- Evans School Faculty
June 18, 2020
Benjamin M. Brunjes
Benjamin M. Brunjes joined the Evans School faculty as Assistant Professor in 2016. He is a public management specialist whose academic research is focused on managerial complexity, including networks, contracts, and grants. These issues have gained widespread attention over the past few decades. Under the rationale that more competition lowers costs and deters corruption, most research of…
Erica Barnhart
Erica Barnhart is a proud Husky. She earned her MPA from the Evans School in 2001 and her Bachelor’s degree from the University of Washington in honors French and Political Science. She also holds a Certificat d’Études Politique from L’Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris. Barnhart is known for her work on using language to increase…
Sharon Kioko
Sharon Kioko is an Associate Professor of Public Administration at the Daniel J. Evans School of Public Policy & Governance at University of Washington. She teaches the introductory course in public budgeting and financial management of state and local governments, financial management in nonprofit organizations, and electives on state and local government finance. Her research…
Jacob L. Vigdor
Jacob L. Vigdor joined the Evans School as Daniel J. Evans Professor of public policy and governance in 2014. In 2020 he was elected Faculty Legislative Representative, representing the interests of over 4,500 faculty members across the University of Washington’s three campuses before the Washington State Legislature in Olympia. Re-elected in 2021 and 2022, he…
Heather D. Hill
Heather D. Hill is a Professor and Director of the PhD Program in Public Policy and Management at the Evans School. Her research examines how public and workplace policies influence family economic circumstances and child wellbeing in low-income families. She brings an inter-disciplinary lens to these topics, integrating theoretical and methodological insights from developmental psychology,…
Elizabeth Richardson Vigdor
Elizabeth Richardson Vigdor joined the Evans School faculty as a senior lecturer in 2014. Prior to that she was on the faculty of the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University. At Duke, Vigdor was affiliated with the Center for Health Policy, Law Management and the Center for Child and Family Policy. In 2011…
Rachel Fyall
Rachel Fyall joined the Evans School of Public Policy and Governance as an assistant professor beginning Autumn 2014. Her research investigates the influence of nonprofit organizations on the formation of public policy and in the delivery of public services. She examines how discretion shapes the public services provided by nonprofit contractors as well as advocacy and…
Scott W. Allard
Scott W. Allard is the Daniel J. Evans Endowed Professor of Social Policy at the University of Washington’s Evans School of Public Policy and Governance, and served as Associate Dean for Research and Engagement from 2021 to 2025. At UW, Allard is an affiliate of the Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology (CSDE) and…
David Suárez
David Suárez, Ph.D., is an associate professor at the Evans School of Public Policy & Governance, University of Washington. His current research focuses on social sector organizations (nonprofits and foundations) and explores: how management strategy shapes organizational performance; the relationship between service-provision and social change activity; and the consequences of professionalization. He is particularly interested…
Stephen Kosack
Stephen Kosack is a political scientist whose work focuses on political and economic development, particularly how governments become responsive and effective for people without unusual wealth, privilege, or other advantages. He has written on human development, education, health care, civil society, transparency and accountability, foreign aid, foreign direct investment, and democratic governance in the British…
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