CLEAR Fellows

Jason Anastasopoulos - University of Georgia

Dr. Anastasopoulos is an Associate Professor of Public Administration and Policy and an Adjunct Professor of Statistics at the University of Georgia. His research interests are on the political consequences of technological change with a focus on bureaucracy. He also does research in political methodology and has interests in causal inference, Bayesian statistics and machine learning. His work has been featured in political science, economics and public administration journals including the American Political Science Review, Political Analysis, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory and the Journal of Human Capital. He has received several awards for his work including: the Miller Prize for Best Paper in Political Methodology, John L. Knight Foundation Freedom of the Press Award the APSA Paul A. Volcker Junior Scholar Research Grant, and a Peter G. Peterson Foundation U.S. 2050 Grant. Dr. Anastasopoulos has also held visiting appointments at Princeton, Emory, UC Berkeley and Harvard.

Elizabeth Bell - University of Texas

Elizabeth Bell is currently an Assistant Professor at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research aims to advance social equity in policy and public management, with a focus on college access and affordability. Her research examines how public managers operate within politically designed organizational structures to shape inequality in access to public services and evaluates policies and management strategies that can close equity gaps. She received her PhD in Political Science from the University of Oklahoma in 2019. Prior to joining the LBJ School, Elizabeth Bell was an Assistant Professor in Miami University’s Department of Political Science and an Assistant Professor at the Askew School of Public Administration and Policy at Florida State University. Her work has been published in flagship journals including the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Public Administration Review, Journal of Politics, and American Educational Research Journal.

Heejin Cho - Partnership for Public Service

Dr. Heejin Cho is a senior research manager at the Partnership for Public Service. She explores the intersection of employee engagement, leadership, and performance. Also, she seeks to promote evidence-based decision-making in public organizations through data storytelling. At the Partnership, she leads research and analysis of the Best Place to Work in the Federal Government, as well as the Agency Performance Dashboard. Prior to joining the Partnership, Heejin worked at Texas Health and Human Services where she helped the agency set performance goals and analyzed performance data to assist leadership with data-driven decisions. Heejin holds a Ph.D. in Public Policy and Management from the University of Southern California.

Jason Coupet - Georgia State University

Jason Coupet is an Associate Professor of Public Management and Policy in the Andrew Young School for Policy Studies at Georgia State University. Jason’s Ph.D. is in Strategic Management from the University of Illinois at Chicago, and his BA in Economics from the University of Michigan. His research interests include strategic management, efficiency, performance measurement, organizational economics, management science applications in the public sector, and the political economy of organizations. He is on the Executive Board of ARNOVA, the APPAM Policy Council, and on the board of the Public Management Research Association. He serves as an Associate Editor of Journal of Nonprofit Management and Leadership, and is on the editorial boards of the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Public Administration Review, and the Journal of Public and Nonprofit Affairs. 

Gary Hollibaugh - University of Pittsburgh

Gary E. Hollibaugh, Jr. is Associate Professor and Director of the Program in Public Administration in the University of Pittsburgh’s Graduate School of Public and International Affairs (primary appointment) and Department of Political Science (secondary appointment). He earned his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Rochester and previously held appointments at the University of Notre Dame, University of Georgia, and Vanderbilt University. Dr. Hollibaugh uses large data sets, survey research, formal models, advanced quantitative methods, text analysis, and machine learning to understand separation of power politics as well as the behavior of political elites and public employees in the United States. Substantively, his research draws on approaches in political science, public administration, and personality psychology. His research on American politics, separation of powers politics, institutional design, bureaucratic politics, public administration, and elite behavior have appeared in the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Public Administration Review, and other leading journals in political science and public administration.

Donald F. Kettl - University of Maryland

Donald F. Kettl is professor emeritus and former dean at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy. Until his retirement, he was the Sid Richardson Professor at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, at the University of Texas at Austin. He is also a senior adviser at the Volcker Alliance, a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration. Kettl is the author or editor of 25 books, including Experts in Government: The Deep State from Caligula to Trump and Beyond (2023); Bridgebuilders: How Government Can Transcend Boundaries to Solve Big Problems (with William D. Eggers, 2023); and The Politics of the Administrative Process (9th edition, 2023). He has received six lifetime achievement awards, and three of his books have received national best-book awards. Kettl holds a PhD in political science from Yale University.

