| Name | Position | Expertise |
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 | Grace Bahng | Professor (Teaching)
Vice Dean for Undergraduate Programs | Policy analysis, experiential learning, community development, international development, data visualization |
 | Antonio M. Bento | Professor of Public Policy and Economics | Environmental and energy economics, urban economics, public economics, transportation policy, climate policy, environmental regulation |
 | Tara Blanc | Associate Professor (Teaching) | Civic engagement, leadership, public service ethics, political behavior |
 | Wändi Bruine de Bruin | Director, Behavioral Science and Policy Initiative at the Schaeffer Institute for Public Policy & Government Service
Provost Professor of Public Policy, Psychology, and Behavioral Science
Hear my name | - Psychology of risk perception and communication
- Health behavior and patient decision making
- Public perceptions of climate change and sustainability
- Economic expectations and financial decision making
- Behavior change interventions
- Social science of science communication
- Age differences in decision making and well-being
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 | Nicolas Duquette | Associate Professor | Nonprofit economics, public finance, economic history |
 | Nicole E. Esparza | Associate Professor | Nonprofit organizations, networks, philanthropy, and urban inequality |
 | James M. Ferris | Professor
Emery Evans Olson Chair in Non-Profit Entrepreneurship and Public Policy
Director, Center on Philanthropy and Public Policy | Philanthropy, nonprofit economics, public finance, public policy, institutional analysis |
 | Elizabeth Graddy | Professor
Jeffrey J. Miller Chair in Government, Business, and the Economy | Institutional economics, governance, nonprofit organizations,industry structure |
 | Alexandra Graddy-Reed | Associate Professor | Public economics, philanthropy and nonprofits, social innovation, science and innovation policy, research and development |
 | Howard Greenwald | Professor | Health service delivery, organizational behavior, survey design |
 | Christian Grose | Professor of Political Science and International Relations and Public Policy
Academic Director, USC Schwarzenegger Institute for State and Global Policy | American government, political institutions; political representation; the politics of the policy-making process; electoral behavior and campaigns; race, ethnicity, and politics; political and electoral reforms; field and survey experimental techniques to study the behavior of legislators, candidates, and other political elites. |
 | Jeffery A. Jenkins | Provost Professor of Public Policy, Political Science, and Law
Maria B. Crutcher Professor of Citizenship and Democratic Values; Director, PIPE Collaborative | American political institutions and development, Congress, political parties, lawmaking, separation-of-powers, political economy |
 | Rym Kaki | Associate Professor (Teaching)
Program Director, Master of Public Administration
Program Director, International Public Policy and Management Program | Public and non-profit organizations management, public policy analysis, urban poverty policy, social entrepreneurship, institutional design, program evaluation and social impact assessment |
 | Dora Kingsley Vertenten | Professor (Teaching)
Coordinator, Master of Public Administration – Online | Public policy, intergovernmental management, non-profit management, strategic planning, social media and information technologies useful in collaborative and participatory democracy |
 | William Leach | Professor (Teaching) | Collaborative governance, planning, social policy, environmental policy, health policy, marine aquaculture |
 | Danyao Li | Assistant Professor | Public Management; Representation and Diversity; Bureaucratic Decision Making; Social Equity and Justice; Law Enforcement |
 | Julie Marsh | Professor of Education Policy and Public Policy | K-12 Education Policy and Governance, Accountability, Teacher Incentive Programs, Data-Driven Reforms, School District Reform, School Choice, Equity-Oriented Reforms, Literacy Coaching |
 | Pamela McCann | Associate Professor | American political institutions, bureaucratic delegation, intergovernmental politics, legislative behavior, public policy, and policy diffusion |
 | T.J. McCarthy | Associate Professor (Teaching) | Labor economics, health economics, economics of education, public economics, program evaluation |
 | Juliet Ann Musso | Associate Professor
Vice Dean for Graduate Programs | State and local governance; federalism, urban political economy, fiscal policy, community governance, government performance. |
 | Deborah J. Natoli | Professor (Teaching) | Adult development and learning, leadership, human behavior and organizations, depth psychology and psychoanalysis |
 | Mark Phillips | Associate Professor (Teaching)
Program Director, Master of Public Policy and Master of Public Policy Data Science | Public finance, tax compliance, policy salience, applied microeconomics |
 | Kelly Rawlings | Associate Professor (Teaching) | Civic engagement and public participation, organizational behavior, nonprofit leadership and management, transformational leadership and change |
 | William G. Resh | Associate Professor
C.C. Crawford Professor in Management and Performance | Public Management, US presidency and executive politics, policy implementation, organization theory, personnel policy, organizational behavior |
 | Peter J. Robertson | Associate Professor | Organizational theory and behavior, organizational change, ecological governance, collaborative organizing, interorganizational networks |
 | Mindy Romero | Assistant Professor (Research) | Political sociology, voting rights and electoral participation, latino political behavior, collective political behavior, youth civic engagement, identity and political movements, social stratification, new technologies and civic engagement |
 | Adam Rose | Professor (Research) | Energy and environmental economics, public policy, natural hazards and terrorism, regional science, applied general equilibrium modeling |
 | Erroll G. Southers | Professor of the Practice in National and Homeland Security
Associate Senior Vice President, Safety and Risk Assurance | Counterterrorism, homegrown violent extremism, school violence prevention |
 | Shui Yan Tang | Professor
Frances R. and John J. Duggan Professor in Public Administration
Chair, Department of Public Policy and Management | Institutional Analysis and Design; Collaborative Governance; Local and Community-based Governance; Common-Pool Resource Governance; Environmental Politics and Policy; Microfinance |
 | Michael Thom | Associate Professor (Teaching)
Director, DPPD Program | Taxation; public finance; regulatory policy; public policy analysis; political philosophy |
 | Detlof von Winterfeldt | Professor of Industrial & Systems Engineering and Policy, Planning, and Development
J.A. Tiberti Chair in Ethics and Decision Making; Executive Director, USC Center for Sustainability Solutions | Decision analysis, risk analysis, environmental policy, behavioral decision research, homeland security |
 | Frank V. Zerunyan | Professor of the Practice of Governance
Director, Executive Education Programs; Director, ROTC Programs | Local Governments, Administrative Law, Public Private Partnerships, Leadership, Negotiation, and Executive Education |
