People

Staff

Howard Wial
Executive Director and Associate Research Professor
(312) 996-7194
hwial@uic.edu

Yibing Li
Assistant to the Director
(312) 996-5463
yibingli@uic.edu

Cedric Williams
Manager of System Services
(312) 996-4259
cwilli96@uic.edu

Affiliated Faculty

Joshua Drucker
Assistant Professor, Urban Planning and Policy
(312) 413-7597
jdruck@uic.edu

Linda Forst
Professor, Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences
(312) 355-3826
forst-l@uic.edu

Rebecca Hendrick
Associate Professor, Public Administration
(312) 355-0305
hendrick@uic.edu

Kazuya Kawamura
Associate Professor, Urban Planning and Policy
(312) 413-1269
kazuya@uic.edu

Sharon Mastracci
Associate Professor, Public Administration
(312) 413-2419
mastracc@uic.edu

David Merriman
Professor, Public Administration
(312) 996-1381
dmerrim@uic.edu

Anthony Pagano
Associate Professor, Managerial Studies
(312) 996-8063
amp@uic.edu

Joseph Persky
Professor, Economics
(312) 996-2687
Jpersky@uic.edu

P.S. Sriraj
Assistant Research Professor, Urban Transportation Center
(312) 413-7568
sriraj@uic.edu

Nik Theodore
Associate Professor, Urban Planning and Policy
(312) 996-8378
theodore@uic.edu

Rachel Weber
Associate Professor, Urban Planning and Policy
(312) 355-0307
rachelw@uic.edu

Yonghong Wu
Associate Professor, Public Administration
(312) 996-5073
yonghong@uic.edu

Research Associates

Elizabeth Scott
Economic Development Planner
escott20@uic.edu

Research Assistants

Ganna Bernadska
gberna7@uic.edu

Sara O’Neill-Kohl
soneil3@uic.edu

Claire Thomison
cthomi3@uic.edu

Research Partners

Peter Creticos
President and Executive Director
Institute for Work and the Economy
Chicago, IL

Stephen Herzenberg
Executive Director
Keystone Research Center
Harrisburg, PA

Edward (Ned) Hill
Dean, Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs
Cleveland State University

Mark Muro
Senior Fellow and Policy Director, Metropolitan Policy Program
The Brookings Institution
Washington, DC

Mark Price
Labor Economist
Keystone Research Center
Harrisburg, PA

Dan Swinney
Executive Director
Center for Labor and Community Research
Chicago, IL

Harold (Hal) Wolman
Professor, Political Science, Public Policy & Public Administration
George Washington University