David Lewis - Vanderbilt University

David E. Lewis is the Rebecca Webb Wilson University Distinguished Professor in the Department of Political Science and the Department of Leadership, Policy, and Organizations (Peabody College) at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of two books and numerous articles on American politics, public administration, and management. He has earned numerous research and teaching awards and his research has been featured in outlets such as the Harvard Business Review, New York Times, and Washington Post. He is a past president of the Southern Political Science Association and Midwest Public Administration Caucus. In 2022, he was appointed to a two-year term as a public member of the Administrative Conference of the United States. He serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Public Administration Research & Theory, Presidential Studies Quarterly and Public Administration Review. He is a member of the National Academy of Public Administration.

Scott Limbocker - United States Military Academy

Scott Limbocker is an associate professor of American Politics at the United States Military Academy. He is also the deputy director of the center managing research in the Social Sciences Department at West Point – the Sosh Research Lab. His research covers many topics within American politics, predominantly focusing on the politicization of the executive branch, personnel matters in the federal government, and the presidency. He also has research looking at the role of money in elections as well as work studying civil-military relations within the United States. Some of his work appears in top journals like the Journal of Public Administration Research & Theory, Public Administration Review, and Presidential Studies Quarterly. He is also the lead author to several Department of Defense requested white papers. In the classroom, he predominantly teaches research methods and manages all cadet theses in the American Politics program at West Point.

John D. Marvel - American University

John Marvel is an Associate Professor in the School of Public Affairs at American University, where he teaches courses on organization theory, organizational behavior, and human resource management.  He holds a BA in economics from Amherst College and a Ph.D. in public administration from American University. Professor Marvel’s research focuses on public management issues, including public sector work motivation, leader emergence in public sector organizations, and public sector performance pay.  He also does work on public opinion, focusing on how citizens evaluate information about government performance. His research is published in the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Public Administration Review, and other journals. Professor Marvel has previously been a Fellow with the federal government’s Office of Evaluation Sciences (oes.gsa.gov).

Temirlan T. Moldogaziev - Indiana University

Temirlan T. Moldogaziev joined the O’Neill School as an associate professor in 2023. Prior to the O’Neill School, Moldogaziev was an associate professor at the Penn State School of Public Policy and, until 2019, was an associate professor of public administration and policy in the School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Georgia. Moldogaziev's most recent work appeared in American Review of Public Administration, Governance, International Public Management Journal, Public Budgeting & Finance, Public Administration and Development, Public Administration Review, Public Finance Review, Journal of Public Administration Research & Theory, Municipal Finance Journal, Review of Policy Research, Urban Geography, and Urban Studies. He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in public financial administration, budgeting and fiscal policy theory, debt finance and management theory, and regional and local financial governance. Moldogaziev holds a Ph.D. and an M.A. from Indiana University, and a B.A. from the American University of Central Asia.

Michael Overton - University of Idaho 

Michael Overton, Associate Professor of public administration and Associate Director of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Data Sciences at the University of Idaho, primarily researches the integration of data science and public administration through data science literacy and Administrative Informatics. His scholarship also covers local governments, economic development, and the Community Development Block Grant program, funded by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, SMART Transit, and the North Central Texas Council of Governments. In 2015, Overton received UNT's Toulouse Dissertation Award in Social Science. He was selected for the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy's Emerging Scholars Award in 2016 and as a Founders Fellow by the American Society of Public Administration in 2017.

Mark Richardson - Georgetown University

Mark Richardson is an assistant professor in the Department of Government at Georgetown University. His research interests include the U.S. presidency, executive branch politics, and public management. His research appears in the Journal of Politics, Public Administration Review, Presidential Studies Quarterly, and the Journal of Public Policy. His work has been covered by The Washington Post, the Federal Times, and The Science of Politics podcast. His article, Politicization and Expertise: Exit, Effort, and Investment, won the Joseph L. Bernd Award for the best paper published in the Journal of Politics in 2019. He received his Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University, a Master of Public Administration from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, and a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of Tennessee at Martin.

