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Jeffery S. Allen Ph.D.

Jeffery S. Allen Ph.D.

Director
Phone: 864-656-0228
Jeff is the Interim Director of the Strom Thurmond Institute of Government and Public Affairs as well as Director of the South Carolina Water Resources Center at Clemson University. As Interim Director of the Thurmond Institute he oversees all aspects of the research centers, research programs, ...
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Jeffery S. Allen Ph.D.

Jeffery S. Allen Ph.D.

Director
Phone: 864-656-0228
Jeff is the Interim Director of the Strom Thurmond Institute of Government and Public Affairs as well as Director of the South Carolina Water Resources Center at Clemson University. As Interim Director of the Thurmond Institute he oversees all aspects of the research centers, research programs, ...
Bob Becker

Bob Becker

Professor of Parks, Recreation & Tourism Management and of Policy Studies; Senior Scholar/Fellow of the Strom Thurmond Institute of Government and Public Affairs; Director of Economic Policy and Strategy for the Clemson Economic Development Initiative
Phone: 864-656-0227
Dr. Robert Becker is Professor of Parks, Recreation & Tourism Management and of Policy Studies and served as director of the Strom Thurmond Institute of Government and Public Affairs at Clemson University for 20 years. With the creation of Clemson’s economic development initiative, Becker was ...
Carolyn Benson

Carolyn Benson

Administrative Specialist I
Phone: 864-656-4463
Carolyn has been with the Strom Thurmond Institute for over ten years.  She serves as the only full-time administrative assistant, as well as the admissions coordinator for two graduate degree programs, the PhD in Policy Studies and the Master of Public Administration.
Joyce Bridges

Joyce Bridges

Administrative Specialist
Phone: 864-656-4700
Joyce has worked at The Strom Thurmond Institute since 1983. She retired in September 2010 and recently came back to work part-time as Program Coordinator for the Calhoun Lecture Series.
Rob Carey

Rob Carey

Director, Regional Dynamics & Economic Modeling Laboratory
Phone: 864-656-0372
Rob is the director of the Regional Dynamics & Economics Laboratory, which conducts economic and fiscal impact analysis for private and public sector clients.  Rob has taught as visiting faculty in the Master of Public Administration program and previously in taught political science at ...
Lori Dickes

Lori Dickes

Assistant Director of the South Carolina Water Resources Center
Phone: 864-656-7831
Lori has a Master's Degrees in both Applied Economics and Political Science from the University of Central Florida and a PhD in Policy Studies from Clemson University. Her professional experience includes over fifteen years of experience teaching economics at universities and colleges in Florida, ...
Caitlin Dyckman

Caitlin Dyckman

Research Associate
Phone: 864-656-2496
Dr. Caitlin S. Dyckman is an assistant professor at Clemson University in the Department of Planning and Landscape Architecture and a research fellow in the South Carolina Water Resources Center at the Strom Thurmond Institute of Government and Public Affairs. She came to Clemson in Fall 2006, ...
Dixie Goswami

Dixie Goswami

Senior Scholar, STI Director, Write/Right to Change
Phone: 864-656-4463
Dixie Goswami, Professor emerita, Clemson University, consults nationally on social networks for education and equity, and teaching and learning in the digital age.  She directs Write/Right to Change, a non-profit organization that provides technical support and awards small grants to support ...
Diann Groomes

Diann Groomes

Phone: 864-656-0442
Pat Harris

Pat Harris

Phone: 864-656-0896
Robert A. Harris, Ph. D.

Robert A. Harris, Ph. D.

Research Associate/Associate Professor
Phone: 843-230-6197

Robert A. Harris, Ph. D. Bob has a BS and a MS from Clemson University, and a Ph.D. from Virginia Tech, in Forestry and Forest Products, and has been on the ClemsonUniversity faculty since 1980. He specializes in alternative fuels for industrial use,primarily biomass energy.

Camilla Hertwig

Camilla Hertwig

Phone: 864-656-5775
Dr. Guoxiang (Greg) Liu

Dr. Guoxiang (Greg) Liu

Remote Sensing Scientist
Phone: 864-656-7837
Dr. Guoxiang Liu, a professor and senior Remote Sensing scientist, was born in Hunan Province of China. After earning his Ph. D. in Environmental Remote Sensing from China Agricultural University, Dr. Liu served as the Director of the Remote Sensing Laboratory in Beijing Academy of Agricultural and ...
Donna London

Donna London

Phone: 864-656-0226
Bruce Ransom

Bruce Ransom

Professor and Chair of the Policy Studies Program
Phone: 864-656-0214
Bruce Ransom, Ph.D. in Government, University of Virginia, 1981 Bruce has been a faculty member at Clemson since 1994.  He is professor of political science, director of graduate programs at STI and chair of the interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program in Policy Studies.  He teaches in the ...
Ellen Saltzman

Ellen Saltzman

Senior Research Associate
Phone: 864-656-0219
Ellen is a Senior Research Associate at the Strom Thurmond Institute of Government and Public Affairs at Clemson University. She has a master's degree in economics from Clemson University and a bachelor’s degree in economic geology and science and technology policy from Cornell University. She ...
Sandra Sanderson

Sandra Sanderson

Phone: 864-656-0923
Michael Sparace

Michael Sparace

MPA instructional Designer / MPA Webmaster
Phone: 864-656-3550

Michael currently serves as a dedicated tech-support agent for the online MPA program. He holds a BA in Philosophy from Clemson University.

Steve Springs

Steve Springs

GIS Analyst
Phone: 864-656-4700
Steve Springs is a GIS Analyst at the Strom Thurmond Institute of Government and Public Affairs and serves on the faculty of the Masters of Public Administration Program at Clemson University. Steve earned a Masters in City and Regional Planning from Clemson University and is a certified Geographic ...
Margaret Thompson, J.D.

Margaret Thompson, J.D.

Lecturer, Department of Environmental Engineering & Earth Sciences
Phone: 864-656-4700
Margaret L. Thompson, J.D., has taught law-related courses at Clemson University for about twenty years.  Environmental Science, Law, and Policy has remained her top priority since discovering Joe Sax's environmental law courses at The University of Michigan Law School in the 1980s, followed ...
Holley Ulbrich

Holley Ulbrich

Phone: 864-656-3968
Catherine Watt

Catherine Watt

Director, MPA program
Phone: 864-656-0847
Dr. Catherine Watt serves as Director of the Master of Public Administration program, located in the Thurmond Institute and Clemson University. Previously, she has served as Director of Institutional Research for Clemson University (2002-2006) and for Washington College (Md) (1997-1999), as ...