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University of Massachusetts Amherst

Michael Ash

curriculum vitæ(cv) May 2017

2011– Professor of Economics and Public Policy
2005–11 Associate Professor of Economics and Public Policy
1999–2005 Assistant Professor of Economics and Public Policy
2012–13 Acting Director, Social Thought & Political Economy (STPEC) 2011–17 Chair, Department of Economics
1999– Faculty, School of Public Policy (formerly CPPA)

  1. 1999–  Research Fellow, Political Economy Research Institute

  2. 2000–  Affiliated Faculty, Labor Relations and Research Center

Other Professional Experience
2015 Visiting Scholar, Lisbon School for Economics and Management (ISEG), Lisbon, Portugal. 2007 Fulbright Fellow, Institute of Sociology and Social Policy, Corvinus University, Budapest,

Hungary.
2007 Fulbright Fellow, Center for Environmental Policy and Law, Central European University,

Budapest, Hungary.
1999–2009 Consultant, Center for California Health Workforce Studies, University of California, San

Francisco
1998–99 Research Assistant, Center for California Health Workforce Studies, University of California,

San Francisco
1993–99 Research Assistant, Department of Economics and Institute of Business and Economic

Research, University of California, Berkeley
1995–96 Staff Labor Economist, Council of Economic Advisers/Executive Office of the President 1991–92 Research Fellow, Trenton Office of Policy Studies, Trenton, New Jersey

Education

1999 Ph.D., Economics, University of California, Berkeley
Dissertation: The Changing Structure of U.S. Labor Markets; Advisor: George Akerlof

1991 A.B., Economics, cum laude, Princeton University
1987 Cours de Civilisation Fran ̧caise de la Sorbonne, Universit ́e de Paris, France.
1987 International Baccalaureate Diploma, Lincoln Park High School, Chicago, Illinois.

Fellowships, Honors, and Awards

2014 Award for Outstanding Accomplishment in Research (UMass Amherst Faculty Convocation) 2013 Most Important Economic Developments of 2013 (Bloomberg)
2013 Wonky Award (Washington Post )
2013 2013 Albie for best global political economy writing (Foreign Policy)

2013 Foreign Policy 100 Leading Global Thinkers of 2013
2011 College Outstanding Teaching Award, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences 2003,8,9 Nominee, University of Massachusetts Distinguished Teaching Award
2007 Fulbright Fellow, Hungary
2002 Wayne F. Placek Award, American Psychological Foundation
1997 Lloyd Ulman Graduate Student Fellowship in Labor Economics
1992 Mellon Fellowship
1991 Princeton Project 55 Fellowship

Research

Articles Published or Forthcoming in Peer-Reviewed Journals

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Boyce J, Zwickl K, Ash M. “Measuring environmental inequality.” Ecological Economics 124: 114–123.
Zwickl K, Ash M, Boyce J. “Regional variation in environmental inequality: Industrial air toxics exposure in U.S. cities.” Ecological Economics 107: 494-509.

Herndon T, Ash M, Pollin R. “Does High Public Debt Consistently Stifle Economic Growth? A Critique of Reinhart and Rogoff.” Cambridge Journal of Economics 38(2): 257-279. First published online December 24, 2013.
Ash M, Boyce JK, Chang G, Scharber H (alphabetical order). “Is Environmental Justice Good for White Folks?” Social Science Quarterly 94(3): 616–636. Early view published 22 June.

Seago JA, Spetz J, Ash M, Herrera C, Keane D. “Hospital RN job satisfaction and nurse unions.” Journal of Nursing Administration, Mar 41(3):109-14.
Spetz J, Ash M, Konstantinidis C, Herrera C. “The effect of unions on the distribution of wages of hospital-employed registered nurses in the United States.” Journal of Clinical Nursing Jan;20(1-2):60-7. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2702.2010.03456.x.

Ash M, Boyce J (alphabetical order). “Measuring Corporate Environmental Justice Performance.” Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management 238.
Ash JM, Ash M, Ash P (alphabetical order). “Constructing a quadrilateral inside another one.” Mathematical Gazette, 93: 52–62.

