Public Policy
Rosanne Altshuler
Professor
Department of Economics
School of Arts and Sciences
Key topics: Tax Policy
Rosanne Altshuler is professor and chair of the economics department, and an affiliated scholar of the Urban Institute. Her research focuses on federal tax policy and has appeared in numerous journals and books.
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Ann Bagchi
Associate Professor of Professional Practice
Supply Chain Management
Rutgers Business School
Key topics: Health equity, structural determinants of health, health-related stigma, routine HIV screening in primary care, health policy, telehealth for underserved communities.
Dr. Ann Bagchi is an…
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Colleen Berryessa
Assistant Professor
School of Criminal Justice
Key topics: Criminal Justice, Law, Psychology, Courts, Sentencing, Punishment, Discretion, Decision-making, Law and Society, Mental Health, Neuroscience/Genetics, Public Policy
Dr. Colleen Berryessa is an Assistant Professor at the Rutgers University School of Criminal Justice. Her research, utilizing both qualitative and quantitative methods, considers how psychological processes, perceptions, attitudes, and social…
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Associate Professor and Extension Specialist
Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics
School of Environmental and Biological Sciences
Key topics: Urban sprawl; SmartGrowth; growth management; "growth vs. environment"; regional planning; zoning and local land use policy; property tax reform; differences in economic welfare between suburbs and central cities; regional and city development; agriculture in New Jersey
Paul D. Gottlieb, Ph.D. is Associate Professor of Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics at the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences. He is also an extension specialist, with college-wide responsibilities related to smart growth,…
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James Hughes
University Professor
Heldrich Center for Workforce Development
Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy
Key topics: Demographics and housing, regional and New Jersey economics, community development patterns
James W. Hughes, Ph.D., is a nationally recognized expert who has presented extensive budgetary and economic testimony before New Jersey state legislative committees. He has also provided countless policy briefings on demographics, housing, and…
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Robert E. Kopp
Professor
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
School of Arts and Sciences
Key topics: Sea level change, climate and energy policy
Robert Kopp is Director of the Rutgers Institute of Earth, Ocean & Atmospheric Sciences and a Professor in the Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences at Rutgers University. He also serves as co-director of Rutgers’ Coastal Climate Risk…
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Michael Lahr
Research Professor
Rutgers Economic Advisory Service
Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning & Public Policy
Key topics: NJ and National Economy, economic development (including incentives), economic modeling techniques, transportation economics
Dr. Michael Lahr serves as the Director of Rutgers Economic Advisory Service (R/ECON™). He is also a Research Professor of Planning and Public Policy at the Edward J. Bloustein School where he teaches a course on Global Analytics and…
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Anton Nelessen
Professor
Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy
Anton C. Nelessen has been teaching Urban Design and professional practice first at Harvard and currently at Rutgers for the past 39 years. He has emerged as one of the nations most respected urban visionaries. He has more than 40 years of…
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Lenna Nepomnyaschy
Associate Professor
Department of Social Work
School of Social Work
Key topics: Child support; Nonresident fathers; Fathers' involvement with children; Poverty and social policy; Child well-being; Single-parent families; Material hardship; Food insecurity; Economic insecurity; Income & wealth inequality; Health disparities; Infant health; Parental debt
Lenna Nepomnyaschy is an associate professor at Rutgers School of Social Work. She received her PhD from Columbia University in 2003 and an MSW from Rutgers in 1991. Her research is broadly focused on how poverty, inequality, and social policies…
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Patricia O'Brien-Richardson
Associate Professor
Public Health/Health Administration
Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy
Key topics: Cultural competency; Cultural health (Black women and adolescent girls); Hair Discrimination; Urban public health disparities; Education policy; Social justice; Race, class, and gender policies
Dr. Patricia O’Brien-Richardson is an Associate Professor of Teaching at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy. For the past ten years, she has been the CEO and Founder of Move it Nation, Inc., a public health non-profit…
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Marc Pfeiffer
Assistant Director
Bloustein Local Government Research Center
Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy
Key topics: New Jersey state and local government fiscal and administrative issues; public finance; public procurement; technology in government; government transparency; open data; informatics; NJ local government structure; property tax issues
With more than 40 years of government service to New Jersey municipal and state government under his belt, Marc is on his third career. His work at Rutgers follows ten years as a municipal administrator, and 26 years with the New Jersey Division…
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Jim Samuel
Associate Professor of Practice and Executive Director of the Informatics Program
Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy
Key topics: Artificial Intelligence (AI), Generative AI, AI and human intelligence, information philosophy, natural language processing (NLP), societal and socioeconomic implications of AI, AI education, AI - future of work and education.
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Stuart Shapiro
Dean
Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy
Key topics: Regulation; Policy Analysis; The Trump Administration; Cost-Benefit Analysis
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Linda Stamato
Policy Fellow
New Jersey State Policy Lab at Civic Square
Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy
Key topics: Negotiation, conflict resolution, higher education policy, regulatory policy, gender differences in negotiation
Linda Stamato is co-director of the Center for Negotiation and Conflict Resolution and a member of the graduate faculty at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy. She teaches negotiation and conflict resolution at the…
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Carl Van Horn
Distinguished Professor of Public Policy
John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development
Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy
Key topics: Workforce and economic development policy; future of work; emerging industry sectors and careers; state and federal government policymaking
Carl Van Horn, Ph.D., is the founding director of the John J. Heldrich Center for WorkforceDevelopment, one of the nation's leading university-based research centers for the study of work and the labor market. He is a widely…
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