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 Milan
J. Dluhy received his Ph.D. in Political Science and Public
Policy from the University of Michigan. He also received a B.A.
in Political Science and Economics from the University of Illinois
at Champaign and a Master's in Government from Southern Illinois
University.
He
has held academic and research positions at the University of Michigan
at Ann Arbor, Florida International University in Miami, American
University, and the University of North Carolina at Wilmington.
He has also worked as a consultant for many state and local governments
and non-profit agencies and was a Policy Analyst for the U.S. Department
of Health and Human Services. He is the author or co-author of 8
books and over 60 professional publications.
He
currently serves as the Book Review Editor for the American Review
of Public Administration and as the Executive Director of the Abraham
Lincoln Presidential Center for Governmental Studies and Professor
of Public Administration at UIS.
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 James
Hanley earned his PhD in Political Science from the University
of Oregon in 2000.
Prior
to coming to UIS he was a Visiting Scholar at Indiana University's
workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis and a Visiting
Assistant Professor at Adrion College in Michigan.
He
has co-authored several articles on political behavior, with one
forthcoming in the American Political Science Review.
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 Meredith
A. Newman received her Ph.D. in Policy Studies from Deakin University,
Australia.
She
has been a member of the public affairs faculty at Washington State
University, Vancouver for the past nine years. She joins UIS as
an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Public Administration.
Professor
Newman’s research interests include public management, administrative
theory, gender and worklife issues, human resources, and administrative
ethics. Her research appears in a number of scholarly journals including
Public Administration Review, Review of Public Personnel Administration,
and Women & Politics. Prior to her current career in academia,
Newman served with the Australian Foreign Service (in France and
Viet Nam), the U.S. Department of State (in Senegal, Malaysia, and
Republic of Singapore), and the World Bank.
Dr.
Newman is the recipient of several awards, including the Editors’
Choice Award, Public Administration Review; the Distinguished Research
Award of the American Society for Public Administration, Section
for women in Public Administration; and the Research Excellence
Award, Washington State University, Vancouver. Newman is a past-National
Council Representative of ASPA.
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 Tih-Fen
Ting completed her Ph.D. in Natural Resources and Environment
at the University of Michigan in 2003. She has a B.S. in biology
and a M.S. in wildlife.
Her
work before Michigan focused mainly on the ecology, behavior, and
demography of various avian species (including Northern Spotted
Owls). At Michigan, as a doctoral student, Professor Ting began
an interdisciplinary exploration on issues regarding interactions
between human populations and the environment. Her dissertation
focused on how resource accessibility affects individual reproductive
decision-making in China.
Since
2001, Professor Ting has also been involved in an interdisciplinary
project on public health and environmental integrity along the Danshui
River ecosystem in northern Taiwan. In 2002, Professor Ting was
selected as a LIFE fellow in the International Max Planck Research
School. She has made several presentations at the national and international
conferences.
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