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University Affiliates
Richard Alba is Professor in the Sociology Department.
His interest in sociological issues began during his childhood years in
the Bronx of the 1940s and 1950s, and was further developed at Columbia
University, where he received both his undergraduate and graduate degrees.
After completing his Ph.D. in 1974, Dr. Alba taught at the City University
of New York and Cornell University. He arrived in Albany in 1980,
and in the following year, founded the University's Center for Social and
Demographic Analysis. Dr. Alba's teaching and research focus mainly on
race/ethnicity and international migration in the U.S. and the Federal
Republic of Germany, the latter where he has twice been a Fulbright scholar.
Dr. Alba's books include Ethnic Identity: The Transformation of White
America (1990) and Italian Americans: Into the Twilight of Ethnicity
(1985). He was President of the Eastern Sociological Society from
1997-98.
Donna Armstrong is Assistant Professor in the Department
of Epidemiology at the School of Public Health. She received her
Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in 1993.
Dr. Armstrong's research interests include community-level predictors of
premature heart disease mortality rates, social class position and premature
heart disease mortality, community-level interventions to reduce risk factors
for diabetes, and the potential role of community gardens in community-level
chronic diseases prevention. She has published her research findings
in such journals as the Annals of Epidemiology, and the American
Journal of Public Health.
Allen Ballard is Professor of History and Africana Studies.
He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University. Dr. Ballard's research
interests include African-American history, local and regional history,
and modern Russian politics.
Thomas Birkland is Assistant Professor in the Graduate School
of Public Affairs, and Adjunct faculty in the Department of Biological
Sciences. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University
of Washington in 1995. Dr. Birkland's research and teaching interests
include public policy processes, American politics, public law, urban politics,
and environmental politics. His book, After Disaster: Agenda Setting,
Public Policy, and Focusing Events, was published by Georgetown University
Press in 1997. Dr. Birkland's past appointments include service as
an aide to Governor Thomas Kean of New Jersey, and as assistant manager
of Strategic Planning at the New Jersey Department of Transportation.
He is currently applying his experience in the public service arena toward
training and consulting with state agencies on program evaluation and data
analysis techniques.
Kate Boyer is Clinical Assistant Professor in Department of Science and Technology Studies
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy,
NY. Her research interests
include urban social history, identity and difference, and urban work cultures.
Ms. Boyer received her M.A. in Human Geography from the University of British
Columbia, and is currently a Ph.D. candidate at McGill University.
Her forthcoming dissertation focuses on the feminization of clerical work
and identity formation in Montreal, Quebec's early twentieth century white-collar
workplace. Ms. Boyer's research is largely qualitative and historical,
analyzing English and French texts through the lenses of feminism and social
theory.
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Ray Bromley is Professor of Planning, Geography, and Latin
American Studies, and Chair of the Department of Geography and Planning.
He received his Ph.D. in Geography from Cambridge University in 1975.
Dr. Bromley's research, teaching, and consultancies focus on national and
regional planning, community development, street and market trading, and
small enterprise promotion. His books include Development and
Planning in Ecuador (Grant & Cutler, 1977), Casual Work and
Poverty in Third World Cities (Wiley, 1979), The Urban Informal
Sector: Critical Perspectives on Employment and Housing Policies (Pergamon,
1979), and Planning for Small Enterprises in Third World Cities
(Pergamon, 1985). Most recently, Dr. Bromley has been researching
neighborhood change in the Bronx, theories of faith-based development,
and the history of grand-scale planning ideas around the world.
Regina Bures is an NSF ADVANCE Fellow and Senior Research Associate with
the
Lewis Mumford Center. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from Brown
University in 1998. Dr. Bures' research interests include the social and
spatial dimensions of inequality and urbanization processes. Currently, Dr.
Bures is studying the relationship between historic preservation,
segregation, and 20th century urban change in Charleston, South Carolina.