Ash M, Robinson D. “Inequality, race, and mortality in U.S. cities: A political and econometric review of Deaton and Lubotsky” Social Science and Medicine 68(11): 1909–1913.
Ash M, Arons S. “Economic Parameters of End-of-Life Care: Some policy implications in an era of health care reform” Western New England Law Review 31(2):305–332.

Ferjentsik V, Ash M. “An EU sky trust: Can a lower-income country afford climate policy” Environmental Liability 16(5): 183–187.
Gupta S, Ash M. “Whose Money, Whose Time? A Nonparametric Approach to Modeling Time Spent on Housework in the United States.” Feminist Economics 14(1).

Ash M, Badgett MVL (alphabetical order). “Separate and Unequal: The Effect of Unequal Access to Employment-Based Health Insurance on Same-Sex and Different-Sex Couples.” Contemporary Economic Policy 24(4).
Ash M, Brandt S (alphabetical order). “Disparities in Asthma Hospitalization in Massachusetts,” American Journal of Public Health 96(2).

Albelda R, Ash M, Badgett MVL (alphabetical order). “Now That We Do: Same-sex couples and Marriage in Massachusetts: A demographic and economic perspective,” Massachusetts Benchmarks 7(2).
“Disciplinary Unemployment as a Public Good, or the Importance of the Committee to Manage the Common Affairs of the Whole Bourgeoisie,” Review of Radical Political Economics 37(4): 471-475.

Ash M, Seago JA, “The Effect of Registered Nurses’ Unions on Heart Attack Mortality,” Industrial and Labor Relations Review 57(3): 422–442.
Ash M, Fetter TR (alphabetical order). “Who Lives on the Wrong Side of the Environmental Tracks? Evidence from the EPA’s Risk Screening Environmental Indicators Model,” Social Science Quarterly 85(2): 441-462.

Zhu A, Ash M, Pollin R. “Stock Market Liquidity and Economic Growth: A Critical Appraisal of the Levine/Zervos Model,” International Review of Applied Economics 18(1): 1–8. Seago JA, Ash M, “Registered Nurse Unions and Patient Outcomes,” Journal of Nursing Administration 32(3): 143–151.

Grumbach K, Ash M, Seago JA, Spetz J, Coffman J. “Measuring Shortages of Hospital Nurses: How Do You Know a Hospital with a Nursing Shortage When You See One?” Medical

Care Research and Review 58(4): 387–403.
Seago JA, Ash M, Grumbach K, Spetz J, Coffman J. “Hospital registered nurse shortage: Environmental, patient and institutional predictors.” Health Services Research 36(5): 831– 852.

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Ash M, Seago JA, Spetz J. “What do Health Care Unions do?: A Response to Manthous.” Medical Care 2014 Mar 15. [Epub ahead of print].
Contributor, “The crazy costs of textbooks: Are there less expensive alternatives for your students?” NEA Higher Education Advocate.

Pollin R., Ash M. “Debt and Growth: A Response to Reinhart and Rogoff.” The New York Times. 29 April.
Ash M, Pollin R. “Supplemental Technical Critique of Reinhart and Rogoff, ‘Growth in a Time of Debt.”’ Political Economy Research Institute. April.

Pollin R., Ash M. “Austerity after Reinhart and Rogoff.” The Financial Times. 17 April. “What can we learn about class struggle from an empirical regularity? Okun’s Law over the business cycle across regimes” Comment on The Rising Strength of Management, High Unemployment and Slow Growth: Revisiting Okun’s Law (Michael Reich) in Capitalism on

Trial: Explorations in the Tradition of Thomas Weisskopf, Jeannette Wicks-Lim and Robert Pollin, editors.
Comment on “Reducing growth to achieve environmental sustainability: the role of work hours” (Knight, Kyle, Eugene A. Rosa, Juliet B. Schor) in Capitalism on Trial: Explorations in the Tradition of Thomas Weisskopf, Jeannette Wicks-Lim and Robert Pollin, editors. Ash M, Boyce JK (alphabetical order). The Toxic 100 Air Polluters. Fifth Edition. http: //www.peri.umass.edu/ctip. August.

