Directory
The Baker School of Public Policy and Public Affairs has a robust faculty and staff in order to mobilize our mission to provide critical insights on domestic and international challenges through interdisciplinary research, experiential education, and policy engagement.
Faculty
David Arceneaux
Assistant Professor
Specialties: National Security, International Conflict, and Nuclear Policy
Andrew Balthrop
Assistant Professor
Specialties: Supply Chain Policy, Freight Transportation, and Trucking
Tiffany Barron
Assistant Professor, Institute of American Civics
Specialties: International Relations, Comparative Politics, Political Theory
Tara Kolar Bryan
Associate Professor
Specialties: Strategic Management, Nonprofit and Public Organizations, Civil Society Organizations in Central Europe, Community-Engaged Research and Teaching
Simeon Burns
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Institute of American Civics
Specialties: History of Political Thought
Andy Busch
Professor and Associate Director, Institute of American Civics
Specialties: American political institutions, elections, and public policy
Kody Cooper
Associate Professor, Institute of American Civics
Specialties: Political Theory, American Political Thoughts, Religion and Politics, Jurisprudence, and Constitutional Law.
Josh Dunn
Professor and Executive Director, Institute of American Civics
Specialties: American Constitutional Law & History, Education Policy, Federalism, Freedom of Speech & Religion
Timothy Fitzgerald
Associate Professor
Specialties: Natural Resource Economics and Energy Economics
Zachary German
Assistant Professor, Institute of American Civics
Specialties: American Political and Constitutional Thought, Early Modern Thought, Statesmanship, Political Culture, Politics and Religion, and Constitutional Design
Mike Gutierrez
Teaching Associate Professor
Specialties: Public Administration and Emergency Management
Gov. Bill Haslam
Professor of Practice
Specialties: Tennessee Governance, Civility, Government
Joe Hoagland
Adjunct Professor
Specialties: Energy & Environmental Policy, Stakeholder Engagement
Andrew Hutchens
Post-Doctoral Research Associate
Specialties: Energy and environmental economics, transportation economics, industrial organization
Benjamin Leard
Assistant Professor
Specialties: Transportation Policy, Decarbonization Strategies
William Lyons
Professor Emeritus and Associate Director for Community Outreach, Institute of American Civics
Specialties: Tennessee State & Local Government, American Politics, Voting Behavior
Dale Manning
Associate Professor
Specialties: Environmental and Natural Resource Economics and Policy, Natural Resource Valuation, Natural Resources, and Livelihoods
Morgan Marietta
Professor, Institute of American Civics
Specialties: Political Consequences of Belief, focusing on Constitutional Politics, Political Psychology, and Facts in Politics
David McCollum
Assistant Professor
Specialties: Energy-Economic Systems Modeling; Advanced Energy and Transport Technologies; Integrated Assessment; and Global Change
Jack Mewhirter
Associate Professor
Specialties: Public Policy and Policy Process
James Patterson
Associate Professor, Institute of American Civics
Specialties: Race, Religion, and American Political Thought
Jonathan Ring
Lecturer and Director of Undergraduate Studies
Specialties: International Relations, Human Rights, Civil Society
Jessica Sargent
Teaching Assistant Professor
Specialties: Political Polarization, Narrative Policy Framework (NPF), Trust, and Optimistic Realism
John Scheb
Professor and Interim Associate Dean of Academic Affairs
Specialties: American Constitutional Law, Tennessee Government & Politics, Administrative Law, Civil Rights & Liberties
David H. Scott
Teaching Assistant Professor, Institute of American Civics
Specialties: American Constitutional Law, Civil Rights and Liberties, Judicial Process and Behavior, American Politics, and Political Philosophy
Charles B. Sims
TVA Distinguished Professor of Energy and Environmental Policy; Director, Center for Energy, Transportation, and Environmental Policy
Specialties: Environmental & Natural Resource Economics, Energy Economics, Public Health, Decision Theory
John Stavick
Assistant Professor
Specialties: State Tax Administration and the Consequences of Budget-Balancing Decisions on the Public Workforce
Xuhong Su
Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
Specialties: Public administration, public management and science & technology policy
Marianne Wanamaker
Dean and Professor
