New Faculty Join Andrew Young School of Policy Studies

ATLANTA — Georgia State University’s Andrew Young School of Policy Studies (AYSPS) is welcoming five new faculty members to campus this fall.

Adam Pah joins the college in a joint appointment as a clinical associate professor in the Department of Criminal Justice & Criminology. He also holds a college-wide data analytics position in the Dean’s Office. Jonathan Oxley joins the Department of Public Management & Policy as an assistant professor and Tammy Greer joins as a clinical assistant professor and director of the Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Studies in Social Entrepreneurship. The Economics Department added Elena Antoniadou as a limited-term assistant professor and Astha Sen (Ph.D. ’15) as a limited-term research assistant professor.

“We are thrilled to welcome our exciting new faculty members to campus,” said Distinguished University Professor Ann-Margaret Esnard, interim dean of the college. “Each new member possesses unique research foci and relevant teaching strengths that will benefit our students further as we continue to prepare them to thrive here at GSU and beyond.”

Pah has joined AYSPS from the Kellogg School of Management and Organizations at Northwestern University to advance its digital landscape initiative as lead faculty for policy analytics. A member of the Dean’s Office, he will share his research and teaching expertise in computational social science, directing the college’s policy analytics curriculum and supporting faculty research in computational social science methods.

Pah is a co-principal investigator of the Systematic Content Analysis of Litigation EventS Open Knowledge Network (SCALES OKN), a public platform funded by the National Science Foundation that uses artificial intelligence to surface insights into systematic patterns and behaviors in court records. More broadly, he is focused on understanding social phenomena that evolve over time and quantifying individual and group decision-making and performance when direct information is scarce. His research program draws from training in statistical and network-based methods and is focused on both population and individual-level data, a mixture that leads to collaborations on a wide range of topics.

Pah holds a B.S. from Arizona State University and a Ph.D. from Northwestern University. He has also worked as a data scientist for industry.

Jonathan Oxley

Oxley primarily performs quantitative analysis on nonprofit organization operations and donor behavior using applied econometrics and experiments. His research interests include nonprofit organization operation decisions surrounding entry, exit, revenue strategies, operational efficiency and organizational affiliations, along with how each of these operation decisions impacts donor behavior.

His research has been published in Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Voluntas and the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, and he has contributed to the field through two book chapters covering religious nonprofit organizations and the economics of religion. Oxley was also awarded a Humane Studies Fellowship by the Institute of Humane Studies from 2019-2021.

He holds a B.A. from Ottawa University (Ottawa, Kan.), and an M.S. and Ph.D. from Florida State University.

Tammy Greer

Greer has served in numerous capacities in the private and public sectors, most recently as an educator. Her research interests include community and civic involvement focusing on how policy and the lack of equitable public policy impact historically underserved communities.

Greer serves as a board member for several organizations including Georgia Women Connect, Media Policy Center and the DeKalb County Board of Ethics. She also serves as the community chair working to create a community garden in an urban food desert.  Greer has been interviewed in numerous state, national and international media outlets including CNBC, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, National Public Radio, The Washington Post, The Christian Science Monitor and The Atlanta-Journal Constitution. She has authored a forthcoming book, “Checks Without Change: Moving From Protest To Policy.”

Greer holds a B.A. and an M.A. from the University of Houston-Downtown (Texas), and a Ph.D. from Clark Atlanta University.

Elena Antoniadou

Antoniadou has worked in government and private industry along with teaching and research in higher education. Her research interests focus on microeconomic theory and applications, consumer behavior and choice, risk and uncertainty in consumer choice and applications, industrial organization policy and regulation, and behavioral economics. Her emphasis on the economics of education includes student well-being, teaching method effectiveness and different evaluation methods.

She comes to campus holding several teaching honors, including the Phi Beta Kappa Excellence in Teaching Award from Emory University, and is a Fellow of the Cambridge Commonwealth Society. Her articles have been published in journals that include Economic Modelling, Mathematics of Operations Research and the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. Antoniadou comes to AYSPS from Auburn University (Ala.), where she was a visiting assistant professor.

She holds a B.A./M.A. from the University of Cambridge and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Stanford University.

Astha Sen

Sen, who holds a Ph.D. in economics from Georgia State University, was an economist on the Supply Chain Research Science team at Amazon, working on fast-paced scientific research projects prior to returning to AYSPS to serve as a research assistant professor in the Fiscal Research Center.

Her experience in education and research includes positions with the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Truman State University (Mo.), the National Council of Applied Economic Research (India), Sonoma State University (Calif.) and Rollins College (Fla.). Her research interests center on public economics, public policy, taxation and business policy with additional interests in experimental and labor economics.

She has comprehensive quantitative research experience (including large datasets) across several research projects in diverse fields and has had articles published in the National Tax Journal, The Journal of Business Management and Change, and Public Finance Review.

In addition to her Ph.D., Sen holds a B.A. from Delhi University, a Diploma in Financial Analysis and Control from Rajasthan University (India) and an M.S. from the Illinois Institute of Technology.