C. Leigh Anderson

C. Leigh Anderson
Professor of Public Affairs
Ph.D., University of Washington, 1989

Contact Information:
Parrington Hall, Room 224
cla@u.washington.edu
206.543.0365

Areas of Specialization:
International Development; Trade and Environmental Policy

C. Leigh Anderson joined the Evans School faculty in 1997 as a tenured associate professor after spending eight years at the School of Public Administration at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. She teaches economics, statistics, and courses in international affairs, and her primary field of study is applied microeconomics and property rights in the areas of international development, and trade and environment.

Anderson has also taught or been a visiting researcher at the University of California at Berkeley, Lahore University of Management Sciences in Pakistan, and Renmin University of China in Beijing.

She is currently researching issues in microfinance, and has previously studied the effect of U.S. environmental rules and regulatory processes on corporate behavior, and the effects of market reforms on energy use and greenhouse gas emissions in China and Pakistan.

Anderson is a recipient of the University of Washington’s (UW) Excellence in Teaching Award and the UW’s Department of Economics Henry T. Buechel Award for outstanding undergraduate teaching.

She holds a Ph.D. and MA in Economics from the University of Washington, and a BA in economics from the University of Calgary.

Curriculum Vitae (21KB PDF)

Publications & Links

• Curriculum, Research, and Outreach in Microfinance: A joint microfinance project sponsored by the US State Department. Participants: Baikal Institute of Business and International Management (BIBIM ISU), Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs, University of Washington, Siberian Academy of Public Administration (SAPA).
• Making Progress: Essays in Progress and Public Policy: Edited by C. Leigh Anderson, Making Progress: Essays in Progress and Public Policy draws on writers from many disciplines to provoke a broad-based discussion on the meaning of, measurement of, and necessary conditions for, progress.

Sandra O. Archibald

Sandra O. Archibald
Dean and Professor of Public Affairs
Ph.D., University of California, Davis, 1984

Contact Information:
Parrington Hall, Room 208E
sarch@u.washington.edu
206.616.1648

Specialization areas:
Applied Economics, Agricultural and Resource Economics and Water Resource Sciences

Dean Sandra O. Archibald joined the Evans School in 2003. Her research interests concern a wide area focusing on the intersection of economics, institutions, and public policy.

Archibald previously served in several roles at the Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota from 1993-03, including associate dean, interim dean, associate dean for academic affairs and research programs, and associate dean and director of graduate studies. She also served as the Associate Vice Provost for Faculty Development of the University of Minnesota from 1999-02.

Archibald served as a faculty member at the Humphrey Institute, and an adjunct professor in the Department of Applied Economics. She also had full graduate faculty membership in Water Resources Science and Conservation Biology at the Humphrey Institute. Archibald also served as a faculty member at the Stanford University Food Research Institute from 1983-91. She has taught economics for policy analysis, environmental and natural resource policy, and advanced policy analysis.

Archibald is the recipient of the NASPAA/ASPA Distinguished Research Award of 2004; Humphrey Institute Outstanding Teaching Award of 1993; American Agricultural Economics Association Quality of Research Communication Award of 1989; University of California Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics Outstanding Dissertation Award of 1984; and numerous research grants.

Outside of academics, Archibald is extensively involved in public service and research designed to support sound public policy and management decisions. She has made significant contributions to policy making and civic engagement in the United States and abroad. She was Director of Economic Analysis for Rockefeller’s Commission on Critical Choices for Americans, served in the Office of Research and Development in the Environmental Protection Agency and has worked extensively in Central and Eastern Europe designing environmental curriculum and academic programs for higher education.

Archibald holds a Ph.D. in agricultural and resource economics from the University of California, Davis. She also holds an MA in public administration and BA in history from University of California, Berkeley.

Curriculum Vitae (53KB PDF)

Michael Blake

Michael Blake
Associate Professor of Philosophy and Public Affairs
Ph.D., Stanford University, 1998

Contact Information:
Condon Hall, Room 618
miblake@u.washington.edu
206.221.7859

Areas of Specialization:
Social and Political Philosophy, International Ethics, Philosophy of Economics, Morality and Public Policy

Michael Blake joined the Evans School faculty in 2005. His research and teaching interests include: social and political philosophy, philosophy of law and of economics, public policy, international ethics, and biomedical ethics.

