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Bit An
Felipe Blanco
Bio Bit An is a fifth-year doctoral student in the School of Public Administration. His research interests include public finance and budgeting, community district organization, public and nonprofit financial management, and the financial relationship between nonprofits and local governments.
Bio Felipe Blanco was born and raised in Mexico City, where he received his BA in Economics and his Master’s in Public Administration and Public Policy. Upon completion of his Masters, he worked as an Adjunct Professor at the Center for Teaching and Research in Economics (CIDE). At CIDE, he studied and wrote about performance evaluation systems and public policy and democracy. He also taught graduate courses on public administration and organizational theory.
Doctoral Student Specializations: Public Budgeting & Finance, Urban Mangement Email: ban@unomaha.edu
His current research interests span both the government and nonprofit sectors. He studies how fiscal institutions influence decisions made by nonprofit organizations and governments. Bit wants to contribute to strengthening public finance and budgeting policy through his research.
Research Interests Public Budgeting & Finance Urban Policy and Community-based organizations Public & Nonprofit Financial Management Fiscal Institutions and Fiscal Decision-making
Education MPA, Arizona State University MPA, University of Seoul BA, Public Administration, Hansung University
Doctoral Student Specializations: Public Policy, PA Theory Email: fblancosanchez@unomaha.edu
Felipe has also served as an independent consultant for federal and local government agencies in Mexico. He has collaborated on multiple research projects to analyze a variety of public policies: from national public health systems with over 50 million affiliates, to state level programs to promote high school completion. In 2016, Felipe and his wife moved to the U.S., where he worked as a Community Organizer for the Health Access Program at Nebraska Appleseed, a nonprofit organization based in Lincoln. Felipe is also a Hip-Hop artist known as Elemsiburron and a craft beer enthusiast that hosts a brewery tour in Spanish at Zipline Brewing Co. every month.
Scott Bovick
Kristin B. Broyhill
Doctoral Candidate Specializations: Public Budgeting & Finance, Urban Management Email: sbovick@unomaha.edu Bio Scott Bovick currently works as the Deputy County Administrator for Sarpy County, Nebraska and previously served as the City Administrator in Nebraska City, Nebraska. He has been active in the Nebraska Chapter of the American Society of Public Administration (ASPA) serving on the Chapter Council for several years, including two terms as Chapter President. Scott had the opportunity to teach a Master’s level course at UNO in 2009 which sparked his interest in pursuing a doctoral degree. His main research focus is urban administration and public finance and budgeting. He believes a doctorate degree will help him become a well-rounded public administration scholar and practitioner.
Education MPA University of Kansas-Lawrence
Professional Background Deputy County Administrator Sarpy County, Nebraska, 2009 – present
BA, Political Science William Jewell College (Liberty, Missouri)
City Administrator City of Nebraska City, Nebraska, 2004-2009
BA, History William Jewell College
Assistant City Administrator City of Blair, Nebraska, 2002-2004 Research Interests Local government and urban administration Collaborative governance Public service motivation Public finance and budgeting
Doctoral Student Specializations: Public Policy, PA Theory Email: kbroyhill@unomaha.edu Bio Kristin B. Broyhill is a native Nebraskan and competed her BA and MA degrees at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Before returning to Nebraska for graduate school, she earned her International Peacekeeping Certificate at the Austrian Center for Peace and Conflict Resolution and her Texas Teaching Certificate with the Texas Teaching Fellows. In addition to teaching middle school ESL, social science, and language arts; she has worked in the nonprofit sector with organizations such as the U.S. Committee for the UN Development Program in Washington, DC and the Kalahari Peoples Fund in Austin, TX. During her studies and nonprofit work, she participated in fieldwork researching government relations and economic development in Mexico, South Africa, and Namibia. Since graduating with her Master’s degree, Kristin has remained in higher education, serving as UNO’s Department of Political Science’s academic program coordinator and teaching political science courses. Education Bachelor of Arts, International Studies University of Nebraska-Lincoln Master of Arts, Political Science University of Nebraska-Lincoln Research Interests Civil Society Economic Development Public Implementation Local Government
Publications and Conference Papers Civil Society in Transition: A Narrative Study of German Reunification; Kristin Broyhill. Presented at the ARNOVA Conference in Austin. 2018. Governance in Transition: A Narrative on Civil Society and Regime Change; Kristin Broyhill. Presented at the ARNOVA Africa/ARCOSA Conference in Cairo. 2018. Broyhill, Kristin, and Adrianne Daggett. What These People Want? Indigenous self-determination through the lens of John Marshall. 2nd Annual CIC-AISC Faculty Research Symposium. 2009. Michigan State University.
