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Faculty & Staff Directory

Faculty & Staff Directory

School Administrative Staff

Maria P. Aristigueta , Director
Megan Argoe, Senior Secretary (Leadership program)
Linda Boyd, Administrative Coordinator (course scheduling for instructors; payroll and human resources; liaison with the Office of Graduate Studies, Foreign Student and Scholar Services, and Accounts Services; graduation check-out)
Christina Mason Johnston, Graduate Admissions Coordinator and Assistant to the Director (recruiting, admissions, alumni relations, communications)
Diana Simmons, Administrative Assistant (reception, information inquiries, student visits, course registration, student travel requests)
Debbie Russell, Senior Secretary (Program director support, admissions, financial aid.)

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List of faculty professional organization memberships, professional conference attendance, recommended journals and books. (PDF)

Core faculty

David L. Ames, Professor and Director, Center for Historic Architecture and Design.
Maria P. Aristigueta, Professor and and Director, School of Urban Affairs and Public Policy. Also Policy Scientist, Institute for Public Administration
Deborah A. Auger, Associate Professor and Policy Fellow, Center for Community Research and Service
Timothy K. Barnekov, Professor and Dean, College of Human Services, Education and Public Policy
John Byrne, Distinguished Professor and Director, Center for Energy and Environmental Policy
Karen A. Curtis, Associate Professor and Policy Scientist, Center for Community Research and Service
Kathryn G. Denhardt, Professor and Policy Scientist, Center for Community Research and Service
Bernard L. Dworsky, Assistant Professor and Policy Scientist, Institute for Public Administration
James P. Flynn, Assistant Professor, Director of MPA program, Internship Coordinator, and Associate Policy Scientist, Institute for Public Administration
Edward J. Freel, Instructor and Policy Scientist, Institute for Public Administration
Audrey L. Helfman, Associate Professor and Associate Policy Scientist, Institute for Public Administration
Raheemah Jabbar-Bey, Assistant Professor and Assistant Policy Specialist, Center for Community Research and Service
Eric D. Jacobson, Associate Professor and Assistant Director, Institute for Public Administration
Janet B. Johnson, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science and International Relations, core faculty, M.P.A. Program and Senior Research Associate, Center for Energy and Environmental Policy
Jonathan B. Justice, Assistant Professor and Associate Policy Scientist, Institute for Public Administration
Gerald J. Kauffman, Instructor and Project Director, State Water Coordinator (Water Resources Agency), Institute for Public Administration
Jerome R. Lewis, Associate Professor and Director, Institute for Public Administration
Stephanie A. McClellan, Assistant Professor, Leadership program
John McNutt, Professor
Anthony E. Middlebrooks, Assistant Professor, Leadership program
James L. Morrison, Professor, Leadership program
Audrey Noble, Assistant Professor and Director of the Delaware Education Research and Development Center
Marian Lief Palley, Professor, Political Science and International Relations, and core faculty M.P.A. program
Steven W. Peuquet, Associate Professor and Director, Center for Community Research and Service
Jeffrey A. Raffel, Charles P. Messick Professor of Public Administration and Senior Faculty Fellow, Institute for Public Administration
Edward C. Ratledge, Associate Professor and Director, Center for Applied Demography and Survey Research
Daniel Rich, Professor and Provost, University of Delaware
Breck L. Robinson, Associate Professor
Julie Sadler, Assistant Professor, Leadership program
Rebecca J. Sheppard, Assistant Professor and Associate Director, Center for Historic Architecture and Design
Paul L. Solano, Associate Professor and Director of Health Services Policy Research Group
Karen F. Stein, Associate Professor and Director of the Leadership program
Richard T. Sylves, Professor, Department of Political Science and International Relations, and Senior Policy Fellow, Center for Energy and Environmental Policy
Douglas F. Tuttle, Instructor and Policy Scientist, Institute for Public Administration
Young-Doo Wang, Professor and Associate Director, Center for Energy and Environmental Policy
Leland Ware, Louis L. Redding Chair for the Study of Law and Public Policy
Robert Warren, Professor and Senior Research Associate, Institute for Public Administration
Margaret G. Wilder, Professor and Executive Director of the Urban Affairs Association
Robert A. Wilson, Associate Professor and Policy Scientist, Center for Applied Demography and Survey Research.
Danilo Yanich, Associate Professor, Director of the Urban Affairs and Public Policy program, and Policy Scientist, Center for Community Research and Service

