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Sustainable Development


Degree Programs: Full-Time: M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D.

Department Chair: Lisa Anderson, Ph.D.
1414 International Affairs Building
Tel: 212.854.4604


Director of Graduate Studies: John C. Mutter, Ph.D.

Faculty

Douglas Almond:
Assistant Professor of International and Public Affairs and Economics, Ph.D., Berkeley, 2002
Interests: Labor economics, health economics, education
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Lisa Anderson:
Dean, School of International and Public Affairs, James T. Shotwell Professor of International Relations (Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and School of International and Public Affairs), Ph.D., Columbia, 1981
Interests: Comparative politics and Middle East, Arab world, North Africa, political development, regime change, Islamic politics, political liberalization, the state and state formation in the third world, comparative colonialism, economic reform in the third world
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Elazar Barkan:
Professor of International and Public Affairs, PhD, Brandeis, 1988
Interests: Human rights, history and reconciliation. The role of history in contemporary society and politics, with particular emphasis on the response to gross historical crimes and injustices, and human rights
Satyajit Bose:
Lecturer in Discipline (International and Public Affairs), PhD, Columbia University, 2006
Interests: Environmental economics and computational dynamic programming
Albert Bressand:
Professor in the Practice of International and Public Affairs, PhD, Harvard, 1977
Interests: Energy
Andrea Bubula:
Lecturer in International and Public Affairs, Ph.D, University of Rome "La Sapienza", 2002
Interests: Open economy macroeconomics, international finance, time series econometrics
Charles W. Calomaris:
Professor of International and Public Affairs and Economics, Ph.D, Stanford, 1985
Interests: Banking, corporate finance
Guillermo Calvo:
Professor, Ph.D., 1974, Yale
Interests: Macroeconomic policy in Latin America, capital flows
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Mark A. Cane:
Professor G. Unger Vetlesen Professor, Earth and Climate Sciences,Ph.D., Ph.D., MIT, 1975
Interests: Climate dynamics, physical oceanography, geophysical fluid dynamics, computational fluid dynamics; impacts of climate on society, El Nino forecasting
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Pierre-Andre Chiappori:
E. Rowan and Barbara Steinschneider Professor of Economics, Ph.D., University of Paris, 1981
Interests: Micro: risk, insurance, household behavior, contract theory; Macro: general equilibrium; contract and organizational economics
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
John Coatsworth:
Dean, Professor, School of International and Public Affairs, Ph.D., Wisconsin (Madison), 1967
Interests: Latin America, Mexico, economic history
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Steven Cohen:
Director of Executive Master of Public Administration Program and Director of MPA Program in Environmental Science and Policy, Ph.D. , State Universtiy of New York (Buffalo), Ph.D, SUNY (Buffalo), 1979
Interests: Environmental policy, management
Jason T. Corburn:
Assistant Professor of International and Public Affairs and planning, Ph.D, MIT, 2002
Interests: Urban planning, environment and public health, and science policy
Marina Cords:
Professor, Ph.D., California (Berkeley), 1984
Interests: Biological anthropology; primate social organization; behavioral ecology; behavior, behavioral ecology, ethology, ecology, socioecology, primatology
Rodolfo de la Garza:
Professor (Political Science, International and Public Affairs), Ph.D., Arizona, 1972
Interests: Political behavior and public policy
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Anna Della Valle:
Lecturer in International and Public Affairs, Ph.D, Columbia University, 1984
Interests: Economics
David Dinkins:
Professor of Professional Practice (International and Public Affairs), L.L.B., Brooklyn Law School, 1956
Stuart Gottlieb:
Adjunct Associate Professor of Political Science, Ph.D, Columbia, 1996
Joshua Graff Zivin:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Berkeley, 1998
Interests: Ways in which uncertainty and heterogeneity affect both individual and societal decision-making
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Joseph H. Graziano:
Associate Dean for Research and Professor of Environmental Public Health and Pharmacology, Ph.D., Rutgers, 1971
Interests: Understanding the consequences of exposure to metals both on the molecular and population levels
Stephen Hammer:
Associate Research Scholar
Geoffrey Heal:
Paul Garrett Professor of Public Policy and Business Responsibility, Ph.D., Cambridge, 1968
Interests: Modeling the impact of markets for derivative securities on the allocation of risks in the economy; modeling the pricing of derivatives in a general equilibrium framework; and studying ways of controlling the impact of economic activity on the environment and ways of valuing the economic services provided by environmental assets
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Tanya Heikkila:
Assistant Professor (Public Affairs), Ph.D.
Interests: Water resource management; water policy; Policy analysis and institutional theory; renewable and natural resource management and policy; water governance issues
Helios Herrera:
Lecturer in Discipline International and Public Affairs), Ph.D, NYU, 1997
Interests: Political economy, information economics, industrial organization and financial economics