Kayla Schwoerer - University at Albany, SUNY

Dr. Kayla Schwoerer is an Assistant Professor at Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy at the University at Albany, State University of New York. Her research focuses on understanding and improving the ways that public and nonprofit organizations use data, design, and digital technologies to solve problems, deliver programs and services, and engage diverse communities. Before joining UAlbany in Fall 2023, she was an Assistant Professor of Public Administration at the Vrije Universiteit (VU) Amsterdam in the Netherlands, where she continues to hold an affiliation with the Artificial Intelligence and Digital Governance (AIDG) Lab. She is also a Fellow at UAlbany’s Center for Technology and Government (CTG) and a faculty affiliate of the AI Plus Institute, an interdisciplinary research institute for cutting-edge AI research housed at UAlbany. Her research has received several awards including the APSA Paul A. Volcker Junior Scholar Research Grant (2024) and ASPA’s Section for Women in Public Administration’s Best Dissertation Award (2023). She serves on several editorial boards of notable journals in the field, including as an Assistant Editor for Public Administration and Associate Editor for Information Polity. 

Jennifer Selin - Arizona State University

Jennifer L. Selin is an Associate Professor of Law at ASU’s Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law.  Her research explores the democratic accountability of the administrative state.  She has written extensively on the responsiveness of federal administrators to the President and Congress and how administrative structure affects policy implementation.  Dr. Selin’s scholarship has been published in law, political science, and public administration journals and has been utilized by the Obama, Trump, and Biden Administrations, Congress, the Supreme Court, and the media. Prior to joining ASU, Dr. Selin was a senior attorney advisor at the Administrative Conference of the United States and served as an assistant professor at the Universities of Illinois and Missouri. Dr. Selin is proud graduate of Lebanon Valley College and holds a J.D. from Wake Forest University and a Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University.

Weijie Wang - University of Missouri

Weijie Wang is an Associate Professor in the Truman School of Government and Public Affairs at the University of Missouri. He earned PhD in Policy, Planning, and Development (public management track) from the University of Southern California in 2015. His research interests include performance management, leadership, personnel management, and collaborative governance. Dr. Wang has published his research in leading public administration and policy journals, such as the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, and Public Administration Review. He is a recipient of the Staats Emerging Scholar Award by NASPAA and the Herbert Kaufman Best Paper Award by APSA’s Public Administration section.

Eleanor Woodhouse - University College of London

Dr Eleanor F. Woodhouse is Associate Professor of Public Policy at University College London in the Department of Political Science and School of Public Policy. She is a scholar of comparative politics and public administration who studies how agency relations function in modern governance. She studies the increasingly complex ways in which governments enact their policies – for example, the ever-lengthening chains of delegation from sovereign power to point of service delivery – and how this affects fundamental features of democracy, such as the ability to hold key political players to account. Before undertaking her PhD at Bocconi University, Dr Woodhouse worked as a Policy Officer at the European Commission. Dr Woodhouse’s work has appeared in political science and public administration journals including the Journal of Public Administration Research & Theory, Comparative Political Studies, Governance, and the Journal of Public Policy

Samuel Workman - West Virginia University 

Sam Workman is a professor of political science and Director of the Institute for Policy Research and Public Affairs at West Virginia University. A political scientist and statistician by training, his previous work has addressed public policy, regulation, and how governments use information. Workman's area of expertise is constructing large data infrastructures to answer fundamental questions about public policy across time and space. He is a member of the West Virginia Economic Development Council and the HUB’s Advisory Board on Barriers to Federal Investment. He serves on various local, state, and regional boards for, economic development, public policy, and governance in the Appalachian region. He has published a book with Cambridge University Press entitled The Dynamics of Bureaucracy in the U.S. Government and co-edits Methods of the Policy Process. His scholarship has appeared in the top public policy and public administration journals, including Policy Studies Journal and the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory.

Matthew Young - Leiden University 

Matthew M. Young is an Assistant Professor of Public Administration in the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs at Leiden University. He is also a faculty affiliate at Syracuse University’s Autonomous Systems Policy Institute (ASPI). He studies technology and innovation, decision-making, and service delivery in the public sector. Dr. Young’s research agenda focuses on public sector innovation implementation, including artificial intelligence (AI) and related technologies. His work examines how institutional arrangements and the fit between technology and task shape policy choices, and lead to implementation success or failure. It engages with scholars across disciplines, including computer science and engineering, philosophy, and communications. He has given invited talks on his research to academics and practitioners worldwide, including the European Parliament, United Nations, Korean Development Institute, and the Association for Federal Enterprise Management. Dr. Young also has over ten years of private sector experience in software engineering, product management, and consulting.