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Bruce Arrigo:  Professor of Criminal Justice and Adjunct Professor of Psychology; Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, 1993;  Race, Gender, Class and Criminal Justice Policy, Ciminological Theory, Law, Psychology and Policy, and Social Justice Policy  http://www.uncc.edu/colleges/arts_and_sciences/criminal_justice/pop_arrigo.htm

Theodore S. Arrington:  Professor and Chair of Department of Political Science; Ph.D., University of Arizona, 1973; Public Policy Making Processes  http://www.uncc.edu/tarrngtn/

Beth Bjerregaard:  Associate Professor of Criminal Justice; Ph.D., State University of New York at Albany, 1991; Research Methods and Criminal Justice and Law, Gang Behavior, Stalking, and the Death Penalty  http://www.uncc.edu/colleges/arts_and_sciences/criminal_justice/pop_bjerregaard.htm
http://personal.uncc.edu/bebjerre/

Anita Blowers:  Associate Professor of Criminal Justice and Graduate Coordinator of M.A. in Criminal Justice;  Ph.D., State University of New York at Albany; Criminal Courts, Criminal Justice Policy, Organizational Theory  http://www.uncc.edu/colleges/arts_and_sciences/criminal_justice/pop_blowers.htm

William Brandon:  Metrolina Medical Foundation Distinguished Professor of Public Policy in Health; Ph.D., Duke University, 1975; Health Policy, Urban Policy, and Nonprofits  http://www.uncc.edu/wilbrand/

Charles Brody:  Professor and Chair of Department of Sociology and Anthropology; Ph.D., University of Arizona; Research Methods, Quantitative Analysis, Sociology of Religion, Evaluation Research http://www.socanth.uncc.edu/sociology/faculty.htm

Harrison Campbell:  Assistant Professor of Geography and Earth Sciences; Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1994; Regional Development Theory and Practice, Methods of Regional Analysis/Regional Growth, Industrial Location, Regional Policy Analysis  http://www.uncc.edu/hscampbe/
http://www.geoearth.uncc.edu/facultypages/hcampbell/

Owen J. Furuseth:  Professor of Geography and Earth Sciences; Ph.D., Oregon State University, 1978; Urban and Regional Planning, Rural-Urban Fringe Land Use Planning, Sustainable Planning Policies and Practice  http://www.geoearth.uncc.edu/facultypages/ofuruseth/

John Gandar:  Professor and Chair, Department of Economics; Ph.D., University of Missouri, 1982; Microeconomics, Sports Economics, Financial Economics  http://www.belkcollege.uncc.edu/asp/memberinfo.asp?MEMBER_ID=47

R. Kenneth Godwin:  Rauch Distinguished Professor of Political Science; Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1972; Education Policy, Water Policy, Environmental Policy http://www.politicalscience.uncc.edu/godwink/

William Graves:  Assistant Professor of Geography and Earth Sciences; Ph.D., University of Georgia, 2000; Economic Geography, GIS, The Geography of Finance, Innovation  http://www.uncc.edu/bgraves/

Edd Hauser:  Professor of Civil Engineering and Professor of Geography and Earth Sciences; Director, Center for Transportation Policy Studies;  Ph.D., North Carolina State University; Public Sector Transportation Programs   http://www.geoearth.uncc.edu/Ehauser.htm

Rosemary L. Hopcroft:  Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology; Ph.D., University of Washington, 1992; Quantitative Methodology and Theory, Comparative and Historical Sociology, Group Processes  http://www.uncc.edu/rlhopcro

Gerald Ingalls:  Professor of Geography and Director of Public Policy Ph.D. Program; Ph.D., Michigan State University, 1973; Research Design, Urban-Political, Urban Fragmentation, Adaptive Reuse  http://www.geoearth.uncc.edu/facultypages/gingals/
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Suzanne M. Leland:  Assistant Professor of Political Science; Ph.D., University of Kansas, 1999; Public Administration, Public Policy, Urban Politics, Public Finance/Budgeting http://www.politicalscience.uncc.edu/faculty.html

Janet Levy:  Associate Professor and Coordinator of Anthropology, Department of Sociology and Anthropology; Ph.D., Washington University - St. Louis; Archaeology, Ethics in Anthropology, Gender in Prehistory, Southeastern U.S., Europe http://www.socanth.uncc.edu/anthropology/faculty.htm

Vivian Lord:  Associate Professor of Criminal Justice; Ph.D., North Carolina State University, 1992;  Law Enforcement, Human Resource Management, Violence, Critical Incidents  http://www.uncc.edu/vblord/