Lucas Casey
Doctoral Student Specializations: Urban Management, Nonprofit Management Email: ljcasey@unomaha.edu Bio Lucas Casey has a diverse professional background which includes positions on city staff with two growing suburban communities, time as the executive assistant to the president at a small private university, and a stint as a local TV news anchor at the ABC-affiliate in Des Moines, Iowa. He is currently serving as the business development manager and local government consultant for Iowa at Short Elliott Hendrickson Inc. A constant through his varied experiences is Luca’s interest in and involvement with local government systems and processes. During his time in the doctoral program, Casey intends to explore professional management on local governments; especially related to younger managers in the city management profession and smalland medium-sized communities. His interest in local government also has led to numerous opportunities for community involvement, including current service on the Greaer Des Moines Partnership Government Policy Council and the West Des Moines Quality of Life Council. Lucas also previously served in the United States Marine Corps Reserves. Lucas is a lifelong Iowan. He was born and raised in Manson, Iowa and currently lives in West Des Moines, Iowa, with his wife and three children. Education BA, Public Administration: Economics and Finance University of Northern Iowa (Cedar Falls, Iowa) MPA, Public Policy Drake University (Des Moines, Iowa)
Melanie Chapman
Doctoral Student Specializations: Public Policy, PA Theory Email: mmchapman@unomaha.edu Bio Melanie Chapman is a fourth--year doctoral student with a diverse academic background in Physical Education and Recreation, Health Education, Sociology, Human Ecology, and Philosophy. Her work draws attention to the interface between health research, public policy, and administrative practice. Through a strong engagement with local coalitions to improve population health outcomes, her research interests include governance networks; critical social and post traditional theory; health equity; and, power relations and agency. Melanie has a strong background in qualitative research methods, with particular emphasis on interviewing, focus group facilitation, and discourse analysis. Melanie completed her MPA at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, and BA at Laurentian University (Sudbury, Ontario, Canada). She has a background in program evaluation, research, and teaching and was previously a Research Assistant in the Department of Medicine and Dentistry and lecturer in the Physical Education & Recreation Department at the University of Alberta (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada). In her free time, Melanie competes in triathlons and is a certified triathlon coach and race director. She is an active volunteer member with USA Triathlon in the Regional Planning, North Central Women’s Working Group to create resources and tools and offer mentorship to provide opportunities for women in the sport of triathlon.
Selected Publications
Donovan L, Hartling L, Muise M, Guthrie A, Vandermeer B, Dryden DM. (2013). Screening Tests for Gestational Diabetes: A Systematic Review for the U.S. Preventive Service Task Force. Annals of Internal Medicine. 159(2): 115-122. Hartling L, Dryden DM, Guthrie A, Muise M, Vandermeer B, Aktary WM, Pasichnyk D, Seida JC, Donovan L. (2012). Screening and Diagnosing Gestational Diabetes Mellitus: Evidence Report/ Technology Assessment No. 210. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Publication No. 12(13)-E021-EF. Rockville, MD. Carrier BK, Muise M, Cummings GG, NewburnCook C. (2009) Healthcare Succession Planning: An Integrative Review. Journal of Nursing Administration. 39 (12): 548-555. Michigan State University.
CV Link https://unomaha.academia.edu/ MelanieChapman
Byungwoo Cho
Doctoral Candidate Specializations: Public Budgeting & Finance, Urban Management Email: bcho@unomaha.edu Bio B. Shine Cho is a doctoral candidate, currently working on a dissertation titled “Participatory Budgeting Institutional Change: A longitudinal case study of the Seoul Metropolitan Government, South Korea (2012-2017)”. This project aims at explaining how and why a participatory budgeting (PB) institution changes over time focusing 1) which type of institutional changes occurred, 2) in which dimension of public involvement the changes occurred, and 3) if the changes increased or decreased the level of public involvement. He is working for STEPs, a program evaluation consulting institution at UNO, as a program evaluator. His research interest is revolving around, but not limited to the local government management and budgeting in the urban area. He is also closely monitoring urgent urban policy issues and innovative solutions related to the sustainable development goals, civic tech, and opioids crisis. Publications and Grants Education Hong, Sounman & B. Shine Cho. (2018). “Citizen MPA, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Participation and the Redistribution of Public Georgia State University, 2012 Goods”, Public Administration. 96(3): 481-496 MA, Public Administration, Yonsei University, Korea 2010 Cho, B. Shine & Sangoh Yun. (2017). “Citizen BA, Public Administration, Yonsei University, Participation for Open Government: A Typology Korea 2007 (1-year exchange at Ritsumeikan APU, of Civic Hacking”, Korean Policy Studies Review. Japan, 2005) 26(1): 177-202 [Written in Korean] Teaching Experience Science and Technology Policy Institute (STEPI) PA3000 Applied Statistics and Data Management Fellowship ($5000) in 2016 PA3200 Program Planning and Evaluation PA4530 Strategic Planning Graduate Research and Creative Activity grant ($5,000) in 2013, 2015
Minshuai Ding
Doctoral Student Specializations: Urban Management, Public Budgeting & Finance Email: mding@unomaha.edu Bio Minshuai Ding is a third-year doctoral student in the School of Public Administration. Born and raised in Mainland China, Minshuai has strong concerns about problems in bureaucracy, political liberty, and urban management. He is exploring the possibilities of institutional arrangements for delivering public service and specifically focuses on special districts. His ongoing research revolves around specialized governance of public transportation and library services. He takes public finance as a crucial perspective to look into the operation of public organizations. Minshuai has been a dedicated nonprofit practitioner. He worked for four years as a researcher and editor at Transition Institute in Beijing, an organization winner of Templeton Freedom Prize awarded by Atlas Network in 2010. He is also a volunteer for Long Island Chinese American Association in New York State, which brought him a citation from the executive of Nassau County, NY. On the UNO campus, he is serving the Waldo Society, a doctoral student group in the SPA. Minshuai is a loyal reader of Jorge Luis Borges, Oswald Spengler and the Ostroms. Fishing and archery are new hobbies that Midwestern life gives him. Education MPA, Rutgers University-Newark, NJ, 2013 BA, Literature & Chinese Language Beijing Language and Culture University, China, 2008
Research Interests Urban Management: specialized governance, local governance network, public transportation, public libraries, social problems in urban areas. Public Finance: funding structure of public organizations, use and effects of public grants.
