PA Faculty Directory

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William Banks
J.D.. (Denver University), Professor of Law.
Fields: Constitutional law; administrative law; public law processes; national security law.

Catherine A. Bertini,   B.A. (Albany).  Professor of Practice in Public Administration.  Senior Fellow, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.  Former Under-Secretary General for Management, United Nations and Executive Director, World Food Program. 
Fields:  Managing international organizations; humanitarian action; girls education, agricultural development.

Guthrie S. Birkhead
Ph.D. (Princeton University), Emeritus Professor of Political Science and
Public Administration; Former Dean of The Maxwell School.
Fields: Ethics; metropolitan studies; comparative administration; intergovernmental relations.

Edwin Bock

A.B. (Dartmouth), Advanced Studies, London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London; Emeritus Professor of Political Science and Public Administration.

Fields:  National planning and defense; government, mass media and the arts; executive politics.

Stuart Bretschneider
Ph.D. (Ohio State University), Professor of Public Administration; Associate Dean and Chair, Department of Public Administration.
Fields: Quantitative methods; information management; computer application and strategic planning.

Arthur Brooks

PhD. (RAND), Louis A. Bantle Chair of Business and Government; Professor of Public Administration.

Fields: Nonprofit management, applied economics, quantitative methods.

Renee de Nevers

Ph.D. (Columbia), Assistant Professor of Public Administration.

Fields:  International security policy; international organizations.

Thomas D. Dennison
Ph.D. (Pennsylvania State), Professor of Practice of Public Administration, Program Advisor, Health Service Management and Policy (HSMP) Certificate Program
Fields: Health care administration, finance and policy.

William D. Duncombe
Ph.D. (Syracuse University), Professor of Public Administration, Senior Research Associate, Center for Policy Research
Fields: Public budgeting and finance; quantitative methods; development administration; education policy and finance.

Deborah A. Freund
Ph.D. (University of Michigan), Professor, Public Administration and Economics, Senior Research Associate, Center for Policy Research,
Fields: Health care policy and economics of health care.

Vernon L. Greene

Ph.D. (Indiana University), Professor of Public Administration. Chair, Social Sciences Program.
Fields: Health policy; program evaluation; quantitative methods; aging and social policy.

Soonhee Kim

Ph.D. (Albany), Associate Professor of Public Administration.

Fields: Public Management, Human Resources Management, Information Resource Management, and Program Evaluation.

W. Henry Lambright
Ph.D. (Columbia University), Professor of Political Science and Public Administration.
Fields: Science, technology and public policy; energy, environment and resources policy; technology and politics; bureaucratic politics.

Leonard M. Lopoo

Ph.D. (Chicago), Assistant Professor of Public Administration.

Fields: Poverty; economic demography; child and family policy; economic inequality and mobility; applied microeconomics.

John G. McPeak

Ph.D. (Wisconsin); Assistant Professor of Public Administration.
Fields: Development economics; natural resource economics; African agricultural development.

Christina S. Merchant

M.S. (American University), Professor of Practice in Public Administration, Labor Management Consultant.

Fields: Mediation, facilitation of area and national labor disputes in both public and private sectors.

Tina Nabatchi

PhD. (Indiana), Assistant Professor of Public Administration.

Fields: Deliberative democracy; alternative dispute resolution in the federal government.

Rosemary O'Leary
Ph.D. (Syracuse University); J.D. (University of Kansas) Professor of Public Administration. Co-Director Program for the Analysis and Resolution of Conflict.
Fields: Public management; law and public policy; environmental and natural resources policy; dispute resolution.

John L. Palmer
Ph.D. (Stanford University); University Professor; Dean Emeritus, Maxwell School.
Fields: Public management and public policy; social welfare policy.

David C. Popp
Ph.D. (Yale University), Associate Professor of Public Administration.
Fields: Environmental economics; economics of technological change;
public finance.

Ross Rubenstein

Ph.D. (New York University). Associate Professor of Public Administration.

Fields: Public budgeting and finance; nonprofit financial management; economics of education; education finance and policy.

Larry D. Schroeder
Ph.D. (Wisconsin University), Professor of Public Administration.
Fields: Public sector economics; quantitative methods; financial management in local governments and developing countries.

Jeremy Shiffman
Ph.D. (Michigan), Associate Professor of Public Administration.
Fields: Public Health and Population Policy in Developing Countries; The Politics of Policy-making in Developing Countries.

David Van Slyke

Ph.D. (SUNY Albany), Associate Professor of Public Administration.
Fields: Public and nonprofit management, privatization and contracting, strategic management, faith-based organizations, and philanthropy.
 

Mitchel B. Wallerstein

Ph.D. (MIT). Professor Public Administration and Political Science; Dean, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs.

Fields: International diplomacy; international strategic studies; organizational management and leadership.

Peter Wilcoxen

Ph.D. (Harvard). Associate Professor of Public Administration and Economics; Director of Center for Environmental Policy and Administration.

Fields: Environmental economics; natural resource economics.

Douglas A. Wolf
Ph.D. (University of Pennsylvania), Professor of Public Administration;
Gerald B. Cramer Professor of Aging Studies.
Fields: Aging and social policy; quantitative methods; population studies.

John Yinger
Ph.D. (Princeton University), Professor of Public Administration and Economics; Associate Director for Metropolitan Studies Program, Center for Policy Research.
Fields: Managerial economics; public finance; housing; education; urban policy.

Adjunct Faculty

George Abonyi

Ph.D. (UCLA), Senior Advisor, Asian Development Bank (CAREC Programme); Senior Advisor, Fiscal Policy Research Institute/Education, Ministry of Finance, Thailand; Executive Director, Asia Strategy Forum (Ottawa/Bangkok).
Fields:  Political economy of policy reform in Asia, public/private partnerships in development; regional cooperation in economic integration in Asia.

Robert Bifulco

Ph.D. (Syracuse), Assistant Professor, University of Connecticut.

Fields:  State and local government finance; public budgeting; education policy.

Bruce Dayton

Ph.D. (Syracuse University), Associate Director, Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs. 
Fields: Peace and conflict studies; transboundary environmental policy; transnational politics. 

Catherine M. Gerard

M.A. (University of Toronto), M.P.A. (SUNY-Albany), Associate Director, Executive Education Programs; Co-Director, Program on the Analysis and Resolution of Conflicts.

Fields:  Leadership; organizational development; total quality management.

Kevin Gottlieb
Ph.D. (Syracuse University), President, Kevin Gottlieb and Associates, Washington, DC.
Fields: Natural resource and energy policy; congressional policy making.

Neil Katz

Ph.D. (Maryland), Associate Professor Emeritus, Public Affairs. 
Fields:  Nonviolent conflict and change, conflict resolution. 

Steven Lux

MPA. (Syracuse University), Associate Director, Executive Education Programs.
Fields:  International NGO management, HIV/AIDS programs and policy in developing countries. 

John Mathiason

Ph.D. (MIT), Adjunct Professor, International Relations.

Fields:  Management of international organizations, evaluation of international programs and projects.

Dana Radcliffe

Ph.D. (Syracuse University); MBA (UCLA); M.Phil. (Yale) Fields:  Ethics and public policy; management ethics; leadership.

Kim Wincup

J.D. (University of Illinois), Corporate Vice President, Science Applications International Corporation.
Fields: National security and congress. 

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