Schley Lyons:  Professor, College of Arts and Sciences http://www.coas.uncc.edu/

Tiffany Manuel: Assistant Professor, Political Science Department; Ph.D., University of Massachusetts Boston; Political Economy, Work and Family Policy, Race, Gender, and Economic Inequality in the Labor Market, Low-wage Labor Market, Labor and Social Welfare Policies.
 http://www.politicalscience.uncc.edu/tamanuel/

William J. McAuley Jr:  Professor, Health Behavior and Administration Department, The College of Health and Human Services http://www.health.uncc.edu/dept/facultystaff.cfm?dept=hba

Gregory Mixon:  Assistant Professor of History, Ph.D., University of Cincinnati, 1989; African American and United States, Southern Political and Race Relations, African American and U.S. Urban, Racial Violence, Atlanta Riot of 1906, Late 19th and Early 20th Century U.S., Southern Urban, Race Relations and Racial Violence  http://www.uncc.edu/colleges/arts_and_sciences/history/

Tyrel G. Moore:  Associate Professor of Geography and Earth Sciences and Graduate Coordinator of M.A. in Geography; Ph.D., University of Tennessee, 1984; Regional Economic Development and Planning  http://www.geoearth.uncc.edu/Tmoore.htm

Gerald Pyle:  Professor, Department of Health Behavior and Administration; Ph.D. University of Chicago, 1970; Research Honors Award, Southeastern Division, Association of American Geographers, 1994; Health Promotion and Kinesiology
http://www.uncc.edu/gfpyle/

Gary Rassel:  Associate Professor at Department of Political Science; Ph.D., Michigan State University, 1976; Social Welfare Policy, Urban Service Delivery, Public Budgeting and Finance  http://www.uncc.edu/grassel/

Benjamin Russo:  Associate Professor of Economics; Ph.D., University of Iowa, 1985; Public Economics, Macroeconomics, Economics of Taxation, Economic Growth Theory  http://www.belkcollege.uncc.edu/brusso/

Teresa L. Scheid:  Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology and Sociology Graduate Coordinator; Ph.D., North Carolina State University, 1986; Medical Sociology, Sociology of Mental Health and Illness http://www.uncc.edu/tlscheid/

Peter Schwarz:  Professor of Economics; Ph.D., Ohio State University;  http://www.uncc.edu/pschwarz/

Heather Smith:  Assistant Professor of Geography and Earth Sciences; Ph.D., University of British Columbia, 2000; Urban and Social Geography, Patterns of Restructuring  http://www.geoearth.uncc.edu/Hsmith.htm

Rosemarie Tong:  Distinguished Professor in Health Care Ethics and Faculty, Associate Center for Professional and Applied Ethics Philosophy; Ph.D., Temple University, 1978; Health, Law and Ethics, Biogenetics http://www.philosophy.uncc.edu/Faculty/tong.html http://www.admissions.uncc.edu/jump/faculty.asp?Name=15

Jennifer Troyer:  Assistant Professor of Economics and Health Administration Program; Ph.D., Florida State University, 1999; Health Economics, Microeconomics  http://www.uncc.edu/jtroyer

Wayne Walcott:  Ph.D., University of Illinois; Economic Geography, Transportation, Location Theory and Modeling  http://www.geoearth.uncc.edu/Wwalcot.htm

Murray Webster:  Professor of Sociology and Anthropology; Ph.D., Stanford University; Social Psychology, Status in Society, Small Group Interaction http://www.socanth.uncc.edu/sociology/faculty.htm

Joseph Whitmeyer:  Associate Professor of Sociology; Ph.D., University of Washington, 1993; Quantitative Methods, Social Theory, Social Networks, Group Processes http://www.uncc.edu/jwhitmey/

Jy S. Wu:  Professor and Graduate Coordinator, Civil Engineering; Ph.D., Rutgers-State University of New Jersey, 1980; Environmental, Water Resources, Biotechnology, Industrial Pollution Control
http://www.coe.uncc.edu/~jwu
http://www.ce.uncc.edu/Content/faculty/jwu.htm

Wei-Ning Xiang:  Associate Professor of Geography and Earth Sciences; Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley, 1989; Geographic Information Systems, Land Use and Environmental Planning, Spatial Decision Support Systems  http://www.geoearth.uncc.edu/Wxiang.htm

Diane Zablotsky:  Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology; Ph.D., University of Maryland;  Aging and Society, Medical Sociology, Family, HIV/AIDS and Older Women. http://www.socanth.uncc.edu/sociology/faculty.htm

 



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