Faculty and Staff
The Howard H. Baker Jr. School of Public Policy and Public Affairs has a diverse and robust faculty and staff in order to mobilize the center’s mission to provide critical insights on domestic and international challenges through interdisciplinary research, experiential education, and policy engagement.
Faculty
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Marianne Wanamaker
Dean and Professor
Fields of Interest: Labor Economics and Workforce Development; Education; American Economic History; and Demography
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John Scheb
Professor and interim Associate Dean of Academic Affairs
Fields of Interest: American Constitutional Law; Tennessee Government and Politics; Administrative Law; Civil Rights and Liberties
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Katie A. Cahill
Senior Director, Strategic Initiatives and Adjunct Assistant Professor
Fields of Interest: Public Health; Public Policy; Public Leadership
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Josh Dunn
Professor and Executive Director of Institute of American Civics
Fields of Interest: American Constitutional Law and History; Education Policy; Federalism; Freedom of Speech and Religion
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Governor Bill Haslam
Professor of Practice
Fields of Interest: Tennessee governance, civility, and government
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Joe Hoagland
Adjunct Professor
Fields of Interest: Energy and Environmental Policy and Stakeholder Engagement
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Michael D. Jones
Professor
Fields of Interest: Policy Theory and the Narrative Policy Framework
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Benjamin Leard
Assistant Professor
Fields of Interest: Transportation Policy and Decarbonization Strategies
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William Lyons
Professor Emeritus and Interim Associate Director of the Institute of American Civics
Fields of Interest: Tennessee State and Local Government; American Politics; Voting Behavior
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Matthew Murray
Professor and Executive Director Emeritus of the Baker Center
Fields of Interest: Public Finance; Public Policy; Economic Development
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Jonathan Ring
Lecturer and Director of Undergraduate Studies
Fields of Interest: International relations; human rights; civil society
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Charles B. Sims
Associate Professor and Director of the Center for Energy, Transportation and Environmental Policy
Fields of Interest: Energy and Environmental Policy; Management of Renewable Resources; Risk and Uncertainty in Environmental Policy
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Xuhong Su
Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
Fields of Interest: Public Employment and Management; Public Corruption and Whistleblowing; Science and Technology Policy
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Elis Vllasi
Senior Research Associate and Lecturer
Fields of Interest: Chinese/Russian influence operations; transnational ethnic links and their effects on democratization; and Western military intervention and nation-building
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Jilleah Welch
Senior Research Associate and Lecturer
Fields of Interest: Public Finance; Economics of Education; Environmental Economics
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Krista E. Wiegand
Professor and Director of the Center for National Security and Foreign Affairs
Fields of Interest: International relations; territorial and maritime disputes; conflict management; Indo-Pacific; U.S. national security
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Priscilla Zotti
Visiting Professor and former Dean of the Division of Humanities and Social Sciences at the U.S. Naval Academy
Fields of Interest: U.S. Military; U.S. Supreme Court Jurisprudence; Comparative Search and Seizure Law; Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
Staff
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Brewton Brownlow Couch
Chief of Staff; and Assistant Dean of Finance, Operations, and Administration
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Zoe Crihfield
Graduate Student Coordinator
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Alecia Evans
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
Fields of Interest: Environmental and Natural Resource Economics; Energy Economics; Experimental Economics; Industrial Organization
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Lindsay Herrell
Student Programs Coordinator
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Amy Smotherman Burgess
Digital Communications Manager
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Jeanne Stevens
Research Program Manager
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