Blake was previously a faculty member at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government where he served as assistant professor of Public Policy and Philosophy, and held positions in the Center for Ethics and the Professions and the Carr Center for Human Rights.

Blake was a Laurance S. Rockefeller Fellow at Princeton University's Center for Human Values from 2001-02. His recent publications include "Agonistic Democracy and Political Liberalism," in Steven Macedo and Melissa Williams, eds., NOMOS XLVI: Political Exclusion (forthcoming, New York University Press).

Blake holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from Stanford University, and a BA in economics and philosophy from University College, University of Toronto. He did his legal training at Yale Law School.

His primary appointment is in the University of Washington's Department of Philosophy.

Curriculum Vitae (118KB PDF)

Ann Bostrom

Ann Bostrom
Associate Professor and Associate Dean for Research
Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University, 1990

Contact Information:
Parrington Hall, Room 327
abostrom@u.washington.edu
206.685.8198

Areas of Specialization:
Risk Perception, Communication, and Management; Environmental Policy and Management

Ann Bostrom joined the Evans School faculty in 2007. Her research focuses on risk perception, communication, and management; and environmental policy and decision making.

Bostrom previously served on the faculty at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) from 1992-2007, where she most recently was Associate Dean for Research at the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts and Professor in the School of Public Policy.

She has authored or contributed to numerous publications, including Risk Communication: A Mental Models Approach (Cambridge University Press, 2002), Risk Assessment, Modeling and Decision Support: Strategic Directions (Berlin: Springer, 2008), and National Academy, U.S. EPA Science Advisory Board, and U.S. EPA Board of Scientific Counselors reports.

She has also served as an editor and/or reviewer for numerous technical journals, including Risk Analysis, the Journal of Risk Research, Human and Ecological Risk Assessment, Psychological Science, Environmental Science & Technology, and the National Political Science Review.

Much of Bostrom's research has been funded by grants from the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

She is the recipient of several assistantships and fellowships, including: the 1991-92 American Statistical Association/ National Science Foundation/Bureau of Labor Statistics Research Associateship; 1989-90 Fulbright Graduate Research Fellowship and Lois Roth Endowment Fund grant for studies at the University of Stockholm; and the 1988-89 Patricia Roberts Harris Fellowship at Carnegie Mellon. She is also the recipient of the 1997 Chauncey Starr award for a young risk analyst from the Society For Risk Analysis for her work on mental models of hazardous processes.

Bostrom worked as director of the Decision Risk and Management Science Program at the National Science Foundation from 1999-2001. While in this position she organized, participated in and made presentations at national and international meetings on research and science policy, including but not limited to the Subcommittee on Natural Disaster Reduction and the National Earthquake Hazard Reduction Program.

Bostrom is a member of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, Society for Risk Analysis, American Statistical Association, and American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Bostrom holds a Ph.D. in public policy analysis from Carnegie Mellon University, an MBA from Western Washington University, and a BA in English from the University of Washington.

Curriculum Vitae (1.65MB PDF)

Publications & Links

Books and Reports

• Risk Assessment, Modeling and Decision Support: Strategic Directions, A Bostrom, S French, and S Gottlieb (Eds). (Berlin: Springer, 2008)
• Risk Communication: A Mental Models Approach, MG Morgan, B Fischhoff, A Bostrom, and CJ Atman (Cambridge University Press, 2002)
• Seafood Choices: Balancing Benefits and Risks, Committee on Nutrient Relationships in Seafood: Selections to Balance Benefits and Risks, Food and Nutrition Board, Institute of Medicine, MC Nesheim and A Yaktine (Eds) (National Academy Press, 2007)
• "Weather it's Climate Change?" A. Bostrom and D. Lashof, in Creating a Climate for Change: Communicating Climate Change and Facilitating Social Change, SC Moser and L Dilling (Eds) (Cambridge University Press, 2007).

