Jack Hadley is a professor and senior health services researcher in the Department of Health Administration and Policy. Most recently, he was a principal research associate with the Urban Institute’s Health Policy Center and a senior fellow at the Center for Studying Health System Change. He also taught at Georgetown University, served as president of Academy Health, the professional association for health services and health policy researchers, and served as editor for the journal Inquiry. Hadley received a BA in economics from Brandeis University and a PhD in economics from Yale. His research focuses primarily on issues related to costs and efficiency in the Medicare program.
Randall E. Keyser, associate professor of rehabilitation science in the Center for the Study of Chronic Illness and Disability, comes to Mason from University of Maryland where he was associate professor of physical therapy and rehabilitation science. After receiving his PhD from the University of Toledo and the Medical College of Ohio, he worked at Harper Hospital, an affiliate of Wayne State University, and served as Chief of the Cardiovascular Physiology and Rehabilitation Section at Butterworth Hospital, an affiliate of Michigan State University. He has taught at Michigan State and Grand Valley State Universities.
The new Drucie French Cumbie Chair of Conflict Analysis and Resolution Andrea Bartoli was a member of the faculty at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs before joining the university. He also served as associate director of the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies at Columbia University, a lecturer at the University of Rome–Tor Vergata, and the director of the Center for the Study of Social Programs. Bartoli's primary interests focus on the emergence of peace and its sustainability, through both preventive and systemic approaches. An anthropologist by training, Bartoli completed the Italian laurea at the University of Rome, Italy and the dottorato di ricerca at the University of Milan, Italy.
Andrew Hughes Hallett, Professor of Economics and Public Policy, comes to Mason from Vanderbilt University. Prior to that he taught at the University of Strathclyde in Scotland, the Free University of Berlin, and the Copenhagen Business School, among others. Concurrently he acts as a research fellow in the Centre for Economic Policy Research in London, a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and former chair of their Economics Committee. His research interests lie in the fields of international economic policy; policy coordination; and the theory of economic policy. A graduate of the University of Warwick and London School of Economics, he holds a doctorate from Oxford University.
Louise Shelley is Professor of Public Policy and director of the Terrorism, Transnational Crime and Corruption Center, which she brings to Mason with her. Shelley comes to Mason from American University where she was in the Department of Justice, Law, and Society. She is a leading U.S. expert on crime, law, and law enforcement in the former Soviet Union, as well as an expert on transnational organized crime and corruption. She received an undergraduate degree from Cornell University in Penology and Russian Literature, an M.A. in Criminology and a PhD in Sociology from the University of Pennsylvania. She also studied at Moscow State University and is the recipient of Guggenheim, Fulbright, and NEH fellowships and a MacArthur grant to establish the Russian Organized Crime Study Centers.
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Spencer Crew joins Mason as a professor of the black American experience. Since 2001, he has been executive director of the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center. Prior to this, he was the first black director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. He holds a PhD from Rutgers University. His appointment is within the Department of History and Art History.
Professor of law Jeremy A. Rabkin was professor of government at Cornell University. He has written widely on issues of international law and national sovereignty and is widely published in academic journals and in the popular press. The author of “Law Without Nations? Why Constitutional Government Requires Sovereign States,” “The Case for Sovereignty: Why the World Should Welcome American Independence,” and “Why Sovereignty Matters.” He has a PhD in government from Harvard University.
John Nauright, Professor in Sport Management, is an internationally known sport studies scholar who has published articles and books on topics ranging from gender and race in sport to globalization in sport and tourism. Among his many publications are the widely cited and influential “Making Men: Rugby and Masculine Identity,” “Sport, Cultures and Identities in South Africa,” “The Essence of Sport,” and “The Political Economy of Sport.” He has a PhD in history from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario.
Charley Casserly, Executive in Residence in Sports Management, was the former General Manager of the Washington Redskins and Senior Vice President and General Manager of Football Operations for the Houston Texans. He now works as a broadcaster for CBS Sports, with most of his duties associated with the show, The NFL Today.
Distinguished professor of geography Nigel Waters brings with him more than 30 years of experience and research relating to GIS as he assumes the role of director of Mason’s Center of Excellence for Geographic Information Science. Prior to joining the university he was at the University of Calgary in Alberta, Canada. A former president of the Western Canadian Association of Geographers and an associate editor of GeoWorld, Waters received his Ph.D. from the University of Western Ontario.
