My official job title is Senior Data Technician at Duke University's Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy. My hometown is Hingham, Massachusetts. I have been living in Durham, NC for more than thirteen years now after returning to where I attended graduate school from 1990-92 in September 1993. I specialize in data collection, analysis and research on many diffferent issues, lately these have included the effects of alcohol taxation, the costs of gun violence, resegregation of schools in metropolitan areas, and state lotteries. I have been fortunate to have helped contribute data analysis to two television violence books written by Professor Jay Hamilton and published in 1998 (you can read about one of them here). Channeling Violence won the Goldsmith Book Prize from Harvard's Kennedy School in March 1999. Also in 1999 Calculating Risks? was published, a book on EPA's Superfund program cowritten by Jay and Kip Viscusi for which I also contributed work (you can read about this book here). This book was the culmination of a five year study (1992-97) for which I was hired for three months of guaranteed work in the fall of 1993. I also have contributed research for articles on the costs of gunshot wounds, published in JAMA in August 1999, and the effectiveness of the Brady Law published in JAMA in August 2000, both authored by Philip Cook and Jens Ludwig. These two authors also have collaborated on a book entitled Gun Violence: The Real Costs (read more about it here) published by Oxford University Press in October 2000 and Evaluating Gun Policy by the Brookings Institution in 2003. More recent contributions include research on school desegregation, first helping track its progress in the 50 years since the Brown v. Board of Education Decision in 1954 for a book authored by Professor Charles Clotfelter entitled After Brown: The Rise and Retreat of School Desegregation published by Princeton University Press in the spring of 2004 (read more here). This book was the co-winner of the 2005 Gladys M. Kammerer Award from the American Political Science Association for best political science publication in 2004 in the field of U.S. national policy. Then also for a study of resegregation in the South during the last 15 years. I am currently working with the North Carolina Education Research Data Center on a study of teacher quality and how best to retain high quality teachers in the state's public schools. I have also served as staff assistant to the Institute's Center for the Study of Philanthropy and Voluntarism since 1998 (feel free to visit the Center website).
In my spare time, when I am not walking the Duke campus, I maintain
a web sites for my graduate
class in public policy at the Sanford Institute and search the web
for information for sites devoted to tracking the construction of Future Interstate highways
in North Carolina, which include Interstates 73 and 74.
I am also, if you could not tell, an avid follower of sports of many types,
especially the Boston Red Sox baseball and the
Duke basketball
teams, both men and women.
Web CV
Tufts University, BA, 1986
Duke University, MA, 1992
Work:
Massachusetts
Water Resources Authority (1987-90)
Cambridge Systematics (1992-93)
Superfund Project/Duke Economics Department (1993-96)
If you have any questions or comments feel free to send me e-mail.
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Last Updated: November 7, 2005.
Top Photo: Web page author overlooking the Hudson River (or the
trees in front of it, anyway) behind the home of Franklin D. Roosevelt
in Hyde Park, New York, August 2001. Courtesy of Charles Malme.