Faculty

Index A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

	Barry Bluestone Ph.D., Economics, University of Michigan Dean, School of Public Policy & Urban Affairs Director, Dukakis Center for Urban & Regional Policy Stearns Professor of Political Economy Expertise: Housing, Economic Development, Labor Economics, Public Policy Email: b.bluestone@neu.edu
	Christopher J. Bosso Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh Associate Dean, School of Public Policy & Urban Affairs Director, Nanotechnology & Society Research Group, Professor of Public Policy Expertise: Public Policy, Environmental Policy, Technology and Policy Email: c.bosso@neu.edu
	Nonnie Burnes J.D., Northeastern UniversitySenior University Fellow, Northeastern University Former Massachusetts Commissioner of Insurance Expertise: Government regulation, Insurance, Judicial System Email: n.burnes@neu.edu
	Ballard Campbell Ph.D., University of Wisconsin Professor of History, Law and Public Policy, OAH Distinguished Leader Expertise: History of American Public Policy, Federalism, Research Methods Email: b.campbell@neu.edu
	Alan Clayton-Matthews Ph.D., Boston College Associate Professor of Economics and Public Policy Senior Research Associate, Dukakis Center for Urban & Regional Policy Expertise: Research Methods, Statistics, Public Finance Email: a.clayton-matthews@neu.edu
	Richard Daynard Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology Professor of Law Expertise: Products Liability, Psychiatry and Law, Litigative Strategies Email: r.daynard@neu.edu
	Stephanie DeCandia, J.D., Northeastern University School of Law. Lecturer Expertise: Sexual Assault Related Legal Issues, Rape Crisis Intervention Counseling, Policy Development and, Legislative Advocacy. Email:S.Decandia@neu.edu, SDecandia@barcc.org
	William Dickens Ph.D., Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Distinguished Professor of Economics & Social Policy Expertise: Macroeconomics, Monetary Policy, Behavioral Economics Email: w.dickens@neu.edu
	Margaret (Margie) Dickinson M.Ed. Human Services Administration and Management, Antioch University Lecturer Expertise: alcohol and drug education/counseling; program administration, and telephone helplines. Email:cpeachDickinson@gmail.com
	Silvia Domínguez Ph.D., Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in Social Work and Sociology at Boston University Assistant Professor Email:S.Dominguez@neu.edu
	Laurie Dopkins Ph.D., Sociology, Rutgers University Director, Academic Programs, School of Public Policy & Urban Affairs Senior Research Associate, Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy Expertise: Program Evaluation, Community-Based Research, Community and Youth Development, Non-Profit, Philanthropic, Public Administration Email: l.dopkins@neu.edu
	Michael Dukakis J.D., Harvard Law School Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Public Policy, Former Governor of Massachusetts, 1988 Democratic Nominee for President Expertise: Public Policy, Health Care, Public Administration, Electoral Politics Email: m.dukakis@neu.edu
	Joan Fitzgerald Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University Director and Professor, Law and Public Policy Program Expertise: Urban and State Economic Development, Urban Sustainability and Climate Change Policy and Planning, Workforce Development Email: jo.fitzgerald@neu.edu
	James Alan Fox Ph.D., Sociology, University of Pennsylvania Lipman Family Professor of Criminal Justice, Professor of Law, Policy & Society Expertise: Multiple Homicide, Youth and School Violence, Statistics, Capital Punishment Email: j.fox@neu.edu