Specialties: Labor Economics & Workforce Development, Education, American Economic History, Demography
Jilleah Welch
Senior Research Associate and Lecturer
Specialties: Public Finance, Economics of Education, Environmental Economics
Krista Wiegand
Professor and Director, Center for National Security and Foreign Affairs
Specialties: International Relations, Territorial & Maritime Disputes, Conflict Management, Indo-Pacific, US National Security
Yining Wu
Post-Doctoral Research Associate
Specialties: Natural Resource and Environmental Economics, Agricultural Economics, and the Intersection of Economic Policy with Sustainable Resource Management
Priscilla Zotti
Visiting Professor and former Dean of the Division of Humanities and Social Sciences at the U.S. Naval Academy
Specialties: U.S. Military; U.S. Supreme Court Jurisprudence; Comparative Search and Seizure Law; Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
Staff
Brewton Brownlow Couch
Chief of Staff; and Assistant Dean of Finance, Operations, and Administration
CETEP Experts
CETEP Faculty
Charles B. Sims
TVA Distinguished Professor of Energy and Environmental Policy; Director, Center for Energy, Transportation, and Environmental Policy
Specialties: Environmental & Natural Resource Economics, Energy Economics, Public Health, Decision Theory
Andrew Balthrop
Assistant Professor
Specialties: Supply Chain Policy, Freight Transportation, and Trucking
Dale Manning
Associate Professor
Specialties: Environmental and Natural Resource Economics and Policy, Natural Resource Valuation, Natural Resources, and Livelihoods
David McCollum
Assistant Professor
Specialties: Energy-Economic Systems Modeling; Advanced Energy and Transport Technologies; Integrated Assessment; and Global Change
Jack Mewhirter
Associate Professor
Specialties: National Security, International Conflict, and Nuclear Policy
Benjamin Leard
Assistant Professor
Specialties: National Security, International Conflict, and Nuclear Policy
Timothy Fitzgerald
Associate Professor
Specialties: National Security, International Conflict, and Nuclear Policy
Jilleah Welch
Senior Research Associate and Lecturer
Specialties: National Security, International Conflict, and Nuclear Policy
CETEP Experts
Noah Ankar
Affiliate
Specialties: Energy; Sustainability; Transportation; and Logistics
Paul Armsworth
Fellow
Specialties: Ecology; Conservation Science; and Mathematical Modeling
Neeraj Bharadwaj
Affiliate
Specialties: Sustainability, Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG); marketing sustainability
Candace Brakewood
Affiliate
Specialties: Transportation policy; shared mobility; public transportation; intelligent transportation systems
Gary Brinkworth
Affiliate
Specialties: Energy economics, grid decarbonization, strategic planning under uncertainty, power system resource optimization, reliability and resiliency assessment
Seong-Hoo Cho
Fellow
Specialties: Environmental and resource economics, agricultural and forested lands, ecosystem services, conservation science, climate change and natural resources, non-market valuation
Courtney Cronley
Expert
Specialties: Inclusive infrastructure with emphasis on historically marginalized persons, housing insecurity, evictions, transportation equity, energy justice, broadband internet access, environmental justice and sustainability
Maggie Davis
Affiliate
Specialties: Energy economics; environmental sciences; policy tradeoffs for land management
Rebecca Efroymson
Affiliate
Specialties: Sustainability of biofuels; policy engagement related to climate science; decarbonization; climate adaptation
David Greene
Research Professor and Senior Fellow
Specialties: Transportation and Energy Issues; Alternative Fuels; Fuel Economy; and Costs of Oil Dependence
Lorna Greening
Fellow
Specialties: Energy economics and energy policymaking processes
Jamie Grieg
Fellow
Specialties: Broadband Communications and Digital Technology in Rural and Agricultural Settings
Bandana Kar
Affiliate
Specialties: Energy and climate resilience policy; energy security; use of AI and Big Data in the energy sector
Jacob LaRiviere
Fellow
Specialties: Industrial Organization and Environmental Economics
Nikki Luke
Fellow
Specialties: Urban Geography; Energy and Labor Politics; Energy and Environmental Justice
Andrew Muhammad
Affiliate
Specialties: Climate change and international trade; global food security, food choice and global nutrition; supply chains in developing countries; trade policy and commodity markets
John Nolt
Fellow
