Dr, Tom Barth (MPA Director) had his essay “Amerians with Disabilities: A Reminder for Public Administrators” published inn the PA Times. (2019)

LeRoux, K., Piatak, J., Romzek, B., and Johnston, J. (2019) . Informal Accountability in Children’s Service Networks: The Role of Frontline Workers, Human Service Organizations: Management Leadership & Governance, 1-17.

Piatak, J. and Mohr, Z., More Gender Bias in Academia? Examining the Influence of Gender and Formalization on Student Worker Rule Following. Journal of Behavioral Public Admimistration.

Jason Giersch, Martha Bottia, Elizabeth Stearns, Roz Michelson and Stephanie Moller had their paper “The Predictive Role of School Performance Indicators on Students’ College Achievement” accepted for publication in Educational Policy. (May 2019)

Mel Atkinson presented “Women at War: Debating Defense in the U.S. House of Representatives” (coauthored with Jasonn Windett and Reza Mousavi) at the annual MPSA conference in Chicago, (April 2019)

Beth Whitaker co-authored with Roos van der Haer and Christopher Faulkner and entitled “Rebel Funding and Child Soldiers: Exploring the Relationship between Natural Resources and Forcible Recruitment” has been accepted for publication in the European Journal of International Relations.

MPA faculty member, Dr. Suzanne Leland, received the Donald Stone Distinguished Scholar Award from the Section on Intergovernmental Administration and Management (SIAM) at the annual conference of the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA) in Washington, DC on March 8, 2019. This prestigious award, given since 1981, recognizes (1) significant contributions to the practice and/or […]

Drs. Beth Elise Whitaker, James Igoe Walsh, and Justin Conrad, published an article, “Natural Resource Exploitation and Sexual Violence by Rebel Groups,” in The Journal of Politics. See the March 7, 2019 online edition. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/701637?fbclid=IwAR1CB1S_SnRZB_Yur0l6Lbk_yabKLVPLySxfktKSeS0Ne_rSUpLJV88jquY&

“Let’s Fix It” Tour of College Campuses, February 21 The UNC Charlotte Department of Political Science and Public Administration hosted a bipartisan conversation series with former Congressmen Patrick Murphy (Democrat) and David Jolly (Republican), who offered their diagnoses of what’s wrong with Washington politics and solutions of what we can do about it. Professor Eric […]

February 22, 2019. The North Carolina Political Science Association announced the Oral Parks Memorial Award for Best Faculty Paper, “Does Politics Influence Election Administration Expenditure? A Political Model of Election Administration Expenditure in North Carolina Counties.” The award recipients, all of UNC Charlotte, are Dr. Zachary Mohr, Dr. Martha Kropf (pictured) Ms. JoEllen Pope (Public […]