Jennifer Hill:
Assistant Professor (School of International and Public Affairs), Ph.D, Harvard University, 2000
Interests: Education reform; opinion-changing behavior; child and family policy; program evaluation; methodological issues that plague policy research, primarily causal inference in the absence of randomized experiments and missing data
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Merit Janow:
Professor in the Practice of International Economic Law and International Affairs, School of International and Public Affairs, Co-Director, APEC Study Center, J.D., Columbia, 1988
Interests: International trade and competition law and policy
Donald H. Johnston:
Adjunct Professor and Director of Program in International Media and Communications
Interests: Interpretive news writing and international media and social issues
Patrick L. Kinney:
Associate Professor (Environmental Health Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health), Ph.D., Harvard, 1986
Interests: Air pollution exposure assessment, pollution epidemiology
Jaqueline M. Klopp:
Assistant Professor of International and Public Affairs and Co-director of Program in Economics and Political Development, Ph.D, McGill University, 2001
Interests: Intersection of development, democratization, violence, and corruption
Wojciech Kopczuk:
Associate Professor of International and Public Affairs and Economics, Ph.D., Michigan, 2001
Interests: Microeconomics and public finance, tax policy
Klaus S. Lackner:
Maurice Ewing and J. Lamar Worzel Professor of Geophysics, Ph.D., Heidelberg, 1978
Interests: Carbon management, alternative fuels and energy management, fluid mechanics and transport processes, applied physics
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Upmanu Lall:
Alan and Carol Silberstein Professor of Earth and Environmental Engineering, Professor of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics (Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science), Ph.D., Texas, 1981
Interests: Statistical and numerical modeling of hydrologic and climatic systems, planning and management of water resource systems;water quality; hydro-climatic change
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Leigh Linden:
Assistant Professor of International and Public Affairs and Economics, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004
Interests: Development economics, economics of education, applied econometrics and political economy; determinants of child labor; markets for occupational health risks, applied microeconomics, political economy
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Edward Luck:
Professor in the Practice of International and Public Affairs, Ph.D., Columbia University, 2001
Interests: Arms control; defense and foreign policy; international organizations
Vijay Modi:
Professor, Ph.D., Cornell, 1984
Interests: Energy sources and conversion, energy infrastructure, fuel cells, heat/mass transfer, and fluid mechanics, CO2 sequestration, fuel cells, distributed sensing/control of flow, and heat transfer.
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
John C. Mutter:
Professor (Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and School of International and Public Affairs), Ph.D., Columbia, 1982
Interests: Science-based issues in sustainable development
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Shahid Naeem:
Professor (Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology), Ph.D., California (Berkeley), 1989
Interests: Biodiversity, population biology, community ecology, ecosystem ecology, invasions, global change
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
David Nissen:
Professor in the Practice of International Affairs, Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley, 1968
Interests: Energy and marine transportation and public policy
Sharyn O'Halloran:
George Blumenthal Professor (Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and School of International and Public Affairs), Ph.D., California (Berkeley), 1985
Interests: Political institutions and public policy, methodology, electoral politics, U.S. trade policy, globalization and international law
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Jose Antonio Ocampo:
Adjunct Professor, School of International and Public Affairs, PhD, Yale, 1976
Interests: Macroeconomics policy in Latin America
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Arvind Panagariya:
Jagdish Bhagwati Professor of Indian Political Economy, Ph.D., Princeton, 1978
Interests: International trade and economics
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Cristian Pop-Eleches:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Harvard, 2003
Interests: Development Economics, Applied Microeconomics, Demography and Transition Economies, labor economics
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Cristian Pop-Eleches:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D, Harvard, 2003
Interests: Development economics, applied microeconomics, demography and transition economies, labor economics
Sanjay Reddy:
Assistant Professor (Economics, Barnard), Ph.D., Harvard, 2000
Interests: Development economics, international economics, global poverty and inequality estimates, capability-based inter-country poverty comparisons, and the theory of economic and social measurement generally
Lucius Riccio:
Lecturer in International and Public Affairs, Ph.D, Lehigh University, 1973
Interests: Operations management
Richard Robb:
Professor of Practice in International Finance, Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1985
