Provost’s Distinguished Associate Professor

Dr. Qiwei (Britt) He is Associate Professor in the Program of Data Science and Director of the AI-Measurement and Data Science (AIMD) Lab at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. She is also affiliated with the Massive Data Institute at the McCourt School and the Department of Mathematics and Statistics in the College of Arts and Sciences. Dr. He has a Ph.D in Psychometrics and Data Science from the University of Twente in the Netherlands.

Dr. He’s research spans education, psychology, psychiatry, and public health, by leveraging new data sources in educational measurement with innovative data science methods. She aims to identify individuals’ latent traits and problem- solving strategies by sequence mining, text mining, psychometric modeling, and machine learning using multimodal data sources, such as log-file process data (human-machine interactions), eye-tracking, virtual reality, and textual data.  Her work, funded by grants from the Department of Education, is published in top-tier journals in education and psychometrics as well as in books.  Her co-edited book, Process Data in Educational and Psychological Measurement, was awarded the National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME) Annual Award of Exceptional Achievement in 2023, a prestigious honor granted to one recipient annually. Most recently, she is the recipient of the Exemplary Paper Award in Adult Literacy and Education from the American Educational Research Association in 2023.  Dr. He serves as Associate Editor of the Journal of Behavioral Data Science and is currently selected to serve on the committee charged with revising the Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing, jointly appointed by the American Educational Research Association, National Council on Measurement in Education, and the American Psychological Association. 

Dr. He teaches graduate-level courses in data mining and adaptive measurement with artificial intelligence.

Mike Amezcua is an Associate Professor in the Department of History in the College of Arts & Sciences. Dr. Amezcua has a Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale University.

Dr. Amezcua works in the area of American urban ethnic studies, focusing on the socio-economic, cultural, and political experience, influence, and trajectory of Latinx Americans. His work breaks new ground in understanding Latinx impact on electoral politics in the 20^th century and broadly, the role of Latinx communities in the United States’ post-Cold war economic life.  His 2022 book, Making Mexican Chicago: From Postwar Settlement to the Age of Gentrification won the 2023 First Book Award from the Immigration and Ethnic History Society, the 2023 Lewis Mumford Prize from the Society for American City & Regional Planning History, and the 2024 C.L.R. James Award given by the Working-Class Studies Association for the best book of the year for academic or general audiences, in addition to an Honorable Mention for Outstanding

Book on the History of Chicago by the Union League of Chicago.  Dr. Amezcua’s scholarship also includes articles in top-tier journals in political history as well as public media outlets such The Washington Post, Chicago Sun-Times, and Zócalo. Dr. Amezcua is the recipient of the 2024-2025 Roger W. Gerguson Jr. and Annette L. Nazareth Fellowship in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton.  Dr. Amezcua serves on Editorial Board of the Journal of American Ethnic History and is a member of the Scholars Council of the Mexican American Civil Rights Institute.

Dr. Amezcua’s teaching includes an undergraduate survey course on Latinx history, and upper class and graduate seminars on socio-economic and political-cultural history of the United States.

Janet (Ruoran) Gao is LaPeyre Family Associate Professor in Finance in the McDonough School of Business.  She has a Ph.D. in Finance from Cornell University. 

Dr. Gao’s interdisciplinary research tackles topics related to empirical corporate finance, such as the role of financial institutions in human capital mobility, greenwashing, and firms’ supply-chain relationships.  Her work is relevant to academia as well as practitioners and policymakers. Dr. Gao was recognized by the McDonough School of Business with the 2024 Faculty Research Award, given to one faculty member annually for distinction in research productivity.  Dr. Gao’s articles appear in Management Science, a top business journal, in addition to top-tier journals in finance and accounting.  Her work has received Best paper awards, most recently in 2024 by the Fintech and Financial Institutions Research Conference. Her work is routinely cited by The Economist and Dow Jones. Dr. Gao serves as Associate Editor for the Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, and Journal of Financial Intermediation, which are the leading journals in finance and banking. 

Dr. Gao teaches courses in corporate finance, including the highly technical course on Valuation, that prepares students for jobs in banking and investment.

Shaun Brinsmade is Associate Professor in the Department of Biology in the College of Arts & Sciences. He is affiliated with the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the Georgetown University Medical Center and the Global Infectious Disease Program.  He has a Ph.D in Microbiology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a post-doctoral fellowship from Tufts University.  

Dr. Brinsmade works on the Staph bacteria, commonly found on the skin and in the nose, which is one of the top five infectious microbes that cause millions of deaths worldwide. Incidence of deadly antibiotic-resistant Staph are rising, particularly in hospital acquired infections. He uses cutting-edge and genome-wide approaches including Next Generation Sequencing and Mass-Spectrometry-based metabolomics to uncover ways in which Staph causes disease. His research has uncovered the role of nutrients such as fatty acids, in intracellular signaling to impact expression of toxins and other virulence genes. Dr. Brinsmade’s laboratory has been continuously funded with grants from the National Institutes of Health, where he mentors postdoctoral, doctoral, and undergraduate students in the interdisciplinary methods of genetics and biochemistry. Dr, Brinsmade’s research is highly cited and appears in top-tier journal in microbiology and biochemistry.  Her serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Bacteriology, and Frontiers in Microbiology and Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology. He is Chair-elect of the 2025 Wind River Conference on Prokaryotic Biology. 

Dr. Brinsmade teaches undergraduate and graduate level courses in microbiology, biochemistry, and global health.

Francesco D’Acunto is Associate Professor in the McDonough School of Business, in the Finance Area.  He has a PhD in Business Administration with a concentration in Finance from the University of California at Berkeley.  He held faculty positions at the University of Maryland at College Park and Boston College before joining Georgetown as Associate Professor in 2022.

Dr. D’Acunto’s research bridges finance and economics, with a focus on how biases and beliefs of consumers and firms shape financial decision making, and how private (e.g., robo-advising) and public (e.g., economic policy) interventions can manage those biases and beliefs. He investigates the role of the financial sector in fostering sustainable economic growth as well as growing inequalities.  Dr. D’Acunto’s work is published in the leading journals in Finance and Economics, as well as general audience journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.  His articles have been recognized with multiple best paper awards, most recently as Editor’s Choice, Review of Financial Studies, 2022. He currently holds two grants from the National Science Foundation, and an award from the Alfred Sloan Foundation.  He was elected Research Fellow by the Center for Economic Policy. Dr. D’Acunto serves as Associate Editor for the Journal of Banking and Finance.

