Faculty and Research Updates

An article co-authored by Associate Professor Tia Sherèe Gaynor, “Coming to Terms: Teaching Systemic Racism and (the Myth of) White Supremacy,” has been selected as the Journal of Public Affairs Education (JPAE) 2023 Outstanding Article.

New research by Assistant Professor Heather Randell concludes that dam constructions in the US have significantly contributed to land loss of Native people. Dams have flooded more than 1.13 million acres of tribal land in the US, an area larger than the state of Rhode Island.

Professor Ragui Assaad has been awarded a mini grant from the University of Minnesota's Human Rights Initiative to support his research project, “Land Rights as Human Rights: Struggles and Resistance of Landless Dalits in India.”

Yuan (Daniel) Cheng co-authored a paper, "Nonprofit Sector Size and the Breadth of Local Government Climate Actions: Exploring the Moderating Role of Collaboration," which explores various supplementary and complementary models of government–nonprofit relations.

Yuan (Daniel) Cheng co-authored the paper "Exploring the Relationship Between Privatization in Public Service Delivery and Coproduction: Evidence from U.S. Local Governments," published in the latest issue of American Review of Public Administration.

Associate Professor Kathy Quick is co-author of a new article, “Public management and policing: a dialectical inquiry,” which discusses how policing and public management studies have co-existed alongside each other without exploiting the potential for mutual learning and gaining insights from each other’s experience.

Professor Joe Soss and his co-authors have won the Aaron Wildavsky Enduring Contribution Award from the Public Policy section of the American Political Science Association (APSA), for their 2011 book, "Disciplining the Poor: Neoliberalism and the Persistent Power of Race."  

Professor Samuel Myers Jr. has been named the inaugural BIPOC Business Champion by Meda, the Metropolitan Economic Development Association.

Associate Professor Bonnie Keeler, Social Policy Researcher Angie Fertig, and Master of Development Practice Director Dave Wilsey have received the University's Award for Excellence in Academic Unit Service.

Associate Professor Audrey Dorélien is lead author on the paper, "Quantifying social contact patterns in Minnesota during stay-at-home social distancing order," published in BMC Infectious Diseases.