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Core faculty emeritus

William W. Boyer, Charles P. Messick Professor of Public Administration Emeritus and Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Public Administration
Arno Loessner, Associate Professor Emeritus; Policy Fellow Emeritus, Institute for Public Administration
James H. Sills, Jr., Associate Professor Emeritus and Faculty Associate, Center for Community Research and Service
Francis X. Tannian, Professor Emeritus

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Joint appointments

Biliana Cicin-Sain, Professor, Graduate College of Marine Studies, and Director, Mangone Center for Marine Policy
Steven M. Eidelman, Robert Edelsohn Professor, Individual and Family Studies
Bethany Hall-Long, Associate Professor, Department of Nursing and affiliated faculty, Health Services Policy Research Group
Bernard L. Herman, Professor, Department of Art History and Senior Research Fellow, Center for Historic Architecture and Design
Thomas W. Ilvento, Acting Chair, Department of Food and Resource Economics and affiliated faculty, Center for Community Research and Service
Willett Kempton, Associate Professor, College of Marine Studies
William R. Latham III, Associate Professor; Department of Economics
Dennis Loftus, Assistant Professor, School of Education.
Sue McNeil, Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Patricia Tanner Nelson, Associate Professor, Department of Individual & Family Studies and Cooperative Extension Family and Human Development Specialist and Faculty Service Professor, Department of Food and Resource Economics, College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, and affiliated faculty with Center for Community Research and Service
Donald L. Peters, Amy Rextrew Professor Emeritus, Individual and Family Studies
Chandra Reedy, Professor, Museum Studies Program
Yda Schreuder, Associate Professor, Department of Geography, and Senior Policy Fellow, Center for Energy and Environmental Policy
Paul J. Sestak, Associate Professor, Department of Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional Management
Donald G. Unger, Professor, Department of Individual and Family Studies, affiliated faculty with the Center for Community Research and Service and the Center for Disabilities Studies
April R. Veness, Associate Professor, Department of Geography, and Faculty Associate, Center for Community Development & Family Policy

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Adjunct & Practitioner Faculty and Instructors

Antoine Allen, Ph.D., Vice President, MBNA America
Myrna Bair, Ph.D., Policy Advisor, Institute for Public Administration
June Cason, CFRE, President of National Society of Fundraising Executives, Brandywine Chapter.
Anthony DePetris, Director of Administrative & Personnel Services, LEAP Academy University Charter School, Camden, NJ.
Drewry Fennell, Esquire, Executive Director, ACLU of Delaware
George Hale, Executive Director, Baltimore County Revenue Authority, Towson, Md.
Mark Headd, Senior Voice System Programmer, Telerx, Inc.
David Hugg, III, Town Manager, City of Smyrna, De.
Carl Luft, City Manager, City of Newark, De.
Jack Markell, State Treasurer, State of De.
Kevin McGonegal, Vice President, P. Gerald White, Inc.
Ralph Nigro, Director of Energy Technologies, Applied Energy Group, Inc.
Edward O'Donnell, Senior Policy Advisor, Institute for Public Administration
George Sarris, Finance Director, City of Newark, De.
Anthony Seraphin, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Dept. of Mathematical Sciences and Dept. of Geography
Patricia Sine, Director, Office of Educational Technology, University of Delaware
J. Mack Wathen, Vice President of Planning, Finance and Regulation, Connective Power Delivery.
Philip Wescott, Strategic Marketing and Advocacy Consultant.
Kathleen Wian, Associate Policy Scientist, Institute for Public Administration
Devona G. Williams, Ph.D., President, Goeins-Williams Associates, Inc.
Kathleen Wilhere, C.P.A., Managing Director, Cover & Rossiter, P.A.

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Visiting Scholars

Lueder Bach (Dr.-Ing University of Dortmund, Germany, 1976), Visiting Professor. Theories and methods of urban and regional planning; comparative international urban policies; social infrastructure and public services; sports development planning.
Robert B. Denhardt (Ph.D. Kentucky, 1968) Public Management, leadership development, organizational change.

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Staff of Affiliated Centers

Staff lists are maintained by respective research and public service centers. See their web site for more information.

Center for Applied Demography and Survey Research (CADSR)

Center for Community Research and Service (CCRS)

Health Services Policy Research Group (part of CCRS)

Center for Disabilities Studies (CDS)

Center for Energy and Environmental Policy (CEEP)

Center for Historic Architecture and Design (CHAD)

Delaware Education Research and Development Center (DERDC)

Institute for Public Administration (IPA)

Comments? Send email to: cmj@udel.edu. Last updated August 15, 2007.

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