Rhea Acuña
Ph.D. Student, Public Administration and International Affairs Department
Graduate Research Associate, Center for Policy Research
Areas of Expertise
Social policy, urban policy
Graham Ambrose
Ph.D. Student, Public Administration and International Affairs Department
Graduate Research Associate, Center for Policy Research
Areas of Expertise
Governance and decision-making in the food system
Mariah Brennan
Ph.D. Student, Social Science Ph.D. Program
Graduate Research Associate, Center for Policy Research
Areas of Expertise
Veteran affairs (education and health)
Austin McNeill Brown
Ph.D. Student, Social Science Ph.D. Program
Graduate Research Associate, Center for Policy Research
Areas of Expertise
Recovery science, addiction recovery wellness, substance use disorders
Brandon Charles
Ph.D. Student, Public Administration and International Affairs Department
Graduate Research Associate, Center for Policy Research
Ziqiao Chen
Ph.D. Student, Public Administration and International Affairs Department
Graduate Research Associate, Center for Policy Research
Areas of Expertise
Environmental Policy
Yoon-Jung Choi
Ph.D. Student, Public Administration and International Affairs Department
Graduate Research Associate, Center for Policy Research
Areas of Expertise
Public Finance
Stephanie Coffey
Ph.D. Candidate, Economics Department
Graduate Research Associate, Center for Policy Research
Faculty Research Collaborators:
Amy Ellen Schwartz, Gary V. Engelhardt, Maria Zhu
Dissertation Title
Three Essays on Education and Childhood Health
Areas of Expertise
Public economics, labor economics, economics of education
Adam Cucchiara
Ph.D. Student, Public Administration and International Affairs Department
Graduate Research Associate, Center for Policy Research
Areas of Expertise
Veterans’ affairs, law enforcement and policing, national security
William Clay Fannin
Ph.D. Student, Public Administration and International Affairs Department
Graduate Research Associate, Center for Policy Research
Areas of Expertise
Social welfare programs, poverty policy
Giuseppe Germinario
Ph.D. Candidate, Economics Department
Graduate Research Associate, Center for Policy Research
Faculty Research Collaborators:
Alfonso Flores-Lagunes, Hugo Jales, Maria Zhu
Dissertation Title
“Essays on Health Economics and Applied Econometrics”
Areas of Expertise
Health economics, applied econometrics
Myriam Gregoire-Zawilski
Ph.D. Student, Public Administration and International Affairs Department
Graduate Research Associate, Center for Policy Research
Areas of Expertise
Environmental and energy policy, energy transitions, green innovation
Joshua Grove
Ph.D. Student, Sociology Department
Graduate Research Associate, Center for Policy Research
BA, Psychology, Hood College, 1998
MA, Religion and Biblical Theology, United Lutheran Seminary, 2000
MA, Sociology, University at Albany, 2008
Hyojeong Kim
Ph.D. Student, Public Administration and International Affairs Department
Graduate Research Associate, Center for Policy Research
Areas of Expertise
Social policy, public finance
Sujung (Crystal) Lee
Ph.D. Student, Sociology Department
Graduate Research Associate, Center for Policy Research
BS, Sociology, University of Minnesota,Twin Cities, 2017
Shuyuan Li
Ph.D. Student, Economics Department
Graduate Research Associate, Center for Policy Research
Areas of Expertise
Education economics
Mattie Mackenzie-Liu
Ph.D. Student, Public Administration and International Affairs Department
Graduate Research Associate, Center for Policy Research
Areas of Expertise
Social welfare programs, poverty policy, family policy, public finance
Maeve Maloney
Ph.D. Student, Economics Department
Graduate Research Associate, Center for Policy Research
Areas of Expertise
Urban economics, labor economics
Qasim Mehdi
Ph.D. Student, Public Administration and International Affairs Department
Graduate Research Associate, Center for Policy Research
Areas of Expertise
Climate change, hydrology and watershed management, environmental policy, collaborative governance
Nicholas Oesterling
Ph.D. Student, Public Administration and International Affairs Department
Graduate Research Associate, Center for Policy Research
Areas of Expertise
Policy design, implementation and compliance, institutional analysis
Claire Pendergrast
Ph.D. Student, Sociology Department
Graduate Research Associate, Center for Policy Research
MPH, University of Washington, Environmental Health, 2019
BA, Dartmouth College, Biology, 2015
Lauryn Quick
Ph.D. Student, Public Administration and International Affairs Department
Graduate Research Associate, Center for Policy Research
Areas of Expertise
Social policy
Michael Quinn
Ph.D. Student, Economics Department
Graduate Research Associate, Center for Policy Research
Areas of Expertise
Economics of education
Radine Rafols
Ph.D. Student, Economics Department
Graduate Research Associate, Center for Policy Research
Areas of Expertise
Urban economics, labor economics, development
Christopher Rick
Ph.D. Student, Public Administration and International Affairs Department
Graduate Research Associate, Center for Policy Research
Areas of Expertise
Urban, transportation, housing, and community development policy
Samuel Saltmarsh
Ph.D. Student, Economics Department
Graduate Research Associate, Center for Policy Research
Areas of Expertise
Urban economics
Spencer Shanholtz
Ph.D. Student, Public Administration and International Affairs Department
Graduate Research Associate, Center for Policy Research
Areas of Expertise
Urban, housing and education policy
Sarah Souders
Ph.D. Student, Public Administration and International Affairs Department
Graduate Research Associate, Center for Policy Research
Areas of Expertise
Public finance and governance, political economy of education, social policy, education program evaluation
Yue Sun
Ph.D. Student, Sociology Department
Graduate Research Associate, Center for Policy Research
BA, Public Administration, East China University of Science & Technology, 2015
MA, Sociology, Zhejiang University, 2017
Yao Wang
Ph.D. Candidate, Economics Department
Graduate Research Associate, Center for Policy Research
Faculty Research Collaborators:
Alexander Rothenberg, Devashish Mitra, Stuart Rosenthal
Dissertation Title
Three Essays on Economic Geography and Development Economics
Zhanhan Yu
Ph.D. Student, Economics Department
Graduate Research Associate, Center for Policy Research
Areas of Expertise
Labor, urban, environmental economics
Xiaoyan Zhang
Ph.D. Student, Lerner Center for Public Health Promotion
Graduate Research Associate, Center for Policy Research
Areas of Expertise
Social Determinants
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES)
Health Outcomes
Bo Zheng
Ph.D. Student, Public Administration and International Affairs Department
Graduate Research Associate, Center for Policy Research
Areas of Expertise
Impact of technological advancement on social inequality
Dongmei Zuo
Ph.D. Student, Social Science Ph.D. Program
Graduate Research Associate, Center for Policy Research
Areas of Expertise
Aging and health, health-based public policy, food and nutrition policy, social gerontology