Our Staff
Joseph White, Ph.D. - Director of the Center for Policy
Studies
 Joseph
White PhD, Luxenberg Family Professor of Public Policy at CWRU, became Director
of the Center for Policy Studies in July, 2000. He succeeded founding Director
Kenneth Grundy, the Marcus A. Hanna Emeritus Professor of Political Science. Dr. White
received his A.B. from the University of Chicago and his M.A. and Ph.D. in
Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley. His previous
appointments include Associate Professor of Health Systems Management in the
School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine of Tulane University, and also
Research Associate and then Senior Fellow in Governmental Studies for The
Brookings Institution. In addition he has taught courses for Georgetown
University, Johns Hopkins University, and Carleton College.
Andrew M. Lucker, Ph.D. - Associate Director of the Center for Policy Studies
 Andrew
M. Lucker PhD, is the Associate Director of the Center for Policy Studies and an
adjunct assistant professor of political science. Dr. Lucker received his
bachelors degree from Ohio University and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Case Western
Reserve University
Andrew M. Lucker is currently researching a book on American polling
pioneer Samuel Lubell. Dr. Lucker also recently completed a chapter on the Ohio
legislative process for an edited book on Ohio politics that will be released in
the fall of 2007.
His first book, V. O. Key Jr.,
The Quintessential Political Scientist (New York: Peter Lang Publishing,
2001) focused on an extensive examination of the work and life of one of the
most important American political scientists of the twentieth century, V. O.
Key, Jr. (1908-1963). The research is based on Key's voluminous personal
papers, interviews with his family, colleagues, and graduate students, plus
thorough study of all of his published and unpublished writings, much of
which is not readily accessible today. Dr. Lucker is an active participant
in the American Political Science Association, the Southern Political
Science Association, and the Ohio Association of Economists and Political
Scientists.
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