Eric Stokan

Eric Stokan is the Acting Director of the Center for Social Science Scholarship. Dr. Stokan is an Associate Professor of Political Science and Affiliate in the School of Public Policy whose research examines the equitability and impacts of local government resource allocations of environmental sustainability, economic development, and community development policies. His research foci and analytic methodologies are interdisciplinary, and his scholarship makes use of advances in computational social science and data science. Stokan serves on the editorial board of the Urban Affairs Review and has had faculty affiliations with the MGMT Lab at Indiana University Bloomington and the Center for Urban Studies at Wayne State University. Stokan holds a Ph.D. in Public Policy and Administration from the Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Administration at George Washington University and has a B.A. and M.A. in political science from Wayne State University.