Faculty
Carole Carlson
Senior Lecturer and Director, MBA Program
Expertise: Social entrepreneurship; strategy; organizational effectiveness; consultative skills; impact optimization for mission-driven organizations
ccarlson@brandeis.edu
Schneider 203
Michael Appell, MA'79
Senior Lecturer and Assistant Director, MBA Program
Expertise: Corporate Social Responsibility, Triple Bottom Line
Joseph Assan
Senior Lecturer and Director, MA in Sustainable International Development Program
Expertise: International political economy, sustainable development, international development, development studies, development management, sustainable livelihoods, climate change adaptation and poverty reduction, environmentally-induced vulnerabilities and human security, resilience to climatic variability, environmentally-induced migration and development policy analysis, environment, health and human well-being
Brenda Anderson
Senior Lecturer, the Heller School and the International Business School
Expertise: Healthcare finance; financial and managerial accounting; auditing
Larry Bailis
Associate Professor
Expertise: Service programs, service-learning and experiential education; university-community partnerships; program evaluation, evaluation of advocacy programs
Susan Curnan
Florence G. Heller Associate Professor of the Practice and Director, Center for Youth and Communities
Expertise: Social policy and management, emphasis on leadership and management innovations with mission driven organizations and businesses
Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld
Professor; Associate Dean, Academics
Expertise: Theory and method in industrial relations, negotiations, institutional analysis, organizational behavior, information systems, employment law, cross-cultural studies
Stephen Fournier
Senior Lecturer at the Heller School and Adjunct Professor at the International Business School
Expertise: Teaching (statistics, econometrics), data analysis and applied causal modeling and data maintenance, special expertise in both Stata and SPSS
Jody Hoffer Gittell
Professor
Expertise: Organizational change; organizational effectiveness; organizational resilience; organizational theory; human resource management; relational coordination
Ricardo Godoy
Professor
Expertise: Acculturation, inequality, social capital, econometrics, research design, Bolivia, indigenous peoples, native Amazonians, panel studies, randomized controlled trials
Anita Hill
University Professor of Social Policy, Law, and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Expertise: Anti-Discrimination Law and Policy (Gender and Race)
ahill@brandeis.edu
781-736-3896
Sakshi Jain
Lecturer
Expertise: Applied microeconomics; development economics; quantitative methods; economics of education; health, gender and racial inequality; policy and impact evaluation; public finance
sakshijain@brandeis.edu
Heller-Brown 156
Maria Madison
Interim Dean
Expertise: graduate school teaching experience includes courses on intersectionality and bioethics, anti-bias/anti-racism workshops and pro seminars, discrimination analytics, clinical trial design optimization and problem solving, and evidence-based research methods; research career includes clinical and public health research in Africa and Europe.
Elif Sisli Ciamarra
Adjunct Associate Professor
Expertise: Corporate finance, corporate governance, financial intermediation, executive compensation, corporate social responsibility
Cindy Parks Thomas, PhD'00
Professor and Associate Dean for Research
Expertise: Health policy, health technology transfer, state health reform, prescription drug policy, addiction treatment, Medicare and Medicaid coverage
Sangeeta Tyagi, PhD'93
Adjunct Senior Lecturer
Expertise: Education, workforce development, and organizational leadership development
Xin Wang
Adjunct Lecturer
Expertise: Online marketing, marketing analytics, China marketing
Marji Erickson Warfield, PhD'91
Senior Scientist and Lecturer
Expertise: Children and youth with developmental disabilities and special healthcare needs; family adaptation; longitudinal studies; program evaluation
