Outreach - University, College and Department Service
at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies

Please also see the section, Outreach - Research and Teaching Collaboration Within the University.

James Alm is Chair of the Economics Department. He served as reviewer of Georgia State University Perspectives course proposals. He serves as chair of the Department of Economics human resources/any field search committee; chair of the Department of Economics clinical professor search committee; as member of the Department of Economics W.J. Usery Chair search committee; and co-chair of the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies dean’s search committee. He served as chair for the dissertation committees of Arti Adji, Asmaa El-Ganainy, Edward Sennoga, Mohammad Yunus, Abel Embaye, King Owalla and Muliadi; and member and reader for 16 other doctoral candidates.

Roy Bahl is Dean of the College.

H. Spencer Banzhaf served on the Recruiting Committee of the Department of Economics and served on the dissertation committee of Ikuho Kochi. 

Jameson Boex served as member of the Public Finance Field Committee; as Internal Account Reviewer, ISP accounts; and as Webmaster of the International Studies Program website.

Carolyn Bourdeaux served as chair of the Master's Level Admissions & Recruitment committee; member of the Search Committee for PAUS Job Candidate, MPA Revitalization and NASPAA Accreditation committees; and as Urban Fellows Liaison for PAUS. She served as member of Riatu Qibthiyyah's dissertation committee.

James C. Cox serves as Director of the Experimental Economics Center. He served as member of the management committee; served as chair for Angelino Viciesza's dissertation committee, member for Artidiatun Adji, external chair for two doctoral students at University of Arizona, and member for two doctoral students at University of Arizona. He developed a new course, Economics 9340, to be offered for the first time during the spring 2007 semester.

Paul G. Farnham served as chair for the Academic Program Committee, as member for the University Senate Library Advisory Committee and the University Senate Admissions and Standards Committee, as member for the University Senate Admissions and Standards Subcommittee on Summer Hours, the University Senate Admissions and Standards Subcommittee on Double Degrees/Double Majors, and the University Senate Faculty Advisory Committee to the President. He served as reader for D. Djesika Amendah’s doctoral thesis, as committee member for Kyoungwoo Lee and Roy Wada’s doctoral thesis, as chair for Mercy Mvundura’s doctoral thesis and served as independent study advisor for Sarah C. Blake.

Rachel Ferencik served on the Search Committee for Administrative Assistant, Georgia Health Policy Center.

Paul J. Ferraro served as committee member for the Educational Policy Committee, Educational Policy Committee, Undergraduate Program Committee, Georgia State Senate Cultural Diversity Committee and Sub-committee on African-American Male Initiative, and the Academic Expectations Panel (incoming first-year students). He was the coordinator for the Department of Economics seminar series and faculty advisor for the Georgia State chapter of the Omicron Delta Epsilon Honors Society and Georgia State Economics Club. He designed and supervised randomized experiment to test early intervention, strength-based advising and faculty mentoring as a way to improve retention and graduation among majors in Economics and Public Administration and Urban Studies and co-implemented the survey with the AYSPS Office of Academic Assistance, and he served on the departmental search committee for an Assistant Professor position. He served as dissertation chair for Kwaw Andam and Vid Adrison, and as member for Artidiantun Adji, Peter Bluestone, and Georgia Tech student Liliana Letteri. He was masters thesis chair for Ju Hsieh.

Shelby Frost served as Chair of the Undergraduate Programs Committee, member of the Undergraduate Teaching Committee, chair of the Principles textbook selection committee, and as Faculty Academic Advisor to all undergraduate economics majors. She attended final teaching presentations in ESL 7500 (ITA training course) for economics graduate students. She served as AYSPS faculty representative on University Senate in the Nominations Committee, Faculty Affairs Committee, NTT Governance Committee, Teaching Effectiveness Committee, Committee on Academic Programs, Undergraduate Council, and the Social Science Assessment Committee. She also served as member of the CTL Graduate Student Teacher Trainers Group, CTL Advisory Board and on the steering committee of the CTL Century Club.

Douglas Greenwell served as committee member for a Ph.D. candidate in the College of Education. 

