2013-2014 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 cocurricular 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 of poverty and how to establish a decent minimum of human development for all people.
Program Head:
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.
Harlan Ray Beckley, Ph.D.—(1974)-1989
Fletcher Otey Thomas Professor of Religion
Ph.D., Vanderbilt University
J. Tyler Dickovick, Ph.D.—(2004)-2010
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
John D. King, J.D., LL.M.—(2008)-2013
Associate Clinical Professor of Law
LL.M., Georgetown University
Deborah Miranda, Ph.D.—(2004)-2013
Professor of English
Ph.D., University of Washington
Karla K. Murdock, Ph.D.—(2005)-2013
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
Interdisciplinary Minor
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