BJ Fletcher
Lora Mae Frecks
Doctoral Candidate Specializations: Public policy, Urban Management Email: bjfletcher@unomaha.edu
Doctoral Candidate Specializations: Information & Technology Management, Public Policy Email: lmfrecks@unomaha.edu
Bio B.J. Fletcher comes from the state of Missouri. Prior to joining UNO, he worked for the Missouri Department of Insurance, Financial Institutions and Professional Registration (DIFP) in the Division of Insurance. While working with the Division of Insurance, he provided program evaluation and policy analysis and provided assistance in cases of insurance investigation. In addition to his work with DIFP, he has also provided assistance to the USDA’s Department of Rural Development on the evaluation of an economic development plan for a community in Missouri. During the completion of his Masters of Public Affairs, he focused on Public Policy in particular on evaluation and analysis. His coursework in evaluation and analysis led him to become interested in Food Policy, in particular, in food security and poverty. His work on food security issues led him to be selected to participate in a food security and hunger program at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the World Food Program in Rome, to examine the causes, consequences, and remedies of world hunger. During his time in the SPA doctoral program, B.J. hopes to further explore Food Policy and food security issues. Education Masters of Public Affairs, Public Policy University of Missouri-Columbia MS, Personal Financial Planning University of Missouri-Columbia BA, Business Administration – Finance Westminster College, Fulton Missouri
Bio Before returning to school, Lora managed the intellectual property portfolio of a public medical research university. Continuing her work with innovators and inventions, Lora volunteers with other civic hackers in Nebraska and serves as the treasurer for the American Society of Public Administration’s (ASPA) Section for Science & Technology in Government (SSTIG). Her research focuses on community members’ coproduction of services and resources with governments and nonprofits. She can be found online at frecks.info.
BA, Biology Chadron State College
Research Interests Citizen Participation e-Government Information Policy Innovation Policy Peer-Reviewed Publications
Professional Background Intellectual Property Manager University of Nebraska Medical Center, Intellectual Property Office/UNeMed Corporation, 2001-2010
Publication Frecks, Lora Mae, 2011. “Patent Donations” in the Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM) Technology Transfer Practice (TTP) Manual: Volume IV. July 2011.
Education MPA University of Nebraska at Omaha
Xian Gao
Doctoral Candidate Specializations: Information & Technology Management, Public Policy Email: xiangao@unomaha.edu Bio Xian’s research focuses on digital governance and collaboration in local government. Her dissertation investigates how to foster the use of collaborative technology to improve government performance. In the program, Xian has worked for the Global Digital Governance Lab and has served in the Waldo Society, the SPA doctoral student group. Since 2017, Xian volunteers as the website manager for the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA) District IV. Xian’s research projects have received two UNO Graduate Research and Creative Activity grants. She is the winner of the Digital Governance Junior Scholar Award for the 2019 ASPA conference, the Best Student Paper Award for the 2017 Midwest Public Affairs Conference, and the Asian Scholarship Award for the 2016 ASPA conference. Xian is also the program committee member of the 20th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research (dg.o 2019) and Research Interests Education Digital government MA, Political Theory Collaborative governance China University of Mining and Technology Performance management (Xuzhou, China) Selected Publications and Grants Gao, X. (2018). Networked co-production of BA, Public Administration 311 services: Investigating use of Twitter in China University of Mining and Technology five U.S. cities. International Journal of Public Administration, 41(9):712-724. Teaching Experience Introduction to Public Administration Strategic Planning Professional Experience Graduate Assistant, Global Digital Governance Lab, School of Public Administration, CPACS, UNO, August 2014-December 2016
Gao, X., & Lee, J. (2017). E-government services and social media adoption: Experience of small local governments in Nebraska State. Government Information Quarterly, 34(4), 627-634. Graduate Research and Creative Activity Grant ($5,000) in 2017 &2019.
Sue Ann Gardner
Doctoral Student Specializations:Information & Technology Management,Public Policy Email: sagardner@unomaha.edu
Bio Sue Ann Gardner is a first-year doctoral student. She has been a librarian in public higher education throughout her career. In her work as the Scholarly Communication Librarian at UNL, she helps to administer one of the largest institutional repositories in the world, making academic literature available online for free to any interested reader (https://digitalcommons.unl.edu). She is a fully promoted faculty member at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and regularly serves as a consultant, peer reviewer, and conference organizer. She is currently managing a project to collaboratively write an open access biology textbook with about 70 colleagues in 15 countries. She gained an interest in public administration as she became aware of its relevance to her work in the public sphere and in academic libraries. The overlap between her work and that being conducted in the UNO Global Digital Governance Lab grows more significant each passing year as public academic libraries move more into the digital realm. Through her studies, she hopes to investigate and integrate the digital governance issues that will help inform her work in libraries. Education MLS State University of New York College at Buffalo
Professional Background Scholarly Communications Librarian / Professor, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
BS, Geosciences State University of New York College at Buffalo
Metadata Librarian / Associate Professor, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Graduate Certificate, Public Management University of Nebraksa Omaha
Librarian / Assistant Professor, Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium
Joel Gehringer
Beth Gillespie
Bio Joel Gehringer is a third- year doctoral student in the School of Public Administration. Joel is currently Director of Annual Campaigns at the University of Nebraska Foundation and oversees the annual funds of three University of Nebraska campuses – UNK, UNMC and UNO. In his eigtht year in this position, Joel strives to increase philanthropic support of public higher education in Nebraska. Joel recently worked to establish the UNO Fund, which encourages unrestricted giving to scholarships, research, academics and other immediate student assistance needs at UNO.