Ash M, Boyce JK (alphabetical order). The Toxic 100 Water Polluters. http://www.peri. umass.edu/ctip. May.
Lead researcher and contributing author. A Toxic Flood: Why we need stronger regulations to protect public health from industrial water pollution. Political Economy Research Institute and Food & Water Watch. http://www.peri.umass.edu/ctip. May.

Ash M. “Four Faces of the German Banker.” Back to Full Employment blog entry http://backtofullemployment.org/2012/11/13/four-faces-of-the-german-banker/. November.
Ash M, Arons S, and Spetz J. “Economic and Legal Issues in End-of-Life Care: An Interview with Ash M and Stephen Arons.” Nursing Economics 30(3) May–June.

Ash M, Boyce JK (alphabetical order). The Toxic 100 Air Polluters. Fourth edition. http://www.peri.umass.edu/ctip.
Ash M, Palacio S. “Economic Impact of Investment in Public Higher Education in Massachusetts: Short-Run Employment Stimulus, Long-Run Public Returns.” Report to the Massachusetts Society of Professors, April.

Ash M, Boyce JK (alphabetical order). “Justice environnementale et performance des entreprises: nouvelles perspectives et nouveaux outils.” (Environmental Justice and Corporate Environmental Performance: New Perspectives and New Tools”) Revue de l’OFCE / D ́ebats et politiques No. 120.

Ash M, Boyce JK (alphabetical order). The Toxic 100 Third edition. http://www.peri. umass.edu/ctip
Garner R, Ash M. “Contemplating the Unusual and Unpredictable.” Review of Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable. (New York: Random House, 2007). Science and Society, 74(2): 248–258.

Ash M, Boyce JK, Chang G, Pastor M, Scoggins J, Tran J (alphabetical order). Justice in the Air: Tracking Toxic Pollution from America’s Industries and Companies to Our States, Cities, and Neighborhoods. Political Economy Research Institute (University of Massachusetts Amherst) and Program for Environmental and Regional Equity (University of Southern California).

Ash M, Boyce JK (alphabetical order). The Toxic 100 Second edition. http://www.peri. umass.edu/ctip
“Comment on ‘Some Primitive Robust Tests of Some Primitive Generalizations”’ Post-Autistic Economics Review, issue no. 36, 24 February 2006, pp. 36–38, http://www.paecon.net/ PAEReview/issue36/Ash36.htm

Ash M, Boyce JK (alphabetical order). The Toxic 100 First edition. http://www.peri. umass.edu/ctip

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Ash M, Badgett MVL, Folbre N, Saunders L, Albelda R. “Same-Sex Couples and Their Children in Massachusetts: A View from Census 2000.” The Institute for Gay and Lesbian Strategic Studies, February.
Seago JA, Ash M. Response to Letter to the Editor. Journal of Nursing Administration, 32(9): 439.

“The Tisza Chemical Spill of January 2000.” chapter in History in Dispute, Volume 7: Global Water Issues, Char Miller, Mark Cioc, and Kate Showers, editors (Columbia, SC: Bruccoli

Clark Layman), pp. 252–255.
Pollin R, Brenner M, Ash M, Braunstein E, Epstein G, Heintz J, Ickowitz A, Lim J, Luce S, Peters J. “Economic Analysis of Santa Monica Living Wage Proposal,” Political Economy Research Institute http://pen1.santa-monica.org/cityclerk/council/pollin.pdf: 370 pages.
Ash M, Sklaroff S. “American Pie Charts.” Civilization 4(2): 84–85.

Working Papers and Articles in Preparation

Ash M, Basu D, Dube A (alphabetical order). “Public Debt and Growth: An Assessment of Key Findings on Causality and Thresholds.” UMass Amherst Economics Working Paper 2017–10 and PERI Working Paper Number 433

Herndon T, Ash M, Pollin R. “Does High Public Debt Consistently Stifle Economic Growth? A Critique of Reinhart and Rogoff.” PERI Working Paper 322. April 2013.

