Faculty
Ivan Allen College has more than 140 permanent faculty members. All have PhDs and many are internationally recognized as leaders in their fields. All permanent faculty teach undergraduate courses.
(Listings for temporary faculty and academic professionals are maintained on the individual school websites which may be accessed from the home page)
Public Policy Faculty
Paul Baer
Assistant Professor
Paul Baer, Assistant Professor in the School of Public Policy, is an internationally recognized expert on issues of equity and climate change, with training in ecological economics, ethics, philosophy of science, risk analysis and simulation modeling. He completed his PhD in 2005 at UC Berkeley’s Energy and Resources Group, and also has a BA in Economics from Stanford University and a Masters in Environmental Planning and Management from Louisiana State University. (continues)
Richard P. Barke
Associate Professor
Dr. Richard Barke is an Associate Professor in the School of Public Policy. He received his BS in Physics from the Georgia Institute of Technology and his MA and PhD in Political Science from the University of Rochester. His recent research interests focus on the regulation of risk, the roles of politics within science, and of science within politics. (continues)
Roberta M. Berry
Associate Professor
Roberta M. Berry, J.D., Ph.D., is Associate Professor in the School of Public Policy. Professor Berry's research focuses on the legal, ethical, and policy implications of life sciences research and biotechnologies and on issues in bioethics, biomedical ethics, and health care. Professor Berry is author of The Ethics of Genetic Engineering (Routledge 2010 paperback, 2007 hardcover) and co-editor of A Health Law Reader (Carolina Academic Press 1999). (continues)
Justin Biddle
Assistant Professor
Justin Biddle, Assistant Professor in the School of Public Policy, received a BA in Philosophy and a BS in Physics from the University of Dayton in 1999. After spending a year doing social work in Bangalore, India, he began graduate studies at the University of Notre Dame, where he completed his PhD in the Program in History and Philosophy of Science in 2006. (continues)
Dan Breznitz
Associate Professor
Dr. Dan Breznitz joined the Ivan Allen College faculty in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs in 2005. He holds a joint appointment in the School of Public Policy. His research focus is rapid-innovation-based industrialization, especially science and technology policies and the role of the state under the constraint of the global economy; (continues)
Shiri Breznitz
Assistant Professor
Shiri M. Breznitz's is an assistant professor at the school of Public policy at Georgia Institute of Technology. Her research focuses on regional economic development. Her main interest is the role of universities in economic development, technology transfer and commercialization. Dr. Breznitz intensively studies the biotechnology industry. (continues)
Marilyn Ann Brown
Professor
Dr. Marilyn A. Brown is a Professor in the School of Public Policy. She joined Georgia Tech in 2006 after a distinguished career at the U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, where she led several national climate change mitigation studies and held various leadership positions. (continues)
Jennifer Clark
Associate Professor
Jennifer Clark's research focuses on regional economic development policy and specifically the actors and processes that shape agglomeration economies (industrial districts) and territorial innovation systems. Since the mid-1990s Dr. Clark has studied the spatial and organizational dynamics of the optics, imaging, and photonics industry both in the US and internationally. She writes, consults, and speaks on the subject of national and regional science, technology, and economic development policies related to the optics and photonics and cognate technologies.
Her first book, Remaking Regional Economies: Power, Labor, and Firm Strategies in the Knowledge Economy (2007) included a case study of the evolution of the optics, imaging, and photonics industry in Rochester, New York. Remaking Regional Economies won the Best Book Award from the Regional Studies Association (UK) in 2009.
Dr. Clark has also published several articles on policies related to the development and diffusion of optics and photonics technologies. (continues)
Susan E. Cozzens
Professor and Associate Dean
Dr. Susan E. Cozzens is Associate Dean for Research for the Ivan Allen College and Professor in the School of Public Policy. Her research is on science, technology, and inequalities, and she is active internationally in developing methods for research assessment and science and technology indicators. (continues)
Harley F. Etienne
Assistant Professor
Dr. Harley F. Etienne is a joint Assistant Professor in the School of Public Policy and the College of Architecture. He received his BA in Sociology from Morehouse College, his MA in Urban Studies from Temple University, and his PhD in City and Regional Planning from Cornell University. His dissertation was entitled, "The Role of Universities in Neighborhood Change: The Case of the University of Pennsylvania and West Philadelphia."