Journals and Associations

• Risk Analysis: An International Journal
• Journal of Risk Research
• Human Ecology and Risk Assessment
• Society for Risk Analysis

Leslie K. Breitner

Leslie K. Breitner
Principal Lecturer of Public Affairs
DBA, Boston University Graduate School of Management, 1996

Contact Information:
Parrington Hall, Room 109L
breitner@u.washington.edu
206.616.8698

Areas of Specialization:
Budgeting and Financial Management

Leslie K. Breitner joined the faculty of the Evans School of Public Affairs in 2002. She is a principal lecturer and teaches the Master of Public Administration core budgeting and financial management course, performance management, and nonprofit financial management. Breitner also serves as the faculty director for the Cascade Center where she teaches courses in financial statement analysis, financial management, and performance management.

Prior to joining the Evans School, Breitner taught graduate level financial management and public sector budgeting courses at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. She was also involved with the Kennedy School’s Senior Executives programs for those working in federal, state, and local government.

An experienced teacher in distance learning courses, Breitner developed and taught the online financial management curricula for both the Kennedy School and Seton Hall University's Masters in Healthcare Administration program. She has also taught and consulted to medical schools, teaching hospital, foundations, and nonprofit organizations on issues related to financial management and integrated health delivery organizations.

Breitner is co-author of the popular accounting books Essentials of Accounting, 9th Edition and Essentials of Accounting Review, both revised and published in 2006 with the late Professor Robert N. Anthony.

She is the 2004 recipient of the Evans School Teacher of the Year Award, and Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence. She also recently served as a board member of Sustainable Seattle.

Breitner holds a DBA from Boston University Graduate School of Management, an MBA from Simmons College Graduate School of Management, and a BA in French studies from the University of Wisconsin – Madison. She also holds a certificate from Harvard University Institute in Arts Administration.

Curriculum Vitae (22KB PDF)

Jonathan Brock

Jonathan Brock

Associate Professor of Public Affairs
MBA, Harvard University, 1973

Contact Information:

Parrington Hall, Room 227
jbrock@u.washington.edu
206.616.5817

Areas of Specialization:

Public Management, Managing People, Labor-Management Relations, Conflict Resolution and Agency Improvement Strategies

Jonathan Brock joined the Evans School faculty in 1981. His teaching and research activities are related to the activities of people working in and around public and nonprofit organizations. Much of his work has focused on conflict resolution and improving leadership and management skills and judgment.

Brock has also served as the founding director of the Evans School Cascade Center, which became the second largest public executive training center in the country. He continues to regularly instruct on-the-job managers in executive training programs offered through the Cascade Center. Brock also began the Electronic Hallway at the Evans School, which provides case studies on current and classic policy and management issues to public administration programs worldwide.

He is the author of Bargaining Beyond Impasse and Managing People in Public Agencies, co-author of Going Public: The Role of Labor-Management Relations in Producing Quality Public Services, as well as other works on conflict resolution. Brock is also the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award of the International Personnel Management Association for outstanding contributions to research and practice in public sector human resource management.

Outside of academia, Brock has held a variety of policy and management positions in the federal government, including being appointed by the U.S. Secretary of Labor as the executive director for a task force on state and local government labor-management practices. He currently chairs a council dealing with whistle-blower issues at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation.

Brock holds a MBA from the Harvard Business School, and an AB in economics from Franklin and Marshall College.

Curriculum Vitae (24KB PDF)

Joseph H. Cook

Joseph H. Cook
Assistant Professor of Public Affairs
Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2007

Contact Information:
Parrington Hall, Room 207A
jhcook@u.washington.edu
206.685.8927

Areas of Specialization:
Environmental Economics, Health Economics, Water and Sanitation Policy in Developing Countries, Benefit-Cost Analysis

Joseph Cook joined the Evans School faculty in 2007. His research uses tools from economics to inform environmental and health policy in economically-developing countries. His current focus is primarily on water and sanitation policy and vaccine policy. He is also affiliated with the Benefit-Cost Analysis Center at the Evans School.

While at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for his graduate training, Cook studied private demand for cholera and typhoid vaccines using stated preference methodologies (both contingent valuation and stated choice), doing extensive fieldwork in India, Vietnam, and Mozambique. He has also worked as a research assistant at the non-partisan think-tank Resources for the Future in Washington D.C., examining the benefits of natural resource improvements in Adirondack State Park, the costs and benefits of controlling air pollution from informal brick kilns in Mexico, and willingness-to-pay to avoid mortality risks.

