Professor, Department of Political Science, San Jose State University
Education Director, Mineta Transportation Institute, San Jose State University
Ph.D. University of North Carolina, 1985
Office: Clark Hall 455
Phone: 408-924-5574 (Political Science) / 408-924-5691 (Mineta Institute)
Email: haas@sjsu.edu (Political Science) haas@mti.sjsu.edu (Mineta Institute)
Contents
· Classes, Fall 2008(links to class pages and assignments)
· Vita (publications, experience, and service)
· Contact Information (phone, fax, and e-mail info)
· Current Projects (recent and forthcoming publications, etc.)
· Biographical Information (the skinny)
· Personal Information (interests, etc.)
Electronic mail address: haas@sjsu.edu (for Transportation Institute: haas@mti.sjsu.edu)
Transportation Web address: http://transweb.sjsu.edu/educ.htm
Office phone: (408) 924-5574
Office fax: (408) 924-5556 (Note: do NOT fax assignments without permission!)
Mail address:
Department of Political Science, San Jose State University, One Washington Square, San Jose, CA 95192-0119
Recent Research and Scholarship
1. "Defining the Homeland Security Research Priorities of State DOTs.” With Frances Edwards and Bill Medigovich. Presentation at the annual meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, D.C., January 20, 2007.
2. Projecting Politics: Political Messages in American Films (with Terry Christensen), M.E. Sharpe, 2005.
3. Published Designing and Operating Safe and Secure Transit Systems: Assessing Current Practices in the U.S. and Abroad (with Brian D. TaylorAnastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, Robin Liggett, Camille Fink, Martin Wachs, Ellen Cavanagh, Christopher Cherry). Mineta Transportation Institute. (March, 2006)
4. Awarded $90,000 contract from the Federal Transit Administration for “Ridership Enhancement Quick Study.”
5. Published “Are You Ready?” in Transit California March/April 2005, pp. 16-18.
6. Currently editing a symposium issue of the International Journal of Public Administration on the topic of performance measurement, to be published in Spring of 2006
7. Presented “The Master of Science in Transportation Management Program at the Mineta Transportation Institute” at the 2005 annual meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, D.C., January 10-12.
8. Published “Understanding Transit Ridership Growth: Case Studies of Successful Transit Systems in the 1990s,” in the Transportation Research Record No. 1835, pp/11-120 (with Allison Yoh and Brian Taylor).
9. Spoke at the 2003 “Rail Volution”
conference in Atlanta in September 2003 on the topic of “At the
Ballot Box: What Works and What Doesn’t.”
10. Awarded Fulbright “Senior Specialist Program” grant to teach and study at Vidzieme University in Valmiera, Latvia (January/February 2003)
11. “The Use of Performance Indicators in State Government,” in Encyclopedia of State Administration, Jack Rabin (ed). pp 898-900. 2003.
12. Lectured at Shenyang University in Shenyang, China on behalf of the CSU Office of Global Partnership Development, August 2002
13. Increasing Transit Ridership: Lessons from the Most Successful Transit Systems in the 1990’s. (with Brian Taylor). Norman Y. Mineta International Institute for Surface Transportation Policy Studies, Spring 2002. Paper based on this research presented at the 2003 Transportation Research Board conference in Washington, D.C. in January, 2003.
14. "Voting Outcomes of Local Tax Ballot Measures with a Substantial Rail Transit Component: Case Study of Effects of Transportation Packages" (with Richard Werbel). Transportation Research Record, no. 1799, pp. 10-17, 2002.
15. Review of Nonprofits in Urban America (Richard C. Hula, Cynthia Jackson-Elmoore, eds.). American Political Science Review 96(2):211, June, 2002.
16. Transportation and Welfare Reform: The Travel Behavior and Needs of Welfare Recipients (with Evelyn Blumenberg and Brian Taylor). Norman Y. Mineta International Institute for Surface Transportation Policy Studies, Summer 2002.
17. Applied Policy Research: Concepts and Cases (with J. Fred Springer); Garland Publishing Co., 1998.
B.A. Valparaiso University, 1979
M.A. Kent State University, 1980
Ph.D. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1985
A few of my favorite….
Authors: James Ellroy, Richard Price, Vladimir Nabokov, Peter Carey.
Movies: Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead, Chinatown, Donnie Darko, Goodfellas, Natural Born Killers, Wag the Dog, Three Kings
Popular music artists: Elvis Costello, Lucinda Williams, Tom Waits, Lou Reed, REM., Warren Zevon (RIP).
Jazz artists: John Coltrane, McCoy Tyner, Miles Davis, Eddie Gale, John Scofield, Len Patterson Trio (Flowtilla!).
Travel destinations: Bucharest, New York City, Vancouver, Mumbai, Croatia, Tasmania, Riga, Buenos Aires
Teams: Sharks, Hoosiers, Bears
Last Revised: May, 2008