2018-2019 University Catalog archived
Poverty and Human Capability Studies (POV)
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The Shepherd Program for the Interdisciplinary Study of Poverty and Human Capability offers a curricular and co-curricular program of study that enriches any major. Sustained and coordinated study in this program enables students to understand how their undergraduate and graduate studies can prepare them as future professionals and citizens to address the problems associated with poverty and how to establish a decent minimum of human development for all people.
Program Head: Howard Pickett
Core Faculty
First date is the year in which the faculty member began service as regular faculty at the University. Second date is the year of appointment to the present rank.
N. Melina Bell, Ph.D.—(2005)-2017
Professor of Philosophy and Law
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
J. Tyler Dickovick, Ph.D.—(2004)-2010
Grigsby Associate Professor of Politics
Ph.D., Princeton University
Timothy M. Diette, Ph.D.—(2004)-2013
Associate Professor of Economics
Ph.D., University of North Carolina
Jonathan Eastwood, Ph.D.—(2006)-2010
Associate Professor of Sociology
Ph.D., Boston University
Arthur H. Goldsmith, Ph.D.—(1990)-1996
Jackson T. Stephens Professor of Economics
Ph.D., University of Illinois
Christopher M. Handy, Ph.D.—(2013)-2013
Assistant Professor of Economics
Ph.D., Cornell University
John D. King, J.D., LL.M.—(2008)-2013
Associate Clinical Professor of Law
LL.M., Georgetown University
Deborah Miranda, Ph.D.—(2004)-2013
John Lucian Smith Jr. Professor of English
Ph.D., University of Washington
Karla K. Murdock, Ph.D.—(2005)-2013
David G. Elmes Professor of Psychology
Ph.D., University of Georgia
Howard Y. Pickett, Ph.D.—(2011)-2013
Assistant Professor of Poverty and Human Capability
Ph.D., University of Virginia
Joan M. Shaughnessy, J.D.—(1983)-1994
Roger D. Groot Professor of Law
J.D., University of Chicago
Katharine L. Shester, Ph.D.—(2011)-2011
Assistant Professor of Economics
Ph.D., Vanderbilt University
Erin Taylor, Ph.D.—(2016)-2016
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Ph.D., University of California at Los Angeles
Interdisciplinary Minor
- • POV 101 - Poverty and Human Capability: An Interdisciplinary Introduction
- • POV 102 - Fieldwork in Poverty and Human Capability
- • POV 103 - Poverty and Human Capability: An Interdisciplinary Introduction and Fieldwork
- • POV 197 - Bonner Program
- • POV 241 - Poverty, Ethics, and Religion
- • POV 243 - Martin Luther King Jr.: Poverty, Justice, and Love
- • POV 245 - Poverty, Dignity, and Human Rights
- • POV 247 - Medicine, Research, and Poverty
- • POV 249 - Poverty, Oppression, and Privilege
- • POV 280 - Poverty Law
- • POV 295 - Child Abuse and Neglect Seminar
- • POV 296 - Special Topics in Poverty Studies
- • POV 423 - Poverty and Human Capability: A Research Seminar
- • POV 450 - Shepherd Summer Internship
- • POV 453 - Shepherd Summer Internship
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