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PhD Student Directory
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Arslan, Tolga
Atkins, Keith
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Beacham, Charles
Bishop, Matt
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Chen, Chung-An
Clark, Ben
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Duvall, Cora
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Edwards, Vickie
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Gade, Daniel
Goodman, Christopher
Grinstead, William
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Hamidullah, Madinah
Hammer, Michael
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Jarry, Elizabeth
Jung, Chan Su
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Kim, Jung-in
Koehler, Michael
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Ledvinka, Christine
Lee, Soo-Young
Lee, Young-Joo
Leech, Beth-Anne
Li, Hui
Lowman, Carol
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Martinez, James
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Nickelsen, Jessica G. (Tanner)
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Peek, Jason
Pushkarev, Sergei
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Rho, Eunju
Ronquillo, John
Ryu, Sangyub
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Scott, Whitney
Shon, Jongmin
Sinclair, Amber
Stephens, Frank
Su, Xuhong
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Willard, Bernard
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Yun, Taesik
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Below is information on a few of our current PhD students. As you can see, they are from several regions of the United States and several other countries around the world. They have had a wide variety of experiences in public service and related fields and have a broad range of research interests. The complete listing of PhD students in the Department of Public Administration and Policy can be found on the left .
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Matthew Bishop
University of Georgia, MPA; Presbyterian College, BA, political science. Associate Director, University of Georgia 's Initiative on Poverty and the Economy, and faculty member of UGA's Fanning Institute for Leadership. Served as Associate Director of the Georgia Rural Development Council. Research interests include poverty, community economic development, local government visioning, strategic planning, and group facilitation processes. Contact |
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Ben Clark
Maxwell School at Syracuse University, MPA; Indiana University, BA, political science. Experience in an international public health consulting firm, with assignments in South Africa, Lesotho, Tanzania , and Jamaica . As a Peace Corps volunteer in Senegal, worked as a small enterprise development agent in the Sahara Desert.
Research interests include environmental management, science & technology policy, and HIV/AIDS policy.
Web: http://benclark.myweb.uga.edu/
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Cora Duvall
University of Georgia, MPA; North Georgia College & State University, BS, political science. Research interests include public and non-profit management, organizational behavior, leadership, and policy implementation. Contact |
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Madinah F. Hamidullah
University of North Carolina at Charlotte, MPA; University of North Carolina at Charlotte, BA, dance and political science. Research interests include public management, public personnel, organizational behavior and public sector leadership. Contact |
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Michael Koehler
University of Georgia, MPA; Davidson College, BA, Political Science and German. Previously worked in federal government, law, and information technology. Academic responsibilities include research assistance, undergraduate teaching, and academic advising for MPA program. Research interests include public management, organizational theory, and organizational behavior - specifically motivation, incentives, and performance. Contact
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Christine Ledvinka
University of Georgia, MPA; Emory University, JD; University of Georgia, BA. Published in Review of Public Personnel Administration and American Review of Public Administration. Revised the Handbook for Georgia County Commissioners, published by the Carl Vinson Institute of Government. Research Interests include the legal environment of public management, policy implementation, and organizational behavior. Contact |
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Young-joo Lee
University of Texas at Austin, MPAff; Yonsei University, BA, social science. Young-joo's research interests include nonprofit management, volunteerism, public management, and human resource management in public and nonprofit organizations. Contact
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Beth-Anne Leech
Schulich School of Business, York University, MBA, Finance and Strategic Management; McMaster University, B. Eng, Mechanical Engineering. Previously worked as Manager of Engineering Services at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology and at General Motors of Canada as a Project Engineer and Financial Analyst. Research interests include: public budgeting and finance, the intersection of governments and capital markets, policy implementation, and comparative public administration. Contact |
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Hui Li
Fudan University, MA, management; Soochow University, Bachelor in law, public administration Originally from China. Experience teaching political science and municipal administration in China. Research interests are public budgeting and finance, government performance, and family planning policy. Contact |
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John C. Ronquillo
Arizona State University, MPA; BA, journalism and mass communication.
Previously worked as a Policy and Research Analyst and lobbyist for the Arizona Association of Counties. Also part of a research and consulting firm that carried out a comprehensive social impact assessment for a major copper-mining company. Research interests include public and non-profit management, cross-sector collaboration, and social and cultural dimensions of decision making and management. Contact |
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Sangyub Ryu
Carnegie Mellon University, MS in Public Policy and Management; Korea University BA, English Literature and Public Administration.
Previously interned at the office of Korea Prime Minister, Korea National Assembly, Korea National Red Cross and LA citycouncil member.
Also served R.O.K Army. Research interests include network management, organization performance, decision making, policy diffusion, policy process and merit pay system. Contact |
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Amber Sinclair
Emory University, MSPH, Biostatistics; Berea College, BA, Mathematics. Previously worked in research and data analysis positions in local and national public health agencies. Currently works as a contracted Research Associate for Kaiser Permanente of Georgia. Experienced in research design and quantitative methods. Research interests include public health policy, environmental health effects and health care policy. Also interested in organizational aspects of health and environmental agencies. Contact |
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Xuhong Su
Wuhan University MA, BA. Research interests include science technology policy and public management, with special focus on career trajectories of both civil servants and research scientists. Contact
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