Dr. D’Acunto teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on Finance and Private Equity and for the Master of Science in Global Real Assets.

Ian Bourland is Associate Professor in the Department of Art & Art History in the College of Arts & Sciences.  He holds a PhD in History of Art from the University of Chicago and served on the faculty at the Maryland Institute College of Art before joining Georgetown as an Associate Professor in 2018.

Dr. Bourland’s area of scholarship is contemporary art history and criticism focusing on postwar African diaspora in multiple cultural strategies such as photography, film, music, and news media.  His 2019 monograph on Rotimi Fani-Kayode, a renowned black artist who studied at Georgetown in the 1970s, Bloodflowers by Duke University Press, a finalist for a Lamba Literary Award, is considered pathbreaking for its focus on culture practice of Black Africa and its diasporas and lens-based media.  He also published 33 1/3Massive Attack: Blue Lines by Bloomsbury in 2019 and an edited book FAILE: Works on Wood by Gestalten.  His forthcoming book, Black/Gold merges histories of abstraction and theories of the Anthropocene, draws from Black and diaspora studies to retheorize western aesthetic traditions through colonial encounters regarding gold mining.  Dr. Bourland is prolific in publishing in refereed journals as well as non-refereed outlets such as museum catalogues and trade periodicals such as Artforum and Frieze. Dr. Bourland is the recipient of the 2020 American Academy of Rome Visiting Fellowship and a 2018 Mellon Foundation grant.

Dr. Bourland teaches undergraduate courses in Black Atlantic art, diaspora studies, and Critical Theory for Visual Art.  He serves as Director for Undergraduate Studies for his department.

Marko Klasnja is Associate Professor in the Walsh School of Foreign Service and the Department of Government in the College of Arts & Sciences.  He holds a PhD in Political Science from New York University and completed a post-doctoral fellowship at Princeton University before joining Georgetown as Assistant Professor in 2015.

Dr. Klasnja works in the area of political economy, with a focus on democratic accountability and the inequalities in political representation.  He uses quantitative methods to study the effects of political corruption on democratic advancement and the political impacts of income inequality, such as the causes and consequences of politician’s wealth and political attitudes of wealthy individuals.  He publishes in top journals in political sciences and economics, having garnered numerous awards including Best Paper awards in 2018 and 2021 from the American Political Science Association, the 2019 Elsie Hillman Prize from the Pennsylvania Center for Women and Politics and the Carrie Chapman Catt Prize for Research on Women and Politics. He currently holds two grants from the National Science Foundation, and an award from the Global Integrity-Anticorruption Research Programme.  Dr. Klasnja serves on the editorial board of Journal of Politics and was a Guest Editor of the 2021 special issue of Data & Policy on Data Analytics for Anticorruption in Public Administration.

Dr. Klasnja teaches undergraduate on International Political Economy and graduate courses on quantitative methods and econometrics and is sought after as a Capstone advisor and doctoral dissertation committee member.

Eva Rosen is Associate Professor in the McCourt School of Public Policy and also affiliated withthe Department of Sociology in the College of Arts & Sciences. She holds a PhD in Sociology and
Social Policy from Harvard University and has completed post-doctoral fellowships at Harvard University and Johns Hopkins University, before joining Georgetown as Assistant Professor in 2017.

Dr. Rosen’s research examines the creation, experience, and persistence of urban poverty. In particular, she focuses on housing policy and racial segregation, with the use of mixed methods including ethnographic, qualitative, quantitative, and geographic mapping data contributions have been recognized beyond Sociology, for their policy impact, winning a prestigious early career award, the 40 for 40 Fellowship from the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management. Her 2020 sole authored book, Voucher Promise, won multiple book awards, including the 2021 Paul Davidoff Award from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning and the 2022 Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility Outstanding Book Award from the American Sociological Association. She has a 2023 co-edited volume, The Sociology of Housing: How Homes Shape Our Social Lives, University of Chicago Press, and a forthcoming book with Princeton University Press. Dr. Rosen was awarded a fellowship by the Russell Sage Foundation last year. Her prolific scholarship extends to journal articles as well, with her 2021 article
counted as among the most cited in three years by the American Sociological Review. She
serves on numerous local and national advisory boards relevant to housing policy.

Dr. Rosen teaches courses on public policy and qualitative methods and mentors capstone and
thesis projects at the McCourt School.

Meg Leta Jones is Associate Professor in the Communications, Culture, and Technology Program in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. She is core faculty of the Science Technology and International Affairs program in the School of Foreign Service, and affiliated faculty at the Law Center, Kennedy Institute of Ethics, and the Center for Digital Ethics. She has a PhD in Engineering and Applied Science from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Described as a rare “superconnector”, Dr. Jones’ work bridges law, policy, ethics, information studies, and public opinion.  She uses comparative, interpretive, legal, and historical methods to study issues of global digital governance. Through multiple books with top-tier publishers such as NYU and MIT Press, and numerous journal articles in top technology, public policy and law review journals, Dr. Jones addresses social, legal and technical issues surrounding digital oblivion, digital consent, and privacy. At Georgetown, she has been highly instrumental in building the Tech & Society Initiative, the Masters in Law & Technology, and the Center for Digital Ethics, including design of the Tech, Ethics, & Society undergraduate program. She serves on program committees of key conferences in the areas of technology policy and law.

Dr. Jones teaches courses in technology policy, comparative international privacy and governance of emerging technology and mentors senior and masters theses and Fritz fellows.

Justin Thaler is Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science in the College of Arts and Sciences. He holds a Ph.D. from the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University. 

Dr. Thaler’s research addresses fundamental computational problems with practical implications in today’s digital world. He works on verifiable computing, quantum computing, massive data algorithms and learning theory. Dr. Thaler’s work has been recognized with numerous “Best paper” awards for his peer-reviewed publications, NSF CAREER award, and substantial grant funding from NSF and DARPA. He has also published two monographs, one on the theory and practice of cryptographic protocols and another covering analytical techniques in theoretical computer science. Dr. Thaler is the co-creator of an open-source library of streaming algorithms. At Georgetown, Dr. Thaler has served on the steering committee of the Data Analytics programs in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. He is active in his discipline, serving on the editorial board of the prestigious SIAM Journal of Computing and on the program committees of multiple conferences, and organizing workshops on algorithms. 

