University Of Alaska Anchorage: ISER Director Candidates To Present Job Talks

Anchorage AK

05 November, 2021

5:17 PM

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Press release from the University of Alaska Anchorage: November 5, 2021 The Institute of Social and Economic Research is hosting virtual presentations by three candidates for its Director position. Each will address "The ISER Director's Role in Addressing Alaska's Key Policy Issues Over the Next Decade." Members of the UAA community and the public are welcome to attend, and should register in advance. Questions may be addressed to Dr. Marie Lowe, chair of the search committee: [email protected]. About the candidates Dr. Diane Hirshberg is Interim Director and Professor of Education Policy at ISER. She also serves as Vice President Academic for UArctic, and sits on the Arctic Research Consortium of the U.S. Board. Her research interests include education policy analysis, indigenous education, circumpolar education issues, and the role of education in sustainable development. She has studied the boarding school experiences of Alaska Native students, teacher supply, demand and turnover, including the cost of teacher turnover in Alaska, co-authored the Education chapter for the Arctic Human Development Report II, and co-edited "Including the North: A Comparative Study of the Policies on Inclusion and Equity in the Circumpolar North." Dr. Hirshberg currently teaches in the Master of Public Policy Program in the UAA College of Business and Public Policy. She has a PhD in Education from UCLA, a Master of Public Administration from Columbia University and two bachelor's degrees from UC Berkeley. Dr. Scott Barclay is the Director of the School of Social and Behavioral Sciences in the New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at Arizona State University. He previously served (in different rotations) as a Program Director in the Social Behavioral and Economic Sciences Directorate at the National Science Foundation. He has held positions at Drexel University, University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA), University at Albany, University of Washington, and University of California Santa Cruz. His ongoing research project explores the interplay of political, demographic and social movement factors that influence the deployment of law. His research has been published in Law & Society Review, Law & Social Inquiry, Political Research Quarterly, Perspectives on Politics and Law and Policy. His research findings have been directly referenced in the New York Times, Washington Post and Los Angeles Times. He received his doctorate in political science from Northwestern University and his bachelor's degree from the University of Queensland in Australia. Dr. Carly Urban is an associate professor of Economics at Montana State University, a research fellow at the Institute for Labor Studies (IZA), and a faculty affiliate at the Center for Financial Security at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has been a Visiting Scholar at both the Federal Reserve Board and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, where she set a research agenda that has spawned eight funded research projects. She has written several peer-reviewed papers, appearing in journals such as Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Health Economics, American Journal of Preventive Medicine, and Journal of Consumer Affairs. Dr. Urban's research focuses broadly on how public policies influence behavior. In addition to conducting research, she enjoys communicating research findings to policymakers and practitioners. She holds a Ph.D. and M.S. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a BA in Economics and International Affairs from The George Washington University. About ISER The Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER) has been at the forefront of public policy research in Alaska for 60 years. It resides with the College of Business and Public Policy at the University of Alaska Anchorage. ISER's multidisciplinary staff studies virtually all the major public policy issues Alaska faces. Its main research topic areas include the economy and fiscal policy, health, Arctic communities, natural resources and education. This press release was produced by the University of Alaska Anchorage. The views expressed here are the author's own.