Executive Education

Faculty Listings

Faculty

Shena R. Ashley
Assistant Professor, Public Administration
Ph.D., Georgia State University and Georgia Institute of Technology, 2007
Nonprofit organizations, evaluation

William C. Banks
Board of Advisors Distinguished Professor (Law)
Professor, Public Administration
Director, Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism
Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor for Teaching Excellence
J.D., University of Denver, 1974
Comparative legal systems, 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
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
Ph.D., Syracuse University, 2001
Public finance, budgeting and financial management

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

Edwin Bock
Emeritus Professor of Political Science and Public Administration
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
Professor and Chair, Public Administration
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
Ph.D., Syracuse University, 1975
Public policy and management

Renée de Nevers
Assistant Professor, Public Administration
Ph.D., Columbia University, 1992
International security, international organizations and regimes

Thomas H. Dennison
Professor of Practice, Public Administration
Director, Program in Health Services Management and Policy
Associate Director, CNY MPH
Senior Research Associate, Center for Policy Research
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
Ph.D., Syracuse University, 1989
Public budgeting and finance, quantitative methods, education costs and finance, elderly migration

Deborah A. Freund
Distinguished Professor, Public Administration and Economics
Senior Research Associate, Center for Policy Research
Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1980
Economics of health, health policy, health care financing

Vernon L. Greene
Professor, Public Administration
Chair, Social Science Ph.D. Program
Ph.D., Indiana University, 1978
Social research methods, political theory

Paul D. Hirsch
Research Assistant Professor, Public Administration
Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008
Collaborative management, water policy

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

Soonhee Kim
Associate Professor, Public Administration
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
Ph.D., Indiana University, 2008
Public finance and public policy analysis

W. Henry Lambright
Professor, Public Administration and Political Science
Ph.D., Columbia University, 1966
Science and technology policy, environmental policy and administration

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

John McPeak
Associate Professor, Public Administration
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
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
Ph.D., University of St. Gallen (Switzerland), 2005
Networked governance, social media management

Tina Nabatchi
Assistant Professor, Public Administration
Ph.D., Indiana University, Bloomington, 2007
Public management, public policy, law

Rosemary O'Leary
Distinguished Professor of Public Administration
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

David Popp
Associate Professor, Public Administration
Ph.D., Yale University, 1997
Environmental economics, economics of technological change, public finance

Ross Rubenstein
Associate Professor, Public Administration
Ph.D., New York University, 1997
Public finance, policy analysis, education policy

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

Jeremy Shiffman
Associate Professor, Public Administration
Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1999
Public health and population policy in developing countries, politics of policy-making in developing countries

David Van Slyke
Associate Professor, Public Administration
Ph.D., University of Albany, State University of New York, 1999
Public and nonprofit management, privatization and contracting, strategic management, policy implementation, philanthropy

Mitchel Wallerstein
Professor, Political Science and Public Administration
Dean, Maxwell School
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1978
National security, international science and technology policy, transnationalism and the role of civil society, global regime change, global governance

Peter Wilcoxen
Associate Professor, Public Administration 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
Gerald B. Cramer Professor of Aging Studies
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1977
Aging and public policy, population studies, quantitative methods, microsimulation

John M. Yinger
Trustee Professor of Economics and Public Administration
Ph.D., Princeton University, 1974
State and local government finance (especially education), urban policy (especially racial and ethnic discrimination in housing)


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
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 Programs
MPA. (Syracuse University)
International NGO management, HIV/AIDS programs and policy in developing countries

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
Ph.D. (Syracuse University)
Ethics and public policy; management ethics; leadership

Kim Wincup
J.D. (University of Illinois)
National security and congress.


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