Dr. Thaler teaches graduate level courses and mentors graduate students in computer science. 

Alexandre Poirier is Associate Professor in the Department of Economics in the College of Arts and Sciences. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley. 

What is the causal effect of roads on trade? Of job training on future earnings? As an econometrician, Dr. Poirier answers such questions by developing statistical methods to assess the sensitivity of causal conclusions. With papers appearing in some of the most influential journals in economics such as Econometricia and Journal of Econometrics, Dr. Poirier’s research has wide impact on applied questions including policy evaluation.  He disseminates his methods by writing software modules for commonly used statistical software. He serves as Associate Editor for the Journal of Business & Economic Statistics and on the scientific program committee of the International Association for Applied Econometrics, and is a frequent reviewer for journals in econometrics. 

Dr. Poirier teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in econometrics and mentors graduate students in economics.

Brian McCabe is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology in the College of Arts and Sciences and affiliated faculty in the McCourt School of Public Policy. He has a Ph.D. in Sociology from New York University. 

Working at the intersection of urban sociology, housing policy, and politics, Dr. McCabe’s research impacts contemporary debates on housing and urban development. His publication record includes books with top-tier publishers such as University of Chicago Press, journal articles in premier outlets such as American Sociological Review, Urban Affairs Review, op-eds in the Washington Post, and policy reports on housing voucher programs and evictions. A testament to Dr. McCabe’s impactful scholarship is his recent two-year appointment as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy Development in the Office of Policy Development and Research in the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Dr. McCabe has served as the Faculty Director for Research and Scholarship at Georgetown’s Center for Social Justice. He is active in professional service, in editorial roles at urban studies journals (City and Community, Housing Policy Debates), as reviewer for sociology, political science, urban studies journals, and as elected council member of the Community and Urban Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association.

Dr. McCabe teaches introductory and specialty seminar courses in sociology and active learning courses on gentrification that take students out of the classroom. His own out of the classroom activity includes a 4000-mile Transamerica cycling tour!

Sebastian Jilke is Associate Professor in the McCourt School of Public Policy. He has a Ph.D. from Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands. 

Dr. Jilke is an emerging leader in behavioral public administration, an area of public management in which experimental designs are employed to test insights from psychology in public administration settings. His work aims to identify behavioral factors that increase inequality in citizen-state interactions and shape public service delivery. Supported by numerous external grants, Dr. Jilke’s work is published in top-tier journals in public administration and has won the prestigious Beryl Radin Award for the best article published in the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory. He is one of the co-founding directors of McCourt’s Better Government Lab, and engages directly with federal agencies like the US Office of Evaluation Services. Dr. Jilke is the founding editor of the Journal of Behavioral Public Administration and co-editor of the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, a top public policy journal.  

Dr. Jilke teaches graduate courses in public management and mentors graduate and postdoctoral scholars. 

Jennie Bai is an Associate Professor of Finance at the McDonough School of Business. She has served as an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and has been an advisory council member in the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.

A Faculty Research Fellow and elected Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Dr. Bai’s research focuses on credit markets, specifically asset pricing of debt and its link to corporate finance and the investment behavior of primary debt holders such as mutual funds and insurance companies. Her work appears in top-tier outlets such as Journal of Finance and Journal of Financial Economics, and she serves as Associate Editor at Journal of Financial Economics, Management Science, and Journal of Credit Risk.

Along with teaching courses in finance, she leads meditations for the Georgetown community as an active member of the John Main Center for Meditation and Interreligious Dialogue.

Simon Blanchard is the Beyer Family Associate Professor of Marketing in the McDonough School of Business. Using field and lab experiments and novel statistical models, Dr. Blanchard’s research addresses how consumers make complex decisions, particularly financial ones such as debt repayment. Selected as a Young Scholar by the Marketing Science Institute, his work appears in top-rated journals in Marketing including Journal of Consumer Research and Journal of Marketing Research as well as in Psychology including Psychological Science. He serves as Associate Editor of Journal of Consumer Research and International Journal of Research in Marketing and on the Editorial Review Boards for the Journal of Marketing Research and the Journal of Marketing.

He teaches courses in Digital Marketing Strategy and Marketing Research and directs the MBA Certificate in Consumer Analytics and Insights. He was named on the Poets & Quants Best 40 under 40 list in 2021, which selects 40 of the best MBA professors under age 40 from across the world.

Shiliang (John) Cui is an Associate Professor of Operations and Information Management at the McDonough School of Business. His research uses analytical models, behavioral experiments, and empirical analysis, to tackle wide-ranging operations problems such as supply chain strategies with implications for system performance and social welfare. His research has been published in top-ranked journals such as Management Science and Operations Research and he has been recognized for his research by the Production and Operations Management Society with their inaugural Emerging Scholar Award. He has also been recognized for his professional service by the Management Science and Manufacturing & Service Operations Management with meritorious service awards.

His teaching includes core undergraduate and graduate courses and he will be teaching in the new joint MSB-SFS Business and Global Affairs (BGA) program.

Karah Knope is Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Georgetown College. Dr. Knope’s research in inorganic chemistry addresses challenges in energy and sustainability. She focuses on radioactive elements important for nuclear energy such as uranium and light emitting metals such as bismuth (found in Pepto-Bismol), with the goal of developing less expensive and more environmentally friendly materials. She has been recognized as an Emerging Scholar by two top-ranked journals Inorganic Chemistry and Crystal Growth & Design. Her research is currently funded by an Early career award the Department of Energy. She is active in her professional community, serving as chair of the American Crystallographic Association’s small molecule scientific interest group and a co-editor for the journal Acta Crystallographica Section B.

She teaches large courses such as General Chemistry but also small seminars. She mentors graduate and undergraduate researchers in the Knope Lab.