“Dimensional Analysis in Economics with Applications in Micro, Macro and ’metrics.” February 2013.

Ash M, Spetz J, “The Effect of Unions on the Wages of Hospital-Employed RNs from 1983 to 2006,” In preparation for submission to Industrial and Labor Relations Review.

Ash M, Spetz J, Jean Ann Seago, Carolina Herrera, Dennis Keane, Alyssa Schneebaum, “The Effect of Unions on wages, hours, and work intensity: static and dynamic evidence from California, 1996–2007.” In preparation for submission to Industrial Relations.

Spetz J, Ash M, Carolina Herrera, “Do hospital unions improve the quality of care?” In preparation for submission.

Spetz J, Ash M, Carolina Herrera, “Is nurse union expansion strategic or tactical?” In preparation for submission.

Invited Presentations, Conferences, Workshops, and Media

2016 Ash M, Louc ̧a ̃ F. The Revolving Door: Empirical Studies and Provisional Conclusions. And conference co-organizer. The Shadow Economy in the Global Crisis: Finance and Beyond. Convento da Arrbida, Portugal, 28–30 June.

2015 Ash M, Lou ̧c ̃a F. Shadow Society - Presentation of the Project. Ash M, Lou ̧c ̃a. Financial Liberalization. Ash M, Campos A. The Database on the Revolving Door (Central Banks and Governments). And conference co-organizer. Seminar on shadow finance. ISEG, Lisbon, 15–16 June.

2015 “Critical Replication as a Method of Learning and Improving Economic Science.” Invited talk, Department of Economics, Universit`a degli studi Roma Tre (Italy) 19 May.

2015 Ash M, Basu D, Dube A (alphabetical order). “New Research on Public Debt and Growth, A Critical Replication of Several Papers from 2010–2012.” Invited talk, Department of Economics, Universit`a degli studi Roma Tre (Italy) 18 May.

2015 Ash M, Basu D, Dube A (alphabetical order). “Public Debt and Growth: Assessing Key Findings on Causality and Thresholds.” INFER Conference, University of Coimbra (Portugal) 18 April.

2014 Critical Replication for Learning and Research, Department of Mathematical Sciences, DePaul University, Chicago, IL. 25 April.

2014 Critical Replication for Learning and Research, Quantitative Methods Core Methods Seminar, University of Massachusetts Medical School Department of Quantitative Health Sciences, Worcester, MA. 1 April.

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2014 Transformational Voices: An Afternoon with Leading Global Thinkers, Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver, Denver, CO. 6 March.

2013 Discussant for “Revisiting Okun’s Law” (Michael Reich). Labor & Employment Relations Association, Allied Social Sciences Association, San Diego, CA. 5 January.

2012 Center for Research on Families, Celebrating Ten Years of Family Research, Introduction of Student Family Research Presentation. 29 November.

2012 Building Just and Sustainable Communities, a Symposium in Honor of Rep. John W. Olver. Moderator of Panel Session 3: Energy from Renewable Sources. 19 November.
2012 Environmental Justice Conference: Honoring SNRE’s Bunyan Bryant. Ann Arbor, Michigan.

4–6 October.
2012 WNH Radio Interview on Political Chowder with host Arnie Arneson. 27 September.
2012 “Right-to-Know, Imperative to Act.” New Student Orientation, University of Massachusetts

Amherst, 31 August.
2012 “Economic Impact of Investment in Public Higher Education in Massachusetts: Short-Run

Employment Stimulus, Long-Run Public Returns.” Presentation to Joint Committee on

Higher Education. Boston, 10 May.
2012 “Toward Climate Justice: A Panel on Human Rights, Race and the Environment.” CPPA,

the Population and Development Program at Hampshire College, and the Five College Public Policy Initiative, with support from Five Colleges, Inc., and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Political Economy Research Institute, Amherst, 13 March.

