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Dr. Annette Steinacker
Director, Master of Urban Affairs and Public Policy Program
Associate Professor in Political Science
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Dr. Steinacker's research focuses on urban economic issues and metropolitan governance. She has researched changes in the number and types of jobs available in central cities, factors that influence the location decisions of businesses, and the role of property tax abatements in local economic development policies. She has also studied the impact of local government organization on public policy outcomes and the political feasibility of changing these structures. Her approach to these topics combines quantitative analysis of national data sets as well as in-depth case studies of specific cities. Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation and several private foundations.
Classes Taught: Urban Politics, Policy Design and Analysis, Policy Evaluation, Theories of Local Economic Development
Research Interests: Urban politics, urban economic development, metropolitan governance and regionalism
Dr. Steinacker's CV
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Meghan Condon
Instructor, Urban Affairs and Public Policy
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Meghan Condon’s research and teaching interests include education policy, political behavior, and research methods. She is currently finishing her doctorate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she is also a fellow with the Wisconsin Center for Education Research. In her dissertation, “Practice Makes Participants: How Skills Acquired in School Affect Political Engagement,” she demonstrates, with both observational and experimental studies, that the general communication skills adolescents acquire and practice in school positively affect their political efficacy, their motivation to engage in political activity, and their civic engagement into adulthood. She then explores inequality in opportunities to acquire these skills in American schools, bringing to light one way in which education generates patterns in political participation and inequality. Meghan’s work has been published in Social Science Quarterly and the Project Vote Smart Reporter’s Sourcebook, and is forthcoming in Political Psychology. She also collaborates on large-scale evaluations of education programs, including a community-building program in Southwestern urban schools and the Milwaukee public voucher program. Prior to her academic work, Meghan taught middle and high school in rural Louisiana and managed new teachers in Chicago public schools, both through Teach For America.
Classes Taught: Statistics, Public Policy Process
Research Interests: Educational policy, political behavior, and research methods
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Dr. Mine Cinar
Professor of Economics, School of Business Administration
Past President of Middle East Economic Association
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Classes Taught: Emerging Markets and the Multinational Firm; Game Theory and Strategy
Research Interests: Globalization, financial markets, gender issues, decision sciences and business strategy
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Dr. Timothy Gilfoyle
Chair, Department of History
Professor of History
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Classes Taught: Urban America, Social and Cultural History of the American City
Research Interests: American urban and social history
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Dr. Roy T. Gobin
Associate Professor of Economics, School of Business Administration
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Classes Taught: Intermediate micro-economics; public finance
Research Interests: Fiscal policy and taxation, economic development and growth
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Dr. Philip Young P. Hong
Assistant Professor of Social Work.
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Classes Taught: Research Methodology (SOWK 506); Social Welfare & Social Work (SOWK 507); Policies and Strategies for Community Interventions (SOWK 509).
Research Interests: Poverty; social welfare policies; workforce development; empowerment-based community and policy practice; comparative and international social welfare.
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Dr. Marilyn Krogh
Associate Professor of Sociology
Director of the Undergraduate Urban Studies Program
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Classes Taught: Statistical Methods of Analysis, The Urban Metropolis
Research Interests: Labor markets, poverty, urban sociology
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Dr. Richard Matland
Professor and Helen Houlahan Rigali Chair in Political Science.
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Classes Taught: Public Policy and Implementation; Women and Politics; Political Economy
Research Interests: Public policy, gender issues in political representation; school choice and education reform
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Dr. Jon R. Norman
Assistant Professor of Sociology
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Classes Taught: The Urban Metropolis; Cities, Suburbs and Beyond; Principles of Social Research
Research Interests: Urban and community sociology, sociology of the built environment, political economy and inequality, qualitative and quantitative research methods
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Dr. Philip Nyden
Director of the Center for Urban Research and Learning (CURL)
Professor of Sociology
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Classes Taught: Urban Studies Seminar; Engaged Methodologies; Equitable Urban Development; Housing, Community, and Social Policy
Research Interests: Collaborative university/community policy research and action; stability in racially, ethnically, and economically diverse urban neighborhoods.
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David J. Treering
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Specialist. Center for Urban Environmental Research and Policy
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Classes Taught: UNIV 410. Introduction to Geographic Information Systems
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