Faculty

Joel Aberbach

Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Political Science and Public Policy

Laura Abrams

Professor of Social Welfare and Department Chair

Randall Akee

Chair, American Indian Studies Interdepartmental Program; Associate Professor of Public Policy

Helmut K. Anheier

Adjunct Professor of Social Welfare and Public Policy

Amada Armenta

Associate Professor of Urban Planning

Ron Avi Astor

Professor of Social Welfare

Eric Avila

Professor of Chicana/o Studies, History and Urban Planning

Natalie Bau

Associate Professor of Economics and Public Policy

Alisa Belinkoff Katz

Associate Director, Los Angeles Initiative

A.E. (TED) Benjamin

Professor Emeritus of Social Welfare

Tierra Bills

Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Civil and Environmental Engineering

Monica Blauner

Lecturer of Social Welfare

Evelyn Blumenberg

Director of Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies; Professor of Urban Planning

Laura Alongi Brinderson

Field Education Faculty of Social Welfare

Maximilian Buchholz

Postdoctoral Fellow

Albert Carnesale

Chancellor Emeritus; Professor Emeritus of Public Policy and Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Darin Christensen

Vice Chair, Department of Public Policy; Associate Professor of Public Policy and Political Science

David Cohen

Professor of Social Welfare and Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development

Stephen Commins

Lecturer, Regional and International Development; Associate Director, Global Public Affairs

Khush Cooper

Adjunct Assistant Professor of Social Welfare

Kenya L. Covington

Teaching Professor of Public Policy

Dana Cuff

Professor of Architecture/Urban Design and Urban Planning

JoAnn Damron-Rodriguez

Adjunct Professor Emerita of Social Welfare

Michael Darby

Distinguished Professor of Finance, Emeritus; Professor of Management and Public Policy

Courtney Demko

Lecturer of Social Welfare

Michelle Dennis

Lecturer

Deshonay Dozier

Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Scholar

Larthia Dunham

Field Education Faculty of Social Welfare

Robert Fairlie

Chair, Department of Public Policy; Professor of Public Policy

Michael Fleming

Lecturer of Social Welfare

Todd Franke

Professor of Social Welfare and Doctoral Program Chair

Selenne Galeana Cruz

Visiting Scholar

Brian Garcia

Visiting Scholar

Martin Gilens

Professor of Public Policy, Political Science, and Social Welfare

Kian Goh

Associate Professor of Urban Planning

Carol Goldstein

Lecturer in Urban Planning

Neal Halfon

Director, UCLA Center for Healthier Children, Families, and Communities; Professor of Pediatrics, Community Health Sciences, and Public Policy

Susanna Hecht

Professor of Urban Planning

Veronica Herrera

Associate Professor of Urban Planning and Political Science

Jody Heymann

Distinguished Professor of Health Policy and Management, Public Policy, and Medicine

Jasmine D. Hill

Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Sociology

Ian W. Holloway

Professor of Social Welfare

Jill R. Horwitz

Professor of Law and Public Policy

Carolyn Hull

Lecturer in Urban Planning

W. Toby Hur

Field Education Faculty of Social Welfare

Alfreda P. Iglehart

Professor Emerita of Social Welfare

Aurora P. Jackson

Professor Emerita of Social Welfare

Sanford M. Jacoby

Distinguished Research Professor of Management, Public Policy, and History

Tranishia James

Field Education Faculty of Social Welfare

Mark S. Kaplan

Professor Emeritus of Social Welfare

Siddharth Kara

Adjunct Assistant Professor of Public Policy

Leyla Karimli

Assistant Professor of Social Welfare

Karen Kaufmann

Lecturer in Public Policy

Yoh Kawano

Lecturer in Urban Planning; Lead Computational Scientist, GIS and Spatial Data Science for UCLA's Office of Advanced Research Computing

Stuart A. Kirk

Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Social Welfare

Archie Kleingartner

Founding Dean; Professor Emeritus of Management and Public Policy

Gerald Kominski

Senior Fellow at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research; Professor Emeritus of Health Policy and Management and Public Policy

Liz Koslov

Assistant Professor of Urban Planning

Susan Lares-Nakaoka

Professor of Social Welfare and Director of Field Education

Gerardo P. Laviña

Academic Coordinator of Social Welfare

Jorja Leap

Adjunct Professor of Social Welfare; Executive Director, Social Justice Partnership; Co-Founder and Director, Watts Leadership Institute

Arleen Leibowitz

Research Professor in Public Policy

Michael Lens

Associate Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy

Kimberly Ling Murtaugh

Lecturer of Public Policy

Susanne Lohmann

Director of the Jacob Marschak Interdisciplinary Colloquium on Mathematics in the Behavioral Sciences; Professor of Political Science and Public Policy

Tatiana Londoño

Assistant Professor of Social Welfare

Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris

Distinguished Professor of Urban Planning; Interim Dean, Luskin School of Public Affairs.

