Doctoral Students

With current and past students at NTA in Tampa (2019).

In Progress

  1. John Stavick (Adviser)
  2. Ruth Winecoff (Committee)
  3. Michelle Lee (Committee)

2020

Felipe A. Lozano Rojas, Public Affairs (Adviser)

Thesis: Instrument Design and Effectiveness in Social Policies

Placement: Assistant Professor at University of Georgia

Julio Zambrano, Public Affairs (Committee)

Thesis: The Role of Sectoral Diversity on Collaborative Governance and Citizen Co-Production

Placement: Fulbright Scholar

2019

Sian Mughan, Public Affairs (Adviser)

Thesis: Criminal Justice and Public Finance

Placement: Assistant Professor at Arizona State University

2018

Lindsey Bullinger, Public Affairs (Committee)

Thesis: The Effect of Social Policy on Child and Family Health and Well-Being in the United States.

Current Position: Assistant Professor at Georgia Tech School of Public Policy

2017

Lang Kate Yang, Public Affairs (Adviser)

Thesis: "Fiscal Federalism and Distressed Localities: An Empirical Analysis"

Current Position: Assistant Professor at George Washington University, Trachtenberg School of Public Policy

Thomas Luke Spreen, Public Affairs (Committee)

Thesis: "An Empirical Analysis of Behavioral Responses to State Income Taxes"

Current Position: Assistant Professor at University of Maryland, School of Public Policy

2014

Sarah Larson, Public Policy (Adviser)

Thesis: "A Case of Rational Irrationality: Evidence of Expressive Interest Bias in State e-Commerce Sales and Use Tax Legislation." [Defended May 2014]

Current Position: Assistant Professor at University of Central Florida, College of Health & Public Affairs

2013

Daniel Hummel, Public Affairs at Florida Atlantic University (Committee)

Thesis: "Right-Sizing Cities: Strategies and Fiscal Health."

Current Position: Assistant professor of public administration at Michigan State University-Flint.

2012

Tima Tilek-uulu Moldogaziev (Committee)

Thesis: "Information Economics in Insurance Markets for Municipal Debt Securities: Monoline Insurance in Primary and Secondary Trades."

Current Position: Associate Professor, School of Public & International Affairs, University of Georgia.

Olha Krupa, Public Affairs (Committee)

Thesis: "Market Value-Based Assessment System in Property Taxation: Equity, Institutional Determinants, and Cost Considerations."

Current Position: Associate professor in Institute of Public Service at Seattle University.

Sergio Villamayor-Tomas, Public Policy (Committee)

Thesis: "Understanding Robustness Through the Theory of the Commons: Irrigation Water Governance and Socio-Ecological Robustness in the Gallego and Cinca River Watersheds, Spain."

Current Position: Researcher of Resource Economics at Humboldt University of Berlin.

Natalia Ermasova, Public Affairs (Committee)

Thesis: "Capital Budgeting at the State Level: Empirical Analysis from the Economic Downturn to the Present."

Current Position: Assistant professor of public affairs at Governors State University.

Cheol Liu, Public Affairs (Committee)

Thesis: "Impact of Public Officials' Corruption on State Spending."

Current Position: Assistant Professor at City University of Hong Kong, Department of Public & Social Administration

2011

Beth Neary, Public Affairs (Committee)

Thesis: "Paid Parental Leave in the United States: What We Can Learn from Existing International and Domestic Policies and How We Can Move Forward."

Initial Placement: Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the University of Connecticut.

2010

Michael Cox, Public Policy (Committee)

Thesis: "Exploring the Dynamics of Social-Ecological Systems: The Case of the Taos Valley Acequias."

Initial Placement: Post-doc in Ostrom Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis.

Current Position: Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at Dartmouth College.

Susane Leguizamon, Economics at West Virginia University (Committee)

Thesis: "Keeping up with the Jonses, Staying Ahead of the Smiths: Three Essays on Relative House Size and House Price."

Initial Placement: Department of Economics Lecturer at Pennsylvania State University.

Current Position: Assistant Professor of Economics at Western Kentucky University

2009

Janey Quian Wang, Public Affairs (Committee)

Thesis: "Redistributive Budget, Intergovernmental Transfers, and Fiscal Institutions."

Current Position: Associate Professor of Public Administration at San Francisco State University.