Shiferaw Gurmu served as coordinator of the computer and technology activities committee, as chair of the Econometrics and Statistics Educational Policy committee, as Coordinator of the Applied Econometrics Workshop and Economics Seminar Series, served as member of the Web Committee and Promotion and Tenure Committee. He served as member of the dissertation committee for Riatu Qibthiyyah, Vid Adrison, King Owalla, Djesika Amendah, Peter Oburu, Mohammad Yunus, Guevera Yao, Ant Veysel, and chair for Eric Sarpong; and he prepared and graded MA comp exams in statistics and econometrics.

Carol D. Hansen is Director of Faculty and Student Exchanges with the U.K. and Switzerland. She served as member of the Student Appeals committee, participated in a faculty panel at new graduate student orientation, and served as reviewer for the IEF grants; and she drafted the international program materials for the MPA. She also served on the Faculty Advisory Board for the Georgia State Career Services Program, Georgia State Charitable Contributions Committee, Georgia State Faculty Advisory Commitee for the Career Development Center, Georgia State Study Abroad Study Faculty Review Committee, was Lead faculty member for the EU program to Strasbourg, France, and the EU faculty committee; and was the co-chair for the 2006 Georgia State Charitable Contributions campaign.

Julie L. Hotchkiss served as chair of the dissertation committees of Olga Pavlova and Roy Wada, as member for Ikuho Kochi, and as reader for Mercy Mvundura.

Janet L. Johnson is Associate Director of the Nonprofit Studies Program. She served as member of the PAUS Faculty Search Committee and also served as AYSPS Liaison for the Usery Center, organizing the Second Annual W.J. Usery Lecture on the American Workplace in April 2006.

William M. Kahnweiler served as member of the PAUS Curriculum Committee, as track specialist for the BS-UPS HR specialization and MPA HR track, as member of the PAUS Program Assessment Committee, and as panel member of the PAUS Alumni Club Meeting on "Inside Government Careers." He served as member of the Student Discipline Committee, Athletic Committee for the University Senateand as a member of the Faculty Senate.

Bruce E. Kaufman was a member of the Undergraduate Committee, member of the Annual Review Committee for Associate Professors, chair of the triennial evaluation committee for Jim Alm, chair of the post-tenure review committee for Geoffrey Turnbull, member of the Principles Textbook Selection Committee, chair of the Library Committee, co-chair of the Usery Distinguished Lecture series committee, organizer of campus visit for Prof. Price Fishback, member of the AYSPS Academic Affairs Committee, member of the Provost’s Strategic Planning Committee, chair of the ad hoc committee to develop the new IEML major, and acting chair (twice). He also gave a guest lecture for the Summer Interns, June 9, 2006. He served as chair of the dissertation committee for Ben Miller; and supervised the Master’s thesis for eight students: Ben Fierman, Dan Hall, Peter Lewman, Robyn Bowen, Ben Miller, Rucha Samudra, Akia Ramsey, Dan Rodgers.

Janelle Kerlin served as committee member on the BS-PuP Program Assessment Committee and as Faculty Advisor for the Oxfam America Student Group (undergraduate). She also served as reader in the Department of Economics for Nara Monkam’s doctoral thesis and as independent study advisor for Robert Clark.

Yuriy Kitsul served on the dissertation committee for Abel Embaye, and Econometrics and Macro Theory field committees.

Douglas J. Krupka served as member of the Principals Textbook Selection Committee and as member on the dissertation committees for Michael Tasto, Robert Salvino and Velma Zahirovic-Herbert, as chair for Kwame Donaldson, and as reader for Bulent Anil.