Outside of academia, he served as a consultant to the Asian Development Bank on Nepal’s Melamchi water supply project, the International Vaccine Institute, the Hopi Tribe, and Orange County (NC).

Scholarly work by Cook has been published in the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Economic Inquiry, Environment and Development Economics, and the Value in Health. He also co-authored a chapter in Small Firms and the Environment in Developing Countries: Collective Impacts, Collective Action (RFF Press, 2006).

Cook holds a Ph.D. and MS in environmental management and policy from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He also holds a BS in natural resources from Cornell University.

Curriculum Vitae (204KB PDF)

Course Links

• Quantitative Analysis (PBAF527)
• Water and Sanitation Policy in Economically-Developing Countries (PBAF595C)

Alison Cullen

Alison C. Cullen
Professor of Public Affairs
Sc.D., Harvard University, 1992

Contact Information:
Parrington Hall, Room 209B
alison@u.washington.edu
206.616.1654

Areas of Specialization:
Environmental Risk Analysis, Environmental Science and Policy, Quantitative Uncertainty Analysis, Statistical Decision Theory

Alison Cullen joined the Evans School faculty in 1995. Her research involves the analysis of environmental risks, decision making in the face of risks which are uncertain or vary across populations, and the application of value of information and distributional techniques.

Cullen was a 2007-08 visiting professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zürich, Switzerland, and is active in environmental exposure assessment projects in the U.S. and internationally.

She serves on the board of the University of Washington's Environmental Management Program. She is also the president-elect of the Society for Risk Analysis (SRA).

She previously served on the faculty of the Harvard University School of Public Health. She is also the 2003 recipient of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Special Recognition in the Field of Air Toxics, the 2002 Chauncey Starr Award from the Society for Risk Analysis, and the 1998 Outstanding Young Scientist Award from the International Society of Exposure Assessment.

Outside of academia, Cullen has held positions in the Water Quality Branch of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and served as a technical consultant to many groups, including the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, the State of Washington's Department of Ecology, the City of Seattle's Office of Sustainability, and the Ministry of Public Health in the Slovak Republic.

She also served on the U.S. National Academy of Sciences Committee on the Coeur d'Alene Superfund site since from 2003-05, and is an affiliate scientist on the National Center for Atmospheric Research's Uncertainty Initiative from 2000-04.

Cullen holds a Sc.D. in Environmental Health Management and a MS in Environmental Health Science, Exposure Assessment, and Engineering from Harvard University School of Public Health. She also holds a BS in civil/environmental engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Curriculum Vitae (219KB PDF)

Course Links

• PBAF 527A - Quantitative Analysis
• PBAF 590A - Environmental Policy Processes

Sara Curran

Sara Curran
Associate Professor of International Studies and Public Affairs
Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1994

Contact Information:
Thomas Hall, Room 417
scurran@u.washington.edu
206.543.6479

Areas of Specialization
Social Demography, Environment, Development and Globalization, Gender

Sara Curran joined the faculty of the Evans School and Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies in 2005. Her research and teaching interests encompass internal migration in developing countries, globalization, family demography, environment and population, and gender.

Curran previously served as an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at Princeton University where she received the 2002 and 2004 outstanding faculty advising award. While at Princeton University, Curran also served as a faculty associate for its Office of Population Research and its Center for International Studies.

Curran is writing a book on her research in Thailand titled Shifting Boundaries, Transforming Lives: Globalization, Gender, and Family Dynamics in Thailand (under contract with Princeton University Press.) In addition to her recent publications listed below, Curran's work has been published in the journals of Asia Pacific Migration Journal, Demography, Globalizations, Population and Development Review, Social Science Research, Teaching Sociology, Journal of International Women’s Studies, and Journal of Marriage and the Family.

Curran holds a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She also holds a MS in sociology and economics from North Carolina State University, and a BS in natural resource management from the University of Michigan.

Her primary appointment is in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies.

