Public Administration

Faculty Listings

Faculty

Shena R. Ashley
Assistant Professor, Public Administration and International Affairs
Senior Research Associate, Campbell Public Affairs Institute
Ph.D., Georgia State University and Georgia Institute of Technology, 2007
Nonprofit organizations, evaluation

William C. Banks
Professor, Public Administration and International Affairs
Board of Advisors Distinguished Professor (Law)
Director, Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism
Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor for Teaching Excellence
M.S. (Law and Society) University of Denver, 1982; J.D., University of Denver, 1974
National security law, domestic and international terrorism, emergency powers, covert war powers, problems of official corruption, civil/military relations, appropriations powers

Catherine Bertini
Professor of Practice, Public Administration and International Affairs
B.A., State University of New York at Albany, 1971
International organizations, United Nations, humanitarian relief, agricultural development, education of girls, hunger and food policy

Robert Bifulco
Associate Professor, Public Administration and International Affairs
Ph.D., Syracuse University, 2001
Public finance, budgeting and financial management

Guthrie S. Birkhead
Professor Emeritus, Political Science/ Public Administration and International Affairs
Ph.D., Princeton University, 1951
Metropolitan studies, comparative administration, ethics, intergovernmental relations

Edwin Bock
Emeritus Professor of Political Science/ Public Administration and International Affairs
A.B. (Dartmouth), Advanced Studies, London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London
National planning and defense; government, mass media and the arts; executive politics

Stuart Bretschneider
Maxwell Professor of Public Administration and International Affairs
Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor for Teaching Excellence
Ph.D., Ohio State University, 1981
Quantitative methods, computers, information management

Walter Broadnax
Distinguished Professor, Public Administration and International Affairs
Senior Research Associate, Campbell Public Affairs Institute
Ph.D., Syracuse University, 1975
Public policy and management

Stuart Brown
Professor, International Relations
Senior Research Associate, Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs
Ph.D., Columbia University, 1985
International economics, macroeconomics, emerging markets, political economy

Leonard E. Burman
Daniel Patrick Moynihan Professor of Public Affairs
Professor of Practice in Public Administration and International Affairs
(with courtesy appointments in Economics and Law)
Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research
Affiliated Scholar, Urban Institute
Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1985
Federal tax policy, health care, budget reform

Renée de Nevers
Associate Professor, Public Administration and International Affairs
Ph.D., Columbia University, 1992
International security, international relations, private military and security companies

Thomas H. Dennison
Professor of Practice, Public Administration and International Affairs
Director, Program in Health Services Management and Policy
Associate Director, CNY MPH
Director, Lerner Center for Public Health
Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, 1987
Health care management, health care finance, home and community based care, non-profit governance

William D. Duncombe
Professor, Public Administration and International Affairs
Ph.D., Syracuse University, 1989
Public budgeting and finance, quantitative methods, education costs and finance, elderly migration

Vernon L. Greene
Professor, Public Administration and International Affairs
Chair, Social Science Ph.D. Program
Research Associate, Campbell Public Affairs Institute
Ph.D., Indiana University, 1978
Social research methods, political theory

Bernard Jump
Professor Emeritus, Public Administration and International Affairs
Ph.D. Ohio State University
Public Budgeting & finance; state and local finance

Soon Hee Kim
Professor, Public Administration and International Affairs
Senior Research Associate, Campbell Public Affairs Institute.
Ph.D., University of Albany, State University of New York, 1998
Public management, human resources management, electronic government, local governance, and leadership development

Sharon N. Kioko
Assistant Professor, Public Administration and International Affairs
Ph.D., Indiana University, 2008
Public budgeting and finance, municipal bond market, state and local financial management policy, and quantitative methods

W. Henry Lambright
Professor, Public Administration and International Affairs and Political Science
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Ph.D., Columbia University, 1966
Science and technology policy, environmental policy and administration

Leonard M. Lopoo
Associate Professor, Public Administration and International Affairs
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2001
Child and family policy, economic demography

