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Paul Baer

Public Policy
Assistant Professor
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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)

Kirk S. Bowman

International Affairs
Associate Professor
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Dr. Kirk Bowman joined the Georgia Tech faculty as an Assistant Professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs in 1998 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2004. He directs study abroad programs in Argentina, Brazil, Costa Rica and Cuba and is the director of the Georgia Tech International House. (continues)

Marilyn Ann Brown

Public Policy
Professor
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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)

Vivek Ghosal

Economics
Professor and Director of Masters Program
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Dr. Ghosal is Professor at the School of Economics at Georgia Institute of Technology. (continues)

Robert J. Kirkman

Public Policy
Assistant Professor
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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)

Janelle Knox-Hayes

Public Policy
Assistant Professor
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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)

Usha C. Nair-Reichert

Economics
Associate Professor and Interim Chair
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Dr. Usha C. Nair-Reichert holds a PhD in Economics from Purdue University. She teaches courses in international economics and operations of multinational enterprises in the School of Economics. Her research interests are in the areas of trade policy, intellectual property rights, multinational investments, monetary policy and economic development. (continues)

Gregory Nobles

History, Technology, and Society
Professor, Director of the Georgia Tech Honors Program
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Dr. Gregory Nobles came to Georgia Tech as an Assistant Professor in the School of History, Technology, and Society in 1983. He is now Professor of history, specializing in early American history and environmental history, and, since 2005, director of the Georgia Tech Honors Program. His fourth and most recent book,Whose American Revolution Was It?: Historians Interpret the Founding, co-authored with Alfred F. Young, was published by New York University Press in 2011. (continues)

Douglas Noonan

Public Policy
Associate Professor
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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

Public Policy
Professor
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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)

Emilson Caputo Silva

Economics
Professor and Director of Ph.D. Program
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Dr. Emilson Caputo Silva obtained his PhD degree in Economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1993. Prior to joining the School of Economics at Georgia Tech, he worked at the Department of Economics at University of Oregon and at the Department of Economics at Tulane University. (continues)

Jenny Leigh Smith

History, Technology, and Society
Assistant Professor
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Jenny Leigh Smith received her BA in biology and French from Macalester College and her PhD from MIT in the history and anthropology of science, technology, and society. Most recently, she spent two years as a postdoctoral fellow and lecturer at Yale University in the history of science and the history of medicine. (continues)

Brian E. Woodall

International Affairs
Associate Professor
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Dr. Brian E. Woodall is Associate Professor, Associate Chair, and Director of Graduate Programs in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs. He received his PhD in Political Science from the University of California at Berkeley, and joined the faculty in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs in 1994. (continues)

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