Curriculum Vitae RICHARD C. BOX Distinguished Fellow of Public Affairs Hauptmann School of Public Affairs Park University, Parkville Missouri richard.box@park.edu Regents/Foundation Professor Emeritus School of Public Administration University of Nebraska at Omaha EDUCATION D.P.A., Public Administration, University of Southern California, 1990. Areas of specialization: administrative theory, administrative behavior, public finance, public personnel administration. Dissertation: The Economic Model of Administrative Behavior in Local Government. M.P.A., Public Administration, Golden Gate University, San Francisco, California, 1983. Theory of administration, personnel management, public finance, personnel internship with San Mateo County. M.S., Social Science, Southern Oregon State College, 1975. Policy analysis, urban geography, history and theory of education, research methodology. B.S., Geography, Southern Oregon State College, Ashland, Oregon, 1971. Economic, cultural and regional geography, natural science. ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE Distinguished Fellow of Public Affairs, Hauptmann School of Public Affairs, Park University, September 2011 to present. Professor, University of Nebraska at Omaha, 2002-2011, Associate Professor, 1998-2002. Associate Professor, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, 1994-1998, Assistant Professor, 1990-1994. Adjunct Assistant Professor, Political Science Department, Southern Oregon State College, Ashland, Oregon, 1989-1990. Master s Instruction Current courses: Capstone Seminar in Public Affairs The Environment of Public Organizations Ethical Foundations of Authority and Responsibility Past courses: Public Administration and Democracy Seminar in Urban Studies Introduction to Urban Planning Urban Studies Capstone Seminar
Organization Theory and Behavior Politics of Urban Management Public Sector Financial Management Human Resources Management Intergovernmental Management Public Policy Formulation and Implementation Undergraduate Instruction Current courses: Administrative Politics Public Service Values Doctoral Instruction Past courses: The Environment of Public Administration Advanced Research Design Knowledge Development and Use Ethics in Public Affairs Citizenship and Democracy PRACTITIONER EXPERIENCE Senior Executive for Research, AIM Institute, Omaha, Nebraska, August 2010-January 2012. City Administrator, City of Eagle Point, Oregon, September 1983-October 1987. Director of General Services, City of Cotati, California, March 1980-May 1982. Planning Director, City of Ashland, Oregon, February 1978-September 1979. Director of Building Safety, Executive Director of the County Housing Authority, and Supervisor of the Advance Planning Division, Josephine County, Oregon, December 1975-January 1978. Research Planner, City of Medford, Oregon, June 1973-September 1975. Personnel Internship, San Mateo County, California. Planning Internships, Sonoma County, California, and Jackson County, Oregon. Firefighter, City of Klamath Falls, Oregon; Maintenance Worker, City of Tiburon, California. SELECTED ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES Named Hauptmann School Distinguished Fellow of Public Affairs, Park University, 2011. Member, Hauptmann School of Public Affairs MPA accreditation team 2011-present, team leader in AY 2011-12 and 2013 to present. Created or initiated systems, documents, and processes for the HSPA MPA, including: mission and goals statements and approval process; competencies logic model; internship program; electronic book library collection; estimates of budgetary impact of accreditation; faculty data system; introductory video; student handbook; online faculty profiles; and standards for tenure and promotion. 2
Named University of Nebraska Regents/Foundation Professor, 2007. Director, UNO Masters in Urban Studies Program, 2007-2010. Chair, UNO/PA Doctoral Program Committee, 1999-2002. Editor, Administrative Theory & Praxis, 2000-2007. Member of editorial board, Administration & Society, 2007 to present. Member of editorial board, Administrative Theory & Praxis, 2008 to present. Member of editorial board, State & Local Government Review, 1999-2002. Created a new Institutional Review Board for the AIM Institute in Omaha, 2011-2012. Recipient, UNO Award for Distinguished Research or Creative Activity (ADROCA), 2007. Coordinator, Doctoral Student Workshop at the Public Administration Theory Network Conference (with Tom Catlaw and Jennifer Eagan), May 2011; theme: Writing Theory in a Technicist Field. 