DATA AND SOCIETY | ASU - Key Persons

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• Assistant Professor
• Member of the Research Committee

Anthony Howell is an assistant professor in public policy and management in the School of Public Affairs at Arizona State University. Previously, he served on the faculty in the School of Economics at Peking University in Beijing for five years. Anthony served as a Fulbright scholar at the Lincoln Institute of Urban Development and Land Policy at Peking University, and held visiting research fellowships at the National Academies of Sciences in Washington D.C. and the Asian Development Bank in Manilla. Anthony received his PhD in Geography from UCLA and obtained M.S. degrees in both statistics and geography/GIS. He is an expert in policy impact analysis, forecasting, cost-benefit analyses, GIS, and big data analytics. His main research fields include urban-regional economics, economic development, labor migration and innovation with a focus on the Chinese economy. Anthony's research has been published in leading academic journals including the Journal of Urban Economics, World Development, Research Policy, Economic Geography, Journal of Regional Science, Regional Studies, and Eurasian Geography and Economics, among others. He received a multiyear grant from the National Science Foundation of China to explore the role of geography, innovation and state support policies in promoting local development in China. He also served as a guest editor for a special issue on innovation and management for the Economic Modeling journal. Anthony's research interests are in a large way a natural extension of his own personal experiences facing issues of poverty and inequality in early childhood, and working full-time on the factory assembly lines in the auto industry during summers as a teenager. It was during these early years that he became interested in issues about labor and the nature of work, as well as issues related to race, poverty and inequality. As factory plants later began to close down in his hometown, he also developed an interest in urban and regional development issues. Anthony added an international dimension to his research interests during his collegiate years when he was able to successfully secure external grants and scholarships to engage in community and economic development projects in rural parts of western Ireland, impoverished neighborhoods in southern parts of Mexico, and restive multi-ethnic communities in northwestern China. In total, Anthony has spent seven years living and working in China. Education Ph.D. Geography, University of California-Los Angeles M.S. Statistics, University of California-Los Angeles M.S. Geography/GIS, Michigan State University B.A. Political Science, Michigan State University B.A. International Development, Michigan State University

Barton,C Michael*. Hazard SEES Type 2: Hazard prediction and communication dynamics in the modern information environment.

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• Professor of Political Science at the University of Iowa

Caroline J. Tolbert is Professor of Political Science at the University of Iowa. Her work weaves together a concern with diversity and inequality, elections and representation, and digital media and public policy. Her research includes nearly fifty peer-reviewed journal articles and eight books, two of which are co-edited. She was named a Collegiate Scholar by the University of Iowa in 2009. She is co-author of three books on digital inequality and technology policy, including Virtual Inequality (2003), Digital Citizenship (2008) and Digital Cities (2012). The latter was ranked as one of the twenty best-selling titles in the social sciences by the American Library Association. Her research on technology policy and election reform has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, the Democracy Fund and others.

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• Member of the Research Committee

Clement Mensah Damoah is a Ph.D. student at Arizona State University. He is a graduate of the University of Ghana, where he obtained both his bachelor's and MPhil degree. He served as a Teaching and Research Assistant at the Department of Public Administration and Health Services Management, UGBS. His research interests include Public-Private Partnership, Collaborative and Digital Governance, Participatory Governance, and Civic Engagement. He currently serves research assistant at the Center of Technology, Data, and Society (CTDS) and the Participatory Governance Initiative at the School of Public Affairs, Arizona State University.

