Faculty & Staff Directory

Naseemah Mohamed

Naseemah
Mohamed

Assistant Professor of African American and African Studies

Naseemah Mohamed is an assistant professor of African American and African studies at the University of Virginia. Her interdisciplinary research examines the relationships among education, media, technology, global politics, and violence in 20th-century.

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Nadirah Muhammad

Nadirah
Muhammad

Marketing/Communications Project Manager

Nadirah joined the Batten School in 2024 as our Marketing/Communications Project Manager. A George Mason University graduate with a Bachelor of Arts in English, she brings years of experience crafting compelling narratives across digital, print and social platforms.

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Bala Mulloth

Bala
Mulloth

Assistant Professor of Public Policy

Bala Mulloth is an assistant professor at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy. Mulloth is a globally oriented educator and entrepreneur and his work focuses on innovation and social entrepreneurship.

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Jennett
Murphy

Assistant Director of Faculty Affairs
Garrett Hall L042

Jennett Murphy is the Assistant Director of Faculty Affairs at the Batten School and is responsible for supporting and managing processes to advance the success of the faculty.

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Noah Myung

Noah
Myung

Associate Professor of Public Policy and Economics

Noah Myung is an associate professor of public policy and economics at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy. He is an experimental and behavioral economist with research interests in game theory, organizational economics, and financial economics. Myung's current research deals with equilibrium selection in coordination games as well as information sharing between competitors

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Mark Outten

Mark
Outten

Director of Information Technology and School Systems
Garrett Hall L015

Mark was most recently the Director of Technology for the Orange County Public Schools in Orange, VA, has over 20 years of education-related technology leadership and management experience, worked in private industry for a Hewitt Associates, and is a veteran of the U.S. Air Force. He brings a wealth of strategic and practical education technology experience to Batten.

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Andy Pennock

Andrew
S.
Pennock

Associate Professor of Public Policy

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

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John Pepper

John
Pepper

Professor of Economics and Public Policy

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.

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Dan Player

Daniel
W.
Player

Associate Professor of Public Policy

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.

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Phil Potter

Philip
Potter

Professor of Politics and Public Policy; Founding Director of the National Security Policy Center
Gibson Hall and NSPC

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). 

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Rachel Potter

Rachel
A.
Potter

Associate Professor of Politics and Public Policy
Gibson Hall

Rachel Augustine Potter is an Associate Professor of Politics, a Senior Fellow at the Miller Center for Public Affairs, and Associate Professor of Public Policy by Courtesy in the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy at the University of Virginia.  Her research focuses on American political institutions, with a particular emphasis on the executive branch and the bureaucracy.

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Carey

Carey
Reinicke

Assistant Director of Grants and Contracts

Carey Reinicke is the Assistant Director of Grants and Contracts within the Batten Finance unit, focusing on the management of the school’s sponsored awards and related processes.

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Margaret Foster Riley

Margaret Foster
Riley

Professor of Law and Public Policy

Margaret Foster Riley is a professor of law and public policy at the Batten School, a professor of law at UVA's School of Law and has a secondary appointment in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. Riley has written and presented extensively about biomedical research, genetics, reproductive technologies, stem cell research, animal biotechnology, health disparities and chronic disease. She serves as chair of UVA’s Embryonic Stem Cell Research Oversight Committee and as legal advisor to the Health Sciences Institutional Review Board, which is responsible for reviewing all human subject research at UVA involving medically invasive procedures.

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john robinson

John
Robinson

NSPC Director of Academic Programs

John Robinson is the NSPC’s Director of Academic Programs. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses focused on national security, including Innovating for Defense, an experiential course that pairs student teams with sponsors from the Department of Defense (DoD) to solve real-world national security problems. His research interests include international security and naval affairs.

John holds a Ph.D. in Politics from the University of Virginia, and a M.A. from the U.S. Naval War College.   

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John Robinson

John
M.
Robinson

Photo and Video Manager

John Robinson manages photo and video content for the Batten School. He brings 15 years of professional photo and video experience from projects all over the world, including eight years working with Batten as a contractor. John has a passion for visual storytelling and collaborating with wonderful people.

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Gerard Robinson

Gerard
Robinson

Professor of Practice in Public Policy and Law
Garrett Hall

Gerard Robinson is a professor of practice in public policy and law at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy and the School of Law at the University of Virginia. As a Fellow of Practice at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia, Robinson has written about K-12 and higher education, public policy, economic mobility, after-school programs, and race. Robinson will teach on education, prisons, and public policy.

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Kimberly Jenkins Robinson

Kimberly Jenkins
Robinson

Professor of Law, Education and Public Policy

Kimberly Jenkins Robinson is a professor of law, education and public policy at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy. Robinson is a national expert who speaks domestically and internationally about educational equity, equal educational opportunity, civil rights and the federal role in education. Her work proposes innovative legal and policy solutions to ensure that all children receive equal access to an excellent education.

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Jill Rockwell

Jill
Rockwell

Senior Assistant Dean of Career Advancement and Alumni Engagement

Jill Rockwell, Senior Assistant Dean of Career Advancement and Alumni Engagement at UVA Batten, and her team are focused on the professional success of our graduates and alumni as well as activating our alumni network in support of the school.

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Kristen Roorbach

Kristen Roorbach is an adjunct faculty member at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy at the University of Virginia.  Roorbach teaches on topics including Poverty in U.S. Education Policy and Special Education Policy.

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Kara Ross

Kara
Ross

Research Lab Coordinator
West Complex

Kara Ross is the Research Lab Coordinator at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, where she manages day-to-day operations in the School's behavioral and experimental research lab and supports multiple faculty members with their research needs.

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