Shanna Rose, Ph.D.

Shanna Rose is the Alice Tweed Tuohy Professor of Management and Government. She serves as Director of CMC's public policy major and Associate Director of the Rose Institute of State and Local Government. Her research interests lie at the intersection of public policy, federalism, and American political economy. Her latest book, Raising the Floor: Federalism and the Politics of US Minimum Wage Policy, is forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press. She is also the author of Responsive States: Federalism and American Public Policy (with Andrew Karch; Cambridge University Press, 2019) and Financing Medicaid: Federalism and the Growth of America’s Health Care Safety Net (University of Michigan Press, 2013). Professor Rose teaches courses on public policy analysis, empirical methods, the economics of public policy, and state and local politics and policy. She holds a BA in economics from Swarthmore College and a PhD in political economy and government from Harvard University. She has earned several college-wide awards including CMC's Roy P. Crocker Award for Service, Professor of the Year at NYU-Wagner, and the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Student Teaching at the Harvard Kennedy School.