Susan K. Laury is Associate Director of the Experimental Economics Center. She served as member on the Annual Review Committee for Assistant Professors, the Textbook Selection Committee, Summer Course Release Revision Committee, and Experimental Economics/Micro Theory Search Committee; worked with Jane Leonard, Shelby Frost, Janet Johnson, and others on a successful tech-fee grant that provided funding for "clickers" to be used in economics classes and lifetime registration codes for these clickers (CPS Grant), supervised a summer intern, Matt Jones, and organized a visit for David Lucking Reiley (University of Arizona), including a seminar presentation. She also served as member of the Online Principles Course Committee, to develop an online principles course for high school students; member of the Triennial Committee to Evaluate Associate Provost of IS&T, JL Albert (AYS Rep); member of the AYS Management Committee, Instructional Delivery Plans Committee, Student Tech Fee Committee (Subcommittee of Senate's IS&T), Senate IS&T Committee, Graduate Committee of CAP (Senate), Senate Committee on Academic Programs (CAP), and on the University Senate. She also served as member of the Georgia State Research Foundation Board of Directors, IRB and Internal Grants Peer Review Committee.

Gregory B. Lewis is Director of the Joint Georgia Institute of Technology-Georgia State University Doctoral Program in Public Policy. He served on the junior faculty search committee, AYSPS Promotion and Tenure Committee, and the AYSPS Dean Search Committee.

Jon Mansfield served as committee chair for the Graduate Teaching Committee and committee member for the MBA Committee and the Undergraduate Program Committee. He also served as the Economics Department Coordinator for the Georgia State Annual Giving Campaign.

Jorge Martinez-Vazquez is Director of the International Studies Program. He served as dissertation chair for Eunice Heredia, Dmitry Shiskin, Paul Kagunda, Ming-Hung Yao, Nara Monkham, Cristian Sepulveda, Panupong Panudulkitti, and Raul Alberto Ponce, and as member for Artidiatum Adji, Riatu M. Qibthiyyah, and Angelino Viceisza.

Robert E. Moore is Associate Dean of the College.

Harvey K. Newman served as committee member for the PAUS Graduate Admissions Committee, PAUS Curriculum Committee, Learning Outcomes Assessment, and Academic Programs Committee. He served as the Faculty Advisor, Eta Gamma Chapter, Sigma Nu Fraternity, Georgia State University. He also served on the Hearing Panel for the University.

Lloyd G. Nigro served as Chair of the Academic Program Review Subcommittee of the Georgia State Senate Committee on Academic Programs.

Klara Sabirianova Peter served on the Econometrics Committee of the Department of Economics; on the search committee for the Usery chair position in labor economics; prepared a comprehensive econometrics exam for Master students and prepared a new course on applied econometrics for Master students.

Ragan Petrie co-organized Workshop on Using Experiments in the Classroom, June 6, 2006; served as member of the Principles of Micro/Macro Textbook Review Committee, Educational Policy Committees of the Department of Economics (Microeconomic Theory, Economic Development, Resource/Environmental), Micro Comprehensive Exam Committee, Economics Department Graduate Committee and Faculty Affairs Committee; and served as reader for Michael Tasto, as dissertation committee member for Hanji Wu, Xinye Zheng and Abdu Muwonge, and thesis committee member for Katie Hsieh.

Mary Ann Phillips served on the Any Field faculty search committee for the Department of Economics.

David W. Pitts served as faculty advisor for the Graduate Student Association of AYSPS and for the Department of Economics. He served as Faculty advisor for the PAUS Network student organization and the JD/MPA joint degree program; as Track specialist for urban policy studies and human resources management; as committee member for the NASPAA accreditation committee, Program assessment committee, Committee on the revitalization of the Human Resources Management curriculum, Curriculum committee, and on the student fees committee.

Theodore Poister served as chair of the AYSPS Committee on Promotion & Tenure, member of the Search Committee for new Dean of AYSPS, and as elected member of the PAUS Executive Committee.

Inas Rashad served as a reader and member on several dissertation committees; and served as a member for the Undergraduate Programs Committee for the Department of Economics, the Usery Chair Committee, and the Comprehensive field exam committee.

Mark Rider served as member of Raul Ponce’s dissertation committee; served on GSU’s Senate By-Laws Committee and on the AYSPS Academic Program Committee; and served as Director of the undergraduate economics tutoring lab.