13 th Annual Visiting Scholar, Virginia Commonwealth University, April 2009. Presentation: PA and Society from a Critical Perspective. Plenary speaker, Public Administration Theory Network conference in Richmond, Virginia, May 2008. Presentation: A Theorist s Response to the Cruelty of Regressive Society. High Table scholar, Virginia Tech, March 2007. Presentation: Public Administration Theory and Social Change: A Critical Approach. Visiting speaker, Sun Yat-Sen University and South China Normal University in Guangzhou, and Tsinghua and Renmin Universities in Beijing, November 2006. Visiting Professor, Center for Research on Public Organization and Management, Copenhagen, Denmark, December 1999; included presentations on citizenship, democracy, and the role of the administrator at universities in Roskilde, Aalborg, and Copenhagen, Denmark, and Lund, Sweden. Reviewer of papers for Administration & Society, Administrative Theory & Praxis, International Journal of Organization Theory and Behavior, Journal of Public Affairs Education, Journal of Urban Affairs, Public Administration Review, Public Integrity, Public Productivity & Management Review, State & Local Government Review. Reviewer of books for M. E. Sharpe, Georgetown University Press, and University of Alabama Press. Outside reviewer for tenure and/or promotion of faculty: Old Dominion University, 2009; University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2009; Old Dominion University, 2008; Montana State University, 2008; University of Vermont, 2008; Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg, 2006; 3
West Virginia University, 2005; Cleveland State University, 2004; University of Technology, Sydney, Australia, 2003; University of Utah, 2002; University of Southern California, 2000; University of Wyoming, 2000. Coordinator, Public Administration Theory Network, 2002-2004. Member, American Society for Public Administration. Board member and past Chair, ASPA Section on Democracy and Social Justice. Member, Public Administration Theory Network. Host, 17 th annual conference of the Public Administration Theory Network, Omaha, Nebraska, June 2004. Organizer and presenter in pre-conference sessions for doctoral students. Host, 21 st annual Teaching in Public Administration conference, and 11 th annual Public Administration Theory conference, held jointly in Colorado Springs in March, 1998. SPA representative to the Personnel Committee, College of Public Affairs and Community Service, 2005-2007; chair, 2005-2006. School of Public Administration (SPA) liaison to the University Library, 2003 to 2011. Principal Investigator, NASA/EPSCoR Spaceports Initiative, 2001-2003. Member, UNO/PA Doctoral Program Committee, 1998 to 2011. Chair, UNO/PA faculty salary and travel policy committee, 2006. Member, UNO/PA Planning Committee, 2005. Associate Dean, GSPA (University of Colorado at Colorado Springs), 1997-1998. Admissions Coordinator, GSPA, 1993-1997; Internship Coordinator, 1991-1997. Drafted GSPA Diversity Plan, 1993-1994. Committee memberships, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs: GSPA Doctoral Committee, 1993-1995; UCCS Faculty Assembly Personnel Committee, 1991-1996 and Chair in 1994-1995; UCCS University Budget Advisory Committee, 1994-1997 and Chair of Subcommittee on Faculty Compensation, 1995-1996; UCCS Faculty Salary Grievance Committee, 1994-1995; UCCS Master Housing Committee, 1993-1994; UCCS Academic Needs Sub-Committee, 1993-1994. SELECTED COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES Senior Executive for Research for the Applied Information Management (AIM) Institute, August 2010 to January 2012. Organize and supervise research projects related to strengthening the workforce, developing appropriate public policy, improving education and youth opportunities, and advancing organization development through technology. 4