2012 “Strategy or Tactics? Factors Associated with the Growth of RN Unions.” (with Spetz J, Jean Ann Seago, Carolina Herrera, and Dennis Keane). Labor and Employment Relations Association, Allied Social Sciences Association (ASSA), Chicago, 7 January.

2011 “The Practice of Engaged Scholarship.” Invited speaker, sponsored forum of the UMass Faculty Senate Outreach Council. Wednesday 3 November.

2011 “The effect of hospital unions on nurse staffing and patient outcomes in California.” iHEA Congress, Toronto, Canada.

2010 “Using RSEI to Support Environmental Justice.” U.S. EPA and Environmental Council of the States, Webinar: Using TRI to Support Environmental Justice.

2010 21st Century Environmental Information Initiative, OMBWatch, Pocantico, NY, 14–15 January.

2009 Statement before the Governor’s Community Forum on Choices and Priorities, Amherst, Massachusetts, May 19.

2009 WNUR radio interview on “Justice in the Air” (Ash et al.) with Chuck Mertz, This is Hell, 9 May 2009.

2009 “Measuring Corporate Environmental Justice Performance,” Environmental Council of the States, Bethesda, MD, March 31.

2008 “Measuring Corporate Environmental Justice Performance,” University of Southern California, Los Angeles, August 22.

2008 Ash M and Spetz J, “The Effect of Unions on the Wages of Hospital-Employed RNs from 1983 to 2006,” American Society of Health Economists, Durham, NC, June 22.
2008 Ash M and Spetz J, “What is the Union Wage Premium for RNs?” AcademyHealth,

Washington, DC, June 6.
2007 “Reflections on My Fulbright Experience,” University of Debrecen, Hungary, April 20. 2007 “Quantitative Studies of Environmental Injustice in the United States,” Mini-Conference on

Environmental Justice, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary, March 28.
2006 “The Health Care Un-System And the Single-Payer Alternative,” Western Massachusetts Health Care Public Hearing on H.R. 676 The U.S. National Health Insurance Act (“Expanded

and Improved Medicare for All, Holyoke, MA, October 21.
2006 “Political Economy of U.S. Health Care With a Focus on Nursing.” MNA Region 1 Legislative

Breakfast, Holyoke, Massachusetts, 22 April.
2006 “Inequality, Race, and Mortality in the United States: Geographic and Political Perspectives.”

With Dean Robinson. Allied Social Sciences Association, Boston, MA, January
2005 “Quantitative Research on Environmental Justice in Central Europe: Prospects and Challenges.” Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, Washington, DC,

November

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2004 “Environmental Sustainability and Development,” Discussant for three papers. “Egalitarian Development in the Era of Globalization: A Conference in Honor of Professor Keith Griffin.” Political Economy Research Institute, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 23 April.

2004 “Environmental Justice: Causes, Consequences, Controversies, and Confidence,” Symposium: Environmental Justice: Is It Working?, Albany Law School, Albany, New York, 25 February. 2004 WHMP radio interview by Dennis Lee and Chris Collins on “Same-Sex Couples and Their Children in Massachusetts: A View from Census 2000” (Ash, M. V. Lee Badgett, Nancy

Folbre, Lisa Saunders, and Randy Albelda). 11 February 2004.
2004 WFCR radio interview by Frannie Carr on “Same-Sex Couples and Their Children in

Massachusetts: A View from Census 2000” (Ash, M. V. Lee Badgett, Nancy Folbre, Lisa

Saunders, and Randy Albelda). 10 February.
2004 “Stock Market Liquidity and Economic Growth: A Critical Appraisal of the Levine/Zervos

Model,” co-authored with Andong Zhu and Robert Pollin. Presented at the Allied Social

Sciences Association annual meeting, San Diego, January.
2003 “Separate and Unequal: The Effect of Unequal Access to Employment-Based Health Insurance

on Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual People in Couples,” co-authored with M.V. Lee Badgett. Presented at the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management annual meeting, Washington, D.C., November.

