March 30, 2010 | Environment, Public Informatics, Quantitative Methods, Social Policy, Transportation, Urban Planning
Kelcie Ralph joined the Bloustein School from UCLA’s Luskin School of Public Affairs, where she studied the travel behavior of special populations. She earned her Ph.D. from UCLA, where her dissertation project evaluated the causes and consequences of the...
March 29, 2010 | Environment, International, Political Institutions, Qualitative Methods, Urban Planning
Andrea Restrepo-Mieth, Ph.D. joined the Bloustein School as an assistant professor in September 2022. She was previously a postdoctoral fellow at Perry World House, University of Pennsylvania, where she worked on urban planning institutions and local climate change...
August 9, 2024 | Health Administration, Social Policy, US Health Systems
Melinda Rushing, Ph.D., LMSW joined the Bloustein School as an Assistant Professor in September 2024. She is an applied data scientist and implementation scientist whose research leverages quantitative methods to identify patterns in the delivery of and access to...
March 13, 2010 | International, Labor, Political Institutions, Qualitative Methods, Social Policy, Urban Planning
Hal Salzman is Professor of Planning and Public Policy at the Edward J. Bloustein School and Senior Faculty Fellow at the John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development. His research focuses on science and engineering labor markets, workplace restructuring, skill...
March 12, 2010 | Artificial Intelligence, Management, Public Informatics, Quantitative Methods, Urban Design
Dr. Jim Samuel is an Associate Professor of Practice and Executive Director of the Informatics Program at Bloustein. He is an information and artificial intelligence (AI) scientist, with significant industry experience in finance, technology, entrepreneurship and data...
March 7, 2010 | Economics, Environment, Political Institutions, Public Policy
Stuart Shapiro was named Dean, Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, in April 2023. He joined Rutgers University in 2003. Prior to that, he received a PhD in Public Policy from Harvard University – Kennedy School of Government and worked at the...
March 5, 2010 | International, Urban Planning
Mi Shih joined the faculty of the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy in 2014. Prior to this appointment, she served as an assistant professor in the Human Geography and Planning Program at the University of Alberta, Canada. Between 2011 and 2013,...
March 3, 2010 | Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Public Informatics, Quantitative Methods, Transportation, Urban Planning
Dr. Michael Smart is an associate professor at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers. His research interests include the influence of social and spatial phenomena on individuals’ transportation decisions, with a particular interest in...
February 18, 2010 | Transportation, Urban Planning
Director, Rutgers Urban and Civic Informatics Lab View post View Vonu Thakuriah’s website: https://sites.rutgers.edu/thakuriah
February 14, 2010 | Economics, Finance, Health Administration, Public Health, Public Policy, Quantitative Methods, Social Policy
Jermaine Toney, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor at the Bloustein School. He was selected to receive a 2023-2024 National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Fellowship on Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Economic Outcomes. Professor Toney was a member of the 2022-2023...
February 1, 2010 | Economics, Labor, Political Institutions, Public Policy, Qualitative Methods, Social Policy
Carl Van Horn is a widely recognized expert on workforce, human resources, and employment policy issues with extensive experience in public and private sector policymaking. Van Horn is the founding director of the Heldrich Center for Workforce Development, one of the...
January 25, 2010 | Disparities, Public Health, Public Policy
Sharifa Z. Williams, MS, DrPH, joined the Bloustein School in September 2022. Her research interests include biostatistical methods applied to identifying and quantifying health disparities that arise from exposure to structural adversity (i.e., discrimination and...
January 23, 2010 | Finance, Public Policy
Ruth Winecoff is an Assistant Professor of Public Policy. Her primary research area is state and local public finance, with a focus on policies that affect the ability of subnational governments to raise capital for infrastructure and development projects through the...
January 20, 2010 | Economics, Health Policy, Quantitative Methods, Social Policy
Nancy Wolff, Ph.D., an economist and professor, joined the Bloustein faculty in 1992. Her research has increasingly focused on public policies and justice practices that influence the incarceration and rehabilitation of justice-involved people. In 1999, she was...
January 1, 2010 | Energy, Environment, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Land Use, Public Informatics, Quantitative Methods, Transportation, Urban Planning
Wenwen Zhang, Ph.D. joined the Bloustein School in August 2020. She received her Ph.D. from Georgia Tech’s School of City and Regional Planning in 2017. She also earned Masters in City and Regional Planning, Civil Engineering, and Computational Science &...
