School of Public Affairs and Administration

Dean:
Charles Menifield, Ph.D.
Center for Urban and Public Service (CPS), Room 214
charles.menifield@rutgers.edu
973-353-5253

Associate Dean of Academic and Student Affairs:
Domonic Bearfield, Ph.D.
CPS, Room 134
domonic@rutgers.edu
973-353-1351

Director of Ph.D. Program:
Yahong Zhang, Ph.D.
CPS, Room 329
yahongzh@newark.rutgers.edu
973-353-3983

Website: http://spaa.newark.rutgers.edu/phd

Professors:

Ariane Chebel d'Appollonia, Ph.D., Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris
Immigration; European policies; urbanization; racism; administrative ethics

Kyle Farmbry, Ph.D., George Washington

Social entrepreneurship; law and public administration; crisis, disaster, and risk management

Norma M. Riccucci, Ph.D., Syracuse
Personnel management; public sector labor relations; intellectual history of public administration

Alan R. Sadovnik, Ph.D., New York

Education policy; urban sociology

Frank J. Thompson, Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
Health policy; policy implementation; public personnel policy; administrative politics

Gregg G. Van Ryzin, Ph.D., CUNY (Graduate Center)

Experimental and behavioral public administration; political psychology; performance measurement

Associate Professors:

Cleopatra Charles (Grizzle), Ph.D., Kentucky
Public budgeting; financial management; nonprofit organizations

Madinah F. Hamidullah, Ph.D., Georgia
Personnel management; leadership; organizational performance

Suzanne J. Piotrowski, Ph.D., American
Transparency and open government; public management; ethics

Lindsey M. McDougle, Ph.D., San Diego

Nonprofit management; philanthropy; volunteerism; social equity

Stephanie P. Newbold, Ph.D., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Intellectual history of public administration; democratic-constitutionalism; administrative law

Yahong Zhang, Ph.D., Florida State

Local government; corruption; comparative public administration

Assistant Professors:

Sebastian R. Jilke, Ph.D., Erasmus (Netherlands)

Behavioral public administration; public choice; research methods

Public and nonprofit management; contracting; government-nonprofit relations

Technology and governance; transparency; experimental public administration

Public budgeting; financial management

Pengju Zhang, Ph.D., Syracuse
Public finance; local government studies; education finance and policy; quantitative methods