Yong-Chan Rhee, PhD'24

Yong-Chan Rhee's research interests include public management, criminal justice, racial disparities, the relationship between leadership and street-level bureaucrats, social inequality, and disinformation and information management. He is the recipient of SPAA's Outstanding PhD Student Award (2024); NASPAA's Best Dissertation Award (2024); NASPAA's  Pi Alpha Alpha Doctoral Manuscript Award (2023); and COMPA's Second Prize of "Best Paper Award" (2023 and 2022).

• Dissertation: Policy implementation and leadership in the context of organizational culture: the case of police killings (Chair: Charles Menifield)
  • Best Dissertation Award: Network of Schools of Public Policy, Affairs, and Administration (2024)

Education  

• PhD: Rutgers University–Newark, School of Public Affairs and Administration, Public Administration (2024)
• MPA: University of Southern California
• BPA: Kyung Hee University, South Korea