To date, this project has produced two papers: "Historic
Preservation,
Gentrification, and Tourism: The Transformation of Charleston, SC" (2001) and
"Historic Preservation and Community Change" (unpublished manuscript).
Angie Y. Chung is an assistant professor of Sociology at the State
University
of New York at Albany. She received her B.A. (1996) from Yale University and
her M.A. and Ph.D. (2001) in Sociology from the University of California, Los
Angeles. Supported by the Social Science Research Council, she worked as a
post-doctoral research fellow at the Center for Comparative Immigration
Studies at the University of California San Diego. She is the primary author
of several articles, including The Powers That Bind: A Case Study on the
Collective Bases of Coalition-Building in Post-Civil Unrest Los Angeles Urban Affairs Review (2001) and From Third
World Liberation to Multiple
Oppression Politics: A Contemporary Approach to Interethnic Coalitions Social Justice (1998). She has also published
on the topic of race relations
theory, 2nd generation youth, and immigrant entrepreneurs in several other
journals and books. She is currently working on a monograph on the
inter-generational politics of the Korean American community in Los Angeles.
Her research interests include urban sociology, international migration, race
relations theory, interethnic relations, Asian American studies, and ethnic
organizations.
Related to her past interest in the effect upward mobility
on ethnic solidarity, Chung is preparing a pilot study on suburban
neighborhoods that have attracted significant Asian American populations in
New York City and New Jersey. The study explores whether socioeconomic
mobility has significantly weakened identification and ties with the ethnic
community and under what conditions social networks and ethnic
institutional structures may play a part in shaping the racial and ethnic
experiences of middle-class Asian Americans.
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José Cruz is Assistant Professor in the Political
Science and Latin American Studies Departments. He received his Ph.D.
in Political Science in 1994 from the Graduate Center at CUNY. Dr.
Cruz's interests surround inter-minority relations in urban settings, specifically,
the African-American/Puerto Rican experience. Dr. Cruz is currently
co-writing an article, along with Yvonne Devineni, on Puerto Rican politics
in the United States (a follow-up to his 1995 publication in the New
England Journal of Public Policy). With support from the Faculty
Research Awards Program, Dr. Cruz is also at work on a study of Latino
support for non-Latino candidates in at-large electoral systems, the findings
of which will be included in a forthcoming book on Latino politics in Massachusetts.
His book, Identity and Power: Puerto Rican Politics and the Challenge
of Ethnicity is available from Temple University Press.
Tom Daniels is Professor and Graduate Planning Program Director
in the Department of Geography. In 1994, he received his Ph.D. in
Agricultural and Resource Economics from Oregon State University.
Dr. Daniels's research interests include rural and small town planning,
farmland preservation, growth management on the metropolitan fringe, and
local economic development. He has written numerous book chapters,
and is the author of five books, most recently, When City and Country
Collide: Managing Growth in the Metropolitan Fringe. Dr. Daniels's
research articles have appeared in such journals as Journal of the American
Planning Association, Journal of Rural Studies, and Landscape and
Urban Planning.
Glenn Deane is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology,
and Center Associate for the Center for Social and Demographic Analysis.
He received his Ph.D. in Sociology in 1993 from the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Deane's work-in-progress includes modeling
family dynamics, and the application of methods for handling missing data
in quantitative history. He continues his work with Myron Gutmann
and others on the interplay of population and environment in the Great
Plains, and recently began a collaborative research project on the spatial
diffusion of homicide across U.S. counties during the post-WW II era.
Dr. Deane's manuscript, Working with Missing Data: Methods in Historical
Demography and Quantitative History, has been contracted by Plenum
Publishers for their series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis.
Nancy A. Denton is Associate Professor of Sociology,
and teaches courses in demography and urban sociology. She received
her Ph.D. in Demography from the University of Pennsylvania in 1984.
Dr. Denton's major research interests involve race and residential segregation.