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• Director of the Center for Urban Innovation

David Swindell is the director of the Center for Urban Innovation and an associate professor in the School of Public Affairs at Arizona State University. His work focuses primarily on community and economic development, especially public financing of sports facilities, the contribution of sports facilities to the economic development of urban space, collaborative arrangements with public, private, and nonprofit organizations for service delivery, and citizen satisfaction and performance measurement standards for public management and decision making. His forthcoming book "American Cities and the Politics of Party Conventions" (with co-authors Eric Heberlig and Suzanne Leland) arrives in 2017 from SUNY Press. His research has also been published in Public Administration Review, Social Science Quarterly, State and Local Government Review, Economic Development Quarterly, Journal of Urban Affairs, American Review of Public Administration, Public Productivity and Management Review, Public Administration Quarterly, Journal of Sports Management, Johnson's "Minor League Baseball and Local Economic Development," Rosentraub's "Major League Losers," and The Brooking Institution's "Sports, Jobs, and Taxes." He has testified to federal, state, and local legislative bodies on a range of issues related to community and economic development. Swindell's other technical policy studies include alternative financing mechanisms for smart city investments, numerous citizen satisfaction survey reports, models for involving various nonprofits in urban service delivery, various public program evaluations, estimation methodologies for light rail ridership from special event generators, and business retention strategies for local governments. Swindell is an advocate of the metropolitan mission concept through which the intellectual resources of the university are focused on developing new solutions to the challenges confronting citizens in urbanized areas. Before joining ASU, he served seven years as director of the interdisciplinary doctorate in public policy degree program at the University of North Carolina. Prior to that, he was director of the UNC-Charlotte Master of Public Administration program as well as master's of public adminstration director at Clemson University. Swindell received his doctorate in public policy from Indiana University. Education Ph.D. Public Policy, Indiana University Swindell, David. Organizational Theory and the Effectiveness of Neighborhoods and Homeowner Associations in Delivering Collective Goods. Urban Affairs Association (Mar 2011).

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• Associate Professor
• Member of the Research Committee

Dr. Lily Hsueh is an Associate Professor (tenured) of Public Policy and Economics at the School of Public Affairs at the Arizona State University. At ASU, she is also a Senior Global Futures Scientist at the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory, and a Faculty Affiliate and Seminar Series Co-Organizer at the Center for Environmental Economics and Sustainability Policy, Center for Organization Research and Design, and Political Economy Working Group. Dr. Hsueh is a recipient of the 2020-21 AAUW American Fellowship. Dr. Hsueh's research centers on how economics and politics interact, and how markets, institutions, governments, businesses and other stakeholders play mediating roles in determining policy effectiveness, shaping the policy process and affecting policy outcomes. Her most recent projects have examined the emergence and efficacy of alternative governance systems (i.e., voluntary governance or market-based governance) across different policy issue areas and types of pollution and natural resources, namely global climate change, toxic chemicals, and ocean and marine resources. Dr. Hsueh's work has also examined the interaction between the private and public provision of public goods and the implications of alternative governance approaches on social equity. Prior to joining ASU, Dr. Hsueh served as a National Research Council postdoctoral fellow at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. She received her bachelor's degree in economics (with honors) at the University of California, Berkeley and her master's degree in economics (with distinctions) at the University College London. Prior to Dr. Hsueh's career in academia, she was a senior analyst at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.

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• Current Position: Visiting Researcher, Arizona State University

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• Member of the Research Committee
• Professor

Elizabeth A. Corley is a Professor in the School of Public Affairs (SPA) at Arizona State University. Her research interests focus on environmental policy and management, environmental justice, green infrastructure and nature-based solutions for local governments.

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• Member of the Research Committee
• Professor
• Professor in the School of Public Affairs at Ari