José Loya

Assistant Professor of Urban Planning; Faculty Associate in the Chicano Studies Research Center (CSRC)

James Lubben

Professor Emeritus of Social Welfare

Kelly Lytle Hernandez

Professor & Thomas E. Lifka Chair of History

Michael Manville

Professor and Chair of Urban Planning

Miwa Matsuo

Visiting Scholar

Juan Matute

Deputy Director, UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies; Lecturer in Urban Planning

Adam Millard-Ball

Professor of Urban Planning

Daniel J.B. Mitchell

Ho-su Wu Professor; Professor Emeritus of Management and Public Policy

Ayako Miyashita Ochoa

Adjunct Faculty of Social Welfare

Paavo Monkkonen

Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy

Vinit Mukhija

Professor of Urban Planning

Megan Mullin

Faculty Director, Luskin Center for Innovation; Professor of Public Policy

Erin Nakamura

Field Education Faculty of Social Welfare

Jack Needleman

Professor of Health Policy and Management and Public Policy

Barbara J. Nelson

Professor Emerita of Public Policy, Social Welfare, Urban Planning, and Political Science

Jim Newton

Lecturer of Public Policy

Faye Nixon

Lecturer in Urban Planning

Paul Ong

Research Professor and Director of the Center for Neighborhood Knowledge

Taner Osman

Adjunct Faculty

Hector Palencia

Field Education Faculty of Social Welfare

Aaron Panofsky

Professor of Public Policy, Society and Genetics, and Sociology; Director, UCLA Institute for Society & Genetics

Edward A. (Ted) Parson

Dan and Rae Emmett Professor of Environmental Law; Faculty Co-Director, Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment; Professor of Law and Public Policy

Judith L. Perrigo

Assistant Professor of Social Welfare

Mark A. Peterson

Interim Chair, Department of Public Policy; Professor of Public Policy, Political Science, and Law; Senior Fellow at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research

Meredith Phillips

Associate Professor of Public Policy and Sociology

Gregory Pierce

Adjunct Associate Professor of Urban Planning; Research and Co-Executive Director of the UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation

Deepak Rajagopal

Associate Professor of the Environment and Urban Planning

Ulises Ramirez

Lecturer of Social Welfare

Thomas Rice

Distinguished Professor of Health Policy and Management and Public Policy

Amy Ritterbusch

Assistant Professor of Social Welfare

Brad Rowe

Lecturer of Public Policy

Ananya Roy

Professor of Urban Planning, Social Welfare, and Geography

Cindy C. Sangalang

Assistant Professor of Social Welfare and Asian American Studies

Carlos Santos

Associate Professor of Social Welfare

Robert Schilling

Professor Emeritus of Social Welfare

Kirsten Schwarz

Associate Professor of Urban Planning and Environmental Health Sciences

Allen J. Scott

Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Public Policy and Geography

Gary M. Segura

Professor of Public Policy, Political Science, and Chicano and Chicana Studies

Donald Shoup

Distinguished Research Professor of Urban Planning

Jonathan Shum

Lecturer in Urban Planning

Latoya Small

Assistant Professor of Social Welfare

Zachary C. Steinert-Threlkeld

Associate Professor of Public Policy and Political Science

Michael A. Stoll

Professor of Public Policy and Urban Planning

Lené Levy-Storms

Associate Professor of Social Welfare and Medicine/Geriatrics

Michael Storper

Distinguished Professor of Regional and International Development in Urban Planning; Director, Global Public Affairs at UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs

Michelle Talley

Field Education Faculty of Social Welfare

Brian D. Taylor

Director, Institute of Transportation Studies; Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy

Veronica Terriquez

Director, Chicano Studies Research Center; Professor of Chicana/o and Central American Studies and Urban Planning

Sherod Thaxton

Professor of Law, African American Studies, Public Policy, and Sociology

Chris Tilly

Professor of Urban Planning and Sociology

Fernando Torres-Gil

Professor Emeritus of Social Welfare and Public Policy

V. Kelly Turner

Associate Professor of Urban Planning and Geography

David C. Turner III

Assistant Professor of Social Welfare

Karen Umemoto

Professor of Urban Planning

Abel Valenzuela

Interim Dean, Social Sciences Division; Professor of Labor Studies, Urban Planning and Chicana/o and Central American Studies

Arturo Vargas Bustamante

Professor of Health Policy and Management and Public Policy

Marques Vestal

Assistant Professor of Urban Planning

John Villasenor

Professor of Public Policy, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Management, and Law

Jason Vorderstrasse

Diplomat in Residence

Emily Weisburst

Assistant Professor of Public Policy

Walker Wells

Lecturer of Urban Planning

Laura Wray-Lake

Professor of Social Welfare

Zev Yaroslavsky

Director, Los Angeles Initiative

Wesley Yin

Professor of Public Policy and Management

Charles E. Young

Chancellor Emeritus; Professor Emeritus of Public Policy

Chris Zepeda-Millán

Chair, Labor Studies Program; Associate Professor of Public Policy, Chicana/o Studies, and Political Science

Frederick Zimmerman

Professor of Health Policy and Management and Urban Planning

Steve Zipperstein

Assistant Adjunct Professor of Public Policy

Lynne G. Zucker

Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Public Policy