	Lori Gardinier Ph.D., Northeastern University Director of Human Services, Associate Academic Specialist Expertise: antipoverty/ social justice work in community-based settings Email: L.Gardinier@neu.edu
	Patricia Illingworth Assistant Professor of Philosophy Expertise: Medical Ethics, Ethics, Philosophy of Law, Social and Political Philosophy Email: p.illingworth@neu.edu
	Maureen Kelleher Director of the Honors Program Associate Professor of Sociology Expertise: social deviance, social policy, and child welfare. Email: M.Kelleher@neu.edu
	Thomas Koenig Ph.D., University of California at Santa Barbara Professor of Sociology and Acting hair in the College of Arts and Sciences Expertise: Law and Society, Economic Sociology, and Social Networks Email: t.koenig@neu.edu
	Katie Koski Ed.M. with a Higher Education concentration, Harvard’s Graduate School of Education Internship Coordinator Expertise: helping young people identify and pursue their career path Email: K.Koski@neu.edu
	Emily Mann Ph.D., Social Welfare (2003), University of Wisconsin-Madison Associate Academic Specialist Expertise: Early Intervention and Delinquency Prevention, early predictors and trajectories of children in special education Email: E.Mann@neu.edu
	Shan Mohammed M.P.H., School of Public Health, Boston University Associate Clinical Professor, Department of Health Sciences Expertise: Public Health Education, Health and Human Rights, Substance Abuse Prevention, Primary Health Care Delivery Email: s.mohammed@neu.edu
	Steven A. Morrison Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley Professor and Chair, Transportation Economics Expertise: Transportation Economics Email: s.morrison@neu.edu
	Stephen Nathanson Ph.D., Philosophy, Johns Hopkins University Professor of Philosophy Expertise: Ethics, Political Philosophy, War and Peace, Economic Justice, Epistemology Email: s.nathanson@neu.edu
	Richard O’Bryant Ph.D, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Director, John D. O’Bryant African American Institute Expertise: Science and Technology Policy and politics, Urban and Regional studies and Politics, Urban and Community Technology, Community-Based Research Email: r.o’bryant@neu.edu
	Stephanie Pollack J.D., Harvard Law School Associate Director of Research, Dukakis Center for Urban & Regional Policy Professor of Practice — Law and Public Policy Program Expertise: Urban Planning, Transportation and Environmental Policy Email: s.pollack@neu.edu
	Rebecca Riccio M.A., University of Michigan Northeastern Students4Giving (NS4G) Program Director Email: r.riccio@neu.edu
	Daniel Urman J.D., Harvard Law School Director and Lecturer Expertise: Law and Legal Reasoning, Judicial Nominations and Processes, American Foreign Policy, American Politics Email: d.urman@neu.edu
	Thomas Vicino Ph.D., Public Policy, University of Maryland Graduate School, Baltimore Assistant Professor of Political Science Chair, Master of Public Administration Program Expertise: Urban Politics, Urban/Regional Development, Public Administration Email: t.vicino@neu.edu
	Gregory Wassall Ph.D., Rutgers University Associate Professor and Graduate Coordinator, Department of Economics Expertise: Law and Legal Reasoning, Judicial Nominations and Processes, American Foreign Policy, American Politics Email: g.wassall@neu.edu
	Lisa Worsh Masters of Education in Counseling, Bridgewater State College Co-op Faculty Coordinator Email: L.Worsh@neu.edu

