Growing our
Expertise
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e welcome Michael S. Barr as the Joan and Sanford Weill Dean of Public Policy at the Ford School. He is faculty director of the University of Michigan’s Center on Finance, Law, and Policy and a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress.
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Michael S. Barr As the Department of the Treasury’s assistant secretary for financial institutions from 2009–2010, Michael S. Barr was a key architect of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 and played a central role in the development of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Barr clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Souter, served as a member of the policy planning team at the U.S. Department of State, and served as special assistant to Treasury Secretary Robert E. Rubin and, later, as deputy assistant secretary of the Treasury for community development policy (1997–2001) and special advisor to President Clinton (1999–2001). A Rhodes Scholar, Barr received his JD from Yale Law School; an M. Phil in international relations from Magdalen College, Oxford University; and his BA, summa cum laude, in history from Yale University. He is the Frank Murphy Collegiate Professor of Public Policy and the Roy F. and Jean Humphrey Proffitt Professor of Law at University of Michigan.
msbarr@umich.edu 4300 Weill Hall
734-763-2258 @michael_s_barr
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Tamar Mitts
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joins the Ford School as an assistant professor of public policy, with a courtesy appointment in the University of Michigan’s Department of Political Science. She specializes in comparative politics and international relations, with a focus on political violence, conflict, radicalization and extremism. Mitts’ current research examines the behavior of Islamic State (ISIS) supporters on social media, specifically how supporters react to online propaganda, how they respond to experiences of anti-Muslim hostility in the West, and whether they are sensitive to counter-extremism programs aiming to reduce radicalization. She earned her master of arts, master of philosophy, and doctoral degrees, all in political science, from Columbia University and her bachelor’s degree, summa cum laude, in politics from New York University.
tmitts@umich.edu
4129 Weill Hall 734-615-7046 @tamarmitts
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Fabiana Silva joins the Ford School
as an assistant professor of public policy. She studies the mechanisms that perpetuate (or mitigate) group-based inequality in the labor market, with a focus on social networks and employer discrimination. Silva’s current research examines how employers reward the referrals of black and white job applicants, the relationship between employers’ racial attitudes and hiring behavior, and the causal effect of an increase in social network size on the employment outcomes of Mexican immigrants. She is also investigating how different ways of framing immigration affect attitudes toward immigration policy. Silva received her PhD in sociology from the University of California-Berkeley.
fabianas@umich.edu
4121 Weill Hall 734-763-0689
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Stephanie Sanders
joins the Ford School as a lecturer and diversity, equity, and inclusion officer. Coming from Old Dominion University, where she was associate director of diversity initiatives, her research agenda centers on critical race theory and examines students who transition from urban environments to rural, predominantly white, colleges. A practitioner, Sanders is interested in pipeline initiatives, urban education, and diversity in higher education. Her publications have appeared in the Journal of School Leadership, the American Journal of Health Research, IGI Global and Nova Science Publishers. She received her PhD in curriculum and instruction from Ohio University and her master’s and bachelor’s degrees in speech-language-hearing science from the University of Central Arkansas.
stepsand@umich.edu 4227 Weill Hall
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Kevin Stange has been promoted to
associate professor of public policy with tenure. His research interests lie broadly in empirical labor and public economics, with a focus on education. He is currently focused on college costs and pricing, earnings differences by college major field, vocational education and training, and the higher education market. Previously, he has studied community colleges, college dropout and persistence, college amenities and spending, the health care workforce, and unemployment insurance. At the Ford School, Stange teaches graduate courses on microeconomics, program evaluation, and higher education policy. He received his undergraduate degrees in mechanical engineering and economics from MIT and his PhD in economics from the University of California, Berkeley.
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Visiting policymakers
T
he Ford School is pleased to welcome Dudley Benoit
and Hardy Vieux as Harry A. and Margaret D. Towsley Policymakers in Residence, and Dale Giovengo as a U.S. State Department Diplomat in Residence.
Dudley Benoit (MPP ’95)
is the director of community development finance at Santander Bank, board chair of New Jersey Community Capital, and a board member with the Primary Care Development Corporation. Previously, Benoit served as a senior vice president at JPMorgan Chase and program manager at Seedco and MDRC. He will join us as a Towsley Foundation Policymaker in Residence in fall 2017, teaching a half-semester course: “Community Development Finance: Lessons From the Field.”
Hardy Vieux (MPP/JD ’97) is the legal director of Human Rights First. Previously, he was in private practice in Washington, DC, where he handled asylum representation and litigation stemming from abuses at Abu Ghraib. He later served as a policy fellow at Save the Children International in Jordan. Vieux is a member of the board of the National Institute of Military Justice and of the Sanford School of Public Policy. He will join us as a Towsley Foundation Policymaker in Residence in winter 2018.
Dale Giovengo is a foreign service specialist with experience in human resources, contracts, and financial and organizational management. He has held or managed numerous positions responsible for embassy operations in France, Albania, Kuwait, Pakistan, Switzerland and Iraq, and most recently managed the Medical Services Support Iraq Program. He earned his BA in sociology from the University of Pittsburgh and MA in ethics and leadership from Duquesne University. Giovengo will join us for a two-year term as a U.S. State Department Diplomat in Residence.
From insight to action
F
ord School faculty lead a growing number of active, multi-disciplinary research centers
and initiatives. Engaged at home, around the nation, and abroad, they inform public understanding, lead game-changing discovery, and catalyze real and lasting change on some of the most pressing policy challenges of our time.
Center on Finance, Law, and Policy financelawpolicy.umich.edu Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy (CLOSUP) closup.umich.edu Center for Public Policy in Diverse Societies fordschool.umich.edu/ diversitycenter Education Policy Initiative edpolicy.umich.edu International Policy Center ipc.umich.edu
Policies for Action Health Research Hub Partnership with Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Poverty Solutions at the University of Michigan poverty.umich.edu Science, Technology, and Public Policy (STPP) program stpp.fordschool.umich.edu Youth Policy Lab youthpolicylab.umich.edu
newly-promoted Leaders & Best.
» Inside: Meet our new and
of society’s most intractable problems.
of our expertise and policy engagement around some
represent continued growth in the breadth and depth
these new and newly-promoted Ford School faculty
Alongside their critical work as teachers and mentors,
» Radicalization and social media. » Immigration and discrimination. » Higher education and community development. » Human rights and diplomacy abroad.
harnessed to the needs of the real economy.
» A safer and fairer financial system, better
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