Eric W. Welch is a professor in the School of Public Affairs at Arizona State University where he teaches science and technology policy, organization theory, institutional design, and network theory and analysis. He received his doctorate from the Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs where he specialized in science and technology policy and environmental policy and administration. Professor Welch currently directs the Center for Science, Technology and Environmental Policy Studies (C-STEPS) at ASU. He is a Senior Global Futures Scientist in ASU's Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory and an affiliated faculty member in the the ASU Center for Organization Research and Design, the ASU Sweete Center for Sustainable Food Systems and the ASU School for the Future of Innovation and Society. His primary research interests include science and technology policy, university innovation and commercialization, science communication and organizational adaptation to climate change, women and underrepresented minorities in science, and advances in communication and information technologies. Welch has 20 years of experience evaluating large multi-institution, interdisciplinary research projects in which he provides formative and summative assessments for research design and institutionalization, distributed network collaboration structures, integration of diversity, workforce development and knowledge production. His primary focus on these projects has been to assist research programs to enhance capacity development for competitive research at the jurisdiction level, primarily for the NSF EPSCoR program. He is currently leading or co-leading several National Science Founcation-funded multi-institutional projects including 1) Globalization of the scientific workforce; 2) Framing and assessing academic research excellence and competitiveness (AREC Framework) for teams, institutions and jurisdictions; 3) Regulation of science; 4) Social innovations of team science during the pandemic; and 5) Data sharing and collaboration. Welch is also the director of the Scientist Panel Opinion Survey (SciOPS) a science expertise opinion aggregator designed to bring greater communication and close knowledge gaps between science and society. Welch has received funding for previous research projects from NSF, NIH, USGS, USAID BFS, USDA NIFA, UN FAO and others. Professor Welch has published more than 100 peer-reviewed articles, refereed proceedings and book chapters. He has recently published two books: one on evaluating the societal impacts of broadband technology and one on the state of the art of digital government and governance. His most recent academic work is visible at google scholar and research gate. He has published in journals such as Social Science and Humanities (Nature), Social Networks, Global Food Security, Research Policy, Science and Public Policy, OMICS, New Phytologist, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Biobanking and Biopreservation, Business Strategy and the Environment, Environmental Management, Journal of Technology Transfer and Technovation. He has also recently published outside of academia including for the CCAFS program on farmer networks and climate smart technologies, the UN FAO on the implications of digital sequence information on the International Plant Treaty, and the global governance of research and development.

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• Current Position: Associate Professor, San Diego State University

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• Current Position: Professor, Hendrix College

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• Dean and Professor
• Professor at the School of Library

Professor Jon P. Gant is a Dean and Professor at the School of Library and Information Sciences at North Carolina Central University. Dr. Gant served as the co-author of EDAC's Building Bridges: Community Development Corporations and the World of Employment Training published by the Ford Foundation. He holds a B.A. from the University of Michigan and both a Masters and a Doctorate in Public Policy and Management from Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. Gant was previously the founding director for the UIUC Center for Digital Inclusion and has worked as a policy researcher for over 20 years.

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• Current Position: Professor, University of Montreal

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• Current Position: Visiting Researcher, Arizona State University Trustee, Cyprus Archaeological Research Institute

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• Member of the Research Committee
• Chief Information Officer at Arizona State University

Lev Gonick is the university chief information officer at Arizona State University. He is also a professor of practice in the School of Public Affairs. An educator, technologist, and smart city architect, he has been teaching, working, and living on the Net for more than 25 years. Prior to ASU, he was co-founder and CEO of DigitalC, the award-winning non-profit organization enabling and celebrating innovation, collaboration, and productivity through next generation broadband networks, big open data solutions, and IoT for public benefit. Professor Gonick was CIO at Case Western Reserve University from 2001-2013. He and his colleagues were internationally recognized for technology innovations in community engagement, learning spaces, next generation network projects, and organizational development. His innovations, including the Case Connection Zone catalyzed national projects, including US Ignite and Gig.U. Inside Business Magazine named Professor Gonick one of their Power 100 in 2015. In 2011 Government Technology awarded him one of their "Top 25 Doers, Dreamers and Drivers in Public-Sector Innovation."​ In the same year Crain's Business Cleveland named him one its "10 Difference Makers"​ in Northeast Ohio and Broadband Properties honored him with their Cornerstone Award for "using fiber to build an inclusive society and empower individuals."​ In 2010 he received recognition as "Visionary of the Year" from NATOA. He has been recognized by ComputerWorld as a Premier 100 IT leader and honored by CIO magazine with a CIO 100 Award. Education Ph.D. International Political Economy, York University, Canada 1992 M.A. World Politics, Binghamton University 1983 B.A. Philosophy, Political Science, Religion, The Ohio State University 1981

