About Us: Our Faculty and Staff
Faculty/Staff by Location
Blacksburg
Sang Ok Choi
Overview CV
Name: Sang Ok Choi
Position: Assistant Professor, Center for Public Administration
and Policy
Email: sang@vt.edu
Phone: (540) 231-6946
Education: BA, Public Administration, SungKyunKwan University, South Korea; MA in Public Administration, Maxwell School of Syracuse University; PhD in Public Administration, Florida State University.
Major Areas of Specialization: Organizational Theory, Public Personnel Management and Policy, Network Theory, Emergency Management, Nonprofit Organizations and management
Name: Brian Cook
Position: Professor, Center for Public Administration and Policy
Email: brml27@vt.edu
Phone: (540) 231-3438
Education: BA, Political Science, Cleveland State University, 1977; MA, PhD, Government & Politics, University of Maryland, College Park, 1982, 1984.
Major Areas of Specialization: Public administration history, public administration and constitutionalism, public policy and environmental policy.
Larkin Dudley
Name: Larkin Dudley
Position: Associate Professor, Center for Public Administration and Policy
Email: dudleyl@vt.edu
Phone: (540) 231-5197
Education: BA, University of Georgia; MA University of Georgia; and PhD, Public Administration, Virginia Tech.
Major Areas of Specialization: Privatization Policy, Public Management; Organizational Theory, Deliberative Democracy, and Citizen Participation. Dr. Dudley has also pursued interests in women and world development, legislation and lobbying, and the application of law in organizations.
Name: Karen Hult
Position: Professor, Department of Political Science and Center for Public Administration and Policy
Book Review Editor, Presidential Studies Quarterly
Email: khult@vt.edu
Phone: (540) 231-5351
Website: http://www.psci.vt.edu/hult/
Education: Dr. Hult received her Ph.D. in political science at the University of Minnesota after also doing graduate work at Harvard and receiving a B.A. summa cum laude from Creighton University.
Major Areas of Specialization: Organizational theory, U.S. national institutions (especially the presidency, executive branch, and the courts), state politics, and social science methodologies.
Laura Jensen
Name: Laura Jensen
Position: Associate Professor and Program Chair, Center for Public Administration and Policy, and (by courtesy) Department of Political Science
Email: jensen7@vt.edu
Phone: (540) 231-7302
Education: B.A. Music, Wellesley College; M.F.A., Music Composition, Princeton University; M.P.A. and Ph.D., Political Science, University of Connecticut.
Major Areas of Specialization: Social policy and welfare state development; federalism and intergovernmental relations; government accountability; politics of spending and taxation; law and society; American political development.
Joe Rees
Name: Joe Rees
Position: Associate Professor, Center for Public Administration and Policy
Email: reesj@vt.edu
Phone: (540) 231-6034
Education: Dr. Rees received his Ph.D. in Jurisprudence and Social Policy at the University of California at Berkeley, School of Law in 1986.
Major Areas of Specialization: Ethics, regulation,
Minnis Ridenour
Name: Minnis Ridenour
Position: Senior Fellow for Resource Development; Board of Directors, Carilion Foundation; Board of CCS-Inc.; and the Board of the Blacksburg Partnership
Email: ridem@vt.edu
Phone: (540) 231-1372
Education: Mr. Ridenour earned both his bachelor’s degree in marketing and retailing, and his master’s degree in public finance and higher education administration, from the University of Tennessee.
Major Areas of Specialization: Currently assisting the University with special initiatives such as the Arts Initiative, the NCAA Recertification Process and the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech Scientific Review, as well as teaching graduate courses in financial management for governmental and non-profit entities.
Name: Patrick Roberts
Position: Assistant Professor, Center for Public Administration and Policy
Email: robertsp@vt.edu
Phone: (202) 549-4987
Webpage: http://filebox.vt.edu/users/robertsp/
Education: Ph.D., Government, University of Virginia (2006).
Major Areas of Specialization: Public administration; institutions and organizations; ethics; American political history; homeland security and disaster policy.
Bob Stripling
Overview CV
Name: Bob Stripling
Position: Professor of Practice, Center for Public Administration
and Policy
Email: chars08@vt.edu
Phone: (540) 231-5133
Education: BA,Texas Tech, MBA University of Virginia.
Major Areas of Specialization: Local government management
Name: Ian Birdsall
Position: Visiting Assistant Professor, Center for Public Administration and Policy
Email: ibirdsal@vt.edu
Phone: 706-486-2232
Education: BS, Industrial Management, Georgia Tech, 1973; MS, Management Science, State University of New York at Binghamton, 1979; PhD, Public Administration, Virginia Tech, 2004.
