Spiro Maroulis

Spiro Maroulis

Spiro.Maroulis@asu.edu

Associate Professor
Faculty
DTPHX Campus
Mailcode
3720

Associate Professor
Faculty
DTPHX Campus
Mailcode
3720

Assoc Professor
Faculty
DTPHX Campus
Mailcode
3720

Associate Professor
Faculty
DTPHX Campus
Mailcode
3720

Biography

Spiro Maroulis is an assistant professor at the School of Public Affairs, and the associate director for policy informatics at Arizona State University's Decision Theater. Prior to coming to ASU, Maroulis was a visiting assistant professor of social enterprise and a postdoctoral research fellow at the Ford Center for Global Citizenship at the Kellogg School of Management.

Maroulis received his bachelor's degree from Duke University, master's degree from Harvard University and doctorate from Northwestern University, where he was also a member of the Center for Connected Learning and Computer-Based Modeling (CCL) and the Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO). Outside of academia, he has worked for Red Hat Software and Anderson Consulting (now Accenture), and was also the cofounder of PracticeFields, LLC, a corporate education and consulting company that creates computer simulations and interactive board games of business problems. 

Education

  • Ph.D. Northwestern University
  • M.P.P. Harvard University
  • B.S.E. Duke University

Research Interests

Professor Maroulis' research addresses problems involved with understanding the relationship between individual and collective behavior. This includes investigating implementation difficulties with strategic initiatives inside organizations, as well as modeling the emergence and evolution of markets and institutions. Much of his work examines these issues in the context of understanding why well-intentioned public policies so often provoke resistance and unanticipated responses by the system they are trying to improve, particularly in education.

Publications

  • Colyvas, Jeannette Maroulis, Spiro. Academic Laboratories and the Reproduction of Proprietary Science: Modeling Organizational Rules through Autocatalytic Networks. The Emergence of Organizations and Markets (2012).
  • Frank, Kenneth Maroulis, Spiro Belman, Dale Kaplowitz, Michael. The Social Embeddedness of Natural Resource Extraction and Use in Small Fishing Communities. Sustainable Fisheries: Multi-level Approaches to a Global Problem (2011).

Courses

Fall 2020
Course NumberCourse Title
PAF 540Adv Policy Analysis
AML 799Dissertation
Spring 2020
Course NumberCourse Title
AML 792Research
AML 799Dissertation
Fall 2019
Course NumberCourse Title
PAF 505Public Policy Analysis
PAF 540Adv Policy Analysis
AML 799Dissertation
Summer 2019
Course NumberCourse Title
AML 792Research
Spring 2019
Course NumberCourse Title
AML 590Reading and Conference
AML 792Research
AML 799Dissertation
Fall 2018
Course NumberCourse Title
AML 799Dissertation
Spring 2018
Course NumberCourse Title
PAF 505Public Policy Analysis
PAF 573Applied Econometrics
AML 590Reading and Conference
AML 792Research
AML 799Dissertation
Fall 2017
Course NumberCourse Title
PAF 505Public Policy Analysis
PAF 540Adv Policy Analysis
AML 799Dissertation
Spring 2017
Course NumberCourse Title
PAF 505Public Policy Analysis
PAF 573Applied Econometrics
AML 590Reading and Conference
AML 792Research
Fall 2016
Course NumberCourse Title
PAF 505Public Policy Analysis
Spring 2016
Course NumberCourse Title
PAF 505Public Policy Analysis
AML 590Reading and Conference

Presentations

  • Sirer, Irmak Maroulis, Spiro Guimera, Roger Wilensky, Uri Amaral, L.A.N. Student Enrollment Flows in Chicago Public Schools. Annual meeting of the Association for Public Policy and Management (Nov 2013).
  • Comfort, Louisa (Organizer). Panel: Measuring Change in Public Policy and Management Systems: An Iterative Causal Process. Annual meeting of the Association for Public Policy and Management (Nov 2013).
  • Colyvas, Jeannette Maroulis, Spiro. Moving from an Exception to a Rule: Analyzing Mechanisms in Emergence-Based Institutionalization. Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management Association (Aug 2013).
  • Maroulis, Spiro Wilensky, Uri. Social and Task Interdependencies in the Street-Level Implementation of Innovation. Public Management Association Research Association Conference (Jun 2013).
  • Peter S. Wardrip, University of Pittsburgh R. Benjamin Shapiro, Tufts University Andrea Forte, Drexel University Spiro Maroulis, Arizona State University Karen Brennan, Harvard University Ricarose Roque, MIT. CSCW and education: Viewing education as a site of work practice. 16th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (Feb 2013).
  • Maroulis, Spiro Wilensky, Uri. Social and Task Interdependencies in the Frontline Implementation of Innovation. Annual Meeting of the Association for Public Policy and Management (Nov 2012).
  • Natalie Helbig (Chair). Simulation Based Studies of Workforce Development. Annual Meeting of the Association for Public Policy and Management (Nov 2012).
  • Maroulis, Spiro. Using Agent-Based Modeling to Design and Interpret Social Experiments. Annual meeting of the Center for Complexity in Business (Nov 2012).
  • Maroulis, Spiro. Using Simulation to Understand Consistency in Treatment Effects: An Application to School Choice. Annual meeting of the Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness (Mar 2012).
  • Kim, Yushim Johnston, Eric Maroulis, Spiro. Agent-Based Modeling for Public Policy and Management. Annual meeting of the Association for Public Policy and Management (Nov 2011).
  • Robert Greenbaum (Chair). Network Analysis for Public and Nonprofit Management. Annual meeting of the Association for Public Policy and Management (Nov 2011).

Service

  • Policy Challenge / "Startup America" initiative of White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, Faculty Leader / Designer (2011 - 2013)

Expertise Areas