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Public Policy

Faculty and Staff

Program Director

Carol Chetkovich
Associate Professor of Public Policy
Program Director
John and Martha Davidson Chair
Vera Long 119, 510.430.3370, cchetkov@mills.edu 
Professional Interests: Social identity and public policy, public participation, organizational culture and change, nonprofit management

Other Faculty

Delaine Eastin
Distinguished Visiting Professor of Education
Special Assistant to the President
Mills Hall Room 119, 510.430.2365, deastin@mills.edu
Professional Interests: Educational leadership, civic education and democracy, globalization and the educational imperatives that arise from it, public policy and education, universal preschool, hands-on learning

Marc A. Joseph
Professional Interests: Metaphysics, the philosophy of mind and language, logic and the philosophy of logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the history of philosophy, classical studies

Elizabeth Potter
Professional Interests: Gender and science, intersections of feminism and epistemology, philosophy of science

Siobhan Reilly
Professional Interests: Public economics, labor economics, economics of the family, health economics, urban economics, international economics

Dan Ryan
Professional Interests: Organizational features of communities, sociology of information, sociological uses of geographic information systems

Paul Schulman
Professional Interests: Bureaucratic organizations and public policy-making, science, technology, and public policy

Nancy Thornborrow
Professional Interests: Labor economics, macroeconomics, statistics, econometrics

Bruce Williams
Professional Interests: Economic development and social change, comparative race and ethnic relations, historical sociology, urban sociology, rural sociology

Laurie Zimet
Professional Interests: First amendment/constitutional law, business law, civil litigation

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Visiting Scholars

Jeff Deason
Lecturer
White Hall 12, 510.430.3105, jdeason@mills.edu
Office Hours: By appointment only

Mark Henderson
Visiting Assistant Professor
White Hall 17, 510.430.3169, mhenderson@mills.edu
Professional Interests: Environmental policy in the United States and China, urbanization and land conservation, global climate change, science and decision making, policy applications of geographic information science (GIS)

Honorable Barbara Lee
Distinguished Visiting Professor
White Hall 15, 510.430.2147, blee@mills.edu
Office Hours: By appointment only

Leo Levenson
Lecturer, Fall
White Hall 12, 510.430.3105, llevenson@mills.edu
Office Hours: Wednesdays 5:30-6:30 by appointment only
Professional Interests: Child welfare, environmental policy, disaster mitigation and preparedness, cultural influences on public policy analysis

Staff

Ife Tayo Walker
Public Policy Program Coordinator
White Hall 15, 510.430.2147, iwalker@mills.edu

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PPOL 025 - PPOL 191

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