RESEARCH ASSOCIATES
JéAnna Abbott, PhD, JD, MBA, MHM, MS, CHE, CMP
Spec's Charitable Foundation Professor in Social Responsibility, Conrad N. Hilton College
University of Houston
713 743 2413
jabbott@uh.edu
Expertise: Hospitality Law and Ethics, Conflict Management, Negotiations, Human Resources/Legal, Reconciliation After Trust Violations, Social Responsibility, Data Science/Analytics
Don Adams, JD
Judge and former Senator
512 627 9358
839 596 1697 fax
dgasr@swbell.net
Expertise: Litigation and legislative process
Howard R Balanoff, PhD, AICP
Director, William P Hobby Center for Public Service
Professor, Department of Political Science
Texas State University
512 245 3453
512 331 7293 fax
hb02@txstate.edu
Expertise: Public Policy, Organizational Theory & Behavior, International & Comparative Public Administration
Scott J Basinger, PhD
Associate Professor of Methodology, Department of Political Science
University of Houston
713 743 3911
713 743 3927 fax
sjbasinger@uh.edu
Expertise: Statistical and Experimental Methods, Mathematical Models and Game Theory, American Politics and Policy
David Branham, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Social Sciences
University of Houston-Downtown
713 221 8208
branhamd@uhd.edu
Expertise: Research Methodology, Public Policy, Public Opinion, State Politics, Representation
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science
University of Houston
713 743 8978
fcantu10@central.uh.edu
Expertise: Latin American Politics, Comparative Politics, Methods
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science
University of Houston
713 743 8714
jcasella@central.uh.edu
Expertise: American politics, Latino politics, Legislative politics, State & Local politics
Monit Cheung, PhD, LCSW
Professor, Graduate College of Social Work
University of Houston
713 743 8107
713 743 8149 fax
mcheung@uh.edu
Expertise: Child Welfare Policies, Child Sexual Abuse, Child Protection Service Workers Training, Clinical Practice with Immigrants
Jeffrey Church, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science
University of Houston
713 743 3914
jchurch@uh.edu
Expertise: Modern political thought, Rousseau, Kant, German idealism, Liberal and Democratic theory
Jennifer H Clark, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science
Director of Graduate Studies
University of Houston
713 743 3302
713 743 3827 fax
jclark10@uh.edu
Expertise: American Politics, Legislative Institutions, Political Parties, State Politics, Representation and Quantitative Research Methods
Harold Clarke, PhD
Ashbel Smith Professor, School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences
University of Texas at Dallas
972 883 4891
hclarke@utdallas.edu
Expertise: Voting and Elections, The Political Economy of Party Support, Statistics, Time Series Analysis and Structural Equation Modeling, Public Opinion, Political Attitudes and Political Behavior
Sue Collins, PhD
University of Notre Dame
- Curriculum Vitae
- Biography
Jeronimo Cortina, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science
University of Houston
713 743 3894
713 743 3927 fax
jcortina@central.uh.edu
Expertise: Public Opinion, Immigration, American and Comparative Politics, Latino Politics and Quantitative Research Methods
Elizabeth Anderson Fletcher, PhD
Associate Professor, C. T. Bauer College of Business
University of Houston
713 743 4740
713 743 4622 fax
EFletcher@uh.edu
Expertise: Service Operations Management
Donald J. Foss, PhD
Professor, Department of Psychology
University of Houston
713 743 0819
dfoss@uh.edu
Expertise: Developmental Psychology
Pete Gallego, JD
Attorney, former Congressman
Tim Gibson, BAAS, LP
ESD Director, Waller-Harris Emergency Services District
Waller-Harris ESD 200
936 372 8084
tim.gibson@whesd200.org
Expertise: Local government policy, Texas special districts, Emergency services districts, Public administration, public financial administration, public personnel administration, emergency services delivery, Emergency planning, local emergency management
Peter Grossman, PhD
Clarence Efroymson Chair, Professor of Economics, Emeritus, Lacy School of Business,
Butler University
Expertise: Energy Economics and Policy, Economic History, Political Economy, Industrial Organization, Law and Economics
William P Hobby
Radoslav Tsanoff Professor of Public Affairs, Rice University
Scholar in Residence, University of Houston
Visiting Scholar, Inter-University Consortium for Political & Social Research, University of Michigan
713 521 0960
713 521 3950 fax
hobby@uh.edu
Expertise: State Government, Quantitative Research Methods
Guillermina Jasso, PhD
Professor, Department of Sociology
Silver Professor of Arts and Science
New York University
212 998 8368
212 995 4140 fax
gj1@nyu.edu
Expertise: Basic Socio-Behavioral Theory, International Migration, Inequality and Stratification, Justice, Status, Mathematical Methods for Theoretical Analysis, Factorial Survey Methods for Empirical Analysis
Mark Jones, PhD
Fellow, Department of Political Science
Joseph D. Jamail Chair in Latin American Studies
Rice University
713 348 2107
713 348 5273 fax
mpjones@rice.edu
Expertise: Elections and Electoral Systems, Latin American Politics, Legislatures, Political Parties, Public Opinion
Zachary D. Kaufman, JD, PhD
Associate Professor, Law Center
University of Houston
Expertise: Criminal Law, International Law, and International and Transitional Justice
William Keech, PhD
Research Professor, Emeritus of Political Science
Duke University
919 660 4354
keech@andrew.cmu.edu
Expertise: Political Economy, Electoral Systems, American Political Institutions
Ryan Kennedy, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science
University of Houston
713 743 1663
713 743 3927 fax
rkennedy@uh.edu
Expertise: Democratization, Authoritarian and Leadership Stability, Natural Resource Politics, Political Economy, Political Violence
David Leblang, PhD