Felix Rioja served as member of the Macroeconomics Policies Committee, and chair of the Graduate Committee; as reader for Ming-hung Yao and Asmaa El-Ganainy, member for Miladi Widjaja, Jose Rene Rendon-Garza, Steven Buigut, Arti Adji, and chair of Koudio Dongo's master's project; and as coach of the college's intramurals flag football team.

Christine H. Roch served as chair for the Ph.D. Revision and committee member for the PAUS Program Assessment Committee, Admissions and Coordinating Committee for the Joint Ph.D. Program, Evaluation and Policy Analysis Field Comp Committee, Core Exam Committee, Curriculum Committee, Executive Committee, Departmental Library Liaison, BSPuP, 5-Year Review Committee for Gary Henry, Junior Search Committee, Faculty Affairs Committee, Search Committee for Junior Faculty Position in the School of Education, University Senate Research Committee, University Senate Faculty Affairs Committee, and University Senate. She served as dissertation committee member for Robert Salvino, Tommy Engram, John Matthews, reader for Velma Zahirovic-Herbert, and chair for Nevbahar Ertas.

Jonathan Rork served as member of the Undergraduate Program Committee.

Vjollca Sadiraj developed two teaching modules in a National Dissemination Workshop on the Use of Experiments in Teaching with the EconPort Digital Library, Atlanta, Ga., sponsored by the National Science Foundation, June 7, 2006.

Bruce A. Seaman served as Chair of the Microeconomic Theory Committee; Chair of the Faculty Affairs Committee; AYSPS Representative in the Georgia State Faculty Senate; and as Placement Director for Ph.D. in Economics students.

David L. Sjoquist is Director of the Office of Domestic Programs and the Fiscal Research Center.

Paula E. Stephan served on Eric Sarpong’s dissertation committee, serving as chair of Zeynep Alkan’s committee, and served on the proposal defense committees of Mercy Mvundura, Kyoungwoo Lee and Ikuho Kochi.

Gregory Streib is Chair of the Department of Public Administration and Urban Studies.

J. Todd Swarthout served as member on the committee to discuss developing online economics courses, and continues to support the Econport Digital Library. He served as organizer of the National Dissemination Workshops, held June 7-8 in Atlanta and June 29 in San Diego, Calif. He managed a team of students who developed new economics content for EconPort; facilitated the use of lab for both research and teaching by Georgia State faculty and graduate students, as well as visiting researchers; implemented an online subject recruitment and lab reservation system; and oversaw the ongoing development and improvement of lab software - EconPort, MarketLink, Normal Form Game, Extensive Form Game, and One-Sided Auctions.

Laura O. Taylor served as member of the Academic Program Committee, as chair of the Undergraduate Program Committee, and as chair of the AYSPS State Charitable Contributions Program.

Erdal Tekin served as member of the Review Committee for the Summer Research Program, Faculty Affairs Committee, Usery Chair Search Committee, Graduate Program Committee, AYSPS Dean Search Committee, as chair of the Graduate Student Association of the Economics Department, and Admissions and Coordinating Committee for the Georgia Tech-Georgia State Joint Ph.D. Program on Public Policy; and as dissertation chair for Viviane Malafaia, Roy Wada, Resul Cesur and Djesika Amendah and dissertation member for Zeynep Alkan, Olga Pavlova, Kyoungwoo Lee, Muliadi Widjaja, Eric Sarpong, Bulent Anil and Mercy Mvundura. He also served as member of the organizing committee for the Public Policies and Child Well-being Conference by Georgia Health Policy Center at AYSPS.

John Clayton Thomas served as committee chair for the Promotion and Tenure Committee and member for the PAUS Executive Committee, Admissions & Coordination Committee, Joint Doctoral Program in Public Policy, and Promotion and Tenure Committee.

Geoffrey K. Turnbull served on the Associate Professors Annual Evaluation Committee, as Associate Faculty in the Urban Fellows Program, as Coordinator of the Urban and Regional Analysis Group, and served on the FIMS evaluation committee.

