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Journal Refereeing, Appointments, and Other Professional Activities
at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies

AYSPS faculty and research associates edited or co-edited eight journals, served on advisory boards for thirty eight journals, and refereed for over one hundred and twenty different journals. They served the profession with membership on numerous advisory and executive boards, and with peer reviewing of programs and faculty. They also served the public with numerous assignments on boards of directors and advisory councils to public and private agencies.

Journals Edited by AYSPS Faculty

James Alm is Associate Editor of Economic Inquiry, Public Finance Review, and Review of Economics of the Household.

Bruce Kaufman is Editor, Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations.

John Clayton Thomas is Co-editor of The American Review of Public Administration.

William L. Waugh, Jr., is Co-editor of The Review of Policy Research.

Other Professional Activities

James Alm

served as member of the Editorial Board of Public Finance Review.

served as referee for Contemporary Economic Policy, Demography, Economic Inquiry, Economic Development and Cultural Change, European Economic Review, Fiscal Studies, International Tax and Public Finance, Journal of Comparative Economics, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Economics and Business, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Population Economics, Journal of Public Economics, National Tax Journal, Public Finance Review, and State and Local Government Review.

see also Journals Edited by AYSPS Faculty.

see also Jorge Martinez-Vazquez.

Jay Bae

served on the Editorial Board of the International Society for Research in Healthcare Financial Management.

served as referee for Health Care Financing Review (2 manuscripts), Medical Care, and Research in Health Care Financial Management.

Roy Bahl

serves on the Editorial Boards of Cityscape: Journal of Policy Development and Research, Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting and Financial Management, and the American Review of Public Administration. He served as referee for the American Review of Public Administration, Growth and Change, Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting and Financial Management, Publius, Regional Science and Urban Economics, Southern Economic Journal, Public Finance Review and Urban Studies.

served as a Director of the Southern Growth Policies Board.

served as a member of the Board of Visitors of the Martin School of Public Administration at the University of Kentucky.

served as Faculty Associate of the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy (LILP) in Cambridge, Mass.

chairs the finance committee of the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration (NASPAA), and served on the program committee for the 2002 meetings in Los Angeles.

Grant Black

served as a member of the research team for the National Research Council's Board on Science, Technology and Economic Policy, which has been mandated by the U.S. Congress to evaluate the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program.

participated in the Scientific Workforce Project sponsored by the National Bureau of Economic Research and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

Jameson Boex

served as a referee for Public Finance and Management.

Richard Charles

participated throughout the year on the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Aircraft Performance Monitoring System committee on improving commercial aircraft safety through real-time monitoring of aircraft systems operation.

Ronald G. Cummings

served on the Editorial/Advisory Boards for Environmental and Development Economics and Natural Resources Journal, and served as a referee for the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Land Economics, and Environmental and Development Economics.

served as member of the Comptroller General’s Educators’ Advisory Panel (GAO).

served as member of the Atlanta Transportation Demand Management (TDM) Framework Research and Measurement Program Advisory Panel, sponsored by the Georgia Department of Transportation (DOT) and the Southern Coalition for Advanced Transportation.

served as member of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) Science Advisory Board’s Underground Storage Tanks and Resource Conservation and Recovery Act Cleanup Benefits, Costs, and Impacts Review Panel (UST/RCRA Panel).

doing exploratory work on developing a collaborative program in water policy between GSU and New Mexico Highlands University.

Rebecca Curtis

served as Secretary/Treasurer for the Association for the Education of Community Rehabilitation Programs (AECRP) for 2000-2002.

, in collaboration with Elizabeth Fussell from the University of Tennessee, designed a series of Web-based learning guides for new rehabilitation service personnel in North Carolina.

coordinated a statewide audio conference in collaboration with the Georgia Association of Training and Employment Supports, and CARF- The Accreditation Commission, August 20, 2002.

served as course facilitator for "Rehabilitation in a Multicultural Society," one of a series of online courses included in the Masters degree program offered by the consortium of San Diego State University, North Texas University, and Georgia State University leading to a Masters in Rehabilitation Counseling. Summer session, June 24-September 9, 2002, 23 students.