Her collaboration with Douglas S. Massey has spanned the last decade, culminating
in American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass,
winner of the 1994 Otis Dudley Duncan award from the Sociology of Population
section of the American Sociological Association (ASA), and the 1995 ASA
Distinguished Publication Award. Dr. Denton's most current research,
funded by the National Institute of Health, includes the results of the
1990 census, and explores neighborhood change in the 50 largest metropolitan
areas of the U.S. Dr. Denton has testified before the U.S. House
of Representatives Subcommittee on Housing and Community Development, and
the U.S. Civil Rights Commission, and has spoken before numerous federal
committees to promote fair housing.
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Helen Desfosses is Associate Provost for Educational Development
at the Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy, where she also
serves as Associate Professor of both Public Administration and Policy,
and Africana Studies. She received her Ph.D. in 1971 from Boston
University. Dr. Desfosses currently teaches courses on Africa, public
policy, and campaigns and elections, and is the author of numerous books
and articles concerning national and international policy issues.
Her research has been supported by the Ford Foundation, the American Association
of University Women, the National Academy of Sciences, the U.S. Department
of State, and the Hoover Institute at Stanford University.
Dr. Desfosses's most recent book, Designs for Democratic Stability,
was published in 1997. That same year, she was elected President
of the Albany Common Council.
David Duffee is Professor in the Criminal Justice Department,
and principal investigator for the Police-Community Interaction Project
for the National Institute of Justice Measuring What Matters Program.
He received his Ph.D. at the University of Albany in 1974. Dr. Duffee's
interests lie in public organizations, community politics, and community
change. Since 1996, he has been working on the New York State Probation
Outcomes Project, in a three-way partnership with the NYS Division of Probation
and Correctional Alternatives, the NYS Council of Probation Administrators,
and the School of Criminal Justice. Dr. Duffee is editor-in-chief
of Volume Four, Measurement and Analysis in Crime and Criminal Justice,
a publication of the National Institute of Justice's Criminal Justice 2000
Project. Among his other works are Community Corrections: A Community
Field Approach (co-edited with Edmund F. McGarrell, 1990), Explaining
Criminal Justice: Community Theory and Criminal Justice Reform (1990),
and Corrections: Practice and Policy (1989).
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Hayward Horton is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology.
He received his Ph.D. in Sociology from Pennsylvania State University in
1985. Dr. Horton's research interests include racial/ethnic demography
and population theory. His recent research has focused on the demography
of race and entrepreneurship, demographic analyses of racial differentials
in home ownership and housing values, rural-urban differences in poverty
within the black population, the impact of sex ratios on black community
development, and black male marriageability over time. Dr. Horton's
most current research projects include the impact of cohort differentially
on black socioeconomic status and patterns of mortality, as well as the
demography of HIV/AIDS within the Puerto Rican population. He has
lectured extensively, and published numerous articles in such journals
as Contemporary Sociology, Sociological Perspectives, and
the Journal of Social Psychology. Dr. Horton is co-author
of the forthcoming book, Rebuilding Black Communities: Black Community
Development in Contemporary America.
Ronald Jacobs is Assistant Professor in the Department of
Sociology. He received his Ph.D. in Sociology from UCLA in 1996.
Dr. Jacobs's research interests include crisis media and civil society,
urban sociology, community studies, race and ethnicity, and political sociology.
He has published in such journals as American Journal of Sociology,
Sociological
Theory, and Media Culture and Society. Dr. Jacobs is the
author of Race, Media, and the Crisis of Civil Society: From Watts to
Rodney King, forthcoming from Cambridge University Press.
Hamilton Lankford is Associate Professor in the Department
of Economics. He received his Ph.D. from the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1981. Dr. Lankford's research interests
include public economics, economics of education, and applied econometrics.
His most current research focuses on economic and policy questions relating
to elementary and secondary education, specifically on determinants and
consequences of public vs. private school choices and residential location.
