Core Faculty

Professor, Department of Sociology Professor, Public Policy Doctoral Program Faculty Website Education: Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2003 Research Interest: She conducts research on income inequality within the United States and cross-nationally. She also conducts research on mathematics achievement in primary and secondary schools, examining racial, ethnic and socio-economic gaps in achievement. […]

Assistant Professor, Department of Geography and Earth Sciences Assistant Professor, Public Policy Doctoral Program Faculty Website Research Interests: Transportation policy, Urban development, Location of firms and households, Residential mobility Dr. Nilsson’s research interests are focused on firm location, transportation, and housing. In particular, she is interested in the effects of public policy and public investments […]

Professor, Department of Political Science and Public Administration Professor, Public Policy Doctoral Program Research Fellow, Center for Organizational Research and Design, Arizona State University Faculty Website Research Interests: Social Capital and Political Engagement; Policy Implementation; Public Management; Social Policy; Cognitive and Psychological Influences in the Policy Process; Gender, Race, and Policy Her research interests include […]

Associate Professor, Department of Sociology Dr. Potochnick’s research examines the social demography of immigration and how programs and policies can promote the education and health of immigrant youth. She uses an interdisciplinary perceptive to identify the health and educational needs and resources of immigrant children and families, and to examine the impact national, state, and […]

Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science and Public Administration Associate 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, 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 […]