Barry Bluestone

Dean, School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs
Founding Director, Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy

Barry Bluestone is the Russell B. and Andree B. Stearns Trustee Professor of Political Economy, the founding Director of the Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy, and the founding Dean of the School of Public Policy & Urban Affairs at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts.  Before assuming these posts, Bluestone spent twelve years at the University of Massachusetts at Boston as the Frank L. Boyden Professor of Political Economy and as a Senior Fellow at the University’s John W. McCormack Institute of Public Affairs. He was the Founding Director of UMass Boston’s Ph.D. Program in Public Policy. Before coming to UMass in the Fall of 1986, he taught economics at Boston College for fifteen years and was Director of the University’s Social Welfare Research Institute. Professor Bluestone was raised in Detroit, Michigan and attended the University of Michigan where he received his B.A., M.A. and finally his Ph.D. in economics in 1974.

At the Dukakis Center, Bluestone has led research projects on housing, local economic development, state and local public finance, and the manufacturing sector in Massachusetts. At the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, he has co-chaired the Open Classroom series, a graduate seminar on critical social issues open free to the public each semester. He was also part of the team that developed the school’s Master’s Program in Urban and Regional Policy (MURP).

As a political economist, Bluestone has written widely in the areas of income distribution, business and industrial policy, labor-management relations, higher education finance, and urban and regional economic development. He contributes regularly to academic, as well as popular journals, and is the author of eleven books. In 1982, he published The Deindustrialization of America (co-authored with the late Bennett Harrison) which analyzed the restructuring of American industry and its economic and social impact on workers and communities. A sequel published in 1988, The Great U-Turn: Corporate Restructuring and the Polarizing of America, also co-authored with Harrison, investigated how economic policies have contributed to growing inequality. In earlier books, Bluestone investigated the low-wage labor market, the aircraft industry, and the revolution in the retail trade sector. In 1992, Negotiating the Future: A Labor Perspective on American Business was published. Co-authored with his father, Irving Bluestone, the book traces the history of labor-management relations since World War II and offers the concept of the “Enterprise Compact” as an approach to industrial relations which can boost productivity, improve product quality and innovation, and enhance employment security. Korean, Spanish, and Japanese editions of this book have been published.

In 2000, Bluestone published two new books. The first of these, co-authored again with Harrison and titled Growing Prosperity: The Battle for Growth with Equity in the 21st Century, investigates the prospects for faster economic growth in the U.S. It was published by Houghton Mifflin and the Twentieth Century Fund. The second, The Boston Renaissance: Race, Space, and Economic Change in an American Metropolis, co-authored with Mary Huff Stevenson and published by the Russell Sage Foundation, was the culmination of nearly five years of research on the new Boston economy. It recounts the industrial and demographic revolution in post-World War II Boston and its impact on racial and ethnic attitudes, residential segregation, and the labor market success of whites, blacks, and Latinos.

Bluestone’s latest book published in 2008 and co-authored with Mary Huff Stevenson and Russell Williams is a major textbook entitled The Urban Experience: Economics, Society, and Public Policy. This work, rich in theory and applied policy, was written for an interdisciplinary audience and can be used at either the undergraduate or graduate level.

As part of his work, Bluestone spends a considerable amount of time consulting with trade unions, with industry groups, and with various federal and state government agencies. He was Executive Adviser to the Governor’s Commission on the Future of Mature Industries in Massachusetts and has worked with the economic development departments of various states. He has testified before Congressional committees and lectures regularly before university, labor, community, and business groups.  He appears frequently on local and national radio.  Bluestone is also a founding member of the Economic Policy Institute, along with Robert Reich, Lester Thurow, Robert Kuttner, Ray Marshall, and Jeff Faux. In 2006, he served on the transition team for Governor Deval Patrick.

He currently serves as a member of the advisory council to the Massachusetts Executive Office of Housing and Economic Development as well as the Massachusetts Executive Office of Administration and Finance.  He served on the Governor’s Economic Development Strategy Council and is now an executive board member of the Governor’s Advanced Manufacturing Collaborative.  From 2007-2010, he served as a member of the Community Affairs Research Advisory Board of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.   He is a past board member of the Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater (WHAT) and currently as a board member of the Lyric Stage of Boston.

In his spare time, when he was younger, he used to compete in team triathlons as a bicycle racer — fortunately with a team otherwise comprised of orthopedic surgeons and an internist. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts with his wife Mary Ellen Colten. Their son Joshua is an undergraduate at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.

Phone: (617) 373-7870 | Email: b.bluestone@neu.edu | Follow on Twitter @barrybluestone

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Chris Bosso

Associate Dean, School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs
Professor of Public Policy

A professor of public policy, Bosso writes on the societal impacts of science and technology, environmental and food safety politics, the tactics and strategies pursued by environmental groups, and on public policymaking in general. His most recent major scholarly work is Environment, Inc.: From Grassroots to Beltway (University Press of Kansas, 2005), co-winner of the 2006 Lynton Caldwell Award for best book in environmental politics and public policy by the American Political Science Association.

Bosso is also Principal Investigator on a four year National Science Foundation funded Nanotechnology Interdisciplinary Research Team project, “Nanotechnology in the Public Interest,” a senior researcher with the NSF Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center for High-rate Nanomanufacturing (CHN) at Northeastern, and director of the Nanotechnology and Society Research Group which examines the governance challenges posed to local, state, and federal governments by nanotechnology and other emerging technologies.

