Andrew Balthrop is an assistant professor in The Baker School of Public Policy & Public Affairs and the Department of Supply Chain Management at the University of Tennessee. He earned his doctorate in economics from the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University. His research focuses on the intersection of freight transportation, […]
Jack Mewhirter is an associate professor at the Baker School. He is a policy process researcher whose work delves into the origins of societal problems, the development of policy tools used to correct such problems, the organizations responsible for policy implementation, the factors that impact organizational effectiveness, and the evaluation of policy outcomes. His work […]
Professor Folz retired from the University of Tennessee in July 2022 where he taught public financial administration, public management, state politics, and research methods. He was Director of the Master of Public Policy and Administration program at UT from its inception in 2012 through 2021. Currently, he serves as Adjunct Professor for the Baker School […]
As a new faculty member at the University of Tennessee with a joint appointment in the Baker School of Public Policy and the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Manning will use research to address pressing environmental and resource challenges facing Tennessee farmers and citizens while producing generalizable knowledge that can inform policy and economic […]
Dr. Tara Kolar Bryan is an associate professor at the Howard Baker Jr. School of Public Policy and Public Affairs. Prior to this, she was an associate professor and MPA director at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. During the 2021-2022 academic year, she served as a Fulbright Scholar at the Centre for Nonprofit Research […]