Research consultant to the AIM Institute, spring and summer 2010, assisting with a compensation survey of regional information technology positions and design of a study of women s careers in information technology. Consultant to the City of Falls City, Nebraska to assist in improving city management systems, 2004-2007. Community presentations and facilitation on topics including: form of government; administrative ethics; citizen participation; privatization; growth management; leadership and governance; metropolitan consolidation. Assisted Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph and television stations with stories on public access in government, governmental structure, public pension funds, 1995-1998. Principal Investigator, Citizen s Goals state-funded study of neighborhood organizations in Colorado Springs, 1997. Consultant to Colorado Springs Citizen s Goals, 1996-97. Supervised state-funded research project on planning documents in El Paso and Teller counties, 1995. Member of Colorado Springs Police Department Lieutenant s Oral Board, May 1995. Opinion editorial on governmental structure and citizen participation, published in the Gazette Telegraph, April 1995. Consultant to the Town of Palmer Lake, Colorado in evaluating efficiency and board-staff relationships, 1993. Member, Citizen s Goals Action Research Team on Memorial Hospital; Chair, Subcommittee on City s Role, 1992-93; drafted minority report, also published as an opinion editorial in the Gazette Telegraph, August 1993. Vice-Chair, Medford District, Bureau of Land Management Timber Sale Advisory Board, 1989-90. PRACTITIONER RESEARCH AND PUBLICATION Primary or staff responsibility for preparation of comprehensive plans in three cities and three counties. Reports and documents in the areas of: neighborhood demographics and physical characteristics; housing conditions and programs; park design; community opinion surveys; annexation impact analyses; sewer and water system construction; growth management; taxation policy; utility fee structures; women s careers in information technology; youth perceptions of information technology; and the human element in federally funded after-school programs for disadvantaged youth. ACADEMIC RESEARCH AND PUBLICATION Research focuses on the relationship between public administration and the broader society, with attention to the impact of the political, historical, and economic setting on public service practitioners. Related interests include critical and democratic theory and the history of American institutions of local governance and citizenship. 5
Books Public Service Values, M.E. Sharpe/Routledge, 2015. Public Administration and Society: Critical Issues in American Governance, 3 rd edition, M.E. Sharpe, 2014. Making a Difference: Progressive Values in Public Administration, M.E. Sharpe, 2008. Democracy and Public Administration, M.E. Sharpe, 2007. Critical Social Theory in Public Administration, M.E. Sharpe, 2005. Citizen Governance: Leading American Communities Into the 21st Century, Sage Publications, 1998. Translated into Chinese, 2005. Articles in Refereed Journals Progressive Utopias: Marcuse, Rorty, and Wright. Administrative Theory & Praxis 34(1), 2012. Marcuse Was Right: One-Dimensional Society in the 21 st Century. Administrative Theory & Praxis 33(2), 2011. Yearning for Something Better: How Much Change Can We Expect? Administrative Theory & Praxis 32(3), 2010. Cross-Cultural Application of Critical and Progressive Theories in Public Administration, Journal of Public Administration (Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China), 5(1), 2009. Redescribing the Public Interest, The Social Science Journal 44(4), 2007. Regressive Values and Public Administration, Public Performance and Management Review 31(1), 2007. Critical Imagination in a Postmodern Environment, International Journal of Public Administration 28(11 & 12), 2005 (reprint of chapter one from Critical Social Theory in Public Administration). Dialogue and Administrative Theory & Praxis; Twenty-Five Years of Public Administration Theory, Administrative Theory & Praxis 27(3), 2005. Alternatives to Representative Primacy and Administrative Efficiency, Administrative Theory & Praxis 26(4), 2004. Experiments with Local Federalism: Secession and the Neighborhood Council Movement in Los Angeles, with Juliet Musso, American Review of Public Administration 34(3), 2004 (fifty percent contribution). Contradiction, Utopia, and Public Administration, Administrative Theory & Praxis 25(2), 2003. Pragmatic Discourse and Administrative Legitimacy, American Review of Public Administration 32(1), 2002. 6
