Brewster Denny

Brewster Denny
Dean Emeritus and Professor of Public Affairs
Ph.D., Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, 1959

Areas of Specialization:
American Foreign Policy

Academically, Brewster Denny is an historian. He was the founder and first dean of the Evans School from 1962-80, headed the Marine Affairs effort from 1972-79, and was the head of the Foreign Affairs professional program from 1967-90.

His public service includes:

• Naval service in WWII and the Korean War period
• Supervisory intelligence research analyst for eight years assessing Soviet special weapons capabilities and intentions
• Member of the Professional Staff of the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on National Policy Machinery
• Advisor during the national security transition between the Eisenhower and Kennedy Administrations
• U.S. Representative to the General Assembly of the United Nation
• Representative of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences to help on science policy in Thailand, Korea, the Philippines, and Jordan

He has been as a trustee of The Century Foundation since 1974, serving as board chairman from 1986-94. He has worked on a number of the fund’s research programs, assisted in the design of projects, and reviewed manuscripts - especially those involving foreign policy, arms control, intelligence, post-war organization of Europe, and U.S. Russian relations after the Cold War.

Denny speaks, reads, and writes Russian, and has visited Russia twice. He is active in a number of local public service activities, including chairman of the Children’s Budget Coalition of the Children’s Alliance.

Curriculum Vitae (6KB PDF)

Diana Gale

Diana Gale
Senior Lecturer Emeritus of Public Affairs
Ph.D., University of Washingon, 1981

Areas of Specialization
Strategic and Resource Management Planning, Leadership Development, Coaching & Organizational Management

Diana Gale is Senior Lecturer Emeritus at the Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs. She is the former Director of Seattle Public Utilities and the City of Seattle Office of Management and Budget. She became the first director of Seattle Public Utilities when the department was created in 1997. She was responsible for all aspects of Seattle's utilities including water, sewer, drainage, solid waste, engineering services, and utilities customer services.

Previously, Gale served as the superintendent of the Seattle Water Department for the regional area, delivering water services to 1.2 million people. Prior to that, she was the director of Seattle's Office of Management and Budget. As budget director, she initiated a biennial budget process which resulted in the first-ever two-year budget for the City of Seattle, as well as a strategic capital investment plan and an innovative program of quality management and performance measurement. Before working as budget director, she was director of the Solid Waste Utility and executive director of the Legislative Department. As director of Solid Waste, she initiated the nationally renowned recycling and composting programs, which have led Seattle to a 44 percent recycling rate.

Diana has extensive community involvement work in the arts and the environment. She is on the Board of the Seattle Opera, the Seattle Chamber Music Festival, Long Live The Kings (a salmon restoration organization) and the International Water Management Council.

Curriculum Vitae (202KB PDF)

Margaret T. Gordon

Margaret T. Gordon
Professor of Public Affairs and Dean Emeritus
Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1972

Areas of Specialization:
News Media and Public Policy, News Media and Society, Crimes Against Women, Fear of Crime, Public Access to Information

Margaret T. Gordon joined the Evans School as professor and dean in 1988. She tepped down as dean after ten years to continue her research and teaching at the Evans School.

Prior to joining the Evans School, Gordon served as the director of Northwestern University’s Center for Urban Affairs and Policy Research from 1980-88. She was also a professor at the Medill School of Journalism and and Northwestern University's departments of Sociology and Urban Affairs. She taught courses in urban policy analysis and news media and society.

At the Evans School she teaches: news media and public policy; and race, ethnicity, and public policy. Gordon’s research has focused on the news media and the public’s declining trust in government, the news media and public policy making, and women’s fear and self-protective behaviors.

Gordon is currently researching new forms of journalism, and is working on a team evaluating the impacts of the Gates Foundation's Library Program, which is seeking to provide universal access to computers and the Internet through public libraries.

Gordon received her Ph.D. in Sociology from Northwestern University and bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern.

Curriculum Vitae (33KB PDF)

Barry I. Hyman

Barry I. Hyman
Professor of Public Affairs and Mechanical Engineering
Ph.D., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1965

Areas of Specialization:
Technology and Public Policy, Energy and Environmental Policy

Professor Hyman’s main research and teaching interests are in technology and public policy, and energy policy and management. His current research focuses on energy and environmental characteristics of manufacturing processes. From 1973-75 he served as staff engineer to the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce. He was the 1985 recipient of the Chester F. Carlson Award for Innovation in Engineering Education and was named 1995 Academic Engineer of the Year by the Puget Sound Engineering Council. Dr. Hyman is currently Vice President for Government Relations of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

Hubert G. Locke

Hubert G. Locke
Professor and Dean Emeritus of Public Affairs
MA, University of Michigan, 1961

Areas of Specialization:
Urban Affairs, Law and Justice

After graduate work at the University of Michigan, Hubert G. Locke became the first Executive Director of the Citizens Committee for Equal Opportunity (a civil rights organization) in Detroit (1962-65). Subsequently, he was appointed Administrative Assistant to the Detroit Commissioner of Police (1966-67), Adjunct Assistant Professor of Urban Education and Fellow of the Center for Urban Studies at Wayne State University (1967-72), and Dean of the College of Public Affairs and Community Service and Associate Professor of Urban Studies at the University of Nebraska at Omaha (1972-75). He came to the University in 1976 as Professor of Public Affairs and Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. In 1977, Dean Locke was appointed Vice Provost for Academic Affairs and in 1982, Dean of the Evans School. His major research interests are in management and policy issues in American policing, but he devotes a considerable amount of his spare time to writing on the experiences of German society during the era of National Socialism. He is a member of the Boards of Trustees of the Bullitt Foundation, Common Cause, the Institute of European Studies, and the Pacific School of Religion. He is chair of the State Sentencing Guidelines Commission. He is author and editor of several books and numerous chapters in publications dealing with race, criminal justice, religion, and public policy.

Curriculum Vitae (12KB PDF)