Public Administration Faculty

Regular Faculty

Mahabat Baimyrzaeva

Assistant Professor

Office: 120 McCone
Email: mahabat.baimyrzaeva@miis.edu
Phone: 831.647.4143

Expertise:

Institution Building/Development, Institutional Change and Theory, Nation/State Building, Governance, Public Sector Reform, Administrative Reform, Corruption, Capacity Building/Development, Organizational Management and Development, Culture Analysis and Change, Policy Analysis, International and Global Policy, Applied Research Methods , Democratic Transition, Civic Engagement
Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods, Regional expertise: Kyrgyzstan, Central Asia, Post-Soviet Countries

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Kent Glenzer

Associate Professor in Organizational Behavior and Development, MPA/MBA

Office: McCone 114
Email: kglenzer@miis.edu
Phone: 831.647.4149

Expertise:

Organizational and institutional fields; political culture and power; evaluation; nonprofit management and organizational behavior; rights-based approaches; research methods; program strategy and assessment; ethnography of development and development agencies; neoinstitutional organizational sociology; process facilitation; management and leadership development.

Nükhet Kardam

Professor

Office: Casa Fuente 300 E
Email: nkardam@miis.edu
Phone: 831.647.4147

Expertise:

Women’s Human Rights, Politics of Development Assistance, International Organizations, Intercultural Competence in Development Practice, Identity and Multiculturalism

Edward J. Laurance

Professor and Gordon Paul Smith Chair in International Policy Studies

Office: 311 McCone
Email: elaurance@miis.edu
Phone: 831.647.4144

Expertise:

Global governance, international organizations, proliferation and effects of conventional weapons and small arms, program evaluation and project management

Beryl Levinger

Distinguished Professor and Program Chair, Public Administration

Office: 212 McCone
Email: blevinger@miis.edu
Phone: 831.647.6640

Expertise:

Nonprofit management, international organizations, poverty alleviation, third world development, international education, international health, nutrition and hunger, organizational development, program evaluation and project management

Katherine Punteney

Program Chair, Assistant Professor in International Education Management

Office: CF 300 F
Email: kpunteney@miis.edu
Phone: 831.647.4625

Expertise:

International education theory, comparative international education, educational leadership, campus internationalization, intercultural communication and training, international student services, study abroad/international exchange management.