Professor Deborah Stone - University of Massachusetts Boston

Please join the Center for Social Policy and the Department of Public Policy
and Public Affairs at the John W. McCormack Graduate School of Policy and
Global Studies as we welcome
Professor Deborah Stone
“Interpreting Numbers: Qualitative Analysis of Quantitative Data”
Tuesday, April 28, 2015 at 3:30PM-5:00PM
University of Massachusetts Boston
Location TBD
100 Morrissey Boulevard, Boston, MA
Professor Deborah Stone is Lecturer in Public Policy at the MIT Department
of Urban Studies and Planning. A specialist in health and social policy,
Professor Stone is the author of numerous articles and four books. Policy
Paradox: The Art of Political Decision Making, originally published in 1988,
won the American Political Science Association’s Wildavsky Award for an
Enduring Contribution to Policy Studies and has been translated into five
languages. She is on the editorial board of the Journal of Health Politics, Policy
and Law, and has written for The American Prospect, Nation, New Republic,
Boston Review, and salon.com. Additionally, she served as a consultant to the
Social Security Administration, the Institute of Medicine, the Office of
Technology Assessment, and the Human Genome Project. She is a graduate of
the University of Michigan and holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from MIT. She
has taught politics and public policy at Duke University, MIT, and Brandeis
University, where she held the Pokross Chair in Law and Social Policy until
1999, as well as visiting professorships at Aarhus University in Denmark, Yale
University, Tulane University, and University of Bremen, Germany.
Co-sponsored by the Center for Social Policy and the Department of Public Policy and
Public Affairs as part of their Spring 2015 Research Seminar Series.
No Registration Needed. For information, visit our homepage at www.umb.edu/csp
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accommodations (including dietary accommodations).
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