Kelly Edmiston

served as a referee for the National Tax Journal, World Development, and the Journal of Regional Science.

Fred Elsberry

assisted an Assistant Professor of the Aerospace Department at Middle Tennessee State University with a survey of Seniors and Freshmen on the National Assessment of Dispatch Awareness study.

Paul G. Farnham

served as member of the review panel for applications for the Steven Teutsch Prevention Effectiveness Fellowship Program, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, March 14, 2002.

(with Stephanie L. Sansom) submitted the proposal, "Preventing Mother-To-Infant HIV Transmission: Analyzing the Costs and Effects of Alternative Policies," to the 2002 APPAM Research Conference.

served as a referee for State and Local Government Review.

Paul Ferraro

served as proposal reviewer for the National Science Foundation.

served as referee for the Environment and Development Economics, Conservation Biology, Natural Resource Modeling, Journal of Water and Soil Conservation, and Biodiversity and Conservation.

served as manuscript reviewer for the book, Agroforestry and Biodiversity Conservation in Tropical Landscapes, August 2002.

developed a Web site clearinghouse for information on international initiatives using conservation performance contracts.

maintains a personal research Web site that holds the honor of being the only Web site of a single individual that is highlighted on the Economics Web site page of the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity.

his article with R.D. Simpson, "The Cost-Effectiveness of Conservation Payments," Land Economics, Vol. 78, No. 3, pp. 339-353, 2002, was selected as one of ten publications that exemplify a good environmental economics and policy paper, at the 18th Environment and Economy Program for Southeast Asia (EEPSEA) Biannual Workshop, May 21-24, 2002.

Shelby Frost

was awarded her Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Colorado-Boulder in May 2002. The title of her dissertation was "On the Generation and Disposal of Hazardous Materials."

Atef Ghobrial

serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Air Transport, and on the editorial board of the Civil Aviation Magazine published by the Ministry of Aviation, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. He served as a referee for the Journal of Aeronautical and Aerospace Education and Research (JAAER) and Transportation Research.

Shiferaw Gurmu

was appointed to serve on the board of editors of the Atlantic Economic Journal.

served as referee for Econometrics Journal, Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Population Economics, Psychological Methods, and Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics.

Darrick Hamilton

served as Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Scholar, Yale University, Institution for Social and Policy Studies, New Haven, Conn.

served as Economic Consultant for the U.S. Office of Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, 2001-2002. His duties included providing consultation and statistical analysis for a judicial case alleging gender and racial discrimination.

served on the Board of Directors of the National Economics Association.

served as referee for Social Science Quarterly.

Carol D. Hansen

served as a reviewer for the Academy of Management Journal, Cutting Edge, Human Resource Development Review, International Human Resource Development Journal, and the Academy of Human Resource Development Conference.

Amy Helling

was appointed to the Board of Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment of the National Research Council, Division on Engineering and the Physical Sciences.

served on the editorial board of Economic Development Quarterly.

served as a reviewer of papers for the Transportation Research Board annual conference and the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning annual conference.

served as a referee for the Journal of Planning Education and Research and Economic Development Quarterly.

served on the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Committee on Reassessing Scholarship.

reviewed research proposals for the University of California Transportation Center and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

Gary T. Henry

serves on the advisory board of the American Journal for Evaluation, and served as Co-Editor for New Directions for Evaluation. He served as referee for Journal of Politics, Public Opinion Quarterly, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, American Journal of Evaluation, and Field Methods.

took a sabbatical at the Packard Foundation in California during 2002.

and Ross Rubenstein presented a video-conference briefing for state legislators and higher education administrators serving on Tennessee’s Education Lottery Task Force, October 2002.

Monica Herk

represented Georgia State University at a meeting of the Human Development and Public Policy Consortium, a newly forming consortium of academic child policy centers, in Cleveland, Ohio, November 3-4, 2002.

