Faculty

Professor
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison
Public Administration, Law
E-mail: chuckepp@ku.edu

Charles Epp's research focuses on law as an instrument of reform.  His first book, The Rights Revolution: Lawyers, Activists, and Supreme Courts in Comparative Perspective (University of Chicago Press, 1998), won the C. Herman Pritchett Award of the American Political Science Association, and his second book, Making Rights Real: Activists, Bureaucrats, and the Creation of the Legalistic State (University of Chicago Press, 2009), was named an Outstanding Academic Title for 2010 by the American Library Association.  He has also published numerous journal articles.  With two colleagues, he is currently completing a book manuscript on racial disparities in police stops.  He teaches undergraduate, master’s and PhD courses and has won several teaching awards.

Jacob Fowles
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Kentucky, 2010
Public Administration, Education Finance, and Public Policy
E-mail: jacob.fowles@ku.edu

Jacob Fowles' research interests are in the areas of education policy and finance, municipal finance, and financial management. Some of his current work focuses on such issues as teacher compensation, mobility, and retention; the role of labor unions in public education, and the debt practices of public and private institutions of higher education. His work has appeared or is in press in such journals as Public Budgeting and Finance, Economics of Education Review, Education Finance and Policy, and Teachers College Record. He has a PhD from the Martin School of Public Policy and Administration at the University of Kentucky.

H. George Frederickson
Edwin O. Stene Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Public Administration
Courtesy Professor of Higher Education Administration

Ph.D., University of Southern California, 1969.
Founding Editor: Journal of Public Administration Education (JPAE).
Bureaucracy and democracy, Public Administration Ethics, Public Policy.
E-mail: gfred@ku.edu | Homepage

H. George Frederickson is the author of The New Public Administration, The Spirit of Public Administration, Public Administration and Social Equity, and the co-author of The Public Administration Theory Primer and The Adapted City.  Frederickson is President Emeritus of Eastern Washington University.  He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration and an Honorary Member of the International City/County Management Association.  He has been invited to give several named lecturers including the John Gaus, the Donald Stone, the Elmer Staats, the Henry Bellmon, the Joe Cresse and the Henry Wherrett lectures.  He has received the Charles Levine Award and the Distinguished Research Award in Public Administration.  The lifetime achievement in public administration research award given by the Public Management Research Association is the Frederickson Award.  In 2004-2005 Frederickson was the John Gilbert Winant Visiting Professor of American Government at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford.

Heather Getha Taylor
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Maxwell School of Citizenship & Public Affairs, Syracuse University
Human Resources, Organizational Learning and Collaboration
E-mail: hgtaylor@ku.edu

Heather Getha-Taylor is an Assistant Professor in the School of Public Affairs and Administration. Her PhD is from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University. Prior to joining the University of Kansas in Fall 2010, she was a faculty member in the Department of Political Science at the University of South Carolina. She has taught a variety of courses including human resource management, public service leadership, nonprofit management, organizational learning and change, and collaboration. She serves as a reviewer for public administration academic journals and also serves as a member of the editorial board of the Review of Public Personnel Administration. Her research interests center on the intersection between human resource management and collaborative governance, including the ways in which organizational systems and processes facilitate collaborative relationships and outcomes.

Associate Professor
Ph.D., Texas A & M University
Public Management
E-mail: hgoerdel@ku.edu

Holly T. Goerdel is Associate Professor of Public Administration at University of Kansas. Following her earlier research on the contributions of public management and collaboration to organizational performance, she is investigating the importance of public management in supporting democracy when State’s commodify security through wartime contracts. With a focus on managing accountability in wartime contracting, she is addressing three broader questions: When do market allocations by the state help democracy achieve its aims? When do market allocations by the state do harm to democratic systems? And, what role does public management play in negotiating democratic effectiveness through the contracting production function? This research builds on previous theoretical and empirical connections made by Dr. Goerdel between public management and security governance in the areas of terrorism information-sharing, cybersecurity, and homeland security funding. Dr. Goerdel earned a Ph.D. in Political Science at Texas A&M University and is coeditor for the Journal of Homeland Security & Emergency Management. Her research has been competitively funded internally and externally and is published in the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Public Administration Review, Public Performance & Management Review, Publius, in university press book chapters and in government reports.

Marilu Goodyear
Associate Professor & School Director
Ph.D., University of Colorado (Denver), 1993.
Information management, Information Technology Policy.
E-mail: goodyear@ku.ed

Marilu Goodyear is the Director of the School of Public Affairs and Administration. Her teaching focuses on organizational analysis, organizational change, managing information and technology, and public management. Her research includes organizational change, information technology security, and data sharing. Dr. Goodyear is a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration and has served as a consultant to many universities and federal agencies.During the 2011-2012 year, she served as Chair of the KU Office of the Provost Change Facilitators Committee. Formerly, she held the position of Vice Provost for Information Services and Chief Information Officer at the University in which she led all campus-wide information technology and library services.

