Core Faculty

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, […]

Professor, School of Data Science Professor, Public Policy Doctoral Program Faculty Webpage Dr. Windett’s research agenda focuses broadly on the area of representation in American politics with a focus on state politics, state courts, and gender and politics. His research has appeared or is forthcoming in the American Journal of Political Science, Political Analysis, Political […]

Professor and Chair, Department of Economics Education: Florida State University, Economics, 2004 Research Interest: Dr. Zillante’s primary research interest is in using economic experiments to understand how changes in institutional arrangements and mechanism designs affect economic and social outcomes. His research to date has used the experimental method to examine these effects in auctions, lemons […]