Professor and chair of the UC Davis Graduate School of Management Department of Economics Ann Huff Stevens has been appointed interim dean of the Graduate School of Management. She will take the position October 1, 2014. Stevens will serve until the deanship is filled on a permanent basis; she will not be a candidate for the job.
He or she will succeed Steven C. Currall, dean since 2009, whom the chancellor tapped recently to fill the new role of Chancellor’s Advisor to lead the campuswide effort to develop a possible additional campus in the Sacramento region.
Stevens was a faculty member at Rutgers and Yale universities before joining UC Davis as an associate professor in 2003. She became a professor in 2009 and economics chair in 2010.
She is the founding director of the Center for Poverty Research, established in 2011 following a successful proposal for a five-year award from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. She will continue to direct the center over the next two years.
Stevens studies low income workers and labor markets, the incidence and effects of job loss, connections between economic shocks and health, and poverty and safety-net dynamics. She is a faculty research associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research.
During 2013-2014, Stevens served as chair of the Provost’s Study Group on Access and Affordability, leading a group of faculty, staff and students in an examination of trends in and issues surrounding budgetary pressures and rising tuition.
She received her doctorate from the University of Michigan in 1995 and has served as an investigator on numerous grants from the National Science Foundation and other agencies.