Stephen Weymouth is an Associate Professor of International Political Economy at the McDonough School of Business. His research addresses questions about political environments of globalization and technological change. For example, his current book project examines how digital technologies are reshaping the global economy and creating policy impediments related to cross-border information flows and trade in digital products and services. His research appears in top interdisciplinary journals such as Economics and Politics, Business and Politics, International Organization as we well as in political science including American Political Science Review and British Journal of Political Science. He serves as Associate Editor of the journal, Economics and Politics.

Dr. Weymouth teaches courses at all levels in McDonough and in diverse areas including business and government relations, international economics and policy, and nonmarket strategy.

Jeffrey Huang is Associate Professor in the Department of Biology. He received his Ph.D. from Mount Sinai School of Medicine. His research tackles Multiple Sclerosis, a debilitating neurodegenerative disorder in which neuronal myelin is eroded, with a focus on therapeutic approaches to remyelination.

His findings have been published in high impact journals in neuroscience such as Brain and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. He has been honored by an early career award by the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. His research is funded by multiple sources, the National Institutes of Health and foundation awards.

He teaches courses in neurobiology and cell biology and mentors graduate students and post-doctoral fellows in neuroscience. He serves as the Deputy Director for the Center of Cell Reprogramming at GUMC.

Anna Johnson is Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology. She has a Ph.D. from Columbia University in Developmental Psychology. Her research combines theory and measures of developmental psychology with advanced quantitative methods to examine how public policies about early child care (e.g., child care subsidy programs, food assistance programs) impact low-income children’s early developmental outcomes.

Her work is published in top ranked journals in developmental science such as Child Development and Developmental Psychology and is funded by multiple grants, from the National Institutes of Health, Heising-Simons Foundation, and the Spencer Foundation. She has been honored with three early career awards from leading professional societies in developmental psychology.

She teaches courses in developmental psychology, directs the Psychology Honors program, and mentors graduate students in the Human Developmental and Public Policy track. She serves as a Research Fellow at Child Trends, the nation’s leading organization focused on child and family well-being.

Sarah Johnson is Associate Professor in the Science, Technology and International Affairs (STIA) Program at the School of Foreign Service and in the Department of Biology. She received her Ph.D. in Planetary Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is a former Goldwater, Truman, and Rhodes Scholar, who has served as White House Fellow in the Office of Science and Technology Policy. Her research focuses of the search for extraterrestrial life, using molecular biology and analytical chemistry approaches that integrate geoscience, astrobiology, and planetary science.

She has worked on NASA’s Spirit, Opportunity, and Curiosity Rovers. Her research is published in high impact journals such as Nature Geoscience and Astrobiology and her book, The Sirens of Mars: Searching for Life on Another World, was a New York Times Editor’s Choice and selected as one of the New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2020. Her research is funded by multiple grants from NASA and the National Science Foundation.

She teaches courses on astrobiology and planetary science in the STIA program has been honored for her mentorship with the 2019 SFS Excellence in Mentorship Award. She is on the Executive Committee of the Mars Exploration Program Analysis Group and co-leader of the Network for Life Detection, a NASA Astrobiology Research Coordination Network.

Nathan Miller is the Saleh Romeih Associate Professor in the Strategy, Economics, and Policy Area at the McDonough School of Business. He has a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley. He has served as an economist at the U.S. Department of Justice and works in the areas of industrial organization and antitrust economics, with a focus on collusion and the competitive effects of mergers.

His research has been published in top ranked journal in economics such as American Economic Review and Econometrica, and he is the recipient of a National Science Foundation grant on firms’ pricing in differentiated product markets.

He teaches courses on Microeconomics and Industrial organization. He serves on the Editorial board of the Review of Industrial Organization and he organizes DC Industrial Organization Day, Day—a conference that highlights theoretical and empirical topics in industrial organization economics for faculty and PhD students at local DC universities.

Marden Nichols is Associate Professor in the Department of Classics. She received her Ph.D. in Classics from Trinity College, University of Cambridge, where she was a Marshall Scholar. Her research focuses on how debates about the significance of art and architecture shaped ancient Roman cultural and intellectual history, with particular focus on the architectural author Vitruvius.

She has authored an influential monograph Author and Audience in Vitruvius’ De architectura (Cambridge) and has another one forthcoming, The Imagination of Rome’s Foundation Myths (Routledge). She has served as Assistant Curator of Ancient Art at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, and held fellowships at the British School at Rome, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art, and the Clark Art Institute & Williams College.

She teaches courses in Roman Art and Archeology and is involved in mentoring Georgetown’s candidates for prestigious fellowships such as the Marshall. She appears on the television documentary, Roman Empire, on Netflix.

Kathryn de Luna is an Associate Professor of History. She received her Ph.D. from Northwestern University. She is a historian of Africa and specializes in the histories of eastern, central and southern Africa before the 20th century. She has conducted fieldwork among fifteen societies in five countries in eastern and south-central Africa. Her interdisciplinary work bridges History, Linguistics and Archeology.

De Luna undertook additional training to add depth to her interdisciplinary research. She participated in a Climate History workshop at Princeton on paleoclimate research, and did a year of coursework towards an MA in Archaeology at Yale University. She has received grants from Mellon New Directions as well as an NSF grant to fund her new archaeological research, and support from NEH and NSF for her project on language shift and migration.

Her book Collecting Food, Cultivating People: Subsistence and Society in Central Africa (Yale University Press, 2017) received the Henry A. Wallace Award, Agricultural History Society, in 2017, and the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title award in 2018.  Her co-edited book, The Oxford Encyclopedia of African History: Methods, Sources, and Historiography was published by Oxford University Press in 2019. She is co-creating a two-semester course on HyperHistory, drawing on methodologies of big data, for both undergraduates and graduate students.

Adam Green is an Associate Professor of Psychology. He received his Ph.D. from Dartmouth College. He is a cognitive neuroscientist with research focused on the cognitive process of relational reasoning. He integrates behavioral, neural, and genetic levels of analyses with the goal of characterizing how people understand connections between ideas and events and how they may lead to creative innovation.

He is examining the extent to which spatially-based STEM education hones reasoning skill and its neural underpinnings; cognitive representation about belief in God, making cross-cultural comparisons between the United States and Afghanistan; and measurement and enhancement of scientific creative thinking in STEM education.

