Dec 06, 2025  
2025 - 2026 Graduate Catalog 
    
2025 - 2026 Graduate Catalog

Public Policy Faculty


Program Director

Elaine S. McBeth Lecturer of Economics and Public Policy (M.A., Virginia).

Graduate Director

Elaine S. McBeth Lecturer of Economics and Public Policy (M.A., Virginia).

Professors

Neal E. Devins (Law) (J.D., Vanderbilt), C. Lawrence Evans (Government) (Ph.D., Rochester), David H. Feldman (Economics) (Ph.D., Duke),  Robert L. Hicks (Economics) (Ph.D., Maryland), Christopher D. Howard (Harriman Professor of Government and Public Policy) (Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Paul Manna (Hyman Distinguished University Professor of Government & Public Policy) (Ph.D., Wisconsin), Eric Kades (Law) (J.D.,Yale), John J. McGlennon (Government) (Ph.D., Johns Hopkins), Peter McHenry (Economics) (Ph.D., Yale), Alan J. Meese (Law) (J.D., Chicago), Jennifer M. Mellor (Tang Professor of Economics and Public Policy) (Ph.D., Maryland), Martin Schmidt (Economics) (Ph.D., Colorado State), Sarah L. Stafford (CSX Professor of Economics, Public Policy and Law) (Ph.D., Johns Hopkins), and Michael J. Tierney (George and Mary Hylton Professor of International Relations) (Ph.D., University of California-San Diego).

Associate Professors

Elyas Bakhtiari (Sociology and Director, Schroeder Center for Health Policy) (Ph.D. Boston University), S.P. Harish (Government) (Ph.D., NYU), John Lopresti (Economics) (Ph.D., Purdue), John Parman (Economics) (Ph.D., Northwestern), and Ariel Ben-Yishay (Economics) (Ph.D., University of Maryland).

Adjunct Professors

Christopher Byrne (Head of Law Research and Instructional Services) (J.D., Harvard), April Greener (M.A. St. John’s), Kurt Klingenberger (M.P.P., William & Mary), and Divya Mathew (M.P.P., William & Mary). 

Research Professors

Harriet O. Duleep (Center for Public Policy Research) (Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Troy W. Hartley (Virginia Sea Grant) (Ph.D., University of Michigan), and Louis F. Rossiter (Center for Public Policy Research) (Ph.D., University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill).

Teaching Professor

Rui Periera (Economics) (Ph.D., Universidade do Algarve).

Associate Teaching Professor

Alexandra Joosse (Ph.D., Arizona) and Katie Lopresti (Economics) (Ph.D., Purdue).

Assistant Teaching Professor

Alan H. Kennedy (Ph.D., Colorado).

Visiting Assistant Teaching Professor

David K. Richardson (Ph.D. George Washington). 

Emeriti Professors

David P. Aday, Jr. (Sociology) (Ph.D., Kansas), Lynda L. Butler (Law) (J.D., Virginia), Donald E. Campbell (Economics) (Ph.D., Princeton), David H. Finifter (Economics) (Ph.D., Pittsburgh), Dorothy E. Finnegan (Education) (Ph.D., Pennsylvania State), John B. Gilmour (Government) (Ph.D., University of California-Berkeley), James S. Heller (Law) (J.D., San Diego), Carl H. Hershner (Marine Science) (Ph.D., Virginia), Roy L. Pearson (Chancellor Professor of Business Administration), Ronald Rosenberg (Law) (J.D., University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill), and Dennis L. Taylor (A. Marshall Acuff, Jr. Professor of Marine Science) (Ph.D., Wales).