Amanda Kass (she/her/hers) is an Assistant Professor at the School of School of Public Service at DePaul University.
Amanda’s research concerns public finance (with a subspecialty in public pensions), housing markets, urban governance, and financialization. Her long-term research agenda addresses the ways in which finance shapes and is shaped by geographies of economic and racial inequality, particularly at the local scale.
She has a PhD in Urban Planning and Policy from the University of Illinois-Chicago, a MA in Geography from the University of Colorado Boulder, and a BA in Geography and International Studies from The Ohio State University.
Philip Rocco is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Marquette University. Prof. Rocco’s research examines the political economy of policy expertise. He teaches courses on American politics, the policymaking process, and the politics of numbers.
Prof. Rocco was formerly a postdoctoral associate at the University of Pittsburgh’s Health Policy Institute. He earned his Ph.D. and M.A. degrees from the University of California, Berkeley.
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