Charles Jones
Public Management Center
Courtesy Associate Professor
MPA, Harvard University, 1988
Public Management
Email: cfjones@ku.edu

Charles Jones is director of the Kansas University Public Management Center, the arm of the Public Administration Department that provides professional development training for public sector organizations across the state of Kansas. His public service experience includes four years as the Governor-appointed Director of Environment at the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, and ten years (1998 to 2009) as a Douglas County Commissioner. Within the MPA program Charles teaches Public Policy and Administration; Budgeting and Policy Analysis; Role, Context and Ethics of Public Administration; and Collaborative Leadership, Professionalism, and Citizen Engagement. Charles also teaches in the Center’s Certified Public Manager, Emerging Leaders Academy, and other programs, bringing the perspective of elective, appointed and entrepreneurial success to policy and technical aspects of public management.

Steven Maynard-Moody
Director, Institute for Policy & Social Research
Professor
Ph.D., Cornell University, 1981
Policy Evaluation, Administrative Decision Making, Organization Behavior
E-mail: smm@ku.edu

Steven Maynard-Moody is Director of the Institute for Policy & Social Research and professor in the School of Public Affairs & Administration at the University of Kansas. He teaches organizations theory, policy implementation, and research methods, quantitative and qualitative. His book with Michael Musheno on street-level bureaucracy, Cops, Teachers, Counselors: Stories from the Front Lines of Public Service (University of Michigan Press, 2003), received the Herbert A. Simon Award from the American Political Science Association and the award for Best Book of Public Administration Scholarship given by the American Society of Public Administration. He has just completed a book on police stops, to be published as Pulled Over: The Racial Framing of Police Stops, with Charles Epp and Donald Haider-Markel (University of Chicago Press, 2013). Both of these books are based on original research funded by the National Science Foundation.

Professor
Ph.D., University of Southern California
Human Resource Management
E-mail: nalband@ku.edu

John Nalbandian has been a faculty member in public administration at the University of Kansas since 1976, following his doctoral education at the University of Southern California and service in the Army and CIA. John specializes in human resources management, having co-authored a text now in its sixth edition. John developed an interest in local government after joining the program at KU, and he has taught every full time MPA student specializing in local government since his arrival at KU. John has developed special relationships with MPA alumni, and he frequently is invited to work with local government officials throughout the United States. He regularly works in executive development programs at the Universities of Virginia and North Carolina. He also has presented his work in Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia. John is the recipient of numerous national awards and recognition from KU for his teaching, research, and service. In addition to his academic accomplishments, John served on the Lawrence city council for eight years, including two terms as the council’s mayor. John has chaired the board of trustees for the public library in Lawrence and also serves presently as board member of the Willow Domestic Violence Center. John’s present research interests focus on contemporary trends in local government and the relationships between the arenas of politics and administration.

Rebecca Nesbit
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Indiana University, School of Public & Environmental Affairs
Nonprofit Management
E-mail: beckynesbit@ku.edu

Rebecca Nesbit received her Ph.D. in public affairs from the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University with a specialization in nonprofit management and a Master of Public Administration degree from Brigham Young University.  Dr. Nesbit’s research explores issues of philanthropy and volunteerism, public policy and management in the nonprofit sector.  In particular, Dr. Nesbit conducts research on volunteer programs, volunteers’ characteristics and motivations, and volunteer management in public and nonprofit organizations.  Her work has appeared in Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Nonprofit Management and Leadership, Public Administration Review, the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, and Administration & Society.     

Chris Silvia
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., School of Public & Environmental Affairs, Indiana University
E-mail: cesilvia@ku.edu

Chris Silvia is an Assistant Professor in the School of Public Affairs and Administration at the University of Kansas where he teaches courses in quantitative analysis, collaboration, and public and nonprofit service delivery.  He received a PhD in Public Affairs from the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University.  He also holds a Master of Public Administration from Brigham Young University and A Master of Science in Public Health from the University of Utah. Dr. Silvia’s current researchexamines the leadership behaviors exhibited by leaders in intersectoral networks.In addition to focusing on leadership, his broader research agenda includes work in the areas collaboration and public and non-profit service delivery.  His work has been published in various journals, including Public Administration Review, Public and Performance Management Review, and The Leadership Quarterly. 

John C. Pierce
Affiliate Faculty Member
Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1969
Specializations: Political Culture, Public Opinion and Public Policy
E-mail: piercejohn@sunflower.com or jcpierce@ku.edu