Julie L. Hotchkiss

served as Associate Editor of Eastern Economic Journal, and served as referee for Eastern Economic Journal, Contemporary Economic Policy, Journal of Human Resources, and Applied Economics.

served as member on the American Economic Association, Western Economic Association, Eastern Economic Association, Society of Labor Economists, and Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession.

wrote a letter in support of the promotion of a faculty member to Full Professor at Lafayette College, October 2002.

Bill Kahnweiler

served as a referee for International Journal of Organizational Analysis, Organization Development Journal, and Human Resource Development Quarterly.

served as a book manuscript reviewer for Berrett-Koehler Publishers and MCB University Press.

served as co-chair of The American Society for Training and Development’s Dissertation of the Year Award Expert Review Panel.

served on the Research Committee of the American Society for Training and Development, which works to bridge the interests of human resource development researchers and practitioners. He also served as an expert reviewer for the American Society for Training and Development’s Year 2002 Excellence in Practice Awards. He evaluated candidates in 2 categories- career development and change management.

Bruce Kaufman

served as Editorial Board member of the Journal of Socio-Economics, Journal of Labor Research, and Human Resource Management Review. He served as referee for Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Industrial Relations, Journal of Social Economics, Journal of Socio-Economics, Labor Studies Journal, and the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization.

served as Meeting Organizer for the Annual Meeting of the “IR Theory and IR as a Field” Study Group of the International Industrial Relations Research Association, Washington, D.C., January 2003.

served as Symposium Organizer for “What Do Unions Do? The Evidence Twenty Years Later,” a compilation of 22 papers to be published in Journal of Labor Research in 2003.

served as Session Organizer of “The Current Status and Future of Industrial Relations: A Three Country Comparison” for the Canadian Industrial Relations Association annual meeting to be held in 2003.

served as Session Organizer of “New Perspectives on Industrial Relations Theory” for the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics annual meeting to be held in 2003.

wrote a book review of Global Perspectives on Employee Participation for the British Journal of Industrial Relations, Fall 2002.

wrote a book review of Working in America for the Journal of Socio-Economics, forthcoming.

see also Journals Edited by AYSPS Faculty.

Susan Laury

served as referee for the American Economic Review, Economic Inquiry, Economic Journal, European Economic Review, Experimental Economics, Journal of Regulatory Economics, and the National Science Foundation.

Gregory B. Lewis

serves as a member of the editorial board of the American Review of Public Administration and the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, and served as referee for Public Administration Review, Review of Public Personnel Administration, and State and Local Government Review.

was chair of the public administration section of the American Political Science Association and chair of the Gaus Award selection committee.

Deon Locklin

was appointed to serve as a Prime Study Group Member for the 28th Institute on Rehabilitation Issues, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, Rehabilitation Services Administration.

was appointed to the National Rehabilitation Leadership Institute Advisory Board, an executive leadership development initiative sponsored by San Diego State University and The George Washington University.

facilitated a statewide meeting to redesign the Florida Division of Blind Service contract system used with service vendors, Tallahassee, Fla., March 27-29, 2002.

assisted the Florida Division of Blind Services with piloting a summer employment program for students who are blind or visually impaired. Outcomes of the summer pilot will be used to implement a statewide program in 2003.

, in collaboration with Dr. Debra Martin Luecking from the University of Tennessee, conducted the Kentucky Community Rehabilitation Leadership Development Program, a three-phased program held in Lexington throughout 2002. The Program was sponsored by the Kentucky Department of Vocational Rehabilitation and the University of Kentucky.

and Sally Siewert assisted the South Carolina Vocational Rehabilitation Department with the development and implementation of a comprehensive leadership succession program.

Jorge Martinez-Vazquez

and James Alm (with Sri Mulyani Indrawati) organized the conference, “Can Decentralization Help Rebuild Indonesia?”, Atlanta, Ga., May 2002.

served as referee for IMF Staff Papers, Economics of Governance, National Tax Journal, Journal for Budgeting and Finance, Journal of Urban Economics, American Journal of Economics and Sociology, World Development, and the National Science Foundation.