Curriculum Vitae (161KB PDF)

Publications

A Handbook for Social Science Field Research: Essays & Bibliographic Sources on Research Design and Methods co-edited with Ellen Perecman for Sage Publications, 2006

Global Governance of Food co-edited for Routledge, 2008

Asia Pacific Migration Journal co-edited special issue, May 2008

Links

Sara Curran's University of Washington Faculty Website

Maria Damon

Maria Damon
Assistant Professor of Public Affairs
Ph.D. University of California, San Diego, 2007

Contact Information:
Parrington Hall, Room 329
mdamon@u.washington.edu
206.685.7527

Areas of Specialization:
Environmental Policy, Public Health, International Development

Maria Damon joined the Evans School faculty in 2007. She teaches courses on environmental policy, quantitative analysis, and the microeconomics of policy analysis.

Damon’s research focuses on environmental policy design, and how understanding decision-making processes can lead to more effective policies. She also studies the relationships between health and natural resource management in developing countries, and ways in which natural resources can be better managed in the face of disease epidemics.

Outside of academics, Damon served a one-year appointment as the staff economist for environmental policy at the White House Council of Economic Advisers and has worked as a research analyst at The World Bank.

Damon holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, San Diego and a BA in economics from Cornell University. She also completed an NSF-IGERT joint doctoral program on marine biodiversity and conservation at the University of California, San Diego and Scripps Institute of Oceanography.

Curriculum Vitae (101KB PDF)

Course Links

• Quantitative Methods II (PBAF 528-C), Spring Quarter 2008
• Economic Approaches to Environmental Management (PBAF 594), Winter Quarter 2008

J. Patrick Dobel

J. Patrick Dobel
Professor of Public Affairs
Adjunct Professor of Political Science
Ph.D., Princeton University, 1976

Contact Information:
Parrington Hall, room 230
pdobel@u.washington.edu
206.616.1680

Areas of Specialization:
Ethics, Leadership, Public Management, Political Theory

J. Patrick Dobel joined the Evans School faculty in 1986. His interests concern a wide area, encompassing the intersection of politics and institutions with ethics. He teaches public ethics, public management, strategy, and leadership. His research focuses on leadership, managerial strategy, public management, and ethics in public life.

Dobel also serves as the University of Washington's faculty Ahtletic Representative at the PAC 10 and NCAA, overseeing the academic integrity of the athletic program and governance.

Dobel previously served as faculty from 1974-86 at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. He is the author of several academic award winning articles as well as many others on public ethics and integrity. His books, Compromise and Political Action-Political Morality in Liberal and Democratic Life and Public Integrity study the reality of ethics in public life.

Outside of academia, Dobel has chaired the King County Ethics Board, and has served as a consultant on management, leadership, and ethics issues to numerous public and nonprofit agencies.

Dobel holds a Ph.D. and AM in Politics and Political Philosophy from Princeton University. He also holds a AB in political science from Boston College.

Curriculum Vitae (36KB PDF)

Mark A. Emmert

Mark A. Emmert
Professor of Public Affairs & President of the University of Washington
Ph.D., Maxwell School of Syracuse University, 1983

Contact Information:
Gerberding Hall, Room 301
emmert@u.washington.edu
206.543.5010

Areas of Specialization:
Public Policy and Administration, Science Policy, Research Policy and Higher Education Policy

Mark A. Emmert was appointed as the 30th president of the University of Washington and professor with tenure at the Evans School on June 14, 2004.

President Emmert's top goal is to further expand the University's stellar national and international standing. With the UW already ranked as the leading public university in terms of research grants and contracts, he hopes to work with faculty and staff to support continued growth of seminal research and to provide students with even greater educational opportunities. These efforts must also offer access and affordability for students, promote diversity across the University, and provide the resources needed to recruit and retain the finest faculty in all academic fields. Emmert has a long history with the UW, having earned his bachelor's degree in political science here in 1975. View full presidential biography.

Prior to joining the Evans School's faculty, Emmert served as Chancellor of Louisiana State University and Professor of Business Administration. Prior to that, he served five years as Chancellor and Professor of Political Science of the University of Connecticut and was Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at Montana State University. Earlier, he held faculty positions in the Graduate School of Public Affairs and administrative positions in the president's office of the University of Colorado.