Phone: (617) 373-4398 | Email: c.bosso@neu.edu

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Nonnie Burnes
J.D., Northeastern University
Senior University Fellow, School of Public Policy & Urban Affairs
Senior Research Associate, Kitty and Michael Dukakis Center for Urban & Regional Policy
Trustee, Northeastern University

Nonnie Burnes ’78 served as the Massachusetts Insurance Insurance Commissioner for Governor Deval Patrick from 2007 to 2009. She also previously served as a Superior Court Judge from 1996 to 2007. Prior to that she was an attorney with the firm Hill and Barlow. She earned her law degree from Northeastern In 1978.

As Insurance Commissioner, she said she oversaw regulation of many lines of insurance, like homeowners’, automobile, life, health, and even wedding insurance. Burnes also oversaw consumer protection efforts, including a consumer hotline she said gets 1,500 calls a month, and educational outreaches using both print and online media.

Burnes championed the deregulation of the auto insurance industry describing the effort as difficult and controversial. Yet said she believed the reform satisfied consumers. She cited a study that found that in the first year, consumers saved about $273 million thanks to the changes implemented during her term.

In October 2009, Burnes joined the faculty of the School of Public Policy & Urban Affairs as a Senior University Fellow. She teaches interdisciplinary courses in law, business, public policy, political science and governmental regulation. In addition she engages in research projects and helps to teach seminars in government regulation as well as the Open Classroom Series.

“I think that the practical experience really can illuminate the theory,” Burnes said. “As we might be talking about ‘How would you regulate this market?’ If you want people to behave a certain way, how can you structure a regulation to get there?’ And having seen the way people respond to regulation, I think I’ll have much more insight into it and kind of assist students in thinking about that.”

Phone: (617) 373-7998 | Email: n.burnes@neu.edu

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Alan Clayton-Matthews
Ph.D., Boston College
Associate Professor of Economics and Public Policy
Senior Research Associate, Dukakis Center for Urban & Regional Policy

Alan Clayton-Matthews is Professor and Director of Quantitative Methods in the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs. He spent his 2007 sabbatical leave at the Dukakis Center. At the Center, he was the chief designer of the Labor Market Assessment Tool (LMAT) and has served as a consultant on a number of projects including “Staying Power: The Future of Manufacturing in Massachusetts”.

Clayton-Matthews is co-editor of Massachusetts Benchmarks, a joint publication of the University of Massachusetts and the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston that presents timely information and analysis about the performance of the Massachusetts economy. He is also a Director of the New England Economic Project, a group of economists and managers from academia, business, and government who study and forecast the New England economy.

Previously, Clayton-Matthews has worked as an economist and policy analyst for the Massachusetts Department of Revenue, the Social Welfare Research Institute at Boston College, and DRI/McGraw-Hill. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Boston College.

Phone: (617) 373-2909 | Email: a.clayton-matthews@neu.edu

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Laurie Dopkins

Director of Academic Programs
School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs
Senior Research Associate, Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy

Laurie Dopkins provides management and coordination for academic programs within the Policy School, particularly the new Master’s in Urban and Regional Policy. She also serves as a Senior Associate in the Dukakis Center, leading projects related to non-profit capacity building, outcomes measurement and evaluation. Laurie is conducting a university-wide inventory of all community-partnerships and programs on behalf of the Stony Brook Initiative.

Immediately prior to moving to Boston in 2008, Laurie was Associate Research Professor at George Mason University where she taught evaluation research methods and led community-based action research projects involving collaborations between nonprofit organizations, government agencies, businesses, private foundations, and multiple units within the university.

Before joining the faculty at Mason, Dopkins had her own consulting firm in Atlanta where she worked with public sector agencies, foundations, and nongovernmental organizations on policy research and program evaluation in a wide range of areas including children and youth, community and economic development, maternal and child health, education, and immigration. Dopkins has broad experience in the management, analysis and evaluation of policies and programs, including the development of accountability and outcomes monitoring systems. She has specialized in developing collaborative evaluation techniques that enhance evaluation capacity and utilization among diverse stakeholder groups, including policymakers and program managers, service providers and clients, community leaders and advocates.