Bio Elizabeth Gillespie is a fourth-year doctoral candidate in the College of Public Affairs and Community Service’s School of Public Administration at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Before starting the doctoral program, Elizabeth’s professional experience was in the human services field where she spent seven years working in management at a large nonprofit organization serving adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
Doctoral Student Specializations: Public Budgeting & Finance, PA Theory Email: jfgehringer@unomaha.edu
Joel is interested in studying how nonprofit leadership, local nonprofit networks, public-private partnerships, nonprofit policy and philanthropy can affect democratic outcomes, encourage civic participation, foster public service motivation, increase access to education and reduce inequality. Joel was born and raised in Omaha and lives in the city with his wife Taylor (Ph.D. in industrial/ organizational psychology at UNO) and two rambunctious, comical dogs (no formal education).
Education MA, Social Sciences (political psychology/public opinion emphasis) University of Chicago BJ, News-Editorial (double-major in political science) University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Doctoral Candidate Specializations: PA Theory, Nonprofit Management Email: egillespie@unomaha.edu
Her research interests focus on nonprofit organizations and women’s philanthropy, specifically women’s philanthropic foundations and funds, their grant-making for social change and women’s empowerment, and their role and impact. Beth’s dissertation concerns the work of women’s foundations and funds to support women and girls, particularly exploring their activities and guiding philosophies of these grant-making organizations.
Professional Background University of Nebraska Foundation, Director of Annual Campaigns – UNO, UNK & UNMC
Education MPA, Executive Development Drake University (Des Moines, Iowa)
Creighton University, Direct Mail Coordinator, Creighton Fund
BA, History University of Iowa
Research Interests Women’s philanthropy Nonprofit organizations Social equity Social change Feminist theories
Dell Gines
Josephine K. Hazelton
Bio Dell Gines has a deep passion for seeing disadvantaged and economically challenged communities grow and thrive through innovative economic development strategies. As a Senior Community Development Advisor for the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, his primary responsibility is to support the Banks small business and economic development initiatives across the seven states within the Bank’s region. Dell is a Certified Economic Developer (CeCD) who focuses on entrepreneurship based economic development in urban and rural communities.
Bio Josephine K. Hazelton is a Doctoral Student in the School of Public Administration at the University of Nebraska Omaha as well as a Graduate Research Assistant in the Community and Regional Planning department at the University of Nebraska Lincoln. Her research interests center around questions of power and social justice in transportation planning and policymaking. Specifically, Josephine is interested in the role transportation administrators play in advancing mobility justice in carcentric urban environments. Some of her most recent research explores issues of gender equity in public and active transportation planning.
Doctoral Candidate Specializations: Public Policy, PA Theory Email: rgines@unomaha.edu
During his work at the Federal Reserve Bank Dell has created numerous programs and projects including the creation of the Grow Your Own Guide to Entrepreneurship Based Development, the regional micro-finance alternative lender database and Small Biz Day programs across the region, which connected over 600 entrepreneurs to local small business resource providers. A gifted speaker and presenter, Dell has spoken across the nation on entrepreneurship based economic development, entrepreneurship ecosystems and developing local rural and urban economies through developing entrepreneurship growth strategies. In 2013 he served as the keynote presenter for the National Economic Gardening Conference, a panelist at the National Workforce Investment Board Conference, and presented at numerous other conferences and seminars across the region and nation.
With his background in business banking, non-profit executive management, community activism and as adjunct professor of Social Entrepreneurship at Creighton University, he brings a unique, community grounded perspective to the field of urban core and rural economic development. In 2011 Dell received the Omaha Jaycees TOYO award, given to the top 10 individuals under 40 who are making an impact in the Omaha, Nebraska community. Education MS, Finance Bellevue University Executive MBA University of Nebraska at Omaha BS, Business Management Grace University
Doctoral Student Specializations: Urban Management, PA Theory Email: jhazelton@unomaha.edu
Prior to studying at UNO, Josephine was active in the effort to improve public transportation in California’s Central Valley as the 2016 Turlock Mayor’s Public Policy Scholar. Josephine previously served as an ASPA Founders’ Fellow (2018), a U.S. Department of Transportation Dwight David Eisenhower Fellow (2018), and a 2015 Panetta Institute Delegate in Washington, D.C. Josephine is originally from Northern California where she received a BA in Political Science and a Master of Public Administration degree from California State University, Stanislaus. Research Interests Critical Theory Democratic Citizenship Social Equity Transportation Policy Active Transportation Safety
Publication Jensen, C., Hazelton, J.K., & Wellman, G.C. (forthcoming, 2019). Finding ‘improvement’ in the language transportation planners use: A critical discourse analysis to illustrate an automobile-centric bias in transportation policymaking. Public Works Management and Policy.
Nick Juliano
Seoeun (Grace) Jung
Doctoral Student Specializations: Urban Management, PA Theory Email: njuliano@unomaha.edu
Doctoral Student Specializations: Nonprofit Managaement Email: seoeunjung@unomaha.edu
Bio Nick Juliano is an accomplished senior leader with more than 20 years of nonprofit human services experience. His diverse practitioner experience includes direct care, training and organizational development, youth and family program administration, business and program development, community engagement, and advocacy and public policy. Nick currently serves on a number of local, state, and national committees exploring juvenile justice system reforms. In 2019 Nick founded an independent consulting business focusing on human service policy and program development.
Bio Seoeun (Grace) Jung is a first-year doctoral student in the School of Public Administration at the University of Nebraska Omaha. Before coming to UNO, she studied public service and administration specifically focusing on nonprofit management. Her current research interests include nonprofit and strategic management, nonprofit leadership, collaborative governance, organizational development, and social justice. For the future research at UNO, she hopes to learn what forms of strategic management, leadership, and network governance works the best for nonprofit organizations, and how these elements can contribute to improving social justice.better life outcomes.