Emmert has been an American Council on Education Fellow, a Fulbright Fellow in Germany, and a visiting scholar or lecturer in numerous countries. He is co-chair of the Board of Oceans and Atmosphere of the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges (NASULGC). Emmert is the author of numerous refereed journal articles, monographs, book chapters, and technical reports.

Curiculum Vitae

Publications & Links

"Legos and New Building Blocks: Transforming, Refocusing, and Reallocation within Universities," Proceedings, Association of Research Libraries. Forthcoming.

"The Tyranny of Our Traditions: Leading Change in Our Colleges and Universities, Trusteeship," Association of Governing Boards, 6(4), July/August, 1998.

"Public Management in the Future: A Designer's Guide" with M. Crow, in B. Bozeman, et al. (eds.), Public Management Theory. San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, 1993.

"Public Sector Professionals: The Effects of Public Sector Jobs on Motivation, Job Satisfaction and Work Involvement" with W. Taher, American Review of Public Administration, 22(1):37-48, 1992.

"Government-Supported Industrial Research Institutes in the United States," with M. Crow and C. Jacobson, Policy Studies Journal, 19(1): 59-74, 1991.

"Research Paradigms and Knowledge Utilization," Journal of Management Science and Policy Analysis, 7(4): 291-300, 1990.

"Improving Business-Government Relations: What are the Roles and Responsibilities of Schools of Public Affairs," American Review of Public Administration, 19(2): 163-173, 1989.

"The Cooperative University Research Laboratory: Policy Implications for Higher Education," with M. Crow, Journal of Higher Education, 60(4): 27-37, 1989.

Laura Evans

Laura E. Evans
Assistant Professor of Public Affairs
Ph.D., University of Michigan, 2005

Contact Information:
Parrington Hall, Room 207B
evansle@u.washington.edu
206.543.4900
On leave through summer 2009

Areas of Specialization:
Intergovernmental Relations, Urban and Regional Affairs, Race and Ethnicity, Political Institutions

Laura Evans joined the Evans School faculty in 2004. Her research explores intergovernmental relations and public sector decision-making in the United States. She examines the forces shaping regional policy coordination, with particular attention to the effects of racial and economic divisions on interactions between governments, and with particular interest in the ways that government organization matters for policy design and implementation.

Her current research examines relations between Native American tribal governments and states and localities. This study addresses how federal institutions structure political outcomes and how politically marginalized groups approach politics. Also, Evans is initiating a study of how regional policy coordination and competition affect health policy in metropolitan areas. Finally, in co-authored work, she analyzes how state legislatures govern local affairs.

Evans is a recipient of a Robert Wood Johnson Scholars in Health Policy Research Fellowship, a University of Washington Research Royalty Fund Award, a Brookings Institution Research Fellowship, and the 2006 Best Dissertation Award from the Urban Politics Section of the American Political Science Association

Outside of academia, Evans has worked for the Department of Commerce Office of Inspector General.

Evans holds a Ph.D. in Political Science and a MPP from the University of Michigan. She also holds a BA in political science from the University of California, Berkeley.

Curriculum Vitae (83KB PDF)

Diana Fletschner

Diana Fletschner
Assistant Professor of Public Affairs
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2002

Contact Information:
Parrington Hall, Room 229
fletschn@u.washington.edu
206.616.1297

Areas of Specialization:
Development Economics, Intrahousehold Decision-Making, Economics of Gender, Group Effects, Rural Microfinance, and Food Security in Developing Countries

Diana Fletschner joined the Evans School faculty in 2002. Her current research evaluates the potential impact of enhancing rural women’s access to credit. She analyzes the notion that rural women’s more restricted access to capital may not be compensated with intrafamily transfers once spouses’ preferences and bargaining power are taken into account. In addition, she explores the idea that rural women’s demand for capital may be socially-constructed as their role in the economy is shaped by social norms. She has done research and worked with NGOs in Paraguay, Nicaragua, and Colombia.

She is a board member of the Foundation for International Understanding Through Students (FIUTS) and has served as a member of the Oversight Committee of the Nicaraguan Credit Alternatives Fund (NICA Fund). She was awarded the Henry Taylor Doctoral Dissertation Award (2003); received the University of Wisconsin’s Graduate Student Mentor Award (2001); and was a MacArthur Foundation Global Studies Scholar (1998 and 1999).