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• Member of the Research Committee
• Professor

Mary Feeney is professor and Lincoln Professor of Ethics in Public Affairs. She is the editor of the Journal of Public Administration Research & Theory. She is a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration. **Mary is currently serving as the Program Director for the Science of Science: Discovery, Communication and Impact program at the National Science Foundation. Feeney's research focuses on public and nonprofit management, sector comparisons, and science and technology policy. Feeney serves on the editorial boards for Government Information Quarterly, Perspectives on Public Management & Governance, and Journal of Behavioral Public Administration. She was previously on the editorial boards of American Review of Public Administration, International Public Management Journal, Journal of Public Administration Research & Theory, Public Administration Review, Public Integrity, and Public Performance & Management Review. She has published more than 60 peer reviewed journal articles in public administration, higher education, and science and technology policy. Feeney has two books: "Nonprofit Organizations & Civil Society in the United States" with Kelly LeRoux (Routledge, 2014) and "Rules and Red Tape: A Prism for Public Administration Theory and Research" with Barry Bozeman (ME Sharpe, 2011).

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• Director of the Interdisciplinary Center for Social Dynamics
• Member of the Open Source GRASS GIS

Michael Barton is a geoarchaeologist and anthropologist whose research centers on the dynamics of socioecological systems, expecially in the context of hunter/gatherers and small-scale agricultural societies. His expertise includes Quaternary landscapes, geospatial technologies, computational modeling, complex systems science, evolutionary theory, and lithic technology. Barton is Director of the interdisciplinary Center for Social Dynamics and Complexity, and heads the Graduate Faculty in Complex Adaptive System Science. Barton is a member of the open source GRASS GIS international development team that is making cutting edge spatial technologies available to researchers and students around the world.

Pauline Cheong is the receipient of the Zebulon Pearce Distinguished Teaching Award in the Social Sciences, the highest teaching honor in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences. She has also received the Master Teacher Award (Western States Communication Association), and the Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award (Faculty Women's Association, ASU). Cheong serves on national and international boards and committees, and has chaired doctoral colloquiums for the Association of Internet Researchers and the International Society of Media, Religion & Culture. At ASU's Center for Asian Research, she is co-director of @AsiaMediated: Interdisciplinary research and teaching innovation, funded by the U.S. Department of Education.

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• Professor of Public Policy

Peter John is Professor of Public Policy in the Department of Political Economy at King's College London. He is known for his work on agenda-setting, local politics, behavioral interventions, and randomized controlled trials.

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• Professor of Comparative Politics and Political Science at the Institute for Political Science

Norbert Kersting studied in Marburg and Madrid and received his doctorate in 1995 in Marburg on "Political Participation in marginal settlements in Zimbabwe." He habilitated in Marburg in 2005 on German and European municipal politics and administrative reforms. He later held the professorship for comparative political science at the University of Koblenz-Landau and the professorship for the Political System of the Federal Republic Germany at the University of Kassel. His book publications include "Electronic Voting and Democracy" (with Harald Baldersheim, Palgrave 2004) "Politische Beteiligung" (VS 2008), "Local Governance Reform In Global Perspective" (VS 2009); "Electronic Democracy" (Budrich 2012); "Vom Musterwähler zum Wutbürger?" (with Wichard Woyke 2013, LpB NRW)

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• Current Position: Assistant Research Professor, Arizona State University

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• Current Position: Visiting Researcher, Arizona State University

Tutor, Oxford Internet Institute Summer Doctoral Program, University of Oxford. Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, China, July 7-21 2005.

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• Current Position: Visiting Researcher, Arizona State University