During his career Nick has worked closely with public and private sector leaders in Nebraska and Iowa to improve child welfare and juvenile justice systems. Through his work he has seen the promise of public private partnerships in helping children and families achieve better life outcomes. In the doctoral program Nick has explored ways that public policy can improve these partnerships and accelerate efforts to strengthen communities in the region. His research interests include nonprofit government relationships, networks, urban communities with concentrated need, and the role of youth and family voice in human service delivery systems. Education MBA, University of Nebraska Omaha BS, Psychology, Creighton University
Professional Background Growth Strategies LLC Founder and President 2019-Present Boys Town Director Regional Advocacy and Public Policy, 2017-2019 Sr. Director Community Impact, 2013-2017 Sr. Director Business Development, 2007-2013
Education MPA, Public Service and Administration (Track: Nonprofit Management), Texas A&M University MPA, Public Administration, Yonsei University BA, Public Administration, Economics, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies
Research Interests Nonprofit Management and Leadership Collaborative Governance
Ji Seul Kim
Yeonkyung Kim
Bio Jiseul Kim is a doctoral candidate in the School of Public Administration. She is a recipient of a national scholarship sponsored by the Korean Government enabling her to attend graduate school abroad.
Bio Yeonkyung Kim is a third-year doctoral student, with a focus on IT management and public policy. Her research interests lie in performance management, performance information, information technology and new technology in public sector.
Doctoral Candidate Specializations: Public Budgeting & Finance, Public Policy Email: jiseulkim@unomaha.edu
Her research and teaching interests are in public budgeting and financial management, with emphasis on budgetary institutions and institutional performances, capital budgeting and spending, and government accounting and financial reporting. At present, she is working on her dissertation, “Why Pay More? Capital Budgeting Institutions for State Public Highway Maintenance.” Also, with Dr. Carol Ebdon, she is working on several studies related to capital budgeting and management practices of U.S. counties. They have received the 2018 Gil Crain Memorial Research Grant from the Government Accounting Standards Board (GASB) on one of the studies. After graduation, she hopes to extend her research areas and contribute to the field of public budgeting and finance as a public administration scholar. Publications
Education
Kim, J., (2019). Capital Management and Budgeting Practices in Republic of Korea, In Srithongrung, A., Ermasova, N., & Yusuf, W. (Eds.), Capital Management and Budgeting in the Public Sector, Hershey, PA: IGI Global
MPP, Public Policy, Arizona State University BA, Business Administration and Health Service Management, Kyung Hee University
Kim, J., Chen, C., & Ebdon, C. (2018). Effects of the GASB No. 34 infrastructure reporting standards on state highway infrastructure quality. Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting & Financial Management,30(2), 191-210.
Budgetary Institutions and Institutional Performances Capital Budgeting and Spending Government Accounting and Financial Reporting
Research Interests
Teaching Experience Public Budgeting (undergraduate) Introduction to Public Administration (undergraduate)
Doctoral Student Specializations: Information & Technology Management, Public Policy Email: yeonkyungkim@unomaha.edu
She currently works as a graduate assistant for the Global Digital Governance Lab, specifically for the technology team of Advance (a project developed by the Nebraska Department of Transportation and University of Nebraska). Yeonkyung has a background working in Korean government-sponsored research institutes, the Korea Institute of Public Administration (KIPA), and the Supreme Audit Institution of South Korea, as a research assistant. Yeonkyung completed both a Bachelor’s degree and a Master’s degree in public administration at Ewha Woman’s University in Korea.
Yunseung Kim
Doctoral Candidate Specializations: Public Budgeting & Finance, Public Policy Email: yunseungkim@unomaha.edu Bio Yunseung is a fifth-year doctoral candidate in the School of Public Administration. Studying in-depth budget execution, performance and financial resource management of state and local governments and public agencies, he hopes to find ways to increase the effectiveness, transparency, and responsibility of state and local governments’ fiscal management. He has an academic interest in studying diverse modes of public service delivery and further evaluating the effectiveness of different forms of public service management strategies such as intergovernmental collaboration, public-private partnerships, and coproduction of public services. At the University of Nebraska, he worked for Global Digital Governance Lab (GDGL) as a research assistant. He carried out data arrangement and analysis of Nebraska City and County E-government Survey 2015 and Iowa County E-government Survey 2017. Also, he participated in Nebraska Transit Projects in the summer of 2017, during which he collected and arranged data of public transit providers in Nebraska and performed case studies to search benchmarking cases or best practices of mobile application for rural transit. . In 2019, he is participating in a project regarding inter-local collaboration and local fiscal outcomes in Nebraska He is currently working on his dissertation on fiscal impacts of water and wastewater funding sources in Nebraska. Professional Background Education Master of Public Policy, Seoul National University Research Analyst, Research Center of StateOwned Entities, (Seoul, South Korea) BA, Public Administration, Chung-Ang University Korea Institute of Public Finance Research Analyst, Laboratory for Future Society (Seoul, South Korea) Seoul Development Institute Research Interests Research Assistant, BK 21 Project, Public Service Provision Graduate School of Public Administration, Seoul Public Finance and Budgeting National University Intergovernmental Relations Teaching Experience Applied Statistics and Data Management (undergratuate)
December Lange Treacy
Doctoral Student Specializations: Public Policy, Nonprofit Management Email: dlangetreacy@unomaha.edu Bio December is a second-year doctoral student in the School of Public Administration. She currently serves as the Assistant Project Director and Program Evaluator for the Support and Training for the Evaluation of Programs (STEPs) in the Grace Abbott School of Social Work. Since joining STEPs in June 2018, December has worked on a variety of government and nonprofit organizations in the areas of public health, sexual violence prevention, child welfare, and international education, among others. She also serves as a teaching assistant for Social Work 8190: Social Work Research and Evaluation in UNO’s Master of Social Work curriculum. December’s research interests include evaluation capacity building, evaluation utilization in decision making, and data visualization best practices.
