SPEA - School of Public and Environmental Affairs

Policy Analysis, Environmental Economics and Policy, Business Economics and Public Policy, Environmental Science, and Quantitative Policy Modeling

Economic policy, entrepreneurship, innovation, globalization, regional economic policy, industrial restructuring and government policy, small enterprises in Europe and the United States

Civil society, voluntary associations, civic engagement, social capital

Collaborative governance, comparative governance, dispute resolution, dispute system design, mediation, administrative law, labor and employment law

African politics, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), energy and international development, comparative public administration, governance, civil society, political economy of development

Data governance and regulation; intellectual property; Constitutional law and Supreme Court decisionmaking; religion in public life and governance.

Environmental and Natural Resources Law and Economics, Property, and Polish Law

National and international security policies from an argumentation, rhetorical, and critical cultural perspective

Public Economics, Labor Economics, and Economic Development

Public management and organization theory, with a focus on privatization and contracting out, public sector leadership, and organizational change and innovation

Health Economics, Public Economics, Labor Economics

Quantitative policy modeling, productivity measurement in public and regulated industries, urban policy analysis

Nonprofit and public sector relationships. Current work examines the scope and community dimensions of the Indiana nonprofit sector. Other major areas of research focus on the American welfare system, nonprofit funding relations, and nonprofit data sources.

Behavioral impact of tax policies on labor supply, consumption, income and earnings, employment mode, health insurance purchases, charitable giving, and retirement savings; analysis of labor, business, and household income dynamics.

Sublethal health effects of environmental pollutants, especially pollutant effects on the developing organism, including the effects of polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins (PCDDs) and related congeners on the developing nervous system of birds exposed in the wild and under controlled laboratory conditions

Applying organic analytical chemistry techniques to the analysis of trace levels of toxic pollutants, such as polybrominated flame retardants and polychlorinated biphenyls and pesticides, with a focus on understanding the behavior of these compounds in the atmosphere and in the Great Lakes

Governmental and Non-Profit Accounting and Reporting. Financial Management in Non Profit Organizations. Governmental Budgeting and Finance. Financial (Corporate) Management.

Incarceration and Prison Programs; Applied Econometrics and Program Evaluation; Child and Family Policy

Public Finance, Macro-budgeting, Public Debt Markets, U.S. Defense Department Procurement Management and the Political Economy of Reform in Formerly Socialist Countries

Implementation of integrated pest management programs in schools and daycare facilities’

Modern Art, Contemporary Theory and Criticism, and Photography

Public finance, urban and regional economics, international trade, economic development, public budgeting and financial management

Intergovernmental and interorganizational collaboration and networks, federalism and intergovernmental relations, public management

Governmental finance, especially questions of policy and administration of sales and property taxation; state lotteries; public budgeting; public finance in countries of the former Soviet Union

Environmental law, conservation easements, invasive species, environmental impact of shipping on the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Seaway.

Civil engagement at the state and local level; urban studies at the federal, state and local levels; community development and planning at the local level.

Forest ecology, ecosystem carbon and water cycling, biometeorology

Poverty and income maintenance with emphasis on child support enforcement, welfare reform, adolescent parenting, and methods of policy evaluation.

International Affairs, Poverty Alleviation, Corporate and Public Sector Strategy, Country Competitiveness, Financial Markets, Economic Development, Education, Good Governance and Policy Analysis

Urban poverty, economic development, social welfare policy, low-income housing policy, civil society and government performance

Public Management; U.S. Presidency and Executive Politics; Policy Implementation; Organization Theory; Personnel Policy; Organizational Behavior

Domestic and international climate change policy, environmental policy implementation, carbon sequestration economics and law, energy law, U.S. Forest Service organizational design and management.

State and local public finance topics: property taxes; property assessment; local income taxes, zoning, local governance coordination, and tax amnesty programs

Urban and regional economic development and impact analysis, state-level energy policy analysis and modeling, state-level impacts of global climate change, quantitative analysis of local government management and labor relations issues, statistics and quantitative methods, econometric modeling, and strategic planning and management.

Nonprofit marketing-including the arts, education, health care and philanthropy; fundraising and philanthropy

Environmental Toxicology, Environmental Genomics, Comparative Physiology

Competition and Firm Strategy; Customer Satisfaction; and Policy Analysis

Environmental Indicators; fish and crayfish assemblage structure; and reproductive biology and early life history of fishes; aquatic ecology

Characterization of the chemical mechanisms in the atmosphere that influence regional air quality and global climate change

Development of growth simulation models for sustainable management of indigenous community forests, experimental designs in tropical forestry research, service-learning research, classroom action research on student active learning via group research projects in undergraduate introductory statistical techniques courses, and how pre-service teachers conceptualize mathematics (philosophically) indexed with their beliefs and conceptions about mathematics learning and teaching.

Arts administration