Karen Minyard

is founding member and Secretary of the Board of Directors of the Community Health Leadership Network, an organization working to achieve no less than every community offering 100 percent access to quality health care resulting in zero health disparities.

received the “2002 Distinguished Researcher of the Year” award from the Georgia Rural Health Association for educating and advocating for Rural Georgia, GRHA Annual Conference, St. Simons Island, Ga., October 16-18, 2002.

Robert E. Moore

served as member of the American Economic Association, Western Economic Association, Southern Economic Association, International Economics and Finance Society, and the Economic Development Association.

served as referee for Small Business Economics, and for Thompson/Southwestern's International Trade Theory and Policy.

Harvey K. Newman

served as member of the Editorial Board of Atlanta History: A Journal of Georgia and the South, and served as referee for the Journal of Urban Affairs, Urban Affairs Review, Policy Studies Journal, Economic Development Quarterly, and Atlanta History: A Journal of Georgia and the South.

reviewed Greater Atlanta, by Truman Hartshorn and Dana White, for the University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, and reviewed Global Cities, by Mark Abrahamson, for Oxford University Press, New York and London.

wrote a book review of The Limitless City: A Primer on the Urban Sprawl Debate, by Oliver Gillham, Wash., D.C.: Island Press, for the Journal of Planning Education and Research.

wrote a book review of Renewing Birmingham: Federal Funding and the Promise of Change, 1929-1979, by Christopher MacGregor Scribner, Athens: University of Georgia Press, for Business History Review.

served as Institutional Representative for the Urban Affairs Association.

was awarded the Georgia State Exceptional Service Award winner for extraordinary service to the discipline and community. The award was presented at the Graduation Ceremony, May 11, 2002. 

participated as External Reviewer for the Five-Year Evaluation for Dean Richard Cole, School of Urban and Public Affairs, University of Texas at Arlington.

Lloyd G. Nigro

served on the editorial boards of Public Administration Review, Policy Studies Review, Public Organization Review, International Journal of Public Administration, and Review of Public Personnel Administration. He served as referee for The American Review of Public Administration.

served as member of the Executive Committee, Section on Personnel Administration and Labor Relations, the American Political Science Association (APSA).

served as the Public Administration Section Program Chair for APSA, Boston, Mass., August 29-September 1, 2002.

and Ed Kellough (UGA) have signed a contract with the SUNY Albany Press to co-edit a book on civil service reform in the states. The book will feature original chapters by leading authorities in the field of civil service reform.

Judith M. Ottoson

served as referee for the Journal of Health Education and Behavior.

served on the Council of the Atlanta-area Evaluation Association, as the immediate past president.

was nominated by local affiliates of the American Evaluation Association to serve as part of a steering committee to liaise with the national association in planning an affiliate collaboration.

Ragan Petrie

served as referee for the Journal of Political Economy and reviewer for National Science Foundation.

Theodore H. Poister

served on the editorial boards of Public Productivity & Management Review and Public Works Management & Policy, and reviewed numerous manuscripts for Public Administration Review, the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, American Review of Public Administration, Urban Affairs Review, and the Transportation Research Record.

presented two day professional development programs on performance measurement in the public and nonprofit sectors for the Evaluator’s Institutes conducted in San Francisco (January 2002) and Washington, D.C. (July 2002), as well as a three day professional development program on statistics for program evaluators at the Evaluator’s Institute in Washington, D.C. (July 2002).

served on an experts panel providing guidance and feedback to a research team in the Transportation Research Center at the University of Illinois at Chicago that is examining the relationship between strategic planning and asset management in state departments of transportation.

served as Fellow of the Center for Accountability and Performance of the American Society for Public Administration.

David Rein

was awarded the 2002 Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, "Grant For Health Services Dissertation Research" for his dissertation research entitled "Modeling Health Utilization of Medicaid Children."

Mark Rider***

served as referee at the National Tax Journal, Journal of Public Finance, and the World Bank Institute.