His work is helping form the new discipline: Neuroscience of Creativity. He is one of the founding members of the Society for the Neuroscience of Creativity, he currently serves as its President and is the incoming Editor-in-Chief of Creativity Research Journal. He is a prolific scholar having published 13 papers during or after his tenure year (2016-17). His work has been published in Nature Reviews Neuroscience and Current Directions in Psychological Sciences, among other journals. Professor Green is principal investigator on three National Science Foundation grants and two Templeton Foundation grants for a total of over $5 million.

Kaveh Jorabchi is an Associate Professor of Chemistry. He received his Ph.D. from George Washington University. His research focuses on developing new analytical methods and techniques for characterizing substances present in miniscule amounts within complex samples composed of many chemical components.

He has made significant contributions to the science and methods to detect and quantify such trace components that can have enormous impacts even in small amounts. In the last few years alone, he has received grants totaling $1.5 million from organizations including the National Science Foundation and the National Institute of General Medical Sciences.

His work has appeared in the Journal of The American Society for Mass Spectrometry, Analytical Chemistry, and Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry, among others. In addition to graduate students, his lab regularly involves undergraduate and high school students in research.

Joanna Lewis is an Associate Professor of Energy and Environment and Director of the Science, Technology and International Affairs Program (STIA) at the Walsh School of Foreign Service. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. Her scholarship focuses on energy and environment in China. Her work examines China as both the largest energy consumer and greenhouse emitter, and also as an emerging leader in renewable energy.

She is considered as one of the world’s leading experts on the evolution of technologies in China, international technology transfer, and policy frameworks. She was lead author of the UN Intergovernmental Panels on Climate Change’s Fifth Assessment Report representing the United States.

Her new book Cooperating for the Climate: International Partnerships and Technological Leapfrogging in China’s Clean Energy Sector is under contract with MIT Press. Her work has been published in several journals including Energy Policy, Global Environmental Politics, Science and Nature Energy. Professor Lewis provides students with real world experience in research and diplomacy.

Alberto Rossi is an Associate Professor of Finance in the McDonough School of Business. He received his Ph.D. from University of California, San Diego. Rossi is quickly rising as one of the most visible and researchers in the area of FinTech and Machine Learning. He gave 40 research talks in 2019 alone. For example, his recent work helps to understand how individuals make finance decisions, and whether a fully robotized system, where a virtual adviser gives the customer advice is as effective as one where the advice is delivered by an adviser that explains the suggestions of the robot.

This year alone, he received a $402,450 grant from the National Science Foundation for his work on robo-advising and a $150,000 grant from JP Morgan for his work on machine learning. He has developed courses in FinTech and Blockchain.

His research has appeared in leading journals including the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, and Review of Financial Studies, the top three journals in finance. His paper was awarded the Michael Brennan Prize, awarded to the best papers published in the Review of Financial Studies.

Vishal Agrawal is an Associate Professor of Operations and Information Management in the McDonough School of Business. He received his Ph.D. from Georgia Institute of Technology. Dr. Agrawal’s research interests include sustainable operations, new product development and supply chain management. His research focuses on managerial challenges at the interface of business and the environment. He is also interested in the effect of consumer behavior on operations and new product development strategies. Dr. Agrawal’s research has appeared in leading journals such as Management Science and Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, and has received several awards including the Management Science Best Paper in Operations Management Award (2015), Paul Kleindorfer Award in Sustainability (2016), and the INFORMS ENRE Young Researcher Award (runner up 2014). He serves as an associate editor for Manufacturing and Service Operations Management and as a senior editor for Production and Operations Management.

Laia Balcells is an Associate Professor in the Government department of Georgetown College. She is a political scientist specializing in the study of political violence as well as nationalism and ethnic conflict. She earned her PhD from Yale University in 2010 and came to Georgetown from Duke. Dr. Balcells’ book, Rivalry and Revenge: The Politics of Violence during Civil War (Cambridge University Press, 2017), deals with the determinants of violence against civilians in civil war, and explores micro-level variation in the Spanish Civil War and Côte d’Ivoire. Her more recent work examines preferences for secessionism and their relationship with redistribution and identity-related factors. She has also recently explored post-war low-intensity violence (in Northern Ireland), wartime displacement (in Colombia and Spain), and cross-national variation in civil war warfare and its implications on conflict duration, termination and severity.

Shweta Bansal is an Associate Professor of Biology in Georgetown College. She completed a RAPIDD postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics at Penn State University and the Fogarty International Center at NIH. She completed her Ph.D. in 2008 in network modeling and infectious disease ecology at the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Bansal is an interdisciplinary mathematical biologist, and her research is focused on the development of data-driven mathematical models for the prevention and containment of human and animal infectious diseases using tools from network science, statistical physics, computer physics, computer science and statistics. Dr. Bansal’s Lab focuses on the interactions that facilitate infectious disease transmission between hosts. It seeks to understand how social behavior and population structure shape infectious disease transmission, and how knowledge of such processes can improve disease surveillance and control.

Leticia Bode is an Associate Professor in the Communication, Culture, and Technology master’s program of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. She received her PhD in Political Science from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Her work lies at the intersection of communication, technology, and political behavior, emphasizing the role communication and information technologies may play in the acquisition and use of political information. Her work examines the effects of incidental exposure to political information on social media, effects of exposure to political comedy, use of social media by political elites, selective exposure and political engagement in new media, and the changing nature of political socialization given the modern media environment. Her work has appeared in the Journal of Communication, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, New Media and Society, Mass Communication and Society, Journal of Information Technology and Politics, and Information, Communication, and Society, among others. Dr. Bode also sits on the editorial boards of Journal of Information Technology and Politics, and Social Media + Society.

Jeremy Fineman is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science of Georgetown College. He joined the Georgetown community in 2011, before which he was a Computing Innovation Fellow at Carnegie Mellon. Dr. Fineman studies algorithm design and analysis, focusing on parallel algorithms, scheduling, and memory-efficient or large-data algorithms. He is also interested in classic (sequential) algorithms and data structures. He has published prolifically and has emerged as a leader among his peers. His work is well-recognized by his peers, and one of Dr. Fineman’s papers received a Best Paper award from the 2014 European Symposium on Algorithms.