Staff
Name: Laura French (Blacksburg)
Position: Office Manager
Email: lhf@vt.edu
Phone: (540) 231-5133
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Northern Virginia: Alexandria and Richmond
Ron Boster
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Name: Ron Boster
Position:Adjunct Professor, Center for Public Administration and Policy; Special Advisor, Public Company Accounting Oversight Board
Email: BosterR@pcaobus.org
Phone: (202) 207-9083
Education: B.S. Ed., The Ohio State University; M.S., The Ohio State University; Ph.D., University of Arizona
Major Areas of Specialization: Public policy analysis, the federal budget and economic policy
Matthew Dull
Name: Matthew Dull
Position: Assistant Professor, Center for Public Administration and Policy
Email: mdull@vt.edu
Phone: (703) 706-8117 (office) or (202) 821-3807
Website: http://www.nvc.vt.edu/mdull/
Education: PhD (August 2006), Department of Political Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison; BA, University of Notre Dame (1997).
Major Areas of Specialization: Administrative politics and American political institutions; management reform; public policy analysis, professional expertise, and measurement.
Suzette Denslow
Name: Suzette Denslow
Position: Adjunct Professor, Center for Public Administration and Policy; Legislative Director, Office of Governor Timothy Kaine
Email: Suzette.Denslow@governor.virginia.gov
Phone: (804) 225-4803
Education:B.S. Urban Studies, Virginia Commonwealth University.
Major Areas of Specialization:Public administration, legislative relations, public budget and finance.
Jason Fichtner
Name: Jason Fichtner
Position: Adjunct Professor, Center for Public Administration and Policy; Chief Economist, Office of the Chief Economist, Social Security Administration
Email: Jason.Fichtner@ssa.gov
Phone: (202) 358-6053
Education: Dr. Fichtner received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; his Master of Public Policy degree from Georgetown University; and his Ph.D. in Public Administration & Policy from Virginia Tech.
Major Areas of Specialization: Dr. Fichtner teaches courses in public policy process, public management and public budgeting processes.
Jack Harrald
Name: Jack Harrald
Position: Visiting Professor, Center for Public Administration and Policy; Research Professor, CTSP; Director Emeritus of the ICDRM, Professor Emeritus of EMSE
Email: jharrald@gwu.edu
Phone: (202) 994-7153
Education: Professor of Engineering Management and Systems Engineering, M.B.A., Ph.D. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, M.A.L.S., Wesleyan University; B.S., U.S. Coast Guard Academy.
Major Areas of Specialization: Research areas in organizational learning for disaster response and recovery, maritime safety and security, business continuity and crisis management and risk management.
Tom Hickok
Name: Tom Hickok
Position: Adjunct Professor, Center for Public Administration and Policy
Email: tomtennis3@yahoo.com
Phone: 703-601-4729, x 153 (W)
Education: DPA, University of Southern California; MBA, California State University, Northridge; B.A., Middlebury College
Major Areas of Specialization: Performance management, organizational development and public management.
Theresa Jefferson
Name: Theresa Jefferson
Position: Associate Professor of EMSE; Visiting Associate Professor, Center for Public Administration and Policy; Research Assistant Professor, CTSP
Email: tjeff@gwu.edu
Phone: (202) 994-6038
Education: D.Sc., Engineering Management, The George Washington University, M.S., Operations Research, The George Washington University, B.S., Operations Research, The George Washington University.
Major Areas of Specialization: Research focus on decision support systems and collaborative decision making, information and communication technologies (ICT) with a focus in crisis and disaster management, and intelligent information retrieval.
Anne Meredith Khademian
Name: Anne Meredith Khademian
Position: Professor and Program Director CPAP Alexandria
Email: akhademi@vt.edu
Phone: (703) 706-8119
Website: www.annekhademian.cpap.vt.edu
Education: Ph.D., Washington University, MPA Michigan State University, and BA Michigan State University.
Major Areas of Specialization: Organizational Theory, Public Management, Public Policy, and Political Economy.
Bruce Lawlor
Name: Bruce Lawlor
Position: Professor of Practice, Center for Public Administration and Policy, Director, Center for Technology, Security, and Policy
Email: bruce.lawlor@vt.edu
Phone: (703) 518-8310
Website: www.ctsp.vt.edu
Education: Major General Lawlor has a doctor of science degree in engineering management, a juris doctor degree in law, and a masters degree in national security studies. He is a Harvard National Security Fellow and has served as an instructor at the U.S. Army War College. He is a member of the Vermont, Massachusetts and Florida Bar Associations.
Major Areas of Specialization: Current research focuses on national and homeland security policy, and decision support technology.
Randall Murch
Name: Randall Murch
Position: Adjunct Professor, Center for Public Administration and Policy; Associate Director, Research Program Development; Adjunct Professor, Public and International Affairs and Plant Pathology, Physiology and Weed Science; Visiting Professor, Science and Security, Department of War Studies, King's College London (UK)
Email: rmurch@vt.edu
Phone: (703) 518-2719
Education: Bachelor of Science, Biology, University of Puget Sound, 1974; Master of Science, Botanical Sciences, University of Hawaii, 1976; Doctor of Philosophy, Plant Pathology, University of Illinois, 1979.
Major Areas of Specialization: Current research focus on security in complex systems; integrative security through science, technology, policy and operations; biosecurity.