Felix Rioja

served as a referee for the Journal of Public Economics and Berkeley Electronic Journals in Macroeconomics.

Mark D. Rivera

served on the Finance Committee and the Communications Committee, and served as the newsletter editor and affiliate Secretary for the Atlanta Area Evaluation Association.

Christine H. Roch

served as a referee for Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis and The Journal of Politics.

Ross Rubenstein

served as a referee for Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis.

was nominated to run for the Board of Directors of the American Education Finance Association at its annual conference in March 2003.

was chosen as the 2002 recipient of the Miriam K. Mills Award from the Policy Studies Organization, awarded to the "outstanding young person and/or woman in the policy studies field."  The award was presented at the American Political Science Association conference, September 2002.

see also Gary T. Henry.

Francis W. Rushing

served on the editorial board for the Journal of Private Enterprise.

served as Secretary/Treasurer for the Society of Economics Educators.

served as Chairman of the Board of Advisors for Georgia REAL Enterprises.

served as member of the Executive Committee, Chair of the Program Committee, and Member of the Board of Advisors for the Georgia Council on Economic Education.

Michael Rushton

served as Book Review Editor, Journal of Cultural Economics.

served on the Editorial Board, International Journal of Cultural Policy.

served as referee for the Journal of Cultural Economics, International Journal of Cultural Policy, Journal of Arts Management, Law and Society, Journal of Socio-Economics, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

served as Conference Organizer, Symposium on the Provincial Budget, Saskatchewan Institute of Public Policy, Regina, March 27, 2002.

Benjamin P. Scafidi, Jr.

served as a referee for Journal of Human Resources (twice), Journal of Urban Economics, Economic Inquiry, and Economics of Education Review (twice).

see also Ross Rubenstein.

Bruce A. Seaman

wrote a book review of The Public Life of the Arts in America, edited by J. Cherbo and M. Wyszominski, Rutgers University Press, for the Journal of Cultural Economics, Vol. 26, No. 1, February 2002.

served as President of the Association for Cultural Economics, International, 2000-2002.

served as referee for the Journal of Cultural Economics.

served as member of the Planning Committee for the 2003 Wichita Workshop on Appraisal for Ad Valorem Taxation of Communications, Energy and Transportation Properties, National Tax Association.

Sally Siewert

was honored at the national Disability and Employment Conference in Washington, D.C., for her outstanding work. She was presented with a plaque on August 22, and recognized by the Region IV Employment Partners Team as being "the glue that held us together and kept us on track."

see also Deon Locklin.

David L. Sjoquist

serves on the Board of Editors for the National Tax Journal. He served as referee for Journal of Urban Economics, National Tax Journal, Journal of Economic Geography, Journal of Economic Education, Urban Studies, and the National Science Foundation.

served as member of the Nomination Committee for National Tax Association Board of Directors.

Tina Anderson Smith

provided consultation as requested by policy makers and program leaders throughout the country related to community development and state support for community-based health system reform.

developed national technical assistance strategies for reforming local and state health systems in partnership with federal agency representatives, national organizations and experts such as HRSA, the Access Project at Brandeis University, United Way, the International Association of City and County Managers, National Association of Counties, and the National Network of Public Health Institutes.

planned and hosted the Second Annual Community Health System Development Institute, "Working Smarter, Faster, Bolder: Supporting Community Health System Transformation,” Atlanta, Ga., June 17-19, 2002.

Charlotte Steeh

wrote a book review of Contemporary Controversies and the American Racial Divide, by Robert C. Smith and Richard Seltzer, for Public Opinion Quarterly, Vol. 66, pp. 317-20, 2002.

served as referee for Public Opinion Quarterly, American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, and Social Forces.

