The co-editors welcome the following members to the State and Local Government Review Editorial Board for a three year term of service, January 1, 2022 to December 31, 2024. The editorial board supports the journal through consultation on major initiatives, regular feedback, and contributions to the peer-review process.
Nathalie Behnke is full professor and head of the working group on 'Public Administration, Public Policy' at the Technical University Darmstadt in Germany. Her research is located at the intersection of public administration, comparative federalism and multilevel governance. She published journal articles among others in Regional & Federal Studies, Publius: The Journal of Federalism, Public Integrity, and European Journal of Political Science. She edited several volumes on federalism and co-authored two textbooks on empirical research methodology. From 2012 to 2021 she was a judge at the Constitutional Court for the state of Baden-Württemberg. She received her PhD in political science from the Distance Learning University in Hagen (Germany).
Cali Curley is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Miami, and she holds a Ph.D. in Public Administration and Policy from Florida State University. Her research explores how state and local governments make policy choices, and how those choices influence policy outcomes. She primarily explores this question in policy areas such as sustainability, COVID-19, and the pursuit of equity.
Leisha DeHart-Davis is a Distinguished Term Coates Professor of Public Administration and Government at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a UNC Thorp Faculty Engaged Scholar. She studies public sector organizational behavior. In addition, DeHart-Davis serves as the president of the Public Management Research Association and director of UNC’s Local Government Workplaces Initiative. She received her PhD in public policy from the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Aaron Deslatte is an assistant professor in the O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University Bloomington. There, he directs the Metropolitan Governance and Management Transitions (MGMT) Laboratory. His research focuses on the sustainability challenges of metropolitan regions from the perspectives of public managers, drawing from literatures which include federalism, common-pool resource management, organizational theory and psychology.
Luke Fowler is faculty director & associate professor of public policy and administration at Boise State University’s School of Public Service. Dr. Fowler’s research interests include policymaking and implementation, state and local government, administrative theory, and environmental policy. His most recent works focus on how policies are implemented, particularly how federal environmental policies are implemented by state and local governments. He has authored more than three dozen journal articles and two books. He previously served on faculty at Valdosta State University and received his PhD in public policy and administration from Mississippi State University in 2013.
Bart Hildreth is a professor emeritus in Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University. His main area of research is financing of subnational governments and municipal securities. Hildreth has served as the editor-in-chief the Municipal Finance Journal since 1989. In additional to teaching masters and doctorate courses, he serves as faculty advisor for the Municipal Securities Laboratory. In addition to dozens of publications, he has been the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships such as 2008 Aaron B. Wildavsky Award for lifetime scholarly achievement in the field of public budgeting and financial management and 2012 Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration. He received his PhD in public administration from the University of Georgia.
Mike McGrath is the director for publications and research at the National Civic League and editor of the National Civic Review. He has over 30 years of experience as a writer, editor, and researcher in the fields of local government, political reform, civic engagement, and urban policy. McGrath has contributed to hundreds of articles appearing in newspapers, magazines, academic journals, and was a contributor to the Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice (Blackwell Publishing) in 2014. He received a Master of Journalism at University of California, Berkeley.
Sharon Mastracci is a Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Utah. She researches the experience of public service working, specifically emotional labor and dirty work in the public sector. She has published in these areas as well as research on gender in public-sector organizations. She is a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration.
Tima T. Moldogaziev is associate professor in the School of Public Policy at the Pennsylvania State University. His primary research interests are in public sector management, regional and local governance, public sector infrastructure financing and fiscal policy. Dr. Moldogaziev is co-author of Information Resolution and Subnational Capital Finance (Oxford University Press 2021) and State and Local Financial Instruments: Policy Changes and Management, 2nd Ed. (Edward Elgar Publishing 2021). His recent articles have been published by Governance, International Public Management Journal, Journal of Public Administration Research & Theory, Journal of Public Policy, Public Administration Review, Public Budgeting & Finance, and Urban Studies. He can be reached at timatm@psu.edu.
Chris Morrill is the Executive Director/CEO of the Government Finance Officers Association (GFOA) of the US & Canada, a 21,000-member professional association that advances excellence in government finance to build thriving communities. He has decades of experience in local government, serving as city manager of the City of Roanoke, Virginia, and Assistant City Manager of the City of Savannah, Georgia. Chris served as Senior Municipal Finance Advisor to the South African National Treasury, assisting in the development of local government finance legislation, budget reforms, and capacity building programs. Morrill was a member of the first group of Peace Corps volunteers to serve in the former Soviet Union where he assisted that City of L’viv, Ukraine with financial management and housing privatization. Chris is a recipient of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (Roanoke Chapter) Martin Luther King, Jr. Drum Major for Justice Award. He is an ICMA Credentialed Manager and a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration. Morrill holds a BA from the College of the Holy Cross and an MPA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Neal D. Woods is a professor in the Department of Political Science and the School of Earth, Ocean, and the Environment at the University of South Carolina. His areas of specialization are bureaucracy, federalism, state politics, and public policy, especially the in substantive areas of environmental policy, energy policy, and regulation. He has published over forty articles and chapters on these topics. His scholarship has won best dissertation, best conference paper, and best journal article awards from the American Political Science Association and its organized sections. His research appears in a variety of scholarly journals; since 2015 these include American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Political Research Quarterly, Policy Studies Journal, Publius: The Journal of Federalism, Regulation and Governance, Review of Policy Research, and State Politics and Policy Quarterly. He received his PhD in political science from the University of Kentucky in 2003.
