Trachtenberg School Newsletter
The Trachtenberg School Congratulates Promoted Faculty
We wish our newly promoted faculty continued success. Here are their thoughts and plans:
Lori Brainard
Lori Brainard, Professor
"The Trachtenberg School has been a wonderfully supportive place to grow, and I am excited about the future. I will be trying out some new teaching approaches including ‘ungrading,’ which emphasizes feedback over scores. And I’m looking forward to the next chapter in my research. Given my past work on television regulation and on civic engagement and social media, I will be working on a project on potential regulatory regimes for social media and their implications for democracy."
Leah Brooks
Leah Brooks, Professor
"I'm very excited about my upcoming work on how brick-and-mortar retail operates in cities in the wake of the rise of the Internet, and about another project that seeks to understand when and where condominiums operate and who they serve best. I'm also proud and excited about my doctoral student Jingwen's work on the housing affordability consequences of the removal of height restrictions in Hong Kong."
Nina Kelsey
Nina Kelsey, Associate Professor
"I’m currently working on a project that compares the reasons cities enact local climate policy in regions around the world. After several summers impacted by pandemic conditions, I’m excited to be typing this from Taiwan, where I’m researching cities including Taipei and Kaohsiung."
Lang (Kate) Yang
Lang (Kate) Yang, Associate Professor
"I look forward to continuing my work contributing to the evidence-based conversation on financial management and transparency of state and local governments. I am currently on leave to serve as a fellow at the General Services Administration and I hope to utilize this experience to inform my teaching and research."
Aram Gavoor
Trachtenberg School Welcomes Aram Gavoor
Aram Gavoor has received a courtesy appointment in our School. Gavoor is a scholar of American administrative law, national security, and federal courts. His scholarship appears in the Florida Law Review, Indiana Law Journal, Ohio State Law Journal, and other journals. He has briefed and argued high-profile public law cases before a majority of the U.S. Courts of Appeals and numerous cases before almost a third of the 94 U.S. District Courts. He is quoted by CNN, BBC World News, Wall Street Journal, NBC News, and ABC (Australia) World News. In 2021, the National Law Journal named Associate Dean Gavoor a Rising Star (top 40 under 40) honoree. 
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Domonic Bearfield Named a 2023 NAPA Fellow
Congratulations Domonic Bearfield on your selection as a 2023 NAPA Fellow!
Congratulations to Trachtenberg Professor Domonic Bearfield on his induction into the  National Academy of Public Administration. Dr. Bearfield joins nearly 1,000 Academy Fellows – including former cabinet officers, members of Congress, governors, mayors and state legislators, as well as prominent scholars, business executives, nonprofit leaders, and public administrators. 
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Listen to Experts Discuss the Draft Merger Guidelines from the FTC
Trachtenberg School Professor and Co-Director of the Regulatory Studies Center Joe Cordes interviews Visiting Scholar Mary Sullivan for a discussion of Draft Merger Guidelines developed by the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice. As a former economist at the FTC and the Antitrust Division of the DOJ, Sullivan explains how the guidelines diverge from the longstanding objective of protecting consumer welfare. Furthermore, the draft guidelines appear to favor policy goals of the administration and leave too much room for agency discretion.
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Traci Kruas and Terry Hartle
Traci Kraus and Terry Hartle
Congratulations to our 2023 Alumni Award Winners!
On October 18, the Trachtenberg community celebrated our Alumni Award winners Terry Hartle, DPA ‘82, and Traci Kraus, MPA ‘14. Our Capstone Excellence Prize was awarded to recent alumni Katherine DeGeorge, MPA, Lancy Downs, MPA, Zoe Tollette, MPA, Vaibhav Vijay, MPP, Alyssa Weiner Sandler, MPA, and Emma Weiss, MPA, for their project, Challenges and Best Practices for Retaining Workers with IDDs in the Federal Workforce with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).
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