Private Lives and Antiadministration, symposium paper, Administrative Theory & Praxis 23(4), 2001. New Public Management and Substantive Democracy, with Christine Reed, B.J. Reed, and Gary Marshall, Public Administration Review 61(5), 2001 (one-third contribution). The T ruth is Elsewhere: Critical History, symposium paper, with Cheryl Simrell King, Administrative Theory & Praxis 22(4), 2000 (fifty percent contribution). The State and the Citizen: Communitarianism in the United States and Denmark, symposium paper, with Henrik P. Bang, Anders Peter Hansen, and Jon Jay Neufeld, Administrative Theory & Praxis 22(2), 2000 (fifty percent contribution). Running Government Like a Business: Implications for Public Administration Theory and Practice, American Review of Public Administration 29(1), 1999. Public and Economic Life: End-of-the-Century Public Administration Theory in the United States, International Journal of Organization Theory and Behavior 1(3), 1998. The Institutional Legacy of Community Governance, Administrative Theory & Praxis 18(2), 1996. Teaching Intergovernmental Relations and Management, Journal of Public Administration Education 1(1), 1995. Critical Theory and the Paradox of Discourse, American Review of Public Administration 25(1), 1995. Searching for the Best Structure for American Local Government, International Journal of Public Administration 18(4), 1995. Resistance to Professional Managers in American Local Government, American Review of Public Administration 23(4), 1993. The Administrator as Trustee of the Public Interest: Normative Ideals and Daily Practice, Administration & Society 24(3), 1992. An Examination of the Debate Over Research in Public Administration, Public Administration Review 52(1), 1992. Book Chapters The Citizenship Role of the Public Professional: Imagining Private Lives and Alternative Futures In Cheryl Simrell King, ed., Government is Us 2.0, 2011. The Public Service Practitioner as Agent of Social Change. In Richard Box, ed., Democracy and Public Administration, M.E. Sharpe, 2007. Working With Citizens: Breaking Down Barriers to Citizen Self-Governance, co-authored with Deborah Sagen. In Cheryl Simrell King and Camilla Stivers, eds., Government is Us: Public Administration in an Anti-Government Era, Sage, 1998. 7
An Examination of the Debate Over Research in Public Administration. In Jay White and Guy Adams, eds., Research in Public Administration, Sage, 1994 (reprint of 1992 PAR article). Commentaries and Reviews A capstone at ASPA: Building the future of public administration? With Laurie DiPadova- Stocks, PA Times 35(3), July/August/September 2012. Foreword to a book on citizen governance, Sun Yat-Sen University, 2006. Introduction to a symposium on the status of democracy, Administrative Theory & Praxis 24(4), 2002. Review of David John Farmer, The Language of Public Administration: Bureaucracy, Modernity, and Postmodernity, in Public Performance and Management Review 25(2), 2001. Editorial Notes, on knowledge and research in public administration, Administrative Theory & Praxis 22(2), 2000. Editorial Notes, on discourse theory, Administrative Theory & Praxis 22(1), 2000. Introduction to the Community Governance Symposium, Administrative Theory & Praxis 21(3), 1999. Finding the Future of Citizen Governance in Our Past, PA Times, April 1998. Review of Emily Hauptmann, Putting Choice Before Democracy: A Critique of Rational Choice Theory, in Administrative Theory & Praxis 18(2), 1996. An Optimistic View of the Future of Community Governance, Administrative Theory & Praxis 17(1), 1995. MPA Students and Knowledge of American Government, Forum of the Section on Public Administration Education, American Society for Public Administration, December 1994. Review of David Johnson, Public Choice: An Introduction to the New Political Economy, in Public Administration Review 52(3), 1992. Applied Research Reports The Human Element: Mentoring in Youth Programs, research report written for the AIM Institute in Omaha, February 2012. Youth Perceptions of IT, research report written for the AIM Institute in Omaha, October 2011. Women in IT Leadership, research report written for the AIM Institute in Omaha, August 2011. Evaluation of City Status, for the City of Falls City, Nebraska, August 2004. Study of Neighborhood Organizations in Colorado Springs, co-authored with Jody Fitzpatrick, for Colorado Springs Citizen s Goals and the Colorado Department of Local Affairs, July 1997. 8
