Dr. Lois Warner (PhD'07) Promoted to Associate Teaching Professor at Rutgers SPAA

Dr. Lois Warner (PhD'07) has been promoted to associate teaching professor in the School of Public Affairs and Administration (SPAA) at Rutgers University–Newark. She joined SPAA as a full-time faculty member in 2016 and has been actively serving and teaching for Rutgers SPAA since she earned her PhD from the school in 2007.

Her research interests are in the areas of public administration education and the arts in public administration, and she is active in the American Society of Public Administration's Section on Public Administration Education (SPAE) and Section on Historical, Artistic, and Reflective Expression (SHARE).

Dr. Warner was selected for the 2021-2022 Chancellor’s Scholar-in-Residence Fellowship Program (SIR) supported by the P3 Collaboratory for Pedagogy, Professional Development, and Publicly-Engaged Scholarship at RU-N. She was awarded the 2021 SPAA Faculty Teaching Award for significant contributions to SPAA students’ intellectual lives through superior teaching practices and the 2019 SPAA Faculty Service Award for outstanding service to SPAA's students, faculty, and the greater SPAA community.

Prior to joining SPAA full-time, Dr. Warner worked as a governance and public administration officer with the United Nations Division for Public Administration and Development Management, where she managed the database for the UN Public Service Awards Program and conducted research on public service codes of conduct from different global regions.