Faculty Distinctions and Thought Leadership

Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts 2018-2019 Impact Report

Distinguished faculty

Diana Hicks
School of Public Policy Professor

Hicks Named AAAS Fellow

Public Policy professor and former chair Diana Hicks, was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Hicks was recognized for distinguished contributions to the evaluation of national and international research and development enterprises, and for outstanding leadership in science and technology policy education. She specializes in metrics for science and technology policy and was first author of the Leiden Manifesto for research metrics. She is the seventh AAAS Fellow in the School of Public Policy.  Read More

Bryan Norton
School of Public Policy Professor Emeritus

Festschrift on Work of Bryan Norton

Bryan Norton, public policy professor emeritus, has been feted for his pioneering scholarship in environmental philosophy and sustainability theory. In A Sustainable Philosophy - The Work of Bryan Norton, scholars and professionals from many fields, including environmental philosophy, natural resource management, environmental economics, law, and public policy, engage Norton’s work and its legacy for society's shared environmental future. The book was compiled by University of Texas at Austin Professor Sahotra Sarkar and Arizona State University in Tempe Professor Ben A. Minteer and published by Springer International.Read More

Aaron Levine, Public Policy
- Selected as an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Leshner Fellow

David Muchlinski, Nunn School
- Awarded the 2018 Frank Cass Award for Best Article for a paper he co-authored entitled “Electoral Violence Prevention: What Works?”

John Krige, History and Sociology
- Named a winner of The James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies’ 2018 Doreen and Jim McElvany Nonproliferation Challenge

Kaye Husbands Fealing, Public Policy
- Delivered the plenary talk during the second day of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) forum on science and technology policy in Washington, DC.
- Appointed to the board of the Journal of Science Policy and Governance

Kelly Comfort, Modern Languages
- Awarded 2019 Most Promising New Textbook by the Textbook & Academic Authors Association for her textbook, Cien años de identidad: Introducción a la literatura latinoamericana del siglo XX, 1st ed. (Georgetown University Press)

Lawrence Rubin, Nunn School
- Appointed Associate Fellow at the International Institute for Strategic Studies

Mary Frank Fox, Public Policy
- Participated in the National Academies of Sciences’ Workshop to help launch a new study on “Addressing the Underrepresentation of Women in Science, Engineering, and Medicine”

Mary McDonald, History and Sociology
- Delivered the Alan Ingham Memorial keynote lecture for the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport Conference speaking on Once More, With Feeling: Sport, National Anthems and the Collective Power of Affect
- Received the Service Award from the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport

Milton Mueller, Public Policy
- Delivered Fifth Annual Ostrom Lecture Honoring the Nobel Laureate at Indiana University Bloomington

selected Presentations

Adam Stulberg (Left) and Lawrence Rubin (Right) are both professors in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs

Rubin and Stulberg Discuss Findings at NATO and Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments

International Affairs professors Adam Stulberg and Lawrence Rubin discussed nuclear security with NATO officials in Brussels at the invitation of Nunn School alumna Jessica Cox, who heads NATO’s Nuclear Policy Directorate and with CSBA staff in Washington. Both sessions featured conclusions from their edited book, The End of Strategic Stability? Nuclear Weapons and the Challenge of Regional Rivalries, stating that strategic stability is understood differently among different actors across different contexts and should be tailored to modern global security challenges.

Michael L. Best
Sam Nunn School of International Affairs Associate Professor

Best Speaks at United Nations on Digital Gender Equality

Michael L. Best, on faculty in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs and in Computing, gave closing remarks for the 63rd session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women. Best highlighted new research from a coalition he co-founded, “Taking Stock: Data and Evidence on Gender Equality in Digital Access, Skills and Leadership,” which demonstrates the impacts of technology on women in various contexts such as jobs and wages, security and privacy, cyber threats, and new technologies.

Alan Marco
School of Public Policy Professor

Marco Presents at Federal Trade Commission Hearing

Public Policy professor Alan Marco gave introductory comments on patent policy and was a panelist at Federal Trade Commission hearings on Competition and Consumer Protection in the 21st Century. The former chief economist for the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Marco specializes in innovation and patent policy, science and technology policy, intellectual property, strategy and management, patent valuation, and other related areas.

Robert Rosenberger (Right) with staff in the Atlanta Mayor's Office of Workplace Safety

Robert Rosenberger Takes Message Against Distracted Driving to City Hall

In a presentation to the Atlanta Mayor’s Office of Workplace Safety, Public Policy Associate Professor Robert Rosenberger emphasized that Georgia’s new law prohibiting handheld use of cell phones while driving is a crucial first step in reducing accidents and deaths from distracted driving, but his research shows, however, that even hands-free use of a cell phone in the car can have deadly consequences. A philosopher by training, Rosenberger feels an imperative to take his message to the public. “The deeper I’ve gotten into this, the more I care about it. People are very resistant to hearing how impaired our driving is when we use our phones.”

