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New Faculty, 2002-2003
Katharine Abraham, Ph.D.
Professor, Joint Program in Survey Methodology
Adjunct Professor, Department of Economics
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Katharine Abraham first came to the University of Maryland in 1987 as an associate professor in the Department of Economics. In 1991 she was promoted to professor. She left the university in 1993 to become Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics in the U.S. Department of Labor, a position she held through 2001. Her research interests include the study of the labor market and economic measurement. She is co-author of the book Job Security in America: Lessons From Germany, co-editor of the book New Developments in the Labor Market: Toward a New Institutional Paradigm, and contributor of numerous articles to professional journals and edited collections. She has testified frequently before Congress. Prior to coming to the university, Dr. Abraham was a research associate at the Brookings Institution and an associate professor at MIT. She also was affiliated with the National Bureau of Economic Research and has served as an editor and reviewer for many professional journals. Her Ph.D. is from Harvard and her bachelor’s degree is from Iowa State University, which earlier this year also awarded her an honorary doctorate.
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Jochen Albrecht, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Geography
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| Jochen Albrecht’s research interests include theoretical issues in geographical information science (GIS), landscape ecology, and formalization of conceptual geographical models. He has made more than 35 conference presentations and invited lectures, and is the author of more than 15 journal articles, book chapters and invited papers. Among his awards and honors are the Intergraph University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS) Young Scholars Award and the National Science Foundation /European Science Foundation (NSF/ESF) International Young Scholar in Geographic Information, Summer Institute in Berlin. He served as chair for the Environmental Perception and Behavioral Geography Specialty of the Association of American Geographers and chair of the New Zealand Chapter of the Australian Urban and Regional Science Association. Before coming to Maryland, Professor Albrecht was an assistant professor of geography at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Vechta, Germany, and his master’s and bachelor’s degree from Hamburg University, Germany. |
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Andrea Chronis, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology
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| Andrea Chronis was awarded her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the State University of New York at Buffalo this year. She recently completed a clinical psychology internship program at the University of Chicago Medical Center. Her main research interests are disruptive behavior disorders in children and parental psychopathology. She is currently developing an Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) clinical research program. She is the recipient of several professional honors and awards and is a member of the American Psychological Association, the Association for the Advancement of Behavior Therapy, and the Association for Applied Behavior Analysis. Her master’s degree is also from SUNY-Buffalo; her bachelor’s degree is from Loyola University Chicago. |
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Partha Lahiri, Ph.D.
Professor, Joint Program in Survey Methodology
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| Partha Lahiri has research interests in multi-level modeling, small-area estimation and other model-based methods in survey sampling, resampling methods, statistical applications in public policy issues, Bayes and empirical Bayes inference, prediction, disease mapping, and generalized linear mixed models. His work has been widely published in leading theoretical and applied journals such as the Journal of the American Statistical Association and Survey Methodology. Before coming to Maryland, Dr. Lahiri was the Milton Mohr Distinguished Professor of Statistics at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. He also served as director of the Division of Statistics there. He received a senior research fellowship jointly sponsored by the American Statistical Association, National Science Foundation, Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Census Bureau. He is an elected member of the International Statistical Institute, and a senior research scientist for the Gallup International Research and Educational Center. He received his bachelor’s, master’s and Ph.D. degrees in statistics from Presidency College and Calcutta University in India, and the University of Florida in Gainesville. |
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Laura Mamo, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Sociology
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| Laura Mamo earned her Ph.D. from the University of California, San Francisco this year. Her research and teaching areas are social theory, feminist theory, and social and cultural studies of health, illness and biomedicine. She has presented at more than 20 conferences on these topics and is the recipient of two awards from the American Sociological Association for papers written as a student. She is also the recipient of the Forsyth Dissertation award for a project in science and technology studies at the University of California, San Francisco. Her bachelor’s degree in political science is from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. |
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Enrique G. Mendoza, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Economics
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Enrique Mendoza is a specialist in macroeconomics and international macroeconomics. Several articles about his work, focusing on economic fluctuations, stabilization policies, and structural reforms in open economies, have appeared in the Journal of International Economics, the American Economic Review and IMF Staff Papers, among others. He has served as co-editor, board member, and referee for numerous journals and workbooks and as a member of the organizing committee and co-director for several international conferences and workshops. Before coming to Maryland, Dr. Mendoza was a professor at Duke University and worked at the International Monetary Fund. He also sat on the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. He was a visiting professor at the University of Rochester and at Maryland's Center for International Economics. He received his Ph.D. and master's degree in economics from the University of Western Ontario and his bachelor's degree in economics from Anahuac University, Mexico City.
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Rodrigo Soares, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics
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| Rodrigo Soares was awarded his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago this year. His research interests are development and labor economics, and economics of crime and the public sector. His research experience includes internships at the World Bank and the Institute of Applied Economic Research. He is the recipient of a dissertation fellowship from the University of Chicago, a national award for his master’s thesis, and a state award for his bachelor’s thesis. He had several other fellowships. His master’s degree is from Catholic University in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and his bachelor’s degree is from Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil. |
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