PhD Dissertations, Job Placements & Fellowship Awardees
Recent PhD Dissertations
Mauricio Astudillo-Rodas
Everyone, everywhere, all at once: a mixed-method approach about the use of Whatsapp for work purposes
Fangda Ding
How can bureaucratic representation and diversity cintribute to public service?
Gabrielle Rossi
Cycling for service: understanding how service-learning combined with endurance-based activities enhances prosocial behavior amongst young adults
Meril Antony
Essays on co-production, social equity, and administration of schools
- Best Dissertation Award: American Society for Public Administration’s Section on Personnel Administration and Labor Relations (2023)
Inkyu Kang
Bureaucratic behavior at the frontline: three essays on the police and the public
Cheon Lee
Three essays on the complex relationships between nonprofit commercialization and charitable giving
Po Chiu Ivan Lee
Risk aversion in the public sector workforce: the micro-level drivers of change
Hanjin Mao
The financial benefits of information technology adoption in nonprofit organizations
- Best Dissertation Award: Academy of Management Public Nonprofit Division (2023)
Javier Fuenzalida
The effects of politicization in public organizations
Monique Jn-Marie
Determinants of the capital structure of municipal water utility systems: an empirical study of Texas public water systems
Shilpa Viswanath
Public sector collective bargaining during municipal State takeovers: towards a theory of local government employees
Srinivas Yerramsetti
Targeting cooking gas benefits in India
Andrew Ballard
Quality improvement or symbolic adoption
Robert Lewis Friday
Accountability, effectiveness and efficiency
Seth Meyer
Intraorganizational relationships and conflicts within multisite nonprofit organizations
Joshua L. Osowski
Skills and personality traits of the collaborator
Olugbenga Sonola
Determinants of the capital structure of U.S. public finance infrastructural enterprises
Jung Ah (Claire) Yun
Creating public values through cross-sector collaboration
Alex Ingrams
Open government performance
Min-Hyu Kim
Human resource strategies in response to local government cutbacks
Yunsoo Lee
The Great Recession, government performance, and citizen trust
Huafang Li
Information and donations
- Best Dissertation Award: Public Management Research Association (2017)
Jermaine Wright
Equity as an outcome
Kevin Davis
Neoliberalism and urban education
Felix Deat
Reputation management
Lisa Mahajan-Cusack
The impact of social media on local government transparency and citizen engagement
Audrey Redding-Raines
A phenomenological examination of racial microaggressions in intraracial therapeutic counseling relationships
Shugo Shinohara
Exit, voice, and loyalty under municipal decline
Lawrence R. Adamitis
The effect of Compstat on interjurisdictional public budgeting
Lourdes Alers-Tealdi
Institutionalization of knowledge management in the federal government
Soojin Kim
Toward financially effective contract management
Shuyang Peng
From mandatory to voluntary
Yueping Zheng
Explaining government performance on e-participation in New Jersey
Recent PhD Job Placements
Arizona State University
Bridgewater State University, MA
Grand Valley State University, MI
International University of Japan
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
New Jersey Department of Health
New Mexico State University
Nova Southeastern University, FL
Seattle University, WA
Sun Yat-Sen University, China
Superior Court of New Jersey
The City University of New York (CUNY)
Tilburg University, Netherlands
University of Georgia
University of Houston-Downtown (UHD)
University of Nebraska Omaha
University of New Mexico
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Recent PhD Fellowship Awardees
Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA) Doctoral Seminar Fellows
ARNOVA's competitive fellowship provides intellectual and research advice and mentoring and networking opportunities to doctoral candidates pursuing studies related to the fields of nonprofit, philanthropic, voluntary action, or civil society studies.
2021
2020
American Society for Public Administration (ASPA) Founders' Fellows
ASPA's most competitive fellowship program supports the next generation of public service leaders through a series of professional development opportunities. Participants attend and present at ASPA's annual conference on a subject matter paper on an issue related to their scholarship or work, which is also published in PA TIMES Online if they wish.
Class of 2022
Class of 2021
Class of 2018
Rutgers University Graduate School Newark (GSN):
Dean's Dissertation Fellowship
Awarded to doctoral students in good academic standing who have completed all coursework and research credits, this highly competitive dissertation completion fellowship includes a stipend of $20,000 plus graduate fellow health benefits.
2021-2022
2019-2020