2003 “Do Unionized R.N.’s Reduce AMI Mortality?” co-authored with Jean Ann Seago. Presented at Forum on Nursing, Quality of Care and Employment Practices, Public Policy Ph.D. Program and College of Nursing, University of Massachusetts, Boston, October.

2003 “Unions, Wages, and Workplace Conditions: New Evidence from the Hospital Industry” co-authored with Jean Ann Seago and Joanne Spetz. Presented at the American Public Health Association annual meeting, San Francisco, November.

2003 “Is Your Backyard a Toxic Dump?” Presented at the 2003 Summer Institute, Center for Popular Economics, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, August.

2003 “Who Lives on the Wrong Side of the Environmental Tracks?” co-authored with T. Robert Fetter. Presented at the U.S. Society for Ecological Economics biennial meeting, Albany, May.

2002 “Environmental Justice and Food Systems,” Presented at the 2002 Summer Institute, Center for Popular Economics, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, July.

2002 “Do Unionized R.N.’s Reduce AMI Mortality?” co-authored with Jean Ann Seago. Presented at the International Association for Feminist Economics, Los Angeles, July.

2002 “Who lives on the wrong side of the environmental tracks?” co-authored with T. Robert Fetter. Presented at the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists quadrennial meeting, Monterey, California, June.

2002 Discussant, “Pollution Abatement Investment When Firms Lobby Against Environmental Regulation,” H. Farzin and J. Zhao, Association of Environmental and Resource Economists quadrennial meeting, Monterey, California, June.

2002 R.N. Unions and Patient Outcomes, co-authored with Jean Ann Seago. Poster session at American Nurses Association annual convention, Philadelphia, June.

1999 Invited participant, Conference on Health and Economic Development, Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, November.

1999 “Program Evaluation Methods.” Presented in Sociology 691: Policy Methods, University of Massachusetts Amherst, October.

1999 “The Effect of HMO’s on the Earnings and Employment of Nurses.” Presented at the Western Economic Association annual meeting, San Diego, July.

1999 “Do HMO’s Use Nurses Differently, or Just Less? Evidence from Workers and Hospitals.” Presented in seminars at University of California at Irvine, Case Western Reserve University, and University of Massachusetts Amherst.

External Grants Awarded

2011 “Collaborative Research on the Correlates and Consequences of Risks from Airborne Toxics: Dynamic Spatial Analysis.” National Science Foundation (Two-year project, total budget $338,548; UMass budget $90,370). Principal Investigator Paul Mohai, University of Michigan; Ash is a Co-PI.

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2010 “Economic Impact of Spending on Public Higher Education in Massachusetts.” Ash was Principal Investigator on research grant from the Massachusetts Society of Professors. $15,000. 2010 “An assessment methodology for differential impact on environmental justice populations of releases of industrial toxics to water in Massachusetts.” Ash was Principal Investigator on

U.S. Geological Survey’s Water Resources Annual Institute Program for Fiscal Year 2010.

$5,000.
2010 “Toxic Air Pollution, Infant Health, and Disparities by Race and Class” Ash was Principal

Investigator on a TeraGrid Allocation.
2007 “Hospital Unions, Staffing, Wages, and Patient Safety,” Principal Investigator Spetz J, UCSF,

National Institutes of Health (NIH) R01. Ash was a sub-contractor with a three-year budget

of $144,256.
2002 “Health Insurance Inequality for Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual People.” (with M.V. Lee Badgett)

Ash M was Principal Investigator for the Wayne F. Placek Award, American Psychological Foundation, $35,700.