Mary Frank Fox
Professor
Mary Frank Fox is an ADVANCE Professor in the School of Public Policy, and co-director of the Center for the Study of Women, Science, & Technology at Georgia Institute of Technology. Fox's research focuses upon gender, science, and academia. Her research has introduced and established ways in which the participation and performance of women and men reflect and are affected by social and organizational features of science and academia. (continues)
Diana M. Hicks
Professor and Chair
Dr. Diana Hicks is Professor and Chair of the School of Public Policy. She specializes in science and technology policy with a focus on the use and improvement of data infrastructures to support policy and scholarship. (continues)
Michael Hoffmann
Associate Professor
Dr. Michael Hoffmann is an Associate Professor in the School of Public Policy. His research focuses on the role of diagrammatic representations for cognitive processes involved in learning, creativity, deliberation, and conflict management. A concrete project in this research area concerns the development of an argument visualization tool called "Logical Argument Mapping (LAM; (continues)
Kimberley Roussin Isett
Associate Professor
Kimberley Roussin Isett is Associate Professor in the School of Public Policy. She earned a Ph.D. in management with a specialization in organization theory from the University of Arizona in 2001. Dr. Isett has concentrated her research on institutional pressures and dynamics in implementing government services, with a particular interest in the delivery of services to vulnerable populations. (continues)
Gordon A. Kingsley
Associate Professor
Gordon Kingsley is Director of Graduate Studies and an Associate Professor in the School of Public Policy at Georgia Tech. Dr. Kingsley teaches classes in public management, business-government relations, policy analysis, and theories of public policy. Dr. Kingsley’s research examines the development and implementation of effective partnerships across the public, private and non-profit sectors. (continues)
Robert J. Kirkman
Assistant Professor
Dr. Robert Kirkman is Assistant Professor in the School of Public Policy at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His research encompasses environmental philosophy, the history and philosophy of the natural sciences, the history of philosophy, and ethics. Current research includes the extension of environmental philosophy to the built environment, especially to the process of suburbanization and metropolitan growth. (continues)
Hans K. Klein
Associate Professor
Dr. Hans K. Klein is Associate Professor in the School of Public Policy at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His research interests include: Internet governance, globalization and regulation, the development of large scale systems, federal technology policy, the politics of innovation, Intelligent Transportation Systems, public access television, and Internet and democracy.
Janelle Knox-Hayes
Assistant Professor
Janelle Knox-Hayes, Assistant Professor in the School of Public Policy, completed her DPhil in Economic Geography and Masters of Science in Environmental Policy at the Oxford University School for Geography and the Environment. She completed a BA at the University of Colorado at Boulder, with a triple major in Ecology, International Affairs, and Japanese Language. (continues)
Cheryl Leggon
Associate Professor
Dr. Cheryl Leggon is an Associate Professor in the School of Public Policy. In 2007, she was elected a Fellow to the American Association for the Advancement of Science for her research on the intersection of race, ethnicity, gender, and career pathways in science and engineering. She was elected to Sigma Xi in 2006, and named a Hesburgh Teaching Fellow at Georgia Institute of Technology in 2008. (continues)
Aaron D. Levine
Assistant Professor
Dr. Aaron D. Levine is an Assistant Professor in the School of Public Policy. He received his BA in Biology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, his M.Phil in Biological Sciences from the University of Cambridge, and his PhD in Public Affairs from Princeton University. (continues)
Daniel Matisoff
Assistant Professor
Daniel Matisoff teaches and conducts research in the areas of public policy and environmental policy. His research focuses on the effectiveness and efficiency of comparative approaches to addressing environmental problems. His work has been sponsored by the National Science Foundation, the European Union Center for Excellence, and the German Academic Exchange Service, and has resulted in publications in Environment, Review of Policy Research, and International Environmental Agreements. (continues)
Julia Ellen Melkers
Associate Professor
Dr. Julia Ellen Melkers is an Associate Professor in the School of Public Policy. She teaches and conducts research in the areas of public management, organizational theory, and science and technology policy. Her current funded work addresses collaboration patterns and social networks in science, outcomes of science, and issues around career development and mentoring in STEM fields. (continues)
Douglas Noonan
Associate Professor
