Core Faculty

Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science and Public Administration Assistant Professor, Public Policy Doctoral Program I am an assistant professor of Political Science and Public Administration, a faculty member of the Public Policy Ph.D. Program, an affiliate member of the School of Data Science, and a member of the CyberDNA Center at UNC Charlotte. My research focuses on political […]

Professor of Sociology, Emeritus Professor of Public Policy, Emeritus Education: Ph.D. Indiana University, 1983 Research Interest: Dr. Rubin’s current research focuses on: the intersections of gender, race, age and perceptions of managers on a variety of employee outcomes; organizational and workplace restructuring, policy, work-family balance, generational differences in the workplace and their consequences; the long-term […]

Professor, Department of Sociology Professor, Public Policy Doctoral Program Faculty Website Education: Ph.D., North Carolina State University, 1986 Research Interest: Dr. Scheid is Professor of Sociology with joint appointments in Public Policy and Health Services Research at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She has published widely on the organization and delivery of mental […]

Associate Professor,  Economics Professor, Public Policy Doctoral Program Faculty Website Lisa Schulkind joined the Belk College of Business in August 2014. Before joining the Belk College, Dr. Schulkind earned her Ph.D. in economics from the University of California at Davis and began her career as an assistant professor of economics at Trinity College in Hartford, […]

Professor and Chair, Department of Global Studies Professor, Public Policy Doctoral Program Education: Ph.D in Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Dr. Smith’s current research within the field of international political economy focuses on the conditions under which governments choose (1) to shift their international capital control policies toward liberalization and (2) to alter their […]

Professor, Department of Sociology Professor, Public Policy Doctoral Program Education: PhD, North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2001 Research Interest: Dr. Stearns’ primary research efforts revolve around issues of social inequality, especially how inequality is generated and maintained in the formal schooling system in the U.S. Much of the inequality that Dr. Stearns studies lies along […]

Professor, Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology Professor, Public Policy Doctoral Program Faculty Website Dr. John Stogner is a criminologist who primarily teaches courses in Criminological Theory, Drugs and Crime, Biosocial Criminology, and Research Methodology. The majority of his research focuses on drug use, abuse, and policy, but much of his work also focuses on […]

Professor, Department of Political Science and Public Administration Professor, Public Policy Doctoral Program Education: Ph.D., University of South Carolina, 2005 Research Interest: His research examines the U.S. Supreme Court and Courts of Appeals, U.S. state courts of last resort, and the Supreme Court of Canada. Generally, he has focused on two central questions: the role […]

Education: Ph.D., Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium, 1988 Research Interest: Dr. Thill has a long standing interest in the study of the spatial dimensions of socio-economic organizations at the metropolitan and regional scale, particularly the interfacing between transportation and mobility systems, urban land use, urban forms and urban functions, urban adaptation and resilience. His recent […]

Professor, Department of Political Science and Public Administration Professor, Public Policy Doctoral Program Faculty Website James Igoe Walsh is Professor of Political Science at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. His research interests include armed conflict and civil wars and international security cooperation and conflict. His work has been published by Columbia University Press, […]