Faculty
Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts has more than 140 tenured and tenure-track faculty members, many of whom are internationally recognized as leaders in their fields.
Research Field: Urban Studies
Marilyn Ann Brown
Public Policy
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
Public Policy
Associate Professor
Jennifer Clark is an Associate Professor at the School of Public Policy. Her research focuses on regional economic development, manufacturing, industry clusters and innovation. Dr. Clark publishes research on the development and diffusion of regional policies (including research centers) and their effect on cities and their economic competitiveness. (continues)
Robert J. Kirkman
Public Policy
Associate Professor
Dr. Robert Kirkman is Associate 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)
Hanchao Lu
History, Technology, and Society
Professor
Dr. Hanchao Lu received his PhD in History from the University of California, Los Angeles. He joined the Georgia Tech faculty as an Assistant Professor in the School of History, Technology, and Society in 1994 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 1996 and Professor in 2001. He served as Director of Graduate Studies in Tech's School of History, Technology, and Society from 2004 to 08. (continues)
Juan Carlos Rodriguez
Modern Languages
Assistant Professor - Spanish
Juan Carlos Rodriguez received a PhD in literature from Duke University. He has taught Spanish at the University of Puerto Rico in Rio Piedras and at Rice University, where he coordinated the Transnational Caribbean Cultures conference series. His research and teaching areas are cinema, documentary, urban culture, and literature from Latin America and the Hispanic Caribbean. (continues)
Emeritus Faculty
William A. Schaffer
Economics
Professor Emeritus
Dr. Schaffer, professor emeritus, holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Duke University. He specializes in constructing regional inter-industry models and in economic impact analysis in areas including Hawaii, Georgia, and Nova Scotia. His books include Cost-Benefit Analysis and On Input-Output Models and Regional Planning (now on Springer Book Archive site), His latest publication, recently translated into Farsi, is electronic: “Economic Impact Models in The Web Book of Regional Science at West Virginia University.”
Schaffer has been a member of the International Council of the Regional Science Association and was president of the North American Regional Science Council in 1996-7. (continues)
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