Emily Mendenhall is an Associate Professor of Global Health in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. She is a medical anthropologist who writes about how social trauma, poverty, and social exclusion become embodied in chronic mental and physical illness. Dr. Mendenhall received her Ph.D. from the Department of Anthropology at Northwestern University and MPH from the Hubert Department of Global Health at Emory University.  Prof Mendenhall’s most recent project is a book forthcoming with Cornell University Press (2019), Rethinking Diabetes: Entanglements of Poverty, Trauma, and HIV. Rethinking Diabetes considers how ”global” and ”local” factors transform how diabetes is perceived, experienced, and embodied from place to place. She is also the author of Syndemic Suffering: Social Distress, Depression, and Diabetes among Mexican Immigrant Women (Routledge, 2012). In 2017, Dr. Mendenhall was awarded the George Foster Award for Practicing Medical Anthropology by the Society for Medical Anthropology.

Caetlin Benson-Allott is an Associate Professor of English and core faculty member of the Film and Media Studies and American Studies programs. She joined the Georgetown community in 2010. Her research has focused on US film history since 1968, film and media theory, exhibition and new media technology, and gender studies. Dr. Benson-Allott is the author of Remote Control (Bloomsburg Press, 2015) and Killer Tapes and Shattered Screens: Video Spectatorship from VHS to File Sharing (University of California Press, 2013). In 2017, Dr. Benson-Allott was elected the new Editor of Cinema Journal, the Society for Cinema and Media Studies’ scholarly publication of record, a position she will hold through December 2022. Cinema Journal is the second-oldest scholarly film journal in the US and is the most esteemed film and media studies journal in the world.

Laurent Bouton is an Associate Professor of Economics. He obtained his Ph.D. from the European Center for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES) at the Université libre de Bruxelles in 2009, and joined Georgetown in 2013. Dr. Bouton’s research focuses on the incentives of voters under various electoral systems, namely the way in which they use information in these systems and how their use of information determines electoral outcomes. He has three publications in the top five general interest journals in economics, including: American Economic Review, considered by many as the flagship journal of the economics profession; Journal of Political Economy; and Econometrica, which is widely considered to be the top technical general interest journal. In addition to his strong publication record, in 2017 Dr. Bouton received a European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant totaling 1.5 million euros. Dr. Bouton is currently a FNRS Research Associate at the Université libre de Bruxelles and a Research Affiliate of the Centre for Economic Policy Research. Additionally, he has served as a Faculty Research Fellow of the National Bureau of Economic Research since 2014.

Marcia Chatelain is an Associate Professor of History and African American Studies. Although her research specializes in African American children, race in America, and social movements, she has been recognized for her impact in issues outside her area of focus. Dr. Chatelain has been the recipient of a NEH grant and New America Foundation National Fellowship. She was a member of the Georgetown’s Working Group on Slavery, Memory, and Reconciliation, and her associated work with the group continues today. In 2016, Dr. Chatelain was named a “Top Influencer in Higher Education” by The Chronicle of Higher Education. She is the author of South Side Girls: Growing up in the Great Migration (Duke University Press, 2015). Dr. Chatelain joined Georgetown in 2011.

Bryce Huebner is an Associate Professor of Philosophy, a department in which he has served since 2009. His research has been highly interdisciplinary, including the study of interrelated issues in moral psychology and metaphysics of the mind; the cognitive strategies people employ in making moral judgments; and the ways in which neuroscientific and computational research on learning and motivation might be able to fund a more plausible account of moral cognition. In addition to his monograph, Macrocognition: Distributed Minds and Collective Intentionality (Oxford University Press, 2013), Dr. Huebner has authored 33 regular articles, seven shorter articles, and nine book reviews.

Cal Newport is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Georgetown University. In addition to studying the theoretical foundations of our digital age, Newport also writes about the impact of these technologies on the world of work.  His most recent book, Deep Work, argues that focus is the new I.Q. in the modern workplace and that the ability to concentrate without distraction is becoming increasingly valuable. He previously wrote So Good They Can’t Ignore You, a book which debunks the long-held belief that “follow your passion” is good advice, and three popular books of unconventional advice for students.

Deep Work was a Wall Street Journal Business Bestseller, an Amazon Best Business Book selection for January 2016, and 800-CEO-READ’s Best Business Book of the Week. Since publication, it received praise in the New York Times Book Review , The Wall Street Journal , The Economist , and The Guardian .

So Good They Can’t Ignore You was listed as one of the business books of 2012 by Inc. Magazine , The Globe and Mail , and 800-CEO-Read .

Daniel Shore is an associate professor of English, who specializes in the literature of the Renaissance and the humanist rhetorical tradition, with a focus on Milton and the 17th-century.    
His second book project, Cyberformalism (under contract with Johns Hopkins UP), argues that full-text searchable archives make possible new objects of philological inquiry.  It uses archives like Google Books and Early English Books Online, as well as corpus analysis tools like CQPweb and the BYU corpora, to trace the histories not of words or concepts but of linguistic forms. One part of Cyberformalism appeared as an article, “WWJD? The Genealogy of a Syntactic Form,” in the Fall 2010 issue of Critical Inquiry; a second, “Shakespeare’s Constructicon,” and  in the Summer 2015 issue of Shakespeare Quarterly; a third is slated to appear in Modern Philology as “Was it for this? Literary Influence in the Digital Archive and the Network.” 

Professor Shore is currently working to build “Six Degrees of Francis Bacon,” a digital representation of the Early Modern Social Network. The project has been supported in the past by two Google Research Awards, a postdoctoral fellowship from the Council on Library and Information Resources, and grant funding from Carnegie Mellon and Georgetown Universities; it is currently funded by a National Endowment for the Humanities Digital Implementation Grant.

Additionally, he has performed preliminary work (conference papers and invited talks) towards a second Milton book, tentatively titled The Limits of Experience in the Age of Milton, which will argue that late seventeenth-century writers like Milton, Marvell, Cavendish, Spinoza, and Pascal engaged in a supple and imaginative form of what Kant later called “transcendental inquiry,” exploring the subjective, material, affective, linguistic, and theological (rather than the merely subjective) conditions of the possibility of experience.

C. Christine Fair is a Provost’s Distinguished Associate Professor in the Security Studies Program within Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. She previously served as a senior political scientist with the RAND Corporation, a political officer with the United Nations Assistance Mission to Afghanistan in Kabul, and a senior research associate at USIP’s Center for Conflict Analysis and Prevention. 

