nwilcox@uh.edu Expertise: Microeconomics and Cognitive Science, Decision Making, Experimental Methods, Applied Econometrics

Curriculum Vitae Biography Homepage	Rick K Wilson, PhD Herbert S. Autrey Professor, Department of Political Science Rice University 713 348 3352 713 348 5273 fax rkw@rice.edu Expertise: Social and Political Decision Making

Curriculum Vitae Biography	M C Sunny Wong, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Economics University of San Francisco 415 422 6194 mwong11@usfca.edu Expertise: Monetary Policy, Learning Dynamics, Business-Cycle Theory, Foreign Direct Investment and the Empirical Implications of Theoretical Models (EITM)

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