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The Center’s mission is to provide critical insights on domestic and international challenges through interdisciplinary research, experiential education, and policy engagement. The Center seeks to accomplish this mission by leveraging the expertise of jointly-appointed, interdisciplinary faculty who lead the Center’s programs, and through the contributions of fellows drawn from academia, public service, and industry. Together, these thought-leaders conduct research on pressing policy challenges, producing peer-reviewed publications as well as policy briefs, white papers, and public lectures, and act as mentors and teachers to the Center’s growing cadre of students at the undergraduate and graduate levels.
Find an expert to gain insight into your issue below, divided by the following categories: Energy and Environment, Global Security, and Security and Governance.
Energy and Environment
Charles Sims
Dr. Sims is the Director of the Energy & Environment Program at the Howard H. Baker Jr. Center…
Paul Armsworth
Dr. Armsworth researches the ways ecology and socioeconomic sciences can be integrated more effectively to inform conservation strategies and…
Seong-Hoon Cho
Dr. Cho’s research focuses on land conservation strategies for protection of ecosystem services. He is particularly interested in exploring optimal…
Mary English
Dr. English’s expertise lies in Energy and Environmental Policy Issues, Mechanisms for Involving Stakeholders in Public Policy Decisions…
David L. Greene
Dr. Greene is currently on assignment as advisor on Corporate Average Fuel Economy to the Administrator of the…
Lorna A. Greening
Dr. Greening, an economic consultant, has focused on economies of energy and natural resources, greenhouse gas mitigation and regulation policies…
Jamie A. Greig
Dr. Greig’s research focus lies in broadband communications and digital information technology in rural and agricultural settings…
Joseph Hoagland
Joe Hoagland is TVA’s designated federal officer for both the Regional Energy Resource Council and the Regional Resource Stewardship Council…
J. Scott Holladay
Dr. Holladay’s research interests include environmental, energy, and international economics…
Jacob LaRiviere
Dr. LaRiviere is a Director of Economics and Data Science at Amazon working to help customers to find the right sellers…
David McCollum
Dr. McCollum is a Senior R&D Staff in the Mobility and Energy Transitions Analysis (META) Group at Oak Ridge National Laboratory…
John Nolt
Dr. John Nolt is Professor Emeritus in Philosophy at the University of Tennessee and a Research Fellow in the Energy…
William Park
Dr. Park’s fields of interest lie in Natural Resource Conservation and Environmental Policy Issues relating to Agriculture and Rural…
Deborah Penchoff
Dr. Deborah Penchoff currently serves as Associate Director for the UT Innovative Computing Laboratory, where she directs strategic plans for…
Robert Shelton
Robert Shelton focuses on Energy, Economic, and Technology Policy…
Bruce Tonn
Three themes run through Dr. Tonn’s research and interests: rigorous evaluation of low-income energy and other programs…
Christian Vossler
Dr. Christian Vossler is the J. Fred Holly Chair of Excellence in the Department of Economics, Haslam College of Business…
Jilleah Welch
Dr. Jilleah Welch is a Research Associate focused on Public Finance, Economics of Education, and Environmental Economics…
Global Security
Krista Wiegand
Dr. Wiegand is Professor of Political Science and the Director of the Global Security program at the Center. She specializes in territorial and maritime disputes, international conflict resolution, and East Asian security…
Matthew Buehler
Dr. Buehler is a specialist of comparative politics and international relations in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region…
Wonjae Hwang
Dr. Hwang is a professor in political science. He specializes in international political economy and Korean/Asian politics…
Eric Keels
Eric Keels’s interests lie in Civil War, Ethnic Violence, Election Violence, International Mediation, Peace Agreements, Resource Curse, and Conflict Management…
Kelly Morrison
Kelly Morrison is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science and a Global Security Faculty Affiliate at the Baker Center…
Brandon Prins
Dr. Prins is Professor and Department Head in the Department of Political Science. Research focuses on relationship between domestic politics, international relations…
Jonathan Ring
Dr. Ring’s work is interested in international relations, comparative politics, foreign policy, conflict processes, transnational activism, human rights…
Sojeong Lee
Sojeong Lee is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow for the Global Security Program and Managing Editor for International Studies Quarterly…
Candace White
Candace White is focused on Public Diplomacy, Corporate Social Responsibility, Global Public Relations, Cultural Diplomacy, Country Image, Intercultural Communication…
Leadership and Governance
Katie Cahill
Dr. Cahill is the Associate Director of the Howard H. Baker Jr. Center, the Director of the Center’s Leadership…
Stephanie Bohon
Dr. Stephanie Bohon the founder and co-director of the Center for the study of Social Justice…
Macel Ely
Dr. Ely serves as the Director of Organizational Improvement for the Institute for Public Service. Most recently he served as…
Michael D. Jones
Dr. Jones is an Associate Professor in UTK’s Department of Political Science, Director of the Masters of Public Policy…
William “Bill” Lyons
Dr. Lyons’s work is interested in American politics, campaigns and elections, state and local government, public administration…
John Scheb
Dr. Scheb has served as Director of UT’s Social Science Research Institute, and Chair of the Legal Studies Program…
Marianne Wanamaker
Dr. Wanamaker is the Executive Director of the Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy and is also…
