Public Scholarship & Other Writing

Writing for non-academic audiences, op-eds, handbook chapters, and other outputs beyond peer-reviewed journal articles.

Blog: Southbound 35

Southbound 35. Public finance and economic development on the Texas corridor, with occasional detours into sports, politics, and religion. Posts are drafted with Claude. The blog serves three purposes: exploring what an LLM can do alongside an academic researcher, giving the author a way to learn about subjects he is curious about, and providing an outlet for short analyses too limited in scope to warrant a full academic paper.

• Where the Water Will Come From — May 2026
• Did LIV Golfers Get Worse After They Defected? — April 2026
• Where Is All of This Going? — April 2026
• Hevel on the Back Nine — April 2026
• How Dangerous Is Spring Break, Really? — April 2026

Op-Eds

Feldman, MP, Bailey, AN, Lowe Reed, AS, Langford, WS. Combine Water, Grain, Hops, Yeast and Get — Jobs. News and Observer (Raleigh, NC), 2019.

Book Chapters

Feldman, MP, Langford, WS. Knowledge Spillovers Informed by Network Theory and Social Network Analysis. Handbook of Regional Science, ed. Fischer, M, Capello, R., 2019.

Policy-Facing Publications

Gitterman, D, Hay Jr., WW, Langford, WS. The National Institute of Health and Responding to New Forms of Childhood Adversity. Children’s Health Care, 2022.

Open-Source Teaching Materials

PA 3311 Textbook: Analytical Techniques for Public Administration — Open-access online textbook for undergraduate public administration research methods.