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Tanya Heikkila
International Affairs Building, Room 1406
Assistant Professor of Public Affairs Policy
Phone: 212-854-5208
www.columbia.edu/~th2063/
th2063@columbia.edu
Biography:
Tanya Heikkila is an assistant professor in the Department of International and Public Affairs, teaching primarily in the MPA in environmental science and policy program. She has taught courses in environmental policy and public management, and workshops in policy implementation and policy analysis.
Her research interests are in the fields of policy analysis and institutional theory, renewable and natural resource management and policy, and water governance issues. Heikkila has recently published articles in the Natural Resources Journal, the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Water Policy, and the American Review of Public Administration. She published a book titled Common Waters, Diverging Streams: Linking Institutions and Water Management in Arizona, California, and Colorado with W. Blomquist and E. Schlager (Resources for the Future 2004). Heikkila's research also has looked at performance management and citizen participation in special purpose governments (under an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation grant with Kimberley Isett) and collaborative resource management institutions in the United States. Most recently, she was awarded a three-year grant from the National Science Foundation (along with E. Schlager) to study interstate river basin compacts in the Western United States.
Heikkila holds a BA from the University of Oregon, Robert D. Clark Honors College (1992), an MA in public administration (1998), and a PhD from the University of Arizona, School of Public Administration and Policy (2001). In 2001 she was the recipient of Resources for the Future's Joseph L. Fisher dissertation fellowship. From 2001 to 2002 she was a postdoctoral research fellow at Indiana University.
Research Interests: Natural Resource Management, Environment, Water