Dopkins has published dozens of evaluation and research reports for foundations, government organizations, nonprofit agencies, and community groups. Her specific areas of interest in the field of evaluation are social indicators, organizational learning, program theory and logic models, evaluation capacity building, evidence based policy and practice, and the translation of knowledge to action. Dopkins received her Ph.D in Sociology from Rutgers University in 1984. She lives in Brookline with her husband, Steve Vallas, and has two grown daughters, Rebecca and Kaitlin.

Phone: (617) 373-2889 | Email: l.dopkins@neu.edu

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Joan Fitzgerald

Director, Law and Public Policy Program

Joan Fitzgerald is the Director of the Law and Public Policy Program at Northeastern University.

Her current research includes work on “Emerald Cities”, a comprehensive research project that examines how U.S. and Western European cities address the interrelated issues of global warming, energy dependence and opportunities for green economic development. Based from the findings of her research, this potential includes building new technology-based industry clusters, improving the efficiency of production in existing manufacturing processes, and creating well-paying green jobs in construction, manufacturing, and entirely new advanced technology sectors.

Prior to her work on “Emerald Cities”, Joan has written for several journals and regularly advises government officials on new “green-growth strategies”. Her recent publications include her 2002 economic development book, Economic Revitalization: Strategies and Cases for City and Suburb, Moving Up in the New Economy (2006), Emerald Cities (2010) and recent articles in the American Prospect focusing on green building and renewable energy.

Before coming to Northeastern University, Joan taught urban policy and public affairs at the New School University, the University of Illinois at Chicago, and Ohio State University.

Phone: (617) 373-3644 | Email: jo.fitzgerald@neu.edu

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Stephanie Pollack

Associate Director of Research, Dukakis Center
Professor of Practice, School of Public Policy & Urban Affairs

Stephanie Pollack is Associate Director of the Kitty & Michael Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy, overseeing the Center’s research agenda as well as conducting her own research projects in the areas of transportation policy, transit-oriented development, sustainability and equitable development. Pollack is also on the core faculty for the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, teaching courses to graduate students in the Law and Public Policy program and teaching and supervising internships for the Masters in Urban and Regional Policy program. Her courses include Strategizing Public Policy, Introduction to Law and Legal Reasoning, Housing Policy and Transportation Policy.

Pollack is active in public policy issues affecting transportation, sustainable development and the environment in Massachusetts. She co-chaired Governor Deval Patrick’s 2006 transition working group on transportation and served on Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino’s Climate Action Leadership Committee in 2009-2010. She currently serves on the boards of Boston Society of Architects, Charles River Watershed Association, Health Resources in Action and MoveMass.

Before coming to Northeastern in 2004, Pollack was a senior executive and attorney at the Conservation Law Foundation, New England’s leading environmental advocacy organization. During her two-decade career at CLF, Pollack worked on issues including transportation and transit policy, smart growth and sustainable development and childhood lead poisoning. From 2004 through 2010 she was also a partner in the strategic environmental consulting firm BlueWave Strategies LLC, where she advised clients on smart growth, transit-oriented development and other “green” real estate projects.

Pollack received both a BS in Mechanical Engineering and a BS in Public Policy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a JD from Harvard Law School.

Phone: (617) 373-8341 | Email: s.pollack@neu.edu

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Dan Spiess

Lecturer, School of Public Policy & Urban Affairs
Research Associate, World Class Cities Partnership and City-to-City

Dan is a Research Associate at the Dukakis Center, working with the World Class Cities Partnership, the City To City program, and the Economic Development Partnership. He also serves as an adjunct lecturer in the School of Public Policy & Urban Affairs.

Dan received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. His doctoral dissertation focused on political decision making in planning, public participation, and community-based organizations with additional research interests in economic and community development, environmental planning, and environmental justice.

Prior to his doctorate, Dan worked on the brownfields program at the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection and was a planner at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has also worked on a variety of social, public health, and environmental extracurricular projects including the Environmental Justice Initiative (under the direction of Dr. Bunyan Bryant) at the University of Michigan.

Phone: (617) 373-7103 | Email: d.spiess@neu.edu

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