Dr. Lankford has published in Economics of Education Review, Journal
of Urban Economics, and Education Evaluation and Policy Analysis,
among others. He has served as a member of the NYS Board of Regents
Technical Study Group on Cost Effectiveness in Education, and as consultant
to the NYS Special Commission on Education Structure, Politics, and Practices.
Al Magid is Professor in the Department of Political Science,
Graduate School of Public Affairs. He received his Ph.D. in Political
Science from Michigan State University in 1965. Dr. Magid is currently
at work on a manuscript entitled, How Angry Is Heaven: A China Journal
in the Time of Tiananmen. His article, Handle With Care: China's
Policy for Multiculturalism and Minority Nationalities, is currently
under review at a scholarly journal. In September 1997, he presented
a paper entitled, Constitutional Development, Political Power, and the
Legislative Institution in the People's Republic of China at a Moscow
conference. Dr. Magid received a Fulbright Fellowship for research
and teaching in Seoul, South Korea, where he spent the full academic year
1997-98.
Steven F. Messner is Professor in the Department of Sociology,
where he teaches courses on crime and deviance, as well as research methods.
He received his Ph.D. in Sociology from Princeton University. Dr.
Messner's primary area of specialization is crime and deviance. He
has conducted research in the relationship between features of social organization
and aggregate crime rates with data for neighborhoods, metropolitan communities,
and nation-states. He has also been involved in research on crime
and delinquency in China. Dr. Messner recently co-authored Crime
and the American Dream with Richard Rosenfeld.
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Paul Miesing is Associate Professor of Management in the School
of Business. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Colorado
at Boulder. Dr. Miesing conducts research and training in the area
of strategic change, including: strategic vision and commitment; executive
leadership; organizational learning and transformation; technology transfer;
corporate social responsibility and business ethics; and strategic and
pedagogical use of information technology. He has published numerous
articles and papers on strategic planning, public policy, and business
ethics in such journals as Academy of Management Journal, Advances
in Global High-Technology Management, and American Review of Public
Administration. Dr. Miesing was a Fulbright Lecturer to the People's
Republic of China during the 1998-1999 academic year, and taught in the
MBA program at Fudan University, Shanghai. He has held appointments
as MBA Director and Department Chair, and has served on the Faculty Board
of The Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning.
Jeryl Mumpower is Professor in the Department of Public Administration
and Policy. He received his Ph.D. in 1976 from the University of
Colorado. Dr. Mumpower's research interests include negotiation and
bargaining, environmental policy, judgment and decision making processes,
and risk analysis. He has received grants from federal and state
agencies for his research on theories of bargaining and negotiation, the
use of scientific information in policy-making, and environmental policy.
Dr. Mumpower has written or edited nine books and more than 45 articles
and book chapters. Recent publications include works on risk evaluation
and management, negotiation support, and medical decision making.
Robert Nakamura is Professor of Political Science.
He received his Ph.D. in 1975 from the University of California, Berkeley.
Dr. Nakamura serves as a consultant to SUNY International Programs on a
contract from the U.S. Agency for International Development. In February
1999, he was awarded a grant from the Center for the Study of Mental Health
Policy Issues to study New York's implementation of a managed care system.
Future research plans include a review of legislative development programs
in Latin America, Africa, Eastern Europe and Asia. In May 2000, he
will serve on a U.S. EPA-National Science Foundation Review Panel for their
grant competition in the Water and Watershed Research Program. Dr.
Nakamura has written numerous articles and is co-author of five books,
including, Cleaning Up the Mess: Alternative Strategies for Implementing
Superfund.
Richard P. Nathan is Director of The Nelson A. Rockefeller
Institute of Government. He received his Ph.D. in Political Economy
and Government in 1966 from Harvard University. Dr. Nathan's research
interests include health care reform, social science in government, and
New Federalism. He is the co-author, along with Thomas L. Gais, of
Implementing
the Personal Responsibility Act of 1996: A First Look (Rockefeller
Institute Press, 1999). In 1996, Dr. Nathan received the Distinguished
Scholar Award from the American Political Science Association Section on
Federalism and Intergovernmental Relations.
