Biography and expertise
I am an assistant professor at Texas State University in the Department of Political Science in the Masters of Public Administration Program. I previously served as a post-doctoral research fellow in the School of Public Affairs at Arizona State University. I earned my PhD in Public Policy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as well as my MS in Biochemistry and Biophysics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and my BS in Chemistry at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington.
Education
Doctorate Degree
PhD in Public Policy
Univ North Carolina - Chapel Hill, 2022
Master's Degree
MS in School of Medicine Biochemistry and Biophysics
Univ North Carolina - Chapel Hill, 2016
Bachelor's Degree
BS in Chemistry
Univ of North Carolina-Wilmington, 2012
Teaching Interests
Research Interests
Featured scholarly/creative works
- Heinzel, C., Langford, W. S., Peters, V., & Sanders, M. (2025). Young and Small Firms and Resilience to Extreme Weather Events. Journal of Business Venturing Insights, 24, e00541. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbvi.2025.e00541
- Langford, W. S., & Feldman, M. P. (2024). We’re Not in Dreamland Anymore: The Consequences of Community Opioid Use on Local Industrial Composition. Journal of Regional Science, 64(5), 1811–1831. https://doi.org/10.1111/jors.12727
- Langford, W. S., & Feldman, M. P. (2023). We Miss You George Bailey: The Effect of Local Banking Conditions on the County-level Timing of the Great Recession. Regional Studies, 57(9), 1832–1850.
- Langford, W. S., Thomas, H. W., & Feldman, M. P. (2023). Banking for the Other Half: The Factors that Explain Banking Desert Formation. Economic Development Quarterly, 38(2), 71--81. https://doi.org/https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=MUskjdAAAAAJ&citation_for_view=MUskjdAAAAAJ:_FxGoFyzp5QC
- Gitterman, D. P., Hay, W. W., & Langford, W. S. (2023). 2022: The National Institute of Health and Responding to New Forms of Childhood Adversity. Children’s Health Care (2nd ed., Vol. 52, pp. 117–122). London, United Kingdom: Taylor and Francis.
Featured service activities
- Reviewer / Referee
Climate Resilience and Sustainability
- Other
ICMA Chapter Event
- Reviewer / Referee
Public Budgeting and Finance