Eric C. Twombly served as Member of the Public Policy/Public Administration Faculty Search Committee, Curriculum Committee, Nonprofit Faculty Search Committee, Program Assessment Committee for the Masters of Science in Urban Policy Studies, and on the MPA Admissions Committee. He also served as member on the dissertation committee of Shena Ashley.

Neven Valev managed the Summer Internship Program, served on and chaired the Principles textbook selection committee, served on the Junior Faculty Evaluation Committee, Graduate Studies Committee, and participated in the Graduate Student Campus Visit and Faculty Recruitment Interviews. He also helped design the international component of the new economics capstone course.

Mary Beth Walker served on the recruiting committee for the Any Field search in the Department of Economics and as a member of the econometrics field committee; served on the review committee for the Dan Sweat Fellowship; served as chair of dissertation committees for Mamadou Sow, Hyun Park, and Kyoungwoo Lee and as dissertation committee member for King Owalla, Mercy Mvundura, Asmaa El-Ganainy, Eunice Heredia, Ikuho Kochi, Edward Sennoga, Mohammad Yunus, and Li Zhang; and served as dissertation reader for Mike Tasto.

Sally Wallace is Associate Director of the Fiscal Research Center. She served on the search committee for urban regional/state-local professor, as Chair of the Public Finance Committee, as Chair of the University Academic Support Unit Review Committee for the Office of the Vice President for Research and College Research; as Member of the Provost Triennial Review; as Committee Member of the Department Chair Triennial Review Committee; as Chair of Department Annual Review Committee for Assistant Professors; and as Faculty chair of SACS Faculty-Staff review committee. She presented lectures to the students in the AYSPS Institute Summer Program on fiscal decentralization and grants, revenue assignment and fiscal architecture; served as mentor for the American Economic Association Pipeline Mentor’s Program, and served on dissertation committees for Christine Moloi as Chair, Abdu Muwonge as Chair, Riatu Qibthiyyah as Chair, Shiyuan Chen, Ki-Whan Choi, Asmaa El-Ganainy, Zhenhua Hu, Edward Sennoga, Artidiatun Adji, Muliadi, King Owalla, Dmitry Shiskin, Mamadou Sow, Ming-Hung Yao, and Hai Guo; and Catherine Cleveland (School of Accountancy).

William L. Waugh, Jr. served as member of the International Programs Committee, MPA Admissions Committee, chair of the Pretenure Review Committee in Spring 2006, Student Discipline Committee, Faculty Affairs Committee, Hosea Williams Award for Community Activism Committee, Environmental Programs Advisory Committee, Ad Hoc Homeland Security Committee, University Senate Research Committee, University Senate Planning and Development Committee, University Senate Budget Committee and the University Senate Executive Committee. He also served as Coordinator for MPA/JD Program, Faculty Advisor for Pi Alpha Alpha Honorary Association, Coordinator for Graduate Certificate in Natural Resources Management, and Coordinator for Graduate Certificate in Disaster Management.

Laura A. Wheeler served on an FRC committee tasked with redesigning the FRC website; and served on FRC search committee to hire a new Research Associate.

Katherine G. Willoughby was a member of the Triennial Review of Jerry Rackliffe, Vice President of Finance and Administration, was the PAUS and AYSPS representative panelist for “Academic Expectations” for Freshmen Incept Orientation on July 7, 2006, completed service as chair of PAUS Academic Program Review Committee, and continues service as the PAUS liaison to the MPA Advisory Board. She has served as the PAUS liaison since inception of the Board in 2001. She continues service as a member of the PAUS Admissions Committee, and the PAUS Executive Committee, and met with members of the Congressional Research Service in January 2006 to support collaboration with AYSPS in the conduct of student internships with the CRS in the future. She manages the PAUS Internship program.

Yongsheng Xu served as member of the MA-Econ programs committee, graduate microeconomics committee, micro comp exam committee, graduate committee, and also on the MS-Business Econ committee, advising Robinson College of Business MS-Bus Econ students on academic matters.

Dennis R. Young served as Director of the Nonprofit Program for the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, as dissertation committee chair for Hyung-Jin Lee of the Mandel School of Applied Social Science, Case Western Reserve University, and as member for King Owalla.