Inventory of Planning Documents: El Paso and Teller Counties, co-authored with Deborah Sagen and Philip Pierce, for the Governor s Smart Growth process, October 1995. Management Study of the Town of Palmer Lake, Colorado, October 1993. Course Development Online courses developed or redeveloped for Park University: Capstone Seminar in Public Affairs Ethical Foundations of Authority and Responsibility The Environment of Public Organizations Administrative Politics (undergraduate) Public Service Values (undergraduate) Administrative Law (undergraduate) Online courses developed for University of Nebraska at Omaha: Introduction to Public Administration Seminar in Urban Studies Introduction to Urban Planning Presentations Convenor and presenter, The Challenge of Managing in the New Gilded Age of Inequality, panel at the 2014 American Society for Public Administration conference. Presentation titled A Graphic Analysis of Inequality and Public Policy. Presenter, A Skeptical View of Sustainability, American Society for Public Administration conference, 2013. Convenor and presenter, Crossing the Lines: Preparing Students for Public Service Across Sectors, panel at the 2012 National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration conference. Presenter, Values and the Role of the Public Professional, National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration conference, 2011. Convenor and presenter, Narratives of the Given, the Possible, and the Future, panel at the 2011 Public Administration Theory Conference. Presentation titled Progressive Utopias: Marcuse, Rorty, and Wright. Presenter, Financial Meltdown in the Predator State, Association for Budgeting and Financial Management conference, October 2010. Convenor and presenter, On the Edge: New Theories, New Understandings, panel at the 2010 Public Administration Theory Network conference. Presentation titled Marcuse was Right : Public Affairs in One-Dimensional Society. Convenor and presenter, Is the Post-Bush Change Real? PA Practice and Theory in the Obama Era, panel at the 2010 American Society for Public Administration conference. Presentation titled Yearning for Something Better: How Much Change Can We Expect? Presenter, Economic Indicators of Social Inequality, American Society for Public Administration conference, April 2010. 9
Moderator, Race, Place, and Gendered Space: Substantive Democracy in Crisis, panel at the American Society for Public Administration District 4 conference in Omaha, October 2009. Presenter, Economic Indicators of Social Inequality, American Society for Public Administration District 4 conference in Omaha, October 2009. 13 th Annual Visiting Scholar, Virginia Commonwealth University, April 2009. Presentation: PA and Society from a Critical Perspective. Convenor and presenter, Progressive Values and Diversity in Public Administration, panel at the 2009 American Society for Public Administration conference. Presentation titled The Citizenship Role of the Public Professional. Plenary speaker, Public Administration Theory Network conference in Richmond, Virginia, May 2008, A Theorist s Response to the Cruelty of Regressive Society. Convenor and presenter, Transformation and Social Change, panel at the 2008 American Society for Public Administration conference. Presenter, Public Administration, Change, and Utopia, roundtable at the Public Administration Theory Network Conference, 2007. Plenary speaker at High Table, Virginia Tech, titled Public Administration Theory and Social Change: A Critical Approach, March 2007. Plenary presentation to institute session for Nebraska and Iowa city managers, titled Ethical Leadership and City Management, November 2006. Speaking tour in China, November 2006: Convenor and presenter, Implications for the 21 st Century of Historical Reflection, panel at the 2 nd conference on public management, Macau, China. Paper titled Regressive Values in Public Administration. Presentation to MPA Forum in Macau, Programmatic and Substantive Issues in the MPA Degree ; Presentation to students at South China Normal University in Guangzhou, Public Administration and Society: Context Matters ; Presentation to faculty and students at Tsinghua University School of Public Policy and Management in Beijing, The Role of the Public Service Practitioner in Facilitating Citizen Self-Governance ; Presentation to faculty and students in the School of Public Administration at Renmin University in Beijing, Public Administration and Society: Context Matters. Convenor and presenter, Democracy and Public Administration, panel at the 2006 National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration conference. Paper titled The Practitioner as Agent of Social Change. Presenter, The Public Service Practitioner as Agent of Social Change, pre-conference session, Public Administration Theory Network conference, February 2006. 10