Before coming to the United States, she lived in Paraguay working as a computer consultant and severing as an assistant professor in the Economics and Computer Science Departments of the Universidad Nacional and Universidad Católica.

Fletschner holds a Ph.D. in agricultural and applied economics and a M.Sc. in agricultural economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She also holds a BA in economics and a BA in computer science from the Universidad Nacional de Asunción-Paraguay.

Curriculum Vitae (18KB PDF)

Publications & Links

• Foundation for International Understanding Through Students (FIUTS)
• Nicaraguan Credit Alternatives Fund (NICA Fund)

Andrew C. Gordon

Andrew C. Gordon
Professor of Public Affairs
Ph.D., Columbia University, 1970

Contact Information:
Parrington Hall, Room 209G
acg@u.washington.edu
206.616.1657

Areas of Specialization:
Microcomputers, Ethnographic Data Analysis, Information Systems and International Information Exchange, Community Organizations

Andrew Gordon joined the Evans School faculty in 1988. His recent research is in the areas of bureaucratic information sources and distortions, microcomputers and public policy, and community organizations.

Gordon previously served for 19 years on the faculty at Northwestern University in the departments of Sociology, Psychology, and Urban Affairs.

Gordon holds a Ph.D. in social psychology from Columbia University.

Mary Kay Gugerty

Mary Kay Gugerty
Assistant Professor of Public Affairs
Ph.D. Harvard University, 2001

Contact Information:
Parrington Hall, Room 220
gugerty@u.washington.edu
206.221.4599

Areas of Specialization:
International development; nonprofit and public management; program analysis and evaluation

Mary Kay Gugerty joined the Evans School faculty in 2001. Her research interests focus on governance and the emergence and design of collective action institutions among individuals and organizations, with a particular focus on developing countries.

Gugerty teaches courses on nonprofit and public management, the political economy of NGOs and foreign aid, program evaluation, international policy analysis and management, and African development. She also leads the Nonprofits Accountability Clubs project at the Evans School, and is the recipient of the 2005 Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching and Service.

Gugerty’s research has been published in the American Journal of Political Science, Economic Development and Cultural Change, Journal of Public Economics, and Public Administration and Development, among others.

Her current research focuses on the emergence of voluntary regulation and accountability programs among nonprofits and NGOs globally. She is the lead editor of a new volume under contract with Cambridge University Press titled Nonprofit Accountability Clubs: Voluntary Regulation of Nonprofit and Nongovernmental Organizations (377 KB PDF) with co-editor Aseem Prakash. The introductory chapter to the volume develops a new theoretical approach to understanding nonprofit collective accountability programs, with original chapters by leading nonprofit scholars exploring themes with data on domestic and international accountability programs. Gugerty’s work in this area has been published in Public Administration and Development and is under review at Policy Sciences.

Another component of this NGO research, also undertaken with Aseem Prakash, seeks to outline a new agenda for the study of advocacy organizations. The research views advocacy NGOs as actors for pursuing collective action, and examines how collective action issues bear upon NGOs’ emergence, structures, accountability, resource acquisition, and advocacy strategies. The resulting book volume, Rethinking Advocacy Organizations, lays out this new conceptual framework and engages ten leading NGO scholars by asking them to respond to one or more of the four core project themes: NGO emergence, structure, accountability relationships and resource acquisition, and organizational strategy.

Another stream of Gugerty’s research explores the nature and structure of networks among public health organizations in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. This research is funded through the Gates Foundation in coordination with Evans School faculty members Sara Curran and Sanjeev Khagram.

Outside of academia, Gugerty has served as a consultant to the World Bank and USAID studying the impact of economic growth on poverty alleviation, structural barriers to trade in sub-Saharan Africa, and the impact of agricultural commercialization on intra-household resource allocation in Kenya.

She holds a Ph.D. in Political Economy and Government from Harvard University and a MPA from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. She also holds a BA in political science and economics from Georgetown University.

Curriculum Vitae (174KB PDF)

Links

Nonprofit Accountability Clubs