College of Social Sciences and Public Policy

Dr. Mathews is interested in spatial analysis, social networks, and social capital theories and methods and how they can be combined with geographic information systems to understand how communities and individuals respond to social, economic, and environmental shocks.

Dr. Xu’s primary research interests are the interplay between domestic and international politics, with a particular focus on the dynamics of great power competition between the U.S. and China.

Dr. Quinton is interested in ways popular movements impact state politics and policy in a deeply interconnected world. His teaching and service draw from efforts he has joined for policy change on a range of issues locally, across the state, and region, including voting rights, redistricting, free speech and public protest, affordable housing, food insecurity, and public school curriculum.

Dr. Moss-Pech's research examines how individuals navigate educational organizations and labor market institutions to better understand inequality and social mobility outcomes. 

Dr. Chang’s research interests are global and transnational sociology, international migration, gender, work and labor, development, ethnography, qualitative methods, social theory, East Asia, and Southeast Asia.

Dr. Jackson’s research interests are local government, political control of bureaucracy, representative bureaucracy, intersectionality, organizational socialization, justice provision, policing, education, and quantitative methods.

Dr. Dimand’s research interests are public management, government contracting, environmental policy, sustainability, innovation, and collaborative governance.

Dr. Owens’s research interest is empirical legal research. 

Dr. Foster studies American political institutions using game theory and quantitative methods, with a particular substantive focus on executive power, Congress, the bureaucracy, and housing policy.