Presenter, Redescribing the Public Interest, Public Administration Theory Network Conference conference, 2006. Convenor and presenter, Toward a Union of Perspectives on Knowledge Management, panel at the 2005 Public Administration Theory Network conference. Chair, Markets, Contracts, and Ethics, panel at the 2004 Association for Political Theory conference. Convenor, Rountable on Critical Thought in Public Administration, Public Administration Theory Network conference, 2004. Presenter, Alternatives to Representative Primacy and Administrative Efficiency, Public Administration Theory Network conference, 2004. Presenter, Critical Practice and the Problem of Finding a Public, American Society for Public Administration conference, 2004. Presenter, The Research of Total Administration, Public Administration Theory Network conference, 2003. Convener and presenter, Power, Contradiction, and Refusal, panel at the American Society for Public Administration conference, 2003. Convener, Writing Between Spaces, panel at the Public Administration Theory Network Conference, 2002. Convener and presenter, Teaching Critical Thought in Public Administration, panel at the Teaching in Public Administration conference, 2002. Invited speaker at the University of Southern California conference on Civic Engagement Through Democratic Empowerment, January, 2002. Chair and discussant, Challenges to Citizen Empowerment, panel at the Public Administration Theory Network conference, 2001. Chair and discussant, Metaphors of Boundaries and Space, panel at the Public Administration Theory Network conference, 2001. Convener, panel on democracy in Denmark, the Netherlands, and the United States, at the American Society for Public Administration conference, 2001. Presenter on Quality of Journals in Public Administration, Conference of Editors hosted by Public Administration Review, Washington DC, 2000. Presenter, The Failure of Critical Theory to Impact PA Theory and Practice, American Society for Public Administration conference, 2000. Presenter on Post-Progressive Public Administration, American Society for Public Administration conference, 2000. 11
Presenter on The Public Service Role in a Complex Society, American Society for Public Administration conference, 2000. Presenter on Public Administration Research and Theory, panel at the American Society for Public Administration conference, 2000. Plenary speaker, Elites, Democracy, and Public Administration, conference of Nordic Network, Copenhagen, Denmark, December 1999. Presenter, Public Administration in a Time of Instrumental Rationality, panel at the American Society for Public Administration District 4 conference in Omaha, 1999. Co-Presenter, New Public Management, Faux Democracy, and the Challenge to Democratic Governance, panel at the Public Administration Theory Network conference, 1999. Presenter, Teaching Democracy and Citizenship, panel at the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration conference, 1998. Presenter, The Role of the Governing Body, panel at the American Society for Public Administration conference, 1998. Presenter, Working With Citizens, panel at the American Society for Public Administration conference, 1998. Plenary panel speaker, The Intrusion of the Economic Metaphor Into Public Administration, Public Administration Theory Network conference, 1998. Presenter, The Institutional Legacy of Community Governance, panel at the Public Administration Theory Network conference, 1996. Presenter, Teaching the Holocaust in Public Administration, panel at the Teaching in Public Administration conference, 1995. Presenter, Teaching Intergovernmental Management, panel at the Teaching in Public Administration conference, 1995. Presenter, The Holocaust as a Metaphor for Administration in the Face of Political Extremes, panel at the Public Administration Theory Network conference, 1995. Presenter, MPA Students and Knowledge of American Government, panel at the Teaching in Public Administration conference, 1994. Presenter, Searching for the Best Structure for American Local Government, panel at the Public Administration Theory Network conference, 1993. Presenter, The Local Administrator as Development Coordinator, panel at the Public Administration Theory Network conference, 1992. ****** Vitae current September 2014 12