NEw Georgia Tech fAculty Appointments

John Krige Named Regents’ Professor

John Krige, Kranzberg Professor in the School of History and Sociology (HSOC), was appointed Regents’ Professor, the highest academic research recognition bestowed by the University System of Georgia Board of Regents. Krige is internationally renowned for scholarship focusing on the intersection of science, technology, and foreign policy. He has shaped the field of Cold War science, while leading the way in transnational history of twentieth-century science and technology. In addition to his numerous books, many scholarly awards, and prestigious fellowships, Krige attracts graduate students from around the world who laud him as a compelling and supportive teacher.

Seymour Goodman Reappointed Regents’ Professor

Seymour E. Goodman, professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs and the College of Computing, has been reappointed as Regent’s Professor by the University System of Georgia Board of Regents. Goodman is co-director of the Center for International Strategy, Technology, and Policy and director emeritus of the Sam Nunn Security Program. His work has garnered funding from more than two dozen sources, including multi-year grants from the National Science Foundation and the MacArthur Foundation. He is currently developing a program concerned with homeland security including problems confronting democracies that are contending with global terrorism, and resilience in critical infrastructures.

Marilyn Brown Reappointed as a Brook Byers Professor of Sustainable Systems

Marilyn Brown, Regents’ Professor in the School of Public Policy, has been reappointed as a Brook Byers Professor of Sustainable Systems, one of three appointed by the University System of Georgia Board of Regents to expand Georgia Tech’s sustainability dialogue and further our work on technologies and policies for a clean energy future. Brown’s research and teaching focus on the design and modeling of energy and climate policies, and emphasize the electric utility industry, energy efficiency, and consumer resources. She directs the Climate and Energy Policy Lab and is a member of the Board of Directors of the Tennessee Valley Authority.

excellence at georgia tech

Awards

  • Jennifer Singh, History and Sociology
    - Received 2019 Serve-Learn-Sustain Award for Excellence
  • Karen Head, Literature, Media, and Communication
    - Received Georgia Tech's Class of 1934 Outstanding Service Award
  • Lisa Yaszek, Literature, Media, and Communication
    - Received the Ivan Allen College Distinguished Faculty Researcher Award
  • Mary Frank Fox, Public Policy
    - Recognized by Georgia Tech Institute Diversity as a Face of Inclusive Excellence
  • Richard Barke, Public Policy
    - Selected to serve on Georgia Tech’s presidential search committee
  • Qi Wang, Literature, Media, and Communication
    - Recognized by Georgia Tech’s Institute Diversity as a Face of Inclusive Excellence
  • Karen Head (LMC), Olga Shemyakina (ECON), and Jennifer Singh (HSOC) were selected for the fourth cohort of Georgia Tech’s Emerging Leaders Program for 2019-2020
  • Alice Favero (PubPol), Britta Kallin (ModLangs), Michael Best and Neha Kumar (Nunn School), Shatakshee Dhongde (ECON) were named to the first cohort of Serve-Learn-Sustain’s Sustainable Development Goals Faculty Fellows

Teaching Awards

Johnny Smith, the Julius C. “Bud” Shaw professor of Sports History, HSOC
- Received the Geoffrey G. Eichholz Faculty Teaching Award
- Received the Ivan Allen College Award for Innovation in Education



Neha Kumar, Nunn School
- Received 2019 Serve-Learn-Sustain Excellence in Teaching Student Choice Award



Awarded Class of 1940 Course Survey Teaching Effectiveness Award:

New Faculty

School of Economics

  • Dylan Brewer, Assistant Professor. His research investigates residential energy use and demand management in electricity markets with a focus on incentives for energy use and conservation.
  • Max Rosenthal, Assistant Professor. His research focuses on microeconomic theory, with primary emphases on contract theory, mechanism design, and behavioral economics.
  • Karen Yan, Assistant Professor. Her research focuses on econometrics and applied econometrics and in developing and improving econometric methods for policy evaluation and causal inference.

School of Literature, Media, and Communication

  • Katie Farris, Associate Professor. Award-winning fiction writer, poet, and translator, who has also been awarded for her reviews and anthologies.

School of Modern Languages

  • Natalie Khazaal, Assistant Professor of Arabic. Studies the links among disenfranchisement, media, and language. Current work focuses on refugees, animals, and multiculturalism.
  • Amanda Weiss, Assistant Professor of Japanese. Teaches East Asian media and society. Her first works are focusing on competing masculinities in East Asian war cinema and on contemporary Japanese remembrance of Manchukuo.

Newly Tenured Faculty

Daniel Amsterdam and Johnny Smith (HSOC), Matthew Oliver (ECON), Nassim Parvin (LMC), and Paul Alonso and Jan Uelzmann (ModLangs) received tenure and were promoted to associate professors.