Faculty & Research Faculty Faculty A B C D E (-) F G H J K L M O (-) P R S T V W Facet Last Name - Faculty Economics Political Science Domestic Policy & Politics Education Executive Education Leadership National Security Virginia Politics & Policy Facet Area of Focus - Faculty Department of Economics National Security Policy Center Department of Politics School of Education and Human Development Facet UVA Partner - Faculty National Security Policy Center Facet Batten Department - Faculty George Foresman NSPC Executive Director & Senior Advisor gwf3n@virginia.edu George Foresman has over three decades of leadership experience in government and business. While serving as Virginia’s homeland security secretary, Foresman was confirmed by the U.S. Senate to serve as undersecretary at the Department of Homeland Security. Read full bio Galen Fountain Lecturer Galen Fountain is a lecturer at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy. Previously, he served for nearly two decades as Clerk of the U.S. Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies and prior to that as Counsel to the Senate Committee on Small Business. Read full bio Leora Friedberg Associate Professor of Economics and Public Policy; Chair, Department of Economics lfriedberg@virginia.edu 434-924-3225 Monroe 257 (appointment only) Leora Friedberg is an associate professor of economics and public policy at the Batten School and an associate professor and Vice Chair at UVA's Department of Economics. Her focus is on labor economics, including research on social security, aging and retirement economic impacts. Read full bio Andrew S. Pennock Associate Professor of Public Policy andrew.pennock@virginia.edu 434-243-1128 Andy Pennock is an associate professor of public policy at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy. He serves UVA as the faculty director of Batten’s MPP orientation program, on Batten’s curriculum committee, and as an elected member of the Executive Council of the Faculty Senate. Pennock’s academic research examines public policy in the global economy as well as the scholarship of teaching and learning Read full bio John Pepper Professor of Economics and Public Policy jvp3m@virginia.edu 434-924-3402 252 Monroe Hall John V. Pepper is a professor of economics and public policy at the Batten School and a professor of economics in the Department of Economics at the University of Virginia. His work examines identification problems that arise when evaluating a wide range of public policy questions including such subjects as health and disability programs, welfare policies (e.g., SNAP), and drug and crime policies. Read full bio Daniel W. Player Associate Professor of Public Policy dwp2g@virginia.edu 434-243-0904 Garrett Hall L046 Dan Player is an associate professor of public policy at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy. His research focuses on issues in education policy. His work has examined questions such as how teacher ability is recognized and rewarded in schools, whether teacher performance predicts turnover, and how teachers respond to working conditions. Read full bio Philip Potter Professor of Politics and Public Policy; Founding Director of the National Security Policy Center pbp2s@virginia.edu S183 Gibson Hall and NSPC, 134 10th St NW Philip Potter is a professor of politics and Founding Director of the National Security Policy Center at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy at the University of Virginia. He is also a University Expert with the National Ground Intelligence Center, US Army INSCOM. He has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Politics and the Journal of Global Security Studies and is an Associate Principal Investigator for Time-Sharing Experiments in the Social Sciences (TESS). Read full bio
George Foresman NSPC Executive Director & Senior Advisor gwf3n@virginia.edu George Foresman has over three decades of leadership experience in government and business. While serving as Virginia’s homeland security secretary, Foresman was confirmed by the U.S. Senate to serve as undersecretary at the Department of Homeland Security. Read full bio
Galen Fountain Lecturer Galen Fountain is a lecturer at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy. Previously, he served for nearly two decades as Clerk of the U.S. Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies and prior to that as Counsel to the Senate Committee on Small Business. Read full bio
Leora Friedberg Associate Professor of Economics and Public Policy; Chair, Department of Economics lfriedberg@virginia.edu 434-924-3225 Monroe 257 (appointment only) Leora Friedberg is an associate professor of economics and public policy at the Batten School and an associate professor and Vice Chair at UVA's Department of Economics. Her focus is on labor economics, including research on social security, aging and retirement economic impacts. Read full bio
Andrew S. Pennock Associate Professor of Public Policy andrew.pennock@virginia.edu 434-243-1128 Andy Pennock is an associate professor of public policy at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy. He serves UVA as the faculty director of Batten’s MPP orientation program, on Batten’s curriculum committee, and as an elected member of the Executive Council of the Faculty Senate. Pennock’s academic research examines public policy in the global economy as well as the scholarship of teaching and learning Read full bio
John Pepper Professor of Economics and Public Policy jvp3m@virginia.edu 434-924-3402 252 Monroe Hall John V. Pepper is a professor of economics and public policy at the Batten School and a professor of economics in the Department of Economics at the University of Virginia. His work examines identification problems that arise when evaluating a wide range of public policy questions including such subjects as health and disability programs, welfare policies (e.g., SNAP), and drug and crime policies. Read full bio
Daniel W. Player Associate Professor of Public Policy dwp2g@virginia.edu 434-243-0904 Garrett Hall L046 Dan Player is an associate professor of public policy at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy. His research focuses on issues in education policy. His work has examined questions such as how teacher ability is recognized and rewarded in schools, whether teacher performance predicts turnover, and how teachers respond to working conditions. Read full bio
Philip Potter Professor of Politics and Public Policy; Founding Director of the National Security Policy Center pbp2s@virginia.edu S183 Gibson Hall and NSPC, 134 10th St NW Philip Potter is a professor of politics and Founding Director of the National Security Policy Center at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy at the University of Virginia. He is also a University Expert with the National Ground Intelligence Center, US Army INSCOM. He has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Politics and the Journal of Global Security Studies and is an Associate Principal Investigator for Time-Sharing Experiments in the Social Sciences (TESS). Read full bio