William Murray
Name: William Murray
Position: Adjunct Professor, Center for Public Administration and Policy; Managing Director, Corporate Public Policy, Dominion Resources
Email: william.l.murray@dom.com
Phone: (804) 771-3802
Education: PhD in Public Administration, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg
Major Areas of Specialization: Public Policy, Health Care, ethics
Mark E. Rosen
Name: Mark E. Rosen
Position: Adjunct Faculty, Center for Public Administration and Policy
Email: Rosenm@cna.org
Phone: (703) 824-2720
Education: Mr. Rosen is a graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law (LLM) and the University of Georgia (JD, AB). He served on the Editorial Board of the Georgia Journal of International Law and is a member of the Georgia Bar and various federal courts. He is the author of numerous law review and other media publications. He was a Contributing Editor of the Homeland Security news service: Intellibridge.
Major Areas of Specialization: Homeland Security Law and Policy with Advanced Topics in BioDefense. Full bio, click here.
Bob Stephan
Name: Bob Stephan
Position: Professor of Practice, Center for Public Administration and Policy, and Research Professor, Center for Technology Security and Policy (CTSP)
Email: Bob.Stephan@dutkoworldwide.com
Phone: (703) 518-2700
Education: Masters in International Relations,
University of Belgrano, Buenos Aires, Argentina, and The Johns Hopkins University. BA in political science, United States Air Force Academy.
Major Areas of Specialization: Homeland Security, critical infrastructure protection, risk management. Full bio, click here.,
James Wolf
Name: James Wolf
Position: Professor and Faculty Liaison, Richmond, Center for Public Administration and Policy, Virginia Tech
Email: jfwolf@vt.edu
Phone: (703) 706-8116
Education: Dr. Wolf received his education from LaSalle College, Cornell University Graduate School of Business & Public Administration, and the University of Southern California, School of Public Administration.
Major Areas of Specialization: Complex organizations and the applied behavioral sciences, regionalism and metropolitan transportation planning, and organizational development programs for public agencies.
Colleen Woodard
Name: Colleen Woodard
Position: Visiting Assistant Professor, Center for Public Administration and Policy
Email: cwoodard@fed-tech.com
Phone: (703)-321-0984
Education: Ph.D. in Public Administration - Virginia Tech, M.S. in Adult and Continuing Education - Virginia Tech, BA in History - Alvernia College, certified Senior Human Resource Professional (SPHR) - Society for Human Resources Management.
Major Areas of Specialization: Human resources management, public budgeting, leadership and management, human resources contracting/outsourcing.
Staff
Name: Irene Jung (Alexandria and Richmond)
Position: Student Administrative Coordinator, Center for Public Administration and Policy
Email: ijung@vt.edu
Phone: (703) 706-8123
Education: BA in Anthropology, Washington University in St. Louis
Professor Emeriti
Name: John W. Dickey
Position: Professor Emeritus, Center for Public Administration and Policy, and Urban Affairs and Planning
Email: jdickey@vt.edu
Phone: (540) 552-6878
Education:: Dr. Dickey received his BS in Civil Engineering from Lehigh University and his MS and PhD in Civil Engineering (Transportation) from Northwestern University.
Major Areas of Specialization: “Genes” of Public Administration (click here to learn more); Computer Support Systems
Name: Charles T. Goodsell
Position: Professor Emeritus, Center for Public Administration and Policy
Email: goodsell@vt.edu
Phone: (540) 552-9032
Website: Web.Mac.com/Cgoodsell
Education: Dr. Goodsell received his education at Kalamazoo College and Harvard University.
Major Areas of Specialization: Public bureaucracy and the future of public administration.
Name: Philip Kronenberg
Position: Professor Emeritus, Center for Public Administration and Policy
Email: philkvt@vt.edu
Website: http://www.nvc.vt.edu/kronenberg
Education: B.S. with honors, Economics and Political Science, Bradley University, 1959, M.A., Economics, Maxwell Graduate School, Syracuse University, 1962, Ph.D. Public and International Affairs, University of Pittsburg, 1969.
Major Areas of Specialization: Public policy theory, organization theory, national & international security studies.
Name: John Rohr
Position: Professor, Center for Public Administration & Policy, Virginia Tech and Woodrow Wilson Fellow for 1998-99.
Email: jrohr@vt.edu
Phone: (540) 231-7306
Education: Dr. Rohr received graduate degrees in philosophy and theology from Loyola and Georgetown Universities respectively, and his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Chicago.
Major Areas of Specialization: Ethics in public management, normative theory, public law, comparative public administration, and constitutional issues in public administration.
Name: Gary Wamsley
Position: Professor Emeritus, Center for Public Administration and Policy
Email: wamsley@vt.edu
Phone: (540) 231-5307
Education: Dr. Wamsley received his education from the University of California at Los Angeles and the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh.
Major Areas of Specialization: Comparative and national public administration, organization theory and analysis, civil-military relations, national security policy and processes, and budget theory.
Name: Orion White
Position: Professor Emeritus, Center for Public Administration and Policy
Email: mcswite@sbcglobal.net
Education: Dr. White received his education from the University of Texas at Austin and Indiana University.
Major Areas of Specialization: Semiotics and organization theory, total quality management, organization development, intergovernmental dispute mediation, social change and political change, human services delivery.