Faculty in the Media

Assistant Professor of Urban Policy Analysis & Management, Rachel Meltzer, recently posted an Op-Ed to City Limits on the importance of supporting small businesses.  In her piece, Meltzer maps out 5 key benefits of the uplifting and support of small businesses on the local level, writing that “Certainly, we need ...

 Milano was proud to host a series of events to celebrate the publication of Management Professor Erica Kohl-Arenas’ dedicated, robust and timely research on the evolution and future of philanthropy. Her book, The Self-Help Myth: How Philanthropy Fails to Alleviate Poverty  was showcased in a sneak preview at Milano’s Alumni ...

Director of Milano Doctoral Program and Associate Professor of Urban Policy Darrick Hamilton has been quoted in The Network Journal for "Dream Averted: The Disappearing Black Middle Class." Since 2008, unemployment has gone down and the deficit is down. Though these numbers show progress, Black families continue to struggle. The ...

MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry recently asked her panel of guests, including Milano's own Nina Khrushcheva, if Republicans would want anyone as inexperienced as Ben Carson or Donald Trump as president during times of potential war.During the segment, Harris-Perry and Khrushcheva jokingly agreed that Trump would be a good candidate to deal with Russian ...

Since the Government of the Russian Federation initiated strikes in Syria, Professor of International Affairs Nina Khrushcheva has stayed quite busy providing her expertise on Russian politics to major news networks. We sat down with her to ask what has been missing from the media's narrative about Russia's strategy in Syria. She also gave ...

Management Professor, Dennis Derryck is featured in Liam Alexander’s collage-portraits at NYU’s Kimmel Galleries. “I/THOU” is a two-part installation at “reflecting on concurrent themes in social justice and a conversation series exploring an individual’s role in social activism.” The Kimmel Windows host Alexander’s incredible portraits of  “11 individuals who are ...

Associate Dean Nina Khrushcheva made waves in the Russian media last week, after Quartz published her piece on the bold social experiment she recently conducted at the Kremlin. As part of her continuous research/social experiments on Dicktators and autocrats, Khrushcheva aimed to challenge the fear and apprehension that keeps so ...

Assistant ‘Politics and Advocacy’ professor, former Missouri state senator and author of the new book Mr. Smith Goes to Prison Jeff Smith discussed prison reform and his own personal experience in the prison system on the Allman Report:“I chronicled [the] tremendous waste of human potential that is our prison system and ...

Associate Dean Nina Khrushcheva’s piece on Project Syndicate, “Containment Begins at Home,” tackles the issue of homegrown, anti-American terrorism- an issue often eclipsed by concern over “the external scourge of Islamic terrorism.” Khrushcheva examines the different social, political and ideological factors that may contribute to feelings of hatred and frustration ...

The Journal of Urban Affairs has recently reviewed Milano assistant professor Jeff Smith’s Kindle Single, “Ferguson in Black and White.” In this piece, Smith, a former St. Louis City representative in the Missouri State Senate, examines the historical, political, economic and social context surrounding the unrest experienced in (and subsequent ...

Professor Ana Baptista of Milano's Environmental Policy and Sustainability Management program spoke to the radio show the Green Hour on July 13.  She spoke about environmental justice (and injustice) during the program, which focused on the environment and environmental justice in light of Pope Francis' recent call to protect the ...

In commemoration of the end of The Kosovo War GPIA Professor Anna Di Lellio has produced an art installation that addresses wartime rape. The installation "Thinking of You" displays 5,000 dresses strung across the main soccer stadium in the capital of Pristina. Open to the public as of June 12th, the ...