Recent Highlights from PUBA Faculty, Winter 2024

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Dr. Morgen Johansen

Dr. Johansen most recently published an article on Advancing Social Equity in East Asia: Education and Health Care Policy in China, Korea, and Singapore in the Asia-Pacific Journal of Public Administration. She also serves as an Associate Editor for the Australian Journal of Public Administration.

Dr. Jennifer Kagan

Dr. Jennifer Kagan recently joined the editorial board of Public Administration Review (PAR) as an associate editor and will serve in this position for three years. PAR has been the premier public administration journal for the past 75 years.

Her scholarship focuses on environmental policy and nonprofit advocacy. She publishes in nonprofit and policy journals, including recent publications in Nonprofit Management and Leadership, Voluntas, Policy Sciences, and Policy and Politics. Last month, she presented her work at the Annual Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action Conference.

Dr. David Nixon

Dr. Nixon will serve as a Panel Chair for the upcoming 2024 Southern Political Science Association Conference. He recently published in Social Science Quarterly. (Nixon, David C. 2023. Do Bureaucratic Appointees Change Their Minds? Preference Stability at the NLRB. Social Science Quarterly 104(4): 702–715. https://doi.org/10.1111/ssqu.13294

Dr. Helen H. Yu

Dr. Yu was selected as a 2024-2026 Ewha Global Fellow (EGF) by Ewha Womans University, South Korea. Ewha Womans University was founded in 1886 and is one of the leading research universities in the world, ranked #1 among all Korean universities for most-cited research papers by the Leiden Ranking. The EGF program is designed to encourage distinguished scholars from around the world to actively collaborate in research and education with Ewha faculty members. Dr. Yu’s selection is a testament to her status as a leading scholar in her academic field. Congratulations!

Dr. Yu was selected by Sage Publications to serve as the new Editor-in-Chief of Public Personnel Management, one of the premier journals in the field of public administration. Her 3-year Editorship begins January 2024. Her selection, through an open and competitive process, is a testament to her professional reputation and the confidence the field places in her scholarly knowledge and judgment. Congratulations!