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Dean:

Marc Holzer (Ph.D. University of Michigan) is a Board of Governors Professor of Public Affairs and Administration. Since 1975, he has directed the National Center for Public Performance (NCPP). His research addresses issues of public performance, e-governance, comparative public administration, and the influence of culture on management. He is a member of the National Academy of Public Administration. CV More...

Associate Dean for Academic and Student Affairs/MPA Director:

Judith J. Kirchhoff (Ph.D. University of Maryland) is an Associate Professor of Public Affairs and Administration. Dr. Kirchhoff completed a Ph.D. in government and politics specializing in political economy and organization studies. Her applied dissertation was a performance analysis of 19 not-for-profit Health and social service delivery organizations in a five county region of a Midwestern state. Dr. Kirchhoff holds a Master of Public Administration degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she completed a master's thesis case study of non-profit organization financial policies. More...

Core Faculty:

Lamar V. Bennett (M.P.A. Rutgers University) is an Instructor of Public Affairs and Administration. His research interests include Performance Measurement, Public Management and Education Reform, and Social Service and Education Management. CV More...

Kathe Callahan (Ph.D. Rutgers University) is an Assistant Professor of Public Affairs and Administration. Her research interests include civic engagement, deliberative democracy, government performance and public sector accountability.CV More...

Raphael J. Caprio (Ph.D. Rutgers University), is Vice President for Continuous Education and Outreach, with university-wide responsibility. His research involves economic development, real estate, tax policy, municipal finance and budgeting.

Kyle Farmbry (Ph.D. George Washington University) is an Assistant Professor of Public Affairs and Administration. His research interests include intersectoral dynamics; private and independent sector entrepreneurial development; public, private and nonprofit sector roles in minority enterprise development; and community voice in public administration. CV More...

Dennis Gale (Ph.D. George Washington University) is a Professor Emeritus of Public Affairs and Administration. His research interests include urban politics and government, ethical behavior in policy and administration, and national urban and economic development policy. CV More...

Dorothy Olshfski (Ph.D. Temple University) is an Associate Professor of Public Affairs and Administration. She has published peer reviewed articles in many journals, a book of case studies, and a recent volume on policy making and implementation. CV More...

Suzanne J. Piotrowski (Ph.D. American University) is an Assistant Professor of Public Affairs and Administration. Dr. Piotrowski's research focuses on nonmission-based values in public administration, including administrative transparency and ethics. Her current research focuses on defining and measuring municipal transparency. CV More...

Byron E. Price (Ph.D. Mississippi State University) is an Assistant Professor of Public Affairs and Administration and Director of the MPA and EMPA programs. His research includes constitutional implications of public and private arrangements, prison privatization, e-governance, performance measurement, and education reform. CV More...

Norma M. Riccucci (Ph.D. Maxwell School, Syracuse University) is a Professor II of Public Affairs and Administration and directs the Ph.D. program. She has published extensively in the areas of employment discrimination law, affirmative action and diversity management. She is a member of the National Academy of Public Administration. CV More...

Alicia Schatteman (M.S. Syracuse University, M.A. Trent University) is an Instructor of Public Affairs and Administration. Her research interests include performance reporting, public communications, e-government and citizen participation.

Alan Sadovnik (Ph.D. New York University) is a Professor of Education, Sociology and Public Affairs and Administration. His research interests include the sociology of education, urban educational policy and urban school improvement, and the history of progressive education. CV More...

Robert Shick (Ph.D. New York University) is an Assistant Professor of Public Affairs and Administration, Managing Director of the National Center for Public Performance and Director of the Executive MPA Program. He has extensive experience in the public sector as a senior administrator in New York City government.  His research interests include privatization and the contracting-out of government services, nonprofit management and organizational development. More...

Daniel L. Smith (Ph.D. University of Georgia) is an Assistant Professor of Public Affairs and Administration. His research focuses on the fiscal implications of state-level budgetary institutions; the interaction between public financial management and organizational performance; and tax equity. Other research and teaching interests include quantitative methodology and public policy analysis. CV More...

Evan Stark (Ph.D. SUNY - Binghamton) is an Associate Professor of Public Affairs and Administration and MPH Program Director. His research areas include the public health and legal dimensions of interpersonal violence, operation of the child welfare system, and the impact of racial and sexual inequality on health. CV More...

Frank J. Thompson (Ph.D. University of California at Berkley) is a Professor of Public Affairs and Administration. He has published extensively on issues of health policy, policy implementation, public personnel policy, and administrative politics. CV More...

Gregg G. Van Ryzin (Ph.D. City University of New York) is an Associate Professor of Public Affairs and Administration (Sep 2008). His research focuses on the use of social science methods to measure the performance of government and nonprofit organizations and to evaluate program outcomes. He also conducts research on citizen satisfaction and other public attitudes toward government. CV More...

Hua Xu (Ph.D. Rutgers University) is an Assistant Professor of Public Affairs and Administration (Sep 2008).

Yahong Zhang (Ph.D. Florida State University) is an Assistant Professor of Public Affairs and Administration. She received a Master of Economics from Nanjing University (China) and a Master of Political Science from the University of Kansas. Her research focuses on local government, public policy, and gender issues. CV More...