The Baker Center staff work hard to create and develop programming and projects that support the mission of the Baker Center and honor our namesake. The staff is aided by Baker Fellows and Faculty, academics and professionals who work on the various academic and research projects of the center.
Director, Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy; Associate Director, Boyd Center for Business & Economic Research Fields of Interest: Public finance and public policy, state and local tax policy, education finance, tax compliance, and regional economic development.
Associate Director, Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy; Director, Leadership and Governance Policy Program Fields of Interest: Public policy, comparative politics, and public health.
Director, Institute for Nuclear Security; Fellow, Global Security Policy Program; Department of Nuclear Engineering Fields of Interest: Nuclear forensics, nuclear chemistry, radiochemistry, radiation, detection and measurement as applied to security-relevant needs, nuclear security policy in the interface between technology, policy and legal frameworks, counterterrorism, and nuclear nonproliferation.
Director and Faculty Fellow, Energy & Environmental Policy Program Fields of Interest: Management of renewable resources, coupled human and natural systems, risk and uncertainty, invasive species, native pests, public land management, optimal control theory, dynamic programming, real options, and computable general equilibrium.
Director and Faculty Fellow, Global Security Program Fields of Interest: Territorial and maritime disputes, conflict resolution/management, war and militarized interstate disputes, terrorism and political violence, and bargaining strategies.
Fellow, Energy & Environmental Policy Program; Professor, Department of Economics Fields of Interest: Energy economics, experimental and behavioral economics, natural resources and the environment, and applied microeconomics.
Fellow, Energy & Environmental Policy Program; Professor, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics Fields of Interest: Natural resource and environmental economics, land economics, and spatial economics.
Fellow, Leadership and Governance Fields of Interest: Local and state governments and their impact upon rural Appalachia.
Fellow, Energy & Environmental Policy Program Fields of Interest: Energy and environmental policy issues, mechanisms for involving stakeholders in public policy decisions, information-gathering and analytic tools to improve decision-making, and socioeconomic impact assessments.
Senior Fellow, Energy & Environmental Policy Program Fields of Interest: Transportation and energy issues, alternative fuels, fuel economy, and costs of oil dependence.
Fellow, Energy & Environmental Policy Program Fields of Interest: Energy and natural resource economist, greenhouse gas mitigation and regulation policies, and generation technologies.
Policy Fellow, Energy & Environmental Policy Program Fields of Interest: Strategic engagement of stakeholders around various issues including TVA’s energy resources, natural resource stewardship, environmental policy, R&D strategy, and retail regulation.
Fellow, Energy & Environmental Policy Program Fields of Interest: International trade and environmental economics.
Fellow, Global Security Program; Associate Professor, Department of Political Science Fields of Interest: International and domestic consequences of globalization, political and economic conditions of foreign policy, politics in the UN, Northeast Asian Politics, and Korean politics.
Fellow, Global Security Program Fields of Interest: Civil war, ethnic violence, election violence, international mediation, peace agreements, resource curse, and conflict management.
Fellow, Energy & Environmental Policy Program Fields of Interest: Environmental economics, industrial organization, microeconomic theory, and applied microeconomics.
Research Fellow, Energy & Environment Policy Program Fields of Interest: Techno-economic analysis of advanced energy and transport technologies, and the development and application of energy-economic and integrated assessment models.
Fellow, Energy & Environmental Policy Program; Professor and Interim Co-Head, Department of Philosophy Fields of Interest: Environmental ethics, intergenerational ethics, climate ethics, philosophical logic, and formal value theory.
Director of Undergraduate Programs; Lindsay Young Fellow Fields of Interest: Natural resource conservation and environmental policy issues relating to agriculture and rural communities; with emphasis on the potential for application of market-based policy approaches.
Fellow, Global Security Program; Professor, Department of Political Science Fields of Interest: International relations, foreign policy, military conflict, and global security.
Fellow, Leadership & Governance Fields of Interest: American government and constitutional law, civil rights and liberties, administrative law, and judicial process and law in American Society.
Fellow, Energy & Environmental Policy; Research Professor in Economics Fields of Interest: Energy, economic, and technology policy.
Fellow, Energy & Environmental Policy Program Fields of Interest: Environmental and energy policy, futures studies, sustainability, climate change, decision-making under uncertainty, technology policy, and computers in society.
Fellow, Energy & Environmental Policy Program Fields of Interest: Environmental economics, public economics, applied econometrics, and experimental economics.
Research Associate, Energy & Environmental Policy Program Fields of Interest: Public finance, economics of education, and environmental economics.
Global Security Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Department of Political Science Fields of Interest: International and domestic conflicts, natural resources, water conflict and cooperation, territorial, river, and maritime disputes, conflict management, national and human security, and environmental politics.
PhD Candidate, Department of Political Science Fields of Interest: Intrastate conflict, terrorism, minority discrimination, Islamic culture and politics, South Asian politics, and U.S. foreign policy.
PhD Candidate, Department of Political Science Fields of Interest: International conflict, terrorism, and political violence.
MPPA Scholar and Orangebook Editor, Department of Political Science Fields of Interest: Public administration, community engagement, community development, education policy.
MPPA Scholar and Orangebook Editor, Department of Political Science Fields of Interest: Local and state government, voting rights and access, inter-governmental relations.
PhD Candidate, Department of Political Science Fields of Interest: International security, foreign policy, and civil-military relations.