Associate Professor Claus Langfred joins SOM from the John M. Olin School of Business at Washington University in St. Louis. In his career to date, he has compiled an excellent record of rigorous, programmatic research on the antecedents and consequences of individual and team-level autonomy in work teams, with attention to related issues including trust, temporal adaptation, conflict, cohesiveness, and performance. He has a PhD from Northwestern University.
Associate Professor Anne Magro comes to Mason from the University of Oklahoma. She is widely recognized as a leading researcher in the area of taxation, judgment, cognition, and decision making. Her research addresses the characteristics and development of expertise and the effects of institutional and task characteristics on information processing. She has a PhD from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Alan Abramson joins Mason’s Department of Public and International Affairs as a Professor of Nonprofit Studies. For over a decade, he was the Director of the Nonprofit Sector and Philanthropy Program at the Aspen Institute. The author or co-author of numerous books and papers, he has been named among the 50 most influential leaders in the nonprofit sector by the NonProfit Times. He received his PhD in political science from Yale University.
Ed Maibach comes to the Department of Communication from George Washington University, where he was professor and director of the Public Health Communication and Marketing Program. Previously, he served as an associate director of the National Cancer Institute. His research has a dual focus on how to use communication and marketing to motivate and enable people live more healthfully and to reshape communities in ways that support healthful living. Published widely in both the public health and communications fields, Maibach has a PhD from Stanford University.
John Nye (Ph.D., Northwestern 1985) has spent the tenure of his academic career at Washington University in St. Louis, where he was a professor of economics and a fellow in the Center for the New Institutional Social Sciences and in the Center for Political Economy. He joins Mason’s Department of Economics as a Professor of Economic History. He is a specialist in French economic history and industrial organization. He was a founding member of the International Society for the New Institutional Economics and has been on the editorial board of the Journal of Economic History. He has a PhD from Northwestern University.
Gary Richardson joins Mason’s Department of Economics after teaching at the University of California, Irvine, where he directed the undergraduate honors program. A widely published scholar, his research interests include economic history, immigration, and economic development. He has a PhD from University of California, Berkeley.
Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Martin Sherwin joins the Department of History and Art History and the School of Public Policy after a long career at Tufts University, where he held a chaired professorship since 1982. In 2006, he won the Pulitzer Prize for a book he co-authored with Kai Bird, American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer. An earlier book on the nuclear program was a runner-up for the Pulitzer. His work focuses on diplomatic history. He has a PhD from UCLA.
Faye Taxman comes to Mason from Virginia Commonwealth University where she held a professorship in the Wilder School of Government and International Politics. She runs the Advancing Correctional Excellence (ACE) initiative, which includes partnerships with many universities and government agencies. Her research focuses on health service delivery, criminal justice, corrections, sentencing, research designs, and organizational factors. She has a PhD from Rutgers University.
Werner Troesken joins Mason’s Department of Economics as an economist and historian interested in the United States during the 20th century. Most recently he was professor of history at the University of Pittsburgh. He has written three books “Why Regulate Utilities? The New Institutional Economics and the Chicago Gas Industry, 1849-1924,” “Water, Race, and Disease,” and “Poisoning the Well: Lead Water Pipes in the Modern World.” In 2006, he was the recipient of the Economic History Association’s best book award. He has B.S. in Economics, Marquette University; MA in Economics, Washington University, St. Louis; and PhD in Economics, Washington University.
Richard Novak, Assistant Professor of Music, coming to Mason from Oklahoma State University. He is an accomplished tenor with important singing experiences in Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Louisiana, Iowa, and California. He was featured this summer at the Chautauqua Institute in New York. He studied at Stephen F. Austin State University and received his DMA from the University of North Texas.
Filmmaker Thomas R. (Tommy) Britt joins the Film and Video Studies faculty as Term Assistant Professor. A rising star in the documentary film field, Tommy holds the MFA in Film Production from Ohio University and dual bachelor's degrees in Mass Communications and Theater from Emory and Henry University. He is the director/producer of the forthcoming full-length documentary "Winesburg, Ohio" and has worked in both narrative and documentary forms as camera operator, writer, editor, and director.
Assistant Professor of Dance Karen Reedy has had an outstanding professional career, performing with Mark Morris, Robert Battle, and others. As rehearsal director for the Julliard School, she worked with many of the world's most distinguished choreographers. She has distinguished herself as a dedicated teacher and an emerging choreographer. She has been a guest artist at Northern Illinois University, Mark Morris Dance Center, and Mason, where received a BFA in Dance.