People: Faculty

Silvia Borzutzky
Teaching Professor
412.268.3250
Comparative politics with a focus on Western Europe, Latin America, and U.S.-Soviet relations.

Lee G. Branstetter
Associate Professor of Economics and Public Policy
Heinz School of Policy and Management
Department of Social and Decision Sciences
412-268-4649 - 2504B Hamburg Hall
Dr. Branstetter's research interests include international economics, the economics of technological innovation, industrial organization, East Asian economic growth, and the Japanese economy.

Wändi Bruine de Bruin
Research Faculty
wandi@cmu.edu
412.268.3237
Judgment and decision making, especially risk perception and communication, decision-making competence, adolescent decision making, and order effects in judgment.

Robyn Dawes
The Charles J. Queenan, Jr. University Professor of Psychology
(412) 268-2055
Behavioral decision making, group effects and value change in social choice, applications to behaviorally spread HIV infection.

Julie Downs
Research Scientist
(412) 268-1862
Judgment and decision making, especially concerning sexual decision making, the effects of alcohol on decision making, and decisions across cultures.

Paul Fischbeck
Professor of Social and Decision Sciences and of Engineering and Public Policy
(412) 268-3240
(Joint with Department of Engineering and Public Policy)
Judgment and decision making including: decision theory, probabilistic risk analysis, reliability, decision support systems, and expert systems.

Baruch Fischhoff
Howard Heinz University Professor of Social and Decision Sciences and of Engineering and Public Policy
(412) 268-3246
(Joint with Department of Engineering and Public Policy)
Judgment and decision making, with special interests in risk perception and management, expert judgment, value elicitation, adolescence, use of formal methods in public policy making, historical judgment, human factors engineering.

Christina Fong
Research Scientist
(412) 268-8168
Public economics, inequality and redistribution, behavioral economics, political economy.

Cleotilde (Coty) Gonzalez
Associate Research Professor
(412) 268-6242
Decision making in dynamic environments and human-computer interaction.

David Hounshell
Henry Luce Professor of Technology and Social Change
(412) 268-3753
Innovation, industrial research and development, industrialization of regions, and history of science, technology, and business.

William Keech
Emeritus Professor of Political Economy
(412) 268-8364
Political economy, democratic theory and democratic institutions, the politics and the history of macroeconomic policy in

Steven Klepper
Professor of Economics and Social Science
(412) 268-3235
Industrial organization, innovation, econometrics, measurement error, tax compliance and criminal deterrence, natural monopoly regulation.

George Loewenstein
Herbert A. Simon Professor of Economics and Psychology
(412) 268-8787
Judgment and decision making with special interest in decision making over time, negotiations, risk perception, and applications of psychology to economics and law.

John Miller
Department Head and Professor of Economics & Social Sciences
(412) 268-3229
Economic and game theory, complex adaptive systems theory, auction markets, cooperation, experimental economics, political economy, and adaptive computation.

Carey Morewedge
Assistant Professor
(412) 268-6079
Judgment and decision making, with special interests in availability, causal attribution, comparison, hedonic adaptation, prediction, and social cognition

Kiron Skinner
Associate Professor
(412) 268-3238
Theories of international relations, security studies, American foreign policy, the American presidency and domestic political institutions, archival research, and rational choice theory and game theory as devices for structuring historical research.

Roberto A. Weber
Associate Professor
(412) 268-3224
Experimental economics, game theory, application of game theory to organizations, behavioral economics.


People: Adjunct Faculty
David Gerard
Mary Jo Miller
Aferworki Paulos


In Memoriam:
Otto (Toby) Davis
W.W. Cooper University Professor Economics and Public Policy
CMU Mourns the Death of University Professor and SUPA Dean Otto Davis

FACULTY IN THE NEWS!
Robyn Dawes, the Charles J. Queenan University Professor of Psychology, named Fellow of the American Statistical Association...
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