John McPeak
Associate Professor and Vice Chair, Public Administration and International Affairs
Assistant Professor, Economics, by Courtesy Appointment
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1999
Development economics, natural resource economics, African agricultural development

Christina Sickles Merchant
Professor of Practice, Public Administration and International Affairs
Faculty Associate with the Program on the Advancement of Research in Conflict and Collaboration
M.S. American University, 1990
Conflict resolution theory and skills, labor relations in the public sector

Ines Mergel
Assistant Professor, Public Administration and International Affairs
Doctor of Business Administration, University of St. Gallen (Switzerland), 2005
Social media in the public sector, information management, Government 2.0, social network analysis

Robert B. Murrett
Deputy Director, Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism (INSCT) Professor of Practice, Public Administration and International Affairs
M.A., Georgetown University, M.S.S.I., National Defense Intelligence College
National security, international relations

Tina Nabatchi
Assistant Professor, Public Administration and International Affairs
Ph.D., Indiana University, Bloomington, 2007
Public management, policy, and law; citizen participation; collaborative governance; conflict resolution

Rosemary O'Leary
Distinguished Professor of Public Administration and International Affairs
Howard G. and S. Louise Phanstiel Chair in Strategic Management and Leadership
J.D., University of Kansas, 1981; Ph.D., Syracuse University, 1988
Public management, law and public policy, organization theory, administrative and environmental law, environment and natural resource policy and management, dispute resolution

John L. Palmer
University Professor and Dean-Emeritus
Ph.D., Stanford University, 1971
Public policy, public management, public finance, U.S. and comparative social policy, Medicare and Social Security

Rebecca Peters
Assistant Professor, Public Administration and International Affairs
PhD, Brown University, 2011; MPH, Emory University 2004
Angola, Lusophone Africa, International Development, Global Public Health, Non-Governmental Organizations

David Popp
Associate Professor, Public Administration and International Affairs
Ph.D., Yale University, 1997
Environmental economics, economics of technological change

Ross Rubenstein
Associate Dean and Chair, Public Administration and International Affairs
Ph.D., New York University, 1997
Judicial politics, U.S. Supreme Court, constitutional development, litigation & social change

Larry D. Schroeder
Professor, Public Administration and International Affairs
Maxwell Professor of Teaching Excellence
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1971
Local government finance, tax analysis, financial management in developing countries

David Van Slyke
Associate Professor, Public Administration and International Affairs
Senior Research Associate, Campbell Public Affairs Institute
Ph.D. Public Administration & Policy – Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy, University at Albany, State University of New York.
Public & Nonprofit Management

Peter Wilcoxen
Associate Professor, Public Administration and International Affairs, and Economics
Director, Center for Environmental Policy and Administration
Ph.D., Harvard University, 1989
Natural resource and environmental economics

Douglas A. Wolf
Professor, Public Administration and International Affairs
Gerald B. Cramer Professor of Aging Studies
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1977
Aging and public policy, population studies, quantitative methods

John M. Yinger
Trustee Professor of Economics and Public Administration and International Affairs
Ph.D., Princeton University, 1974
State and local government finance, education, urban policy


Adjunct Faculty

George Abonyi
Ph.D. (UCLA)
Political economy of policy reform in Asia, public/private partnerships in development; regional cooperation in economic integration in Asia.

Catherine M. Gerard
Director of the Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration (PARCC)
Associate Director for the Executive Education Programs
M.A. (University of Toronto), M.P.A. (SUNY-Albany)
Leadership; organizational development; total quality management.

Neil Katz
Associate Professor Emeritus, Public Affairs
Ph.D., University of Maryland, 1974
Nonviolent conflict and change, conflict resolution

Steven Lux
Director, Executive Education Program
MPA. (Syracuse University)
NGO management

John R. Mathiason
Professor of International Relations
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1968
Management of the international public sector, international organization, international negotiation, research methods

Dana Radcliffe
Adjunct Professor, Public Administration and International Affairs
Ph.D. (Syracuse University)
Ethics and public policy; management ethics; leadership


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