PPS Faculty Advisors
Once you have declared your major with the Pre-Majors Advising Center, send an email to the PPS Undergraduate Program Assistant, Lisa Bradrick (lisa.bradrick@duke.edu) to obtain a faculty advisor within the Public Policy Studies. Below you will find the faculty roster available for advising. Please click on the Faculty member's name to obtain more information regarding him or her.
**Please note, Professors on leave are not available to serve as advisors.**
Assistant Professor of Public Policy Studies
Research:
Economics
Public Finance
Social Policy
Assistant Professor of Public Policy Studies
Research:
Economics
International Development
Professor
Alma Blount
Director, Hart
Leadership Program
Director, Service
Opportunities in Leadership
Lecturer in Public Policy Studies
Research:
Civic participation
Political engagement among college students
Community organizing
Service learning
Assessment of research service learning pedagogy
Professor
Evan Charney
Assistant Professor of Public Policy Studies and Political
Science
Research:
Ethics
Modern political theory
Constitutional law
Professor
Charles Clotfelter
Z. Smith Reynolds Professor of Public Policy Studies
Professor of Economics and Law
Director, Center
for the Study of Philanthropy & Voluntarism
Research:
Economics of Education
Public finance
Public schools and race
State lotteries
Professor
Robert Conrad
Associate Professor of Public Policy Studies and Economics
Director, Duke Center
for International Development
Research:
Public finance
Natural resource economics
Mineral taxation
Professor
Philip Cook
ITT/Terry Sanford Professor of Public Policy Studies
Professor of Economics and Sociology
Associate Director, Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy
Research:
Public health policy and social policy
Regulation of alcohol, guns, gambling
Violence prevention
Professor
Kenneth Dodge
William McDougall Professor of Public Policy Studies
Professor of Psychology-Social and Health Sciences
Director, Center
for Child and Family Policy
Research:
Development and prevention of chronic violence in children and adolescents
Violence prevention policy
Professor
Christina Gibson-Davis
Assistant Professor of Public Policy Studies, Center for Child and
Family Policy
Assistant Professor of Psychology: Social and Health Sciences
Research:
Evaluation of effects of anti-poverty programs on families
and children
Effects of poverty and welfare on the well-being of children and
families
Professor
Kristin Goss
Assistant Professor of Public Policy Studies and Political Science
Research:
Political participation
interest groups and voluntary associations
Agenda setting
Gun control politics
Women's organizations
Professor
James Hamilton (On leave Fall 2007/Spring 2008)
Charles S. Sydnor Professor of Public Policy Studies
Professor of Economics and Political Science
Research:
Industrial organization
Economics of regulation
Public choice and political economy
Media policy; Television violence
Environmental policy
Professor
Sherman James
Susan B. King Professor of Public Policy Studies
Professor in Community and Family Medicine and African and African-American
Studies
Research:
Social determinants of racial and ethnic disparities
Community and policy-level public health interventions
Professor
Bruce Jentleson
Professor of Public Policy Studies Professor of Political
Science
Research:
U.S. foreign policy
Globalization
Force and diplomacy
Conflict prevention and peacekeeping
Middle East peace and security
Professor
Judith Kelley
Assistant Professor of Public Policy Studies
Research:
International relations and institutions
Transatlantic (US-EU) relations
EU foreign policy
European Union and European institutions
Ethnic minority politics; Human Rights
International Criminal Court
Professor
Robert Korstad
Associate Professor of Policy Studies and History, Hart Leadership
Program
Research:
Social policy from a historical perspective
Professor
Anirudh Krishna (On Leave Fall 2007/Spring 2008)
Assistant Professor of Public Policy Studies and Political Science
Research:
Poverty, local institutions
Democracy and social capital primarily in developing countries
Community Development
Professor
Corinne Krupp
Visiting Associate Professor in Public Policy Studies
Director of Graduate Studies, Program on International Development
Policy
Duke Center for International Development
Research:
International trade and finance
EU economic issues
Anti-dumping laws and competition policy
Trade and economic growth
Professor
Bruce Kuniholm
Director, Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy
Professor and Chair of Public Policy Studies
Professor of History
Research:
Diplomatic history
National security
US Policy in the Near East
Uses of history in public policy
Professor
Helen Ladd
Edgar T. Thompson Professor of Public Policy Studies
Professor of Economics
Research:
Education policy
State and local public finance
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Professor
Ellen Mickiewicz
James R. Shepley Professor of Public Policy Studies
Professor of Political Science
Director, DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy
Research:
Comparative political communication and media policy
Audience reception and institutional development, with an emphasis
on systems in transition such as Russia and Eastern Europe
Professor
Gunther Peck
Associate Professor of Public Policy Studies and History
Research:
19th- and 20th- century American social and cultural history
Comparative immigration and labor studies
Environmental studies
Professor Ken S. Rogerson
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Research:
International
Media and Communications
Professor
Donald Taylor
Assistant Professor of Public Policy Studies
Center for Health Policy, Law and Management
Assistant Professor of Community and Family Medicine and Nursing, Duke
Medical Center
Research:
Aging with focus on dementia
Preventive services and impact of lifestyle factors on health costs
Comparative health policy
Professor
Susan Tifft (On Leave Fall 2007/Spring 2008)
Eugene C. Patterson Professor of the Practice of Journalism and Public
Policy Studies, DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy
Research:
Media ethics
Impact of media ownership on news content
Hurdles and dilemmas associated with investigative journalism
Role of the press in the policy process
Professor
Elizabeth Vigdor
Research Scholar, Center for Health Policy, Law and Management
Research:
Health economics
Public economics
Applied microeconomics
Professor
Jacob Vigdor (On leave Fall 2007/Spring 2008)
Assistant Professor of Public Policy Studies and Economics
Research:
Education policy
Racial and ethnic segregation
Housing affordability and home ownership
Applied econometrics
Professor
Kathryn Whetten
Associate Professor of Public Policy Studies and Community
and Family Medicine
Director, Center
for Health Policy
Director, Health Inequalities
Program
Research:
Understanding of health-related issues for the poor, disenfranchised
and chronically ill
HIV/AIDS in the rural Southeast and less wealthy countries
