SPEA - School of Public and Environmental Affairs

Human rights, sustainable development, democratization and state reconstruction in Africa, U.S.-African/Third World relations, and UN Security Council reform

Energy policy, energy efficiency and conservation, behavioral economics, social dilemmas, risk communication, and sustainable development

Intersection of foreign aid and sustainable development; international forest policy; energy efficiency; public administration; environmental education; undergraduate honors education

Civil society, voluntary associations, civic engagement, social capital

Environmental law, domestic and international environmental policy, ethics and the public official, mediation and alternative dispute resolution, law and public policy

Collaborative governance, comparative governance, dispute resolution, dispute system design, mediation, administrative law, labor and employment law

Survey methodology, human resource management including management of contingent employees, positive organizational scholarship

African politics, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), energy and international development, comparative public administration, governance, civil society, political economy of development

Energy Policy, Electricity Technology Innovation Policy, Applied Econometrics, and Policy Instruments

The impact of technology on the role, development, and enforcement of law; assessing and improving lawmaking processes; information privacy and legal principles concerning the access to and use of “personal” information; the role and efficacy of law in shaping the intellectual property “commons”; the influence and role of religion in lawmaking.

Environmental and Natural Resources Law and Economics, Property, and Polish Law

Entrepreneurship, innovation and economic development policy; political economy and allocation of entrepreneurship in areas of political instability, conflict and disaster; postconflict reconstruction; social entrepreneurship

Public and community leadership, accountability in the bureaucracy, social capital and civic participation, social and organizational change, nonprofit management, and religion in public life

Public management and organization theory, with a focus on privatization and contracting out, public sector leadership, and organizational change and innovation

Public and nonprofit management, trade associations, intersectoral relations and collaboration, volunteerism, and the role of the voluntary sector in emergency planning

Government reform, energy and the environment, and the future of the automobile in both developed and developing countries

Nonprofit and public sector relationships. Current work examines the scope and community dimensions of the Indiana nonprofit sector. Other major areas of research focus on the American welfare system, nonprofit funding relations, and nonprofit data sources.

Touring Jazz Pianist, Jazz History, Concert Promotion, Music Industry, Jazz Education

Human resource management/training and development

Programming and presentation of the performing and visual arts and entertainment

Incarceration and Prison Programs; Applied Econometrics and Program Evaluation; Child and Family Policy

Nonprofits and public policy, civil society in comparative perspective, institutional grant-makers, volunteering and civic engagement, and education and social welfare policy, social entrepreneurship

Philanthropic studies; nonprofit management, fund development, strategic planning, and board development; social entrepreneurship; programs for nonprofit organizations, with an emphasis on hospitals

Intergovernmental and interorganizational collaboration and networks, federalism and intergovernmental relations, public management, emergency management

Environmental law, conservation easements, invasive species, environmental impact of shipping on the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Seaway.

Housing finance, education finance, education policy, the mortgage crisis

Exploring how institutional rules affect the structure of action situations within which individuals face incentives, make choices, and jointly affect each other. Problems involving collective goods and common-pool resource systems, and how various types of institutions enhance or detract from the capabilities of individuals to achieve equitable, workable, efficient solutions are a central theoretical concern.

Public service motivation, government and civil service reform, public management, public human resource management, national and community service, performance-related pay, public organizational behavior

Local government and the United States Constitution

Urban poverty, economic development, social welfare policy, low-income housing policy, civil society and government performance

Public Management, Executive Branch Politics, U.S. Presidency, Administrative Rulemaking, Organization Theory and Behavior, and Public Personnel Management

Public policy process and evaluation, with substantive interests in environmental and energy policy, research methodology, bureaucratic behavior, and democratic influences in policy making.

Cultural economics, policy and administration; nonprofit organizations; tax policy. Current research concerns cultural districts, and tax policy towards nonprofit organizations and charitable donations.

Nonprofit marketing-including the arts, education, health care and philanthropy; fundraising and philanthropy

Poverty and low-income families in the United States, Housing instability, Implementation of programs serving low-income families

Philanthropic Psychology, Donor Behavior, Fund Development, Nonprofit Marketing

Competition and Firm Strategy; Customer Satisfaction; and Policy Analysis

Accounting, Project Management, Audit, Information Systems, Financial Reporting, Budgeting

Mediation, negotiation, alternative dispute resolution, public input processes

Institutions and behavior of bureaucrats, entrepreneurs and workers in developing countries

Public management, comparative public administration, employment policies and practices, work motivation