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John S. Pipkin is Professor of Geography and Planning.
He received his Ph.D. in 1974 from Northwestern University. Among
Dr. Pipkin's research interests are: urban, economic, and transportation
geography; urban design; and mathematical and statistical applications.
His current research involves the changing structure of economic and service
activity in small towns of New York, Thoreau and the representation of
landscapes, and ideology and spatial relations in discourse. Dr.
Pipkin has published extensively in such journals as Urban Geography,
Environment
and Planning, and Journal of Hazardous Materials. He has authored
or edited several books, including, Remaking the City: Social Science
Perspectives on Urban Design (SUNY Press, 1983).
Donald J. Reeb is Professor in the Department of Economics.
He received his Ph.D. in Economics from Syracuse University in 1963.
Among Dr. Reeb's research interests are: state and local government policy
and finance, particularly research leading to legislation concerning municipal
bond banks; mass transit financing; land value based on property taxes;
public utility taxation; wilderness area zoning; and state government revenue
sharing. He is the author or co-author of numerous articles in such
journals as Public Administration Review, Journal of Public Finance,
and Journal of State Taxation. In 1993, Dr. Reeb was awarded
a PEN certificate for outstanding work in achieving the passage of legislation
of the land plus tax improvement bill.
George R. Robinson is Assistant Professor and Co-Director
of the Graduate Program in Biodiversity, Conservation, and Public Policy.
He is also Co-Director of the Campus Natural Areas Studies. His current
research activities include the ecological impact of widespread tree disease,
habitat islands as tools for restoration, and reforestation in Southern
Brazil. Recent publications may be found in Conservation Biology,
Restoration Ecology, and Applied Population Biology.
Jennifer Rudolph is Assistant Professor in the Department
of History. She received her Ph.D. in History from the University
of Washington in 1999. Dr. Rudolph's research interests include Modern
China, Modern Japan, institutional history, and reform movements.
She has studied at the Inter-University Programs in both Yokohama, Japan,
and Taipei, Taiwan, and speaks modern and classical Chinese, Modern Japanese,
and Manchu. Dr. Rudolph has held numerous fellowship positions, including
a 1996 Fulbright-Hays Exchange program position for Research in Taiwan
and China. In addition, she has consulted with the U.S. Attorney's
Office, translating documents for criminal cases involving China, Hong
Kong, Canada, and the U.S.
Carlos E. Santiago is Professor of Latin American and Caribbean
Studies, Professor of Economics, and Associate Provost and Dean of Graduate
Studies. He also serves as Associate Director of the Center for Latino,
Latino American, and Caribbean Studies (CELAC). Dr. Santiago received
his Ph.D. in Economics from Cornell University in 1982. His research
interests include: the Caribbean and Central America, with special emphasis
on Puerto Rico; labor market issues; problems of structural adjustment
and debt; and labor migration to the United States. Dr. Santiago
has written extensively for numerous scholarly journals, and is co-author,
along with Francisco Rivera-Batiz, of Island of Paradox: A Profile of
Puerto Rico Facing the 1990s, and Puerto Ricans in the United States: A
Changing Reality.
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Michael Sattinger is Associate Professor in the Department of
Economics. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the Graduate School
of Industrial Administration, Carnegie-Mellon University. Previous
appointments include positions at the State University of New York at Stony
Brook, Aarhus University in Denmark, and Miami University of Ohio.
Dr. Sattinger's recent research focuses on the correlation between job
assignment and income distribution. He is the author of two books,
including, Unemployment, Choice and Equality, and has written numerous
articles on employment issues, labor market discrimination, job search,
and industrial organization.
