Linda Babcock
James M. Walton Professor of Economics
(412) 268-3226 | BPH 219C | Email
Interface between economics and psychology, negotiations and dispute resolution.

Silvia Borzutzky
Teaching Professor
(412) 268-3250 | BP 223B | Email
Comparative politics with a focus on Western Europe, Latin America, and U.S.-Soviet relations.

Serguey Braguinsky
Associate Professor of Economics
(412) 268-3009 | BP 219B | Email
Economics of innovation, entrepreneurship and growth, especially from the firm and industry-level perspective; economics of development and institutions.

Lee G. Branstetter
Associate Professor of Economics
Department of Social and Decision Sciences and Heinz School of Policy and Management
(412) 268-4649 | HBH 2504B | Email
International economics, the economics of technological innovation, industrial organization, East Asian economic growth, and the Japanese economy.

Stephen Broomell
Assistant Professor
(412) 268-3224 | BP 219C | Email
Judgment and decision making; risk communication; perceptions of climate change; information aggregation; inter-judge correlation; decision modeling.

Wändi Bruine de Bruin
Assistant Professor
(412) 268-3237 | BP 208 H | Email
Risk perception, decision-making competence, and mental models of decision-relevant knowledge as elements for developing effective risk communications.

Robyn Dawes
In Memoriam



Julie Downs
Assistant Research Professor
(412) 268-1862 | BP 219D | Email
Judgment and decision making, especially concerning sexual decision making, the effects of alcohol on decision making, and decisions across cultures.

Paul Fischbeck
Professor of Social and Decision Sciences
(412) 268-3240 | BP 208F | Email
Judgment and decision making including decision theory, probabilistic risk analysis, reliability, decision support systems, and expert systems.

Baruch Fischhoff
Howard Heinz University Professor of Social and Decision Sciences
(412) 268-3246 | BP 219E | Email
Judgment and decision making, with special interests in risk perception and management, expert judgment, value elicitation, adolescence, use of formal methods in public policy making, historical judgment, human factors engineering.

Christina Fong
Senior Research Scientist
(412) 268-8168 | BP 223I | Email
Public economics, inequality and redistribution, behavioral economics, political economy.

Jendayi Frazer
Distinguished Service Professor
(412) 268-4626 | BP 223G | Email
African economic development, governance, security, comparative politics, and international relations.

Cleotilde Gonzalez
Associate Research Professor
(412) 268-6242 | BP 223C | Email
Decision making in dynamic environments and human-computer interaction.

David Greenstreet
Assistant Professor of Economics and Social Science
(412) 268-8364 | BP 219A | Email
Firm and industry productivity, industry dynamics, industrial organization, economic growth, economics of innovation and product design, economic geography and industrial location, regional economic development.

David Hounshell
David M. Roderick Professor of Technology and Social Change
(412) 268-3753 | BP 219G | Email
Innovation, industrial research and development, industrialization of regions, and history of science, technology, and business.

Karim Kassam
Assistant Professor
(412) 268-4872 | BP 223A | Email
Emotion, with special interest in emotion and decision making, physiology of emotion, and facial expressions.

William Keech
Emeritus Professor of Political Economy
Political economy, democratic theory and democratic institutions, the politics and the history of macroeconomic policy.


Steven Klepper
The Hamerschlag Professor of Economics and Social Science
(412) 268-3235 | BP 219F | Email
Industrial organization, innovation, econometrics, measurement error, tax compliance and criminal deterrence, natural monopoly regulation.

George Loewenstein
Herbert A. Simon Professor of Economics and Psychology
(412) 268-8787 | BP 319C | Email
Judgment and decision making with special interest in decision making over time, negotiations, risk perception, and applications of psychology to economics and law.

John Miller
Department Head and Professor of Economics and Social Science
(412) 268-3229 | BP 208D | Email
Economic and game theory, complex adaptive systems theory, auction markets, cooperation, experimental economics, political economy, adaptive computation.

Kiron Skinner
Associate Professor
(412) 268-3238 | BP 223F | Email
Theories of international relations, security studies, American foreign policy, the American presidency and domestic political institutions, archival research, and rational choice theory and game theory as devices for structuring historical research.

Golnaz Tabibnia
Assistant Professor
(412) 268-3665 | BP 319C | Email
Affective neuroscience, with particular interests in emotion regulation, control of temptation, conflict in decision-making, and fairness.

Erte Xiao
Assistant Professor
(412) 268-6780 | BP 319E | Email
Psychology and economics, design and analysis of economics experiments, judgment and decision making, social norms, emotions.

People: Postdoctoral Fellows

Varun Dutt
Postdoctoral Fellow
(412) 268-9547 | DDMLab, 4609 WInthrop St. | Email
Cyber situation awareness; human factors, cognitive modeling, and judgment and decision making with special interests in environmental decision making, climate risk perception, and climate risk communication.

Anna Getmansky

Andrea Jones-Rooy

Juan Sebastian Lleras

Michele Tumminello
Postdoctoral Fellow
(412) 268-9648 | Office: BPH 208G | Email

People: Visiting and Adjunct Faculty

Rui Baptista
Adjunct Faculty, International (Portugal)
+351 218 417 379 | Instituto Técnico Superior | Email
Entrepreneurship, technological innovation, firm and labor mobility, and their relationship with economic growth and regional development.

John Gasper
Visiting Assistant Professor, International (Qatar)
(974) 454-8400 CMQ | Office:           | Email

Russell Golman
Visiting Assistant Professor and Director of the Quantitative Social Science Scholars Program
(412)-268-9861 | Office: BPH 223A | Email
Game theory, decision theory, behavioral economics, mathematical modeling, complex adaptive systems.

Mary Jo Miller
Adjunct Faculty, and
Staff Attorney, Pennsylvania State Education Association
Bill of Rights, labor and employment matters

Afeworki Paulos
Adjunct Faculty, and
Assistant to the Dean of Libraries, and Social Sciences Librarian at Carnegie Mellon University Libraries
(412) 268-6116 | HL 109A | Email
International relations, African politics