She has served as a Senior Fellow at West Point’s Combating Terrorism Center, a Senior Resident Fellow at the Institute of Defense Studies and Analysis (New Delhi) and will take up a Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellowship in the spring of 2017.

Her research focuses on political and military affairs in South Asia (Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka). Her most recent book is Fighting to the End: The Pakistan Army’s Way of War (Oxford University Press). Additionally, she has as authored, co-authored and co-edited several books, including Pakistan’s Enduring Challenges (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015), Policing Insurgencies: Cops as Counterinsurgents (Oxford University Press, 2014); Political Islam and Governance in Bangladesh (Routledge, 2010); Treading on Hallowed Ground: Counterinsurgency Operations in Sacred Spaces (Oxford University Press, 2008); The Madrassah Challenge: Militancy and Religious Education in Pakistan (USIP, 2008), and The Cuisines of the Axis of Evil and Other Irritating States (Globe Pequot, 2008), among others. Her current book project is Lashkar-e-Taiba: In its Own Words.

Dr. Fair is a frequent commentator in print (New York Times, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The National Review among others) as well on television and radio programs (CBS, BBC, Al Jazeera, CNN, Voice of America, Fox, Reuters, BBC, NPR, among others).

She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Women in International Security, International Studies Association, American Political Science Association, and the American Institute of Pakistan Studies and serves on the editorial board numerous scholarly and policy-analytic journals. She resigned her membership with the International Institute of Strategic Studies to protest its consistent failure to address diversity issues.

She has a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilization and an MA from the Harris School of Public Policy, also at the University of Chicago. She speaks and reads Hindu, Urdu and Punjabi.

Emanuela Del Gado is a theoretical physicist working on engineering motivated problems. Sheuses statistical mechanics and computational physics to investigate materials with structural and dynamical complexity, from model amorphous solids, gels and glasses, to new green formulations of cement.

Prof. Del Gado received her undergraduate degree (Laurea in Physics, cum laude) at the University of Naples “Federico II” in Italy, where she also obtained a PhD in Physics in 2001. She has been a Marie Curie Fellow at the University of Montpellier II in France and a post-doctoral researcher at ETH Zurich in Switzerland, and hold visiting positions at ESPCI (France) and MIT. Before joining Georgetown University, Emanuela was the Swiss National Science Foundation professor in the Department of Civil Environmental and Geomatic Engineering at ETH Zurich.

Professor Del Gado’s research interests are in the areas of statistical mechanics and computational physics; structure, cooperative dynamics and nonlinear mechanics of amorphous solids, gels and glasses; nanoscale structure and mechanics of cement gels; self-assembly of nanoparticles and fibrils at liquid interfaces; biomimetic coatings and mechanics of tissues.

Rebecca Ryan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at Georgetown University. She came to Georgetown after completing a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy Studies in Fall 2009. She earned a Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology from Columbia University in 2006. Her research explores the implications of the rise in nonmarital childbirth for children’s well-being as well as the relationship between parenting and children’s development in at-risk contexts. Both strains of research explore two fundamental influences on child well-being: the quality of parent-child interactions and parents’ ability to invest time and money in children’s environments. Her recent work explores variation in parenting practices by socioeconomic status, and over time. She is the principal investigator on the Russell Sage Foundation funded grant, Inequality in Parental Investments by Biological Vulnerability: Implications for the Socioeconomic Gap in Children’s School Readiness. Her broad aim is to link developmental psychology to child and family policy in an effort to enrich both fields.

James Habyarimana joined the McCourt School Public Policy in 2004 after completing doctoral studies at Harvard University. His main research interests are in Development Economics and Political Economy. In particular he is interested in understanding the issues and constraints in health, education and the private sectors in developing countries. In health he is working on understanding the impact of policy responses to the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa and evaluating a number of health improving interventions in road safety and water, sanitation and hygiene. In education, his work focuses on identifying programs and policies to improve access and quality of secondary schooling. His primary regional focus is Africa.

He has been a non-resident fellow at the Center for Global Development. At the McCourt School, James teaches the second course in regression methods and courses on the history of development and education and health policy in developing countries.

Diana Kapiszewski received her PhD in political science from UC Berkeley in 2007. Her research interests include public law, comparative politics, and research methods. Her first book, High Courts and Economic Governance in Argentina and Brazil (Cambridge University Press, 2012), which received the APSA Law and Courts Section’s C. Herman Pritchett Award, explores high court-elected branch interactions over economic policy in Argentina and Brazil in the post-transition period. Her current work examines judicial politics and the uses of law in Latin America. One project analyzes institutions of electoral governance and another investigates informal workers’ use of legal strategies in the region; each focuses specifically on Brazil and Mexico. She has also co-edited Consequential Courts: Judicial Roles in Global Perspective (Cambridge University Press, 2013).
In the area of research methods, Kapiszewski co-directs the Qualitative Data Repository and co-edits the new Cambridge University Press book series, Methods of Social Inquiry. She is also co-authoring Field Research in Political Science: Practices and Principles (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming), and in 2013 was awarded the APSA Qualitative and Multi-Method Research section’s Mid-Career Achievement Award. Her work has appeared in “Latin American Politics and Society,” “Law and Social Inquiry”, “Law & Society Review,” “Perspectives on Politics,” and “PS: Political Science and Politics.”
Education:
PhD (2007) University of California, Berkley: Political Science
MA (1997) Georgetown University: Latin American Studies
MA (1991) Middlebury College: Spanish
BS (1991) Dartmouth College: Spanish

Shiloh Krupar is a Geographer and an Associate Professor of Culture and Politics in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. She holds a Ph.D. in Geography from the University of California-Berkeley, an MA in East Asian Studies from Standford University, and a BA from Case Western Reserve University.

Her teaching and research interests, which span geography, architecture, performance studies, the medical humanities, and environmental justice, have explored several interrelated areas: military landscapes, such as decommissioned military sites and nuclear facilities; model cities and urban-environmental projects in China; cities in aftermath and the impacts of environmental, juridical, and financial disasters on the urban environment; and, lastly, biomedicine, specifically environmental biomonitoring, medical hot spotting, and medical geographies of waste. 