Kathryn S. Schiller is Assistant Professor in the Department
of Educational Administration and Policy Studies. She received her
Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Chicago. Dr. Schiller's
areas of interest are sociology of education, organizational and policy
analysis, and quantitative methodology. Her current research focuses
on the effect of external evaluations on student outcomes, student-teacher
relationships, and school practices. Past appointments include a
position as summer fellow at the Center for the Advanced Study in the Behavior
Sciences in Stanford, CA, and as policy analyst for the United States Department
of Education. Dr. Schiller has co-authored two books, Parents,
Their Children, and Schools, and Redesigning American Education,
and has published numerous articles and book chapters. She currently
serves as chair of the ASA Sociology of Education Section's nominations
committee.
Christopher J. Smith is Professor in the Department Geography
and Planning. He received his undergraduate degree at the London
School of Economics before coming to the United States to pursue a Ph.D.
in Geography at the University of Michigan. Dr. Smith has taught
at universities in the U.S., China, New Zealand, and Scotland. His
research and teaching interests lie in the area of urban social problems,
specifically, health and health care delivery, homelessness, and mental
illness. His most current interests involve the implications of modernization
and economic development in China's largest cities, as well as the transformation
of the Chinese countryside. Dr. Smith's recent research publications
focus on migration, urbanization, and health care delivery issues in Chinese
cities. He is the author of China in the Post-Utopian Age:
Space, Society, and the 'Four Modernizations', forthcoming from Harper-Collins.
Ivan D. Steen is Associate Professor in the Department of
History, and Director for both the Graduate Program in Public History,
and the Albany Oral History Program. In 1962, he received his Ph.D.
in History from New York University. Albany politics, most specifically,
the life of Erastus Corning, are among Dr. Steen's many research interests.
He has lectured extensively, and has consulted with the Albany Institute
of History and Art, and the New York State Museum's New York Metropolis
exhibit. Dr. Steen has published numerous articles in such journals
as New York Historical Society Quarterly, New England Quarterly,
and New York History. He serves as board member for the Albany
County Historical Association, and the Shaker Heritage Society. In
1982, Dr. Steen received the SUNY Albany President's Award for Excellence
in Advisement.
Roger W. Stump is Associate Professor and MA Program Director
in the Department of Geography. He received his Ph.D. from the University
of Kansas. Dr. Stump's research interests include cultural geography,
geography of religion, quantitative methods, and the North American region.
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Jogindar S. Uppal is Professor of Economics and Africana Studies.
He received his Ph.D. in 1965 from the University of Minnesota. Dr.
Uppal's research interests include public finance, fiscal economics, and
economics of the public sector, as well as economic development of Third
World countries, particularly South and Southeast Asia, Indonesia, and
Africa. He has published in such journals as Journal of Economic
Development and Journal of Developing Societies, is co-author
of Black Economy in India, and author of Indian Economic Planning:
Three Decades of Development Experience.
David J. Wright is Director of Urban and Metropolitan Studies
in the Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government. He received
his Master of Arts Degree in Urban Affairs and Policy Analysis at the New
School for Social Research in 1983. Mr. Wright's research interests
include welfare reform, community development, and empowerment zones.
He has conducted research with The Rockefeller Foundation, The Ford Foundation,
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and The Kellogg Foundation.
Prior to joining the Institute, Mr. Wright served as Deputy Secretary to
New York Governor Mario M. Cuomo for policy and program design, coordination
and budgeting, particularly in the areas of workforce development, targeted
economic growth, and technology. His most recent book, The Empowerment
Zone/Enterprise Community Initiative: Implementing a New Program, is
forthcoming from The Brookings Institution.
James Wyckoff is Associate Professor in the Department of
Public Administration and Policy, Graduate School of Public Affairs.
He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill in 1982. Dr. Wyckoff's research interests include state
and local public finance, the economics of education, and tax policy.
He is the author of numerous articles on the economics of primary and secondary
education, tax-deferred retirement savings behavior, and charitable giving
models, found in such journals as Economics of Education, Journal
of Educational Finance, Journal of Public Economics, and Journal
of the American Taxation Association. Dr. Wyckoff currently serves
as Chair of the Department of Public Administration and Policy, and is
a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
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