Teaching: Courses Taught

Capstone in Public Policy and Administration (M.P.P.A.)
Econometrics (undergraduate)
Economic Instruments for Greenhouse Gas Mitigation (graduate-level mini-course) Economics of Health (undergraduate)
Economics of Health (M.P.P.A.)
Graduate Applied Econometrics (graduate)
Health and Environmental Inequality Module for Social Inequality and Social Justice Introduction to Political Economy: Social Wealth (on-line undergraduate course) Introduction to Political Economy: Social Wealth (undergraduate)
Labor in the American Economy (undergraduate)
Labor in the American Economy (M.P.P.A.)
Intermediate Macroeconomics (undergraduate)
Microeconomics for Public Policy (M.P.P.A.)
Policy Analysis (M.P.P.A.)
Political Economy of the Environment and Environmental Policy (graduate)
Political Economy of Public Policy (M.P.P.A.)
Statistics for Public Policy and Administration (M.P.P.A.)

Service

Referee or Reviewer

American Economic Review Feminist Economics
Social Science and Medicine The Gerontologist
Economics and Human Biology Ecological Economics

Health Affairs
Industrial Relations
Population and Environment
Journal of Health Organization and Management
Journal of Policy Analysis and Management
Social Forces
Social Problems
Social Science Quarterly
Marsden Fund (New Zealand), 2015
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, ad hoc reviewer
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, INQRI reviewer, 2008,09,11,12 National Institutes of Health, ad hoc reviewer, 2009
United States Department of Agriculture
Blackwell Publishing
University of Massachusetts Press

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Rowman & Littlefield Thomson Learning

University Service

2012–13 Member, Review Committee for Dean, School of Public Health and Health Sciences 2007–10 Member, Budget Subcommittee of Faculty Senate Council on Program and Budget 2004–06 Chair, Budget Subcommittee of Faculty Senate Council on Program and Budget 2003–08 Member, University of Massachusetts Nanotechnology Task Force

2003– Member, University of Massachusetts IT Minor Advisory Board

College Service

2013– Member, Advisory Board, Institute for Social Science Research 2012–13 Acting Director, Social Thought and Political Economy
2010 Member, CSBS Program Innovation Council
2009,10,12 Bluestein Scholarship Committee

2009–10 Member, Search Committee, Department of Anthropology/Center for Heritage & Society 2009–10 Member, Steering Committee, Center for Heritage & Society
2009–10 Member, CSBS Instructional Quality Council
2007–09 Member, CSBS Research Committee

2003–11 Co-director, CSBS Open-Source Lab

Center for Public Policy & Administration Service

2012–13 Member, Online Programs Committee 2009–10 Member, Curriculum Committee

  1. 2007–08  Member, Ad hoc committee on capacity

  2. 2007–09  Member, Ad hoc committee on inequality and social inclusion

2006 Member, Personnel Committee

2004–05 Chair, Curriculum and Student Affairs Committee
2003–04 Chair, Colloquium Series
2002–03 Chair, Curriculum and Student Affairs Committee
2001–02 Chair, Committee for Speakers’ Series on Inequality
2000– Member, Faculty Meeting (formerly Executive Committee)
2000–02 Member, Committee for Speakers’ Series on Inequality
2000–01 Member, Planning Committee for “Policy Partnerships: Opportunities and Dilemmas for

Cities and Universities”
2000–01 Member, Tenure Subcommittee of the Executive Committee 1999–00 Member, Curriculum Committee

Departmental Service

2011– Chair
2009–11 Associate Chair

  1. 2009–10  Member, Executive Committee

  2. 2009–11  Director of online education

2008–09 Member, Search Committee; and 2003–2004.
2007–08 Member, Executive Committee
2006 Member, Merit Committee 2004–2005 and 2005–2006 2006– Co-Director, Corporate Toxics Information Project 2000– Co-Sponsor, Environmental Working Group
2001–03 Member, Undergraduate Committee
1999–06 Chair, Computer Committee

Professional Service and Affiliations

2005–09

1999–2011 current current current current

Board member, Center for Environmental Policy and Law, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
Staff Economist, Center for Popular Economics
American Economic Association

Union for Radical Political Economics
Association of Environmental and Resource Economists International Association for Feminist Economics

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current Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management current International Society for Ecological Economics

Other Service

2008–2011 2007–2011 2005–2007

Member, Town of Amherst Representative Town Meeting Executive Board, MTA/MSP (faculty union)
Officer, MTA/MSP