Education MS, Administrative Leadership, Higher Education Administration, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee BS, Psychology, Kansas State University
Gabrielle L’Esperance
Wei-Jie Liao
Bio Gabrielle L’Esperance is a Richmond, Virginia native and third-year doctoral student. Gabrielle has a Master’s in Public Administration from James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia where she concentrated in international non-governmental organization management. She also has a Bachelor’s degree from JMU in international relations with a concentration in African politics and a minor in Africana studies.
Bio Wei-Jie Liao is from Taichung, Taiwan. He is a fourth-year doctoral student in the School of Public Administration. He received both his Bachelor of Arts in Political Science / Public Administration and Master in Public Administration from National Taiwan University (NTU). Wei-Jie works for the Nebraska State & Local Government Finance Lab as a research assistant. He is also teaching the undergraduate-level public budgeting course at UNO. He has published papers in debt management, capital budgeting, and fiscal health. The main focus of his dissertation will be citizen participation in public budgeting.
Doctoral Student Specializations: Nonprofit Management, PA Theory Email: gehenderson@unomaha.edu
Her research interests lie in the capacity of non-governmental organizations, specifically in the South African context. This research interest is supported by her graduate assistantship where she works with a local community foundation to evaluation nonprofit capacity building programs. Before coming to UNO, Gabrielle worked as a graduate assistant at JMU where she researched nonprofit giving, student veteran academic needs, and nonprofit codes of ethics. Gabrielle hopes to leverage these experiences, as well as her passion for international relations and knowledge of the Southern African context to help create a greater understanding of the unique context for NGOs operating in South Africa.
Education MPA, International Non-Governmental Organization Management James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virgina BA, International Relations–Africana Studies James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virgina
Research Interests Critical Theory Post-Colonial Theory INGO Management International Relations
Doctoral Student Specializations: Public Budgeting & Finance, Public Policy Email: wliao@unomaha.edu
Selected Publications Maher, C., Park, S., & Liao, W. J. (forthcoming). Municipal Referenda Activity in Colorado: Responding to TABOR. Municipal Finance Journal. Liao, W. J., & Kuo, N. L. (2019). Capital Management and Budgeting in Taiwan. In A. Srithongrung, N. Ermasova, & J. Yusuf (Eds.), Capital Management and Budgeting in the Public Sector (pp. 258-279). Hershey, PA: IGI Global. Education MPA, National Taiwan University BA, Political Science / Public Administration National Taiwan University
Research Interests Citizen Participation in Budgeting Fiscal Health Capital Budgeting Debt Management Public Policy
Shawn Maxwell
Doctoral Student Specializations: Public Policy, Nonprofit Management & PA Theory Email: shawnmaxwell@unomaha.edu Bio Shawn Maxwell’s interest and experience in public administration is diverse but with some parallels. Prior to deciding to pursue a PhD at UNO, she spent nearly ten years as a project coordinator with South Carolina’s leading federally qualified community health center, HopeHealth, Inc, where she managed a range of community-based projects and grants across five rural counties. In her capacities there she directed projects and facilitated community partnerships such as: Veterans’ mental health and well-being, access to public health education for rural colleges and universities, coordination of health for incarcerated persons, and suicide prevention among youth. Ms. Maxwell also spent two years with the DeKalb County Community Foundation connecting and supporting local nonprofit organizations in the service areas of child care and well-being among youth. The combination of these roles and her own experience growing up in a rural community is both the impetus for Ms. Maxwell’s pursuit of a PhD and the basis for her research. More specifically, she would like to further explore the impact of peer networks and collaborative groups in achieving well-being either as individuals or organizations, and what strategies can be identified and disseminated. Education MPA, Nonprofit Management, Northern Illinois University BS, Experimental Psychology, University of South Carolina Upstate Certificate, Executive Management, Francis Marion University
Research Interests Peer Networks Collaborative Governance Collaborative partnerships Among Nonprofits Governance in Rural Communities Open Systems Theory & Process Evaluation
Emily MacNabb
Doctoral Student Specializations: Public Policy (with a focus on Emergency Management) Email: emilynewman@unomaha.edu Bio Emily Newman was born and raised in Omaha, Nebraska and is now working on her doctorate in Public Administration with an emphasis in Emergency Management. She did a portion of her undergraduate degree at the University of Haifa in Israel, while there focused her studies in counter-terrorism and nuclear proliferation. She has been able to use these areas of study to help assist in lobbying on Capitol Hill. Emily also has a background in the nonprofit sector, including work with the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and the Omaha-based educational theater organization RESPECT. Through her work with the ADL as a facilitator and RESPECT as both an Actor Educator and as Scheduling Coordinator, she has helped to educate students of varying ages on bullying, teen dating violence, suicide and depression, antiSemitism on college campuses, and more. She links such work with her background in political science and counter-terrorism studies as being a spectrum of ways in which to observe human communications and interaction during emergency and disaster situations and prevention, from the individual to the societal level. Her research interests focus on emergency management policy and the effects that politics have on these policies.