Douglas Noonan received his Ph.D. in Public Policy at the University of Chicago. He is Associate Professor at the School of Public Policy at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Dr. Noonan teaches and conducts research on environmental economics and policy. The core of Prof. Noonan's research is at the intersection of environmental, urban, and cultural economics, emphasizing the provision of and adaptation to urban amenities, including projects on economic valuation of environmental and cultural resources, environmental justice, and air pollution and environmental forecasting. (continues)
Bryan G. Norton
Professor
Dr. Bryan Norton is a Professor of Philosophy in the School of Public Policy. He received his PhD in philosophy from the University of Michigan in 1970, specializing in the philosophy of science and conceptual change in, and across, scientific disciplines. He writes on inter-generational equity, sustainability theory, bio-diversity policy and on valuation methods. (continues)
Georgia A. Persons
Professor
Dr. Georgia Persons is a Professor in the School of Public Policy. She received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Political Science from Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and the PhD in Political Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. At MIT, her major professors included Walter Dean Burnham, Michael Lipsky, and the late Jeffrey Pressman. (continues)
Juan Rogers
Associate Professor
Dr. Juan D. Rogers is Associate Professor of Public Policy and Director of the Research Value Mapping Program at the School of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology. He teaches courses on science and technology policy, information management and policy, knowledge management, logic of policy inquiry, and bureaucracy and policy implementation. (continues)
Robert Rosenberger
Assistant Professor
Robert Rosenberger, Assistant Professor in the School of Public Policy, received his PhD in philosophy from Stony Brook University. His research in the philosophy of technology explores the habitual relationships people develop with everyday devices such as cell phones and television, with applications in design and policy. (continues)
Sue V. Rosser
Professor Emerita
Sue V. Rosser received her PhD in Zoology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1973. She presently serves as Provost at San Fransciso State University. She is Professor Emerita of the School of Public Policy at Georgia Tech. Rosser served as Dean of the Ivan Allen College from July 1999 - June 2009 and also held the Ivan Allen Dean's Chair of Liberal Arts and Technology. (continues)
Philip P. Shapira
Professor
Philip Shapira is a Professor in the School of Public Policy at Georgia Institute of Technology and Professor of Management, Innovation and Policy with the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research, Manchester Business School, University of Manchester. His interests encompass science and technology policy, economic and regional development, innovation management and policy, industrial competitiveness, technology trajectories and assessment, innovation measurement, and policy evaluation. (continues)
Valerie Thomas
Associate Professor (Joint Appointment with ISYE)
Valerie Thomas is the Anderson Interface Associate Professor of Natural Systems in the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, with a joint appointment in the School of Public Policy. Her research interests are the efficient use of materials and energy, sustainability, industrial ecology, technology assessment, international security, and science and technology policy. (continues)
John P. Walsh
Associate Professor
Dr. John P. Walsh is an Associate Professor in the School of Public Policy. He teaches and does research on science, technology and innovation, using a sociological perspective that focuses on organizations and work to explain how research organizations respond to changes in their policy environment. (continues)
Research Faculty
Paul M. A. Baker
Adjunct Professor and Director of Research, CACP
Paul M.A. Baker, Ph.D., is Director of Research, Center for Advanced Communications Policy, and an Adjunct Professor with the School of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology, and is on faculty of the GVU Center at Georgia Tech. He also holds an appointment as Professor, (Courtesy Appointment), Ph.D. (continues)
Helena Mitchell
Executive Director, Center for Advanced Communications Policy
Dr. Helena Mitchell is the Executive Director of the Center for Advanced Communications Policy (CACP) and Principal Research Scientist at the Georgia Institute of Technology. In tandem, she is also the Principal Investigator for the Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center for Wireless Technologies funded by the U.S. (continues)
James White
Senior Research Scientist
James D. White is Director of Communications Studies in the Center for Advanced Communications Policy, and Senior Research Scientist in the School of Public Policy at Georgia Tech. Dr. White’s research interests focus on international communications, on innovation in local government and on the impact of modern communications on the media and on employment. (continues)
Emeritus Faculty
Alan Porter
Professor Emeritus
Alan L. Porter is Professor Emeritus of the School of Public Policy, and of Industrial & Systems Engineering (ISyE). His major concentration is technology forecasting and assessment. He received a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Caltech (1967) and a PhD in Engineering Psychology from UCLA (1972). (continues)
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