The recipient of a Quadrant Fellowship, her book Hot Spotter’s Report: Military Fables of Toxic Waste (University of Minnesota Press, 2013) explores the politics of nature conservation, environmental memory, contamination and compensation issues at decommissioned military sites in the western United States. She is currently working on one solo book project and two co-authored volumes: What Remains—The Unseen Medical Geographies of Waste; Museum of Waste: Capital, Ecology, Sovereignty (with C. Greig Crysler, University of California-Berkeley); and The Enterprise of Life (with Nadine Ehlers, University of Sydney). 

Krupar has been published in such venues as Society and Space, Antipode, Public Culture, Radical History Review, Configurations, Liminalities, cultural geographies,Medicine, Conflict and Survival, Occasion, and Progress in Human Geography. The 2012 SAGE Handbook of Architectural Theory includes her co-authored chapter (with Stefan Al, University of Pennsylvania) on theories of spectacle and branding. Her collaborative long-term art project “The National Toxic Land/Labor Conservation Service” (with Sarah Kanouse, Northeastern University) works at the intersection of art, research, and government policy to address the toxic afterlife of U.S. militarism and has been included in the Institute for Wishful Thinking (NYC, 2011), “Ecocultures” exhibition (George Mason University, 2011), Figure One Gallery (Champaign, IL, 2013), and is a Finalist in the traveling show “Monument to Cold War Victory” during 2014-17 (Cooper Union, NYC, October 2014; Wende Museum, Los Angeles, 2017). 

Krupar travels extensively to give lectures and performances, at the University of St. Andrews, the Royal Geographical Society in London, the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study’s workshop “Space, Power, Nation,” the Montreal-based Artivistic Conference “Un.Occupied Spaces,” and the annual meetings of the Association of American Geographers and the American Studies Association. 

As a member of the CULP core faculty, Professor Krupar teaches the courses “Theorizing Culture and Politics,” “Green Politics,” “Detouring the Global City,” “Introduction to Critical Geography,” “Cartography and Social Justice,” and other offerings on cultures of exhibition, and landscape as an aesthetic object, political-economic artifact and social practice. She has worked collaboratively with The Phillips Collection to develop an institutional partnership and innovative new course on “Globalization, Diplomacy, and the Politics of Exhibitions.” 

Micah Sherr is an associate professor in the Computer Science Department at Georgetown University and director of the Georgetown Institute for Information Assurance. His academic interests include privacy-preserving technologies, electronic voting, wiretap systems, and network security. He participated in two large-scale studies of electronic voting machine systems, and helped to disclose numerous architectural vulnerabilities in U.S. election systems. His current research examines the security properties of legally authorized wiretap (interception) systems and investigates methods for achieving scalable, high-performance anonymous routing.

Micah received his B.S.E., M.S.E., and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Pennsylvania. He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER award.

Volodymyr Babich is the Lapeyre Family Term Associate Professor of Business Administration at the McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University. In the past he has been a visiting scholar at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, an Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and an engineer at Penske Logistics Engineering, Cleveland, OH. He earned his Ph.D. in Operations Research from Case Western Reserve University, Weatherhead School of Management. He also holds M.S. degrees in Management Science and Mathematics. 

Prof. Babich’s research interests are the interface of operations and finance, supply risk management, supply chain management, stochastic modeling, and risk management. His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, and multiple university and industry grants. His papers have been published in leading Operations Research, Operations Management, and Industrial Engineering journals. Prof. Babich serves as an associate editor for Management Science and M&SOM and as a senior editor for Production and Operations Management. He is an active member of INFORMS, POMS, and the MSOM societies, and has served as the Chair of the MSOM Special Interest Group on the Interface of Finance, Operations, and Risk Management (iFORM). 

Jason Brennan’s research focuses on democratic theory, the ethics of voting, competence and power, freedom, and the moral foundations of commercial society.  Brennan is currently writing Global Justice as Global Freedom, with Bas van der Vossen (under contract with Oxford University Press): The dominant theories of global justice tend to recommend the exact opposite of what economists think actually works. Van der Vossen and I ask, what would a theory of global justice look like it it were informed by standard development economics? Our conclusion is that it would defend significant economic liberalization, including open trade, open borders, and secure property rights. 

Before coming to Georgetown, Brennan was Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Research, at Brown University. 

Victor Jose’s area of research interest and expertise is decision/risk analysis and forecasting, with a particular focus on the development of prescriptive models and tools that could help managers make good decisions in uncertain environments. In particular, he has worked extensively in the areas of probability elicitation, forecast verification, and expert combination of forecasts. Aside from this, he also has a long-standing interest in data science, Bayesian statistics, and stochastic modeling. His work has appeared in leading academic journals such as Management Science and Operations Research. 

Currently, Dr. Jose teaches the core statistics class for the undergraduate and MBA programs. Aside from managerial statistics, he previously has taught classes in quantitative analysis, operations management, research methods, decision making, and spreadsheet modeling.

Professor Schloetzer’s research focuses on management control systems, with an emphasis on controls related to corporate governance and the value chain. His papers have been published in leading academic journals, including Journal of Accounting Research and The Accounting Review. He serves on the Editorial Advisory and Review Board of The Accounting Review, and is a member of the American Accounting Association and the Institute of Management Accountants. 

Professor Schloetzer links his research-related activities to practice as a frequent contributor to The Conference Board’s Governance Center. He is particularly involved in issues regarding hedge fund activism, CEO succession, and board structure. His research-related activities have generated media mentions in national and international news outlets, including CNBC, Financial Times, Forbes, Fortune, The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, US News & World Report, and USA Today. 

Professor Schloetzer currently teaches Financial Analysis for Managers and Investors (MBA core), Performance as Value Creation (MBA elective) and Strategic Management of Cost and Profit (Executive MBA elective). He has received two MBA teaching awards. 

Professor Schloetzer earned his BSc in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Kansas, MBA from George Washington University, and PhD in Business Administration from the University of Pittsburgh.

Professor Thompson specializes in the study of consumer behavior. Her research interests are in the area of judgment and decision making, information processing, and attitude change. Thompson uses psychological principles to predict how consumers form preferences. Her work offers recommendations for the most effective marketing strategies to business leaders and industry executives. She has published in the Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Marketing Research, and Harvard Business Review.