Interests: Microeconomics; economic foundations of capital markets; international finance; price theory
Mary Robinson:
Professor in the Practice of Public Affairs, Barrister at Law, King's Inns, 1967
Interests: Human Rights, ethics, globalization and European Law
Ailsa Roell:
Professor of International and Public Affairs, Johns Hopkins, 1983
Interests: Comparative international finance, structure of securities markets
Jeffrey Sachs:
Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development, Ph.D., Harvard, 1980
Interests: Sustainable development, economic development, technological change and growth, agricultural and natural resource economics, health, education and welfare, international macroeconomics
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Bernard Salanie:
Professor, Ph.D., Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, 1992
Interests: Contract theory, labor, microeconomics, organizational economics, econometrics, public economics
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Dirk Salomons:
Lecturer in International and Public Affairs, Ph.D, University of Amsterdam, 1967
Interests: Interaction between policy and management in humanitarian operations
Behaven Sampat:
Assistant Professor, PhD, Columbia, 2001
Interests: Intersection of health policy and innovation policy
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Pedro Sanchez:
Senior Research Scientist (Earth Institute), PhD, Cornell, 1986
Interests: Management of tropical soils through integrated natural resource management approaches
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Wolfram Schlenker:
Assistant Professor of International and Public Affairs and Economics, Ph.D., California (Berkeley), 2003
Interests: Applied microeconomics, natural resource economics, environmental economics, health economics, education economics, public economics
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Peter Schlosser:
Vinton Professor of Earth and Environmental Engineering and Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Ph.D., Heidelberg, 1985
Interests: Studies of water movement and its variability in natural systems, ocean/atmosphere gas exchange, reconstruction of paleotemperature records, anthropogenic impact on natural systems;Human impact on the environment
Stephen Sestanovich:
Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Professor for the Practice of International Diplomacy, Ph.D., Harvard, 1978
Interests: Soviet and East European studies; strategic planning and International studies; American foreign policy
Glenn Sheriff:
Lecturer (Dept. of International and Public Affairs), Ph.D, University of Maryland, 2001
Interests: Environment; agricultural economics; contracts and regulation; game theory; trade; productivity analysis
Joseph E. Stiglitz:
Professor, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1967
Interests: Information and financial economics, macro and monetary theory, development and international economics, microeconomics, industrial organization, contract and organizational economics, macroeconomics, public economics
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Paul Thurman:
Lecturer in International and Public Affairs, M.B.A., Columbia University, 1998
Interests: Scientific collaboration and its effect on research quality
Michael Ting:
Assistant Professor (Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and School of International and Public Affairs), Ph.D, Stanford Graduate School of Business, 1999
Interests: Formal models of political institutions; bureaucracy, elections, legislatures
Sara Tjossem:
Lecturer in International and Public Affairs, Ph.D, Cornell University, 1994
Interests: Intersection of science and society; history and biology
Miguel Urquiola:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D, California (Berkeley), 2000
Interests: Economic development, Chile, Bolivia
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Bogdan Vasi:
Assistant Professor (Psychology), Ph.D., Cornell, 2005
Interests: Research methods, consumerism, collective action, and social movements; adoption and implementation of local programs to address global climate change; development of the wind energy industry; strategies for coping with tragedies of the commons
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Diane Vaughan:
Professor of Sociology and International and Public Affairs, Ph.D, Ohio State, 1979
Interests: Sociology of organizations, sociology of culture, deviance and social control, field methods, research design, and science, knowledge, and technology
Eric Verhoogen:
Assistant Professor of International and Public Affairs and Economics, Ph.D., California (Berkeley), 2004
Interests: Development economics, labor economics, international trade, Latin America
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Dorian Warren:
Assistant Professor (Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and School of International and Public Affairs), Ph.D., Yale, 2005
Interests: American politics, American political development, public policy, urban politics inequality and marginalized groups: African American politics, Race and Ethnic politics, labor class and poverty politics
Paige West:
Associate Professor (Barnard), PhD, Rutgers, 2000
Interests: Environmentalism, globalization, critical anaylses of conservation and development, bioethics, consumption; Melanesia Pacific
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Alan Yang:
Lecturer in International and Public Affairs, Ph.D, Columbia University, 2003
Interests: Public opinion and political behavior




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