Ambassador Henry Taylor Professor of Politics Department of Politics
Professor of Politics and Public Policy & Director of the Global Policy Center Batten School of Leadership & Public Policy
Randolph P. Compton Professor, Miller Center of Public Affairs
University of Virginia
Expertise: Immigration Policy, International Political Economy, and Political Economy of Financial Markets
Patrick Leung, PhD
Professor, Graduate College of Social Work
University of Houston
713 743 8111
713 743 8149 fax
pleung@uh.edu
Expertise: Child Welfare, Asian Study, Mental Health, Immigrant Issues
Christine S Lipsmeyer, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science
Texas A&M University
979 845 2511
979 847 8924 fax
lipsmeyer@tamu.edu
Expertise: Public Policy, Welfare Policy, Political Economy, Political Institutions, European Politics
Melody Lo, PhD
Endowed Dean of the Neil Griffin College of Business
Arkansas State University
Expertise: Monetary Policy, Central Banking, Exchange Rate Policies, Trading Behavior in Currency Markets, (Firms' Choices on) Capital Structure, and Empirical Implications of Theoretical Models (EITM)
Sarmistha Majumdar, PhD
Associate Professor, Barbara Jordan Mickey Leland School of Public Affairs
Texas Southern University
713 313 7385
majumdars@tsu.edu
Expertise: Policy analysis and program evaluation, public administration, research methods, grant writing
Terry Mayes
Chief Technology Officer
Prototype, Fusion & Modeling
713 515 9588
mayes@pfmtx.dnsalias.com; tj_mayes@yahoo.com
Expertise: Data mining, data visualization, simulation, information fusion
David McClendon, PhD
Principal
January Advisors
804 350 7211
david.m.mcclendon@gmail.com
Martin V Melosi, PhD
Distinguished University Professor, Department of History
Director, Center for Public History
University of Houston
713 743 3090
713 743 3216 fax
mmelosi@uh.edu
Expertise: Urban Environmental History, History of Technology, City Services and Infrastructure, Energy History, Public History
Richard Murray, PhD
Director, Center for Public Policy's Survey Research Institute
Lanier Chair in Public Policy, Political Science
University of Houston
713 743 3909
713 743 3927 fax
rmurray@uh.edu
Expertise: Public Opinion, Political Parties, Elections, Political Marketing, Texas Politics, Congress/Legislature, Houston Politics
Philippe Nassif
Advocacy Director, Middle East and North Africa, Amnesty International USA
281 222 0456
pnassif@care.org
Expertise: International relations, Democratic politics, campaigns & elections, community organizing
Gautam Nayer, PhD
Associate Professor, Barbara Jordan-Mickey Leland School of Public Affairs
Texas Southern University
713 313 4809
GNayer@yahoo.com
Expertise: Public Administration - E-Governance, Citizen Participation, New Public Management, Client-Oriented Services; Criminal Justice- Prisoner Reentry Programs, DWI Court Reentry; Health care- Native Americans perceptions of their doctors
Joseph A Pratt, PhD
Professor Emeritus
Department of History / Management
University of Houston
713 743 3088
joepratt@uh.edu
Expertise: Energy History, Houston History, History of Regulation
Suzanne Pritzker, PhD
Associate Professor, Graduate College of Social Work
University of Houston
713 743 8114
spritzker@uh.edu
Expertise: Youth civic engagement (especially among poor and minority adolescents); service-learning; positive youth development; political advocacy; social welfare policy.
Jeff Reichman
Principal, January Advisors
Organizer, Sketch City
Expertise: data analysis, data visualization, data policy
Iñaki Sagarzazu, PhD
Senior Applied Data Scientist - Government, Civis Analytics
806-416-9710
isagarzazu@uh.edu
Expertise: Data science, Data visualizations, Comparative Politics, Latin American Politics, Political Communication, Public Opinion, Quantitative Research Methods, Text Analysis
Bill Sarpalius, MBA
CEO, Advantage Associates, Inc.
Former Texas State Senator and US Congressman
202 438 1900
bill@sarpalius.com
Adam D. Scioli, D.O.
Board Certified Psychiatrist
Caron Treatment Center
Expertise: Specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of co-occurring substance use and mental health disorders. Particular areas of expertise include treatment of physicians and other safety-sensitive professionals who have substance use disorders.
Joan E Sieber, PhD
Professor Emerita, Department of Psychology
California State University, East Bay
Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics (JERHRE)
510 538 5424
510 881 2153 fax
joan.sieber@csueastbay.edu
Expertise: Ethics of Human Research, Empirical Research on Questions of Scientific Ethics, Culturally Sensitive Methods of Research and Intervention, Data Sharing Methodology, Whistle-blowing
Robert Stein, PhD
Lena Gohlman Fox Professor, Department of Political Science
Rice University
713 348 4824
713 348 5273 fax
stein@rice.edu
Expertise: Urban Politics, Public Policy
Lydia B Tiede, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science,
University of Houston
Expertise: American and comparative judicial politics, legal reform and judicial decision-making, criminal law policy
Miao Wang, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Economics
Marquette University
414 288 7310
414 288 5757 fax
grace.wang@mu.edu
Expertise: Foreign Direct Investment, International Trade, Economic Growth
Rick K Wilson, PhD
Herbert S. Autrey Chair, Department of Political Science
Rice University
713 348 3352
713 348 5273 fax
rkw@rice.edu
Expertise: Social and Political Decision Making
Nancy Beck Young
Chair and Professor, Department of History
University of Houston
713 743 3085
nyoung@central.uh.edu
Expertise: Twentieth-Century American Political Development
Hong Zhuang
Associate Professor, Judd Leighton School of Business and Economics
Indiana University South Bend
Expertise: Foreign direct investment, economic development and growth, and applied econometrics