Paula Stephan

served as referee for Research Policy, Science, Journal of Labor Economics, Social Studies of Science, Journal of Econometrics, Research in Labor Economics, Economic Inquiry, Managerial and Decision Economics, the National Science Foundation, and the National Research Council.

served as member of the Social, Behavioral and Economics (SBE) Advisory Committee, National Science Foundation, 2001-2004.

served as member of the Committee on Equal Opportunities in Science and Engineering (CEOSE), National Science Foundation, 1999-2002.

served as member of the Academic Advisory Board of the Center for Science, Policy, and Outcomes (CSPO).

served as member of the Joint Committee on Economic Assessment, University of California.

organized a session on collaboration at the Fall 2002 Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM) meetings, Dallas, Tex., November 2002.

organized a session on scientific careers for the 2003 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) meetings, to be held in Denver, Colorado.

served as co-chair of the conference, “Science and the University,” sponsored by Cornell Higher Education Research Institute, to be held in Ithaca, N.Y., May 20-21, 2003.

served as member of the Study Panel for Science and Engineering Workforce Data 2000, National Science Foundation, 2000-2002.

served as member of the Sloan Scientific Workforce Network, 2001-2003.

served as member of the Societal Dimensions of Engineering, Science, and Technology - Ethics and Values Studies, Research on Science and Technology (SDETS) Panel, National Science Foundation, 1999-2002.

Gregory Streib

served as referee for Public Administration Review, State and Local Government Review, and Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory.

Laura Taylor

was accepted by the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board, as a Fulbright Senior Specialist. The program seeks to enhance international scholarly exchanges by matching senior specialists with academic and professional communities around the world. Faculty accepted to the program are eligible for short-term (2-6 week) Fulbright Scholarships grants.

served as referee for the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Land Economics, Review of Economics and Statistics, Urban Studies, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

served on the Board of Directors of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists.

served as member of the Editorial Council for the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management.

served as member of the Program Committee for the 2002 World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists (held once every four years). The Congress is sponsored by the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists and the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists.

Erdal Tekin

was appointed as a Faculty Research Affiliate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), October 2002.

John Clayton Thomas

serves as Associate Editor of The Journal of Urban Affairs.

see also Journals Edited by AYSPS Faculty.

served as reviewer for Public Administration Review, State and Local Government Review, and Urban Affairs Review.

served as member of the Governing Board, Section on Public Administration Research, American Society for Public Administration.

Geoffrey Turnbull

served as Editorial Board Member for the Journal of Urban Economics, Journal of Housing Economics, Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, and Real Estate Economics. He served as referee for the Journal of Urban Economics, Journal of Regional Science, Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, Real Estate Economics, Public Finance Review, Journal of Real Estate Research, and the National Science Foundation.

served as dissertation advisor for Denis Edwards (completed May, 2002), Louisiana State University.

Neven Valev

served as referee for Comparative Economic Systems, Socio-Economic Review, and Empirica.

David M. Van Slyke

served as referee for Public Administration Review, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, American Review of Public Administration, Review of Public Personnel Administration, Policy Studies Review, and International Journal of Public Administration.

was recipient of the 2002 Best Article Award from the Academy of Management Public-Nonprofit Division for his article (with co-authors David McCaffrey and Sue Faerman), "Understanding Interorganizational Cooperation: Public-Private Cooperation in Regulating Financial Market Innovation," which was published in Organization Science in 2001.

Mary Beth Walker

served as referee for the National Tax Journal and the Journal of Econometrics.

participated in the American Councils for Education committee to select finalists to receive Muskie fellowships for doctoral level work in the U.S., March 2002.

organized a session on Micro-econometrics at the annual Southern Economics Association conference, New Orleans, La., November 2002.

Sally Wallace

served as Board Member of the National Tax Association.

served as Editorial Board Member of Public Budgeting and Finance, and served as referee for the National Tax Journal, Public Budgeting and Finance, State and Local Tax Review, Public Finance Review, Regional Science and Urban Economics, and Eastern Economic Review.

served as Board Member of the Internal Revenue Service Consultant’s Panel.

served as Advisory Committee Member for the Urban Institute, Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy.

served as session organizer for “Globalization and State and Local Finance” for the National Tax Association Meetings, Orlando, Fla., November 14-16, 2002.

(with Rachel Askew) contributed a segment entitