Our Faculty

The heart of NYU Wagner's programs is our faculty. Premier scholars in a variety of disciplines—economics, finance, sociology, political science, law, planning, healthcare, and more—our faculty members conceive new answers to ambitious social questions.

Faculty Profiles

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Paul Light Paulette Goddard Professor of Public Service

Sewin Chan Associate Professor of Public Policy; Director of the PhD Program

Thomas D'Aunno Professor of Management

Faculty Research and Publications

Lessons Learned from the Buffalo Blizzard: Recommendations for Strengthening Preparedness and Recovery Efforts

Sarah Kaufman, Rae Zimmerman, Kaan Ozbay, Ashley Smith, Suvi Hynynen Lambson, Christina Curry, Edwin Jeng, Jingqin Gao, and Eren Kaval

Exploiting discovered regression discontinuities to debias conditioned-on-observable estimators

Benjamin Jakubowski, Sriram Somanchi, Edward McFowland III, and Daniel B. Neill

Projects, Products, Practice, and Pitfalls: A Hands-On Approach to Advanced Data Analytics

Julia Lane, Rayid Ghani, Frauke Kreuter, Anna-Carolina Haensch, and Maryah Garner

Translating predictive analytics for public health practice: a case study of overdose prevention in Rhode Island

B. Allen, D. B. Neill, R. C. Schell, J. Ahern, B. Hallowell, M. Krieger, V. A. Jent, W. C. Goedel, A. R. Cartus, J. L. Yedinak, C. Pratty, B. D. L. Marshall, and M. Cerda

Faculty Videos

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NYU Wagner's Kelsey Moore (BA-PP) Named CAS Valedictorian

Valedictorian Kelsey Moore's discusses her Wagner experience and details her plans for her exciting future.

Alumni in Action: Decreasing Tobacco Use Around the World

If left unchecked, the global tobacco epidemic could claim one billion lives this century. At Bloomberg Philanthropies, alumna Betsy Fuller (MPA-HPAM) is working to change that.

Alumni in Action: Cynthia Freeman (MPA 2005)

Alumna Cynthia Freeman describes how Wagner helped take her career to the next level.