Education BA, Political Science Minor in Religion University of Nebraska at Omaha MS, Political Science University of Nebraska at Omaha
Megan McGuffey
Doctoral Candidate Specializations: Public Budgeting & Finance, Public Policy Email: mmcguffey@unomaha.edu Bio Megan McGuffey is a doctoral candidate in the School of Public Administration. She received her BA in political science from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and pursued her MPA at UNO, with a concentration in local government management. Megan is contributing to the growing focus on food systems and food policy studies in public administration. She also researches and works in the areas of citizen participation and active citizenship as well as nonprofits and multi-sector networks. As a practitioner, Megan has completed nonprofit board service, authored technical reports on food systems topics, and served on various regional and statewide initiatives in Nebraska focusing on improving local food systems. She believes in the power of bringing diverse stakeholders together to tackle wicked problems, which she supports through research and facilitation. She currently serves as the Food Systems Coordinator for Share Our Table, an Omaha-Council Bluffs metropolitan effort for community food security. Megan also has a passion for teaching the next generation of public administration practitioners and informed citizens. She teaches various courses online and in-person on topics around public administration, public policy, nonprofits, and leadership. Megan also co-developed a new course, PA 8896 (Introduction to the U.S. Food System). Publications Research Interests McGuffey, M. M., & Starke, A. (2017). Towards A Food Policy Just Food System. In A. B. Hoflund, J. Jones, & Public Policy M. C. Pautz (Eds.), The Intersection of Food and Food Systems Public Health: Current Policy Challenges and Citizen Participation and Active Citizenship Solutions. CRC Press/Taylor & Francis. Local Government Management Network Governance Nonprofit Management
McGuffey, M. M. (2016). The Producer’s Perspective: Examining the Challenges of Providing Local Food. Food Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 6 (3), 13-26.
Rachael McLeod
Doctoral Student Specializations: Public Policy, Nonprofit Managment Email: rmcleod@unomaha.edu Bio Rachael McLeod, a native of Kansas City, is currently the Administrative Director of Resource Development at Southeast Community College. In this position, she has seen how public policy affects federal grant funding in higher education as it relates to filling employer needs and narrowing skills and wage gaps in career/technical fields. She has worked as a reporter for the Lincoln Journal Star and the Des Moines Register specializing in covering stories about academic research, science, and the environment. She also was a technical editor at the U.S. Geological Survey Nebraska Water Science Center for nine years. Her master’s thesis explored the environmental history of the Nebraska Ordnance Plant near Mead, Nebraska, where pollution from the plant’s activities during WWII ultimately led it to being declared a Superfund Site by the EPA, requiring extensive soil and water remediation efforts. Her experiences as a practitioner in the public sector sparked an interest in the formulation and evaluation of public programs to determine their effectiveness and efficiency, and to improve accountability. Education MA, Journalism (News-Editorial), University of Nebraska-Lincoln BA, Political Science, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Research Interests Public Safety Food Policy Program formulation, implementation, and evaluation
Richard K. Nkrumah
Jae Won Oh
Doctoral Student Specializations: Public Budgeting & Finance Email: lmfrecks@unomaha.edu
Doctoral Student Specializations: Public Budgeting & Fiance, Public Policy Email: joh@unomaha.edu
Bio Richard Nkrumah is a native of Cape Coast, Ghana and first year doctoral student at the School of Public Administration at UNO. After his undergraduate studies at the University of Ghana, Richard worked in government through which he familiarized and developed a keen interest in governmental financial management, public budgeting, ethics & accountability, and technology in government. During his time as an MPA student, Richard was honored to work with the Georgia Municipal Assembly (GMA) in advisory positions on various tax reforms that affected local governments in the state of Georgia.
Bio Jae Won Oh is a second-year doctoral student in the School of public administration. He received his Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Stony Brook University and Masters in Public Policy from Korea Development Institute School (KDIS). Prior to studying at UNO, Jae Won worked as a research assistant at Korea Economic Research Institute (KERI).
He hopes to strengthen public financing especially in Africa through his research as an academic.
Education MPA Georgia Sothern University, Statesboro-GA BSC Business Administration (Insurance management) University of Ghana, Accra-Ghana
Research Interests Public Budgeting & Finance IT in Public Service
In broad terms, his research interests focus on financial management in the public sector. Currently, as a graduate assistant he works on projects related to predicting and measuring financial condition of local governments. This year at Association for Budgeting and Financial Management (ABFM) conference, he presented his work, “Developing a Fiscal Condition Monitoring Approach for Nebraska Local Governments.�
Education BA, Economics Stony Brook University MPP Korea Development Institute School (KDIS)
Research Interest Public Budgeting & Financial Management Financial Condition of Local governments Fiscal Institutions Public Policy
Reyna Lizet Reyes-Nunez
Ryan Rouse
Bio Reyna L Reyes-Nunez is a doctoral student in the School of Public Administration. She graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Communication Sciences in 2010 and a Master of Science in Political Science in 2018.
Bio Ryan Rouse is a first-year doctoral student in the School of Public Administration at University of Nebraska at Omaha. He received both his undergraduate degree in Political Science with an emphasis on political theory, and a Master’s degree in Public Administration, from Montana State University in Bozeman, Montana. While pursuing these degrees he had the opportunity to work as a Graduate Teaching Assistant, and a Research Assistant for the Human Ecology Learning and Problem Solving Lab at MSU.
Doctoral Student Specialization: Public Policy Email: rreyesnunez@unomaha.edu
Her experience in the public administration includes working for the Secretariat of Foreign Affairs in Mexico City and the Consulate of Mexico in Omaha, Nebraska, where she focused her work on immigration policy, governmental programs for Mexican communities abroad and international events. In 2012, Reyna worked for the President of Mexico during his political campaign and his government transition team in the area of international affairs and immigration. Reyna understands that culture and language should not be an impassable wall to mutual understanding and human progress. She believes that public policy and international cooperation are keys to building bridges among peoples. Her research interests include international policy, human security, international governmental organizations, international cooperation, and migration. Research Interests International Policy Human Security International Government Organizations International Cooperation Migration
Doctoral Student Specialization: Public Policy, PA Theory Email: rrouse@unomaha.edu
His research interests include public administration theory, organizational theory and public policy. In particular he seeks to explore public management systems and their consequences for the production of worker identity in late-modern organizations.
