Faculty

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.

Robert Bifulco
Ph.D. (Syracuse University), Associate Professor of Public Administration.
Fields: State and local government finance; public budgeting; education policy.

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.

Walter Broadnax
Ph.D. (Syracuse University), Distinguished Professor of Public Administration.
Fields: Leadership and management in public organizations.

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.

Bernard (Bunny) Jump
PhD (Ohio State University), Professor Emeritus, Public Administration
Fields: Public Budgeting & finance; state and local finance

Sharon N. Kioko
Ph.D. (Indiana), Assistant Professor of Public Administration.
Fields: Public financial management and analysis, public budgeting, non-profit finance, research methods.

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.

Ines Mergel
D.B.A (University of St. Gallen, Switzerland), Assistant Professor of Public Administration.
Fields: Information technology and networked governance; network analysis theory; sharing information and innovation across organizations.

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

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), 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.