Admissions & Aid Applying to Batten Admissions Blog Posts Tagged with Faculty Derek Wu Derek Wu is an assistant professor of public policy and economics at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy. Wu’s research interests lie in labor and public economics, with focusing on poverty and inequality, the effects of government programs, and the economics of education. Read More Faculty George Foresman George Foresman has over three decades of leadership experience in government and business. While serving as Virginia’s homeland security secretary, Foresman was confirmed by the U.S. Senate to serve as undersecretary at the Department of Homeland Security. Read More Batten Publication, Faculty, Staff, Event, News, Research, Research Speaker, Workshop, National Security Policy Center, National Security Policy Center Melissa Thomas-Hunt Melissa Thomas-Hunt is a professor of public policy at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy and the John Forbes Distinguished Professor of Business Administration at the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia. Thomas-Hunt focuses on leadership, team dynamics, and negotiations and her research studies the factors that unleash, leverage, and amplify the contributions made by individuals, particularly women, underrepresented individuals, and numerical minorities. Read More Batten Publication, Faculty, Event, News, Research, Research Speaker, Workshop, Darden School of Business, Leadership Gerald Higginbotham As of Fall 2023, Gerald Higginbotham is an assistant professor of public policy at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy at the University of Virginia. Utilizing social and cultural psychological insights, Higginbotham researches the imprint of history on people’s modern social perceptions and policy attitudes, and the psychological underpinnings of how people perceive history and its consequences. Read More Batten Publication, Faculty, Event, News, Research, Research Speaker, Workshop, Social Psychology James R. Detert Jim Detert is a professor of public policy at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy and the John L. Colley Professor of Business Administration in the Leadership and Organizational Behavior area at the University of Virginia's Darden Graduate School of Business Administration. Detert's research focuses on workplace courage, ethical decision-making and behavior, improvement-oriented voice (why people speak up or stay silent at work) and other leadership-related topics. Read More Faculty, Ethics, Leadership Michele Claibourn Michele Claibourn is an assistant professor of public policy at the Batten School and Director of Equitable Analysis for The Equity Center at UVA. Claibourn leads the Center’s community-engaged data science work in support of a more equitable and just region. She has directed or supervised multiple community-based research projects in the Charlottesville community, including racial equity studies for the City of Charlottesville, Albemarle County, and the Thomas Jefferson Area Coalition for the Homeless. Read More Batten Publication, Faculty, Event, News, Racial Justice and Equity, Research, Research Speaker, The Equity Center, Workshop, Political Science Brendan J. Boler Brendan Boler is an assistant professor of public policy at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy. Boler specializes in management consulting, high-performance coaching, and talent assessment and selection. He has extensive experience within the fields of management consulting and banking, having worked at Accenture, Goldman Sachs, and Morgan Stanley. Read More Batten Publication, Faculty, Event, News, Research, Research Speaker, Workshop, Darden School of Business, Leadership, McIntire School of Commerce Kimberly Jenkins Robinson Kimberly Jenkins Robinson is a professor of law, education and public policy at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy. Robinson is a national expert who speaks domestically and internationally about educational equity, equal educational opportunity, civil rights and the federal role in education. Her work proposes innovative legal and policy solutions to ensure that all children receive equal access to an excellent education. Read More Batten Publication, Faculty, Event, News, Racial Justice and Equity, Research, Research Speaker, Workshop, School of Law, Social Equity, Education Daphna Bassok Daphna Bassok is professor of education and public policy at the University of Virginia and associate director of EdPolicyWorks, a collaboration between the School of Education and Human Development and the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy. Her research focuses on early childhood education policy and efforts to improve early childhood education at scale, particularly policies aimed at supporting the early childhood education workforce. Read More Batten Publication, Faculty, Event, News, Research, Research Speaker, Workshop, EdPolicyWorks: Center for Education Policy and Workforce Competitiveness, EdPolicyWorks: Center for Education Policy and Workforce Competitiveness, School of Education and Human Development, Education, Economics Richard Bonnie Richard J. Bonnie is a professor of public policy at the Batten School and Director of the Institute of Law, Psychiatry and Public Policy at the University of Virginia. He teaches and writes about health law and policy, bioethics, criminal law, and public policies relating to mental health, substance abuse and public health. 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