Research Interests Public Administration Theory Organizational Theory Public Policy
Josh Shirk
Taylor Smith
Bio Josh Shirk is currently a doctoral candidate at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. His research looks at the historical shift from bureaucratic administration to contemporary market-based governance structures. He is especially interested in how human agency is enabled and contained by the organization of relations between politics, administration, and citizenship.
Bio Taylor Smith is a third-year doctoral student in the School of Public Administration with a focus on public policy and public administration theory. He received his BA in history, and MPA at UNO. His research interests include the study of network governance, common-pool resource issues, and the institutional arrangements and decision-making processes in local, state, and federal natural resource agencies. Taylor is currently studying water policy and governance in Nebraska focusing on ground and surface water management under Nebraska’s unique Natural Resource District system.
Doctoral Candidate Specializations: PA Theory, Urban Management Email: jtshirk@unomaha.edu
Special attention is focused on the workers’ range of work tasks, their encounters with performance management technologies, and the meaning they give to to their work. The study will help shed light on the work and policy alienation experienced by street-level workers
Research Interests Market-based Governance Bureaucracy Social policy Citizen Participation Social and Political Theory
Education MS, Urban Studies University of Nebraska Omaha BA, General Studies University of Nebraska Omaha
Doctoral Student Specializations: PA Theory, Public Policy Email: tssmith@unomaha.edu
Taylor is currently a graduate research assistant at the University of Nebraska Public Policy Center. He joined the Center in 2016, and provides data management and analysis, as well as writing and presentation for a variety of research and evaluation reports.” knowledge. Education MPA, University of Nebraska Omaha BA, History University of Nebraska Omaha
Teaching Experience Introduction to Public Administration Introduction to Urban Studies
Research Link https://www.researchgate.net/profile/ Josh_Shirk
Xiaowei Song
Morgan D. Vogel
Bio Xiaowei Song is a third-year doctoral student working as both a research assistant (RA) and teaching assistant (TA) in the School of Public Administration. His research interests include performance budgeting, fiscal health, and capital budgeting.
Bio Morgan Vogel is a third-year doctoral student at the University of Nebraska at Omaha in the School of Public Administration. She specializes in public administration theory, organization theory and behavior, and policy theory. Her research interests focus on public service as a vocation, public service motivation, and leadership in public organizations. Her most recent research explores public service motivation and calling as complementary concepts for public service.
Doctoral Student Specializations: PA Theory, Public Policy Email: mdvogel@unomaha.edu
Doctoral Student Specializations: Public Budgeting & Finance, Public Policy Email: xiaoweisong@unomaha.edu
Prior to joining in the doctoral program at UNO, Xiaowei took on diverse advisory programs for China’s local governments in evaluating and improving local public budgeting and financial management practices. This experience provided a solid foundation for him to develop a research interest in performance budgeting reforms in China. Particularly, he is devoted to investigating the institutional logics of performance budgeting and how different institutional arrangements affect the budget process and/or fiscal outcomes. The research experience at UNO encourages him to examine the complicated relationship between citizen participation, budgeting process, policy adoption and/or fiscal outcomes. Currently, he is working on narrowing down his dissertation topic with a focus on local capital budgeting.
Education MA, Public Administration Sun Yat-sen University BA, Public Administration Liaoning Technical University
Research Interests Performance Budgeting & Management Local Fiscal Sustainability/Health Local Capital Budgeting & Finance
Morgan has had several unique internship oppotunities that futhered her passion for publie administration, namely working for Ohio Governor John Kasich’s communications office, the congressional district office of U.S. Representative Mike Turner (OH-10), the Dayton Fire Department Metropolitan Medical Response System (MMRS), and the University of Dayton Government Relations office. While at UNO, Morgan worked for the Center for Public Affairs Research on a rural transit grant from the Nebraska Department of Transportation. Morgan was selected as a Presidential Graduate Fellow for the 2019-2020 academic year. Education MPA, University of Dayton BA, Political Science University of Dayton
Research Interests Motivation and Meaningful Work Bureaucratic Discretion Organizational Decision-Making Foundations of Public Administration Public Administration Theory Policy Theory
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Doctoral Candidate Specializations:Nonprofit and Public Management, Public Administration theory, and Organizational Communication Email: mingxie@unomaha.edu
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Bio Ming Xie is a doctoral candidate at School of Public Administration, University of Nebraska-Omaha. Her research interests focus on nonprofit and public management, organizational communication, civil society, intercultural communication, information technology, and emergency management. Her dissertation project examines the social construction of accountability by Chinese environmental nonprofit organizations.
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Selected Publications Xie, M. (In press). Leadership perceptions of social media use by small-to-medium-sized nonprofits. Journal of Nonprofit Education and Leadership, 10(4).
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MA, Communication Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences BA, Journalism Shanxi University, China
Research Interests Nonprofit management and accountability Public management and policy decision making Organizational communication Civil society and civic engagement Qualitative research methods Information technology and globalization Intercultural and interpersonal communication
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Xie, M., & Pang, M. (2019). Gender and career development in nonprofit organizations: Comparative study of female leadership in China, South Africa, and the U.S. In C. Chao & L. Ha (Eds.), Asian women leadership: A cross-national and cross-sector comparison (pp. 159-172). Routledge.
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COLLABORATORSADMINISTRATION SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSSOCIAL ENTREP Xie, M., & Pang, M. (2018). A cross-cultural examination of Chinese and American female leadership in nonprofit organizations. China Media Research, 14(1), 30-41.
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