Specialties: Environmental Ethnics, Intergenerational Ethics, Climate Ethics, Philosophical Logic, and Formal Value Theory
Alex Osei-Kojo
Affiliate
Specialties: Environmental and Energy Policy; Policy Process
Bhartendu Pandey
Affiliate
Specialties: Urbanization; infrastructure; global environmental change; complex systems
Gabriela Perez-Quesada
Affiliate
Specialties: Impact of water scarcity and climate change on agricultural production; role of policy in agricultural producer decision making
Jay Price
Affiliate
Specialties: Land use planning and policy; sustainable transportation; decarbonization; circular economy
Tim Roberson
Affiliate
Specialties: Energy Economics; Energy Economics; Energy Markets; Industrial Organization
John Schwartz
Affiliate
Specialties: Watershed Hydrology; Water Quality; River Mechanics; Stream Restoration; and Ecological Engineering
Gabe Schwartzman
Affiliate
Specialties: Sustainable rural economic development; decarbonization and energy transition
Aaron Smith
Affiliate
Specialties: Climate-smart agriculture; production economics; domestic agricultural policy
Bruce Tonn
Fellow
Specialties: Environmental and Energy Policy; Future Studies; Sustainability; Climate Change; Decision-making under Uncertainty; Technology Policy; and Computers in Society
Christian Vossler
Fellow
Specialties: Environmental Economics; Public Economics; Applied Econometrics; and Experimental Economics
Emeritus CETEP Experts
- Mary English – Fellow
- William Park – Fellow
- Robert Shelton – Fellow
CETEP Staff
Andrew Hutchens
Post-Doctoral Research Associate
Specialties: Energy Economics, Environmental and Resource Economics, and Industrial Organization
NSFA Experts
NSFA Faculty
David Arceneaux
Assistant Professor
Specialties: National Security, International Conflict, and Nuclear Policy
Krista Wiegand
Professor and Director, Center for National Security and Foreign Affairs
Specialties: International Relations, Territorial & Maritime Disputes, Conflict Management, Indo-Pacific, US National Security
NSFA Experts
Suzie Allard
Fellow
Specialties: Knowledge creation and disruption; science data; science misinformation
Vasabjit Banerjee
Affiliate
Specialties: Insurgencies; civil-military relations; state formation
Matthew Buehler
Senior Fellow
Specialties: Comparative politics of the Middle East and North Africa; democratization, authoritarianism; Islamist parties; public opinion; nuclear nonproliferation; migration
Kate Marie Byrnes
Distinguished Fellow
Specialties: national security; international relations; diplomacy; political-military affairs; hybrid warfare; NATO; Europe; Balkans
Taylor Hathorn
Affiliate
Specialties: National Security, International Relations, Hybrid Warfare, Space Policy, American Safety and Security
Sarah Hillyer
Affiliate
Specialties: International promotion of peace and sport-based social change
Ben Horne
Affiliate
Specialties: Disinformation campaigns; policymaking for internet governance and censorship
Eric Keels
Assistant Director for NSFA
Specialties: Military Innovation, International Conflict, Peace Processes, Terrorism, Insurgencies, and Human Rights
Sojeong Lee
Senior Fellow
Specialties: International relations; comparative politics; water and natural resources; conflict processes; foreign policy; Asian security; climate change and environmental politics
Catherine Luther
Fellow
Specialties: Identity, media, and national security; disinformation and propaganda; influences of digital and social media
Kelly Morrison
Affiliate
Specialties: Human rights; democratic institutions; international law; international organizations
Andrew Muhammad
Affiliate
Specialties: Climate change and international trade; global food security, food choice and global nutrition; supply chains in developing countries; trade policy and commodity markets
Jonathan Ring
Lecturer and Director of Undergraduate Studies
Specialties: International Relations, Human Rights, Civil Society
Ketki Sheth
Affiliate
Specialties: Development and labor economics, focused on gender gaps and financial access, health and education
Maurice Stucke
Affiliate
Specialties: Implications of AI on global security and well-being; antitrust and privacy policies for the digital economy
Emeritus NSFA Experts
- Candace White – Fellow
- Allyn Milojevich – Fellow
- Deborah Penchoff – Fellow
- Brandon Prins – Senior Fellow
- Wonjae Hwang – Affiliate
- Tony Schmitz – Affiliate
NSFA Staff
Eric Keels
Assistant Director for NSFA
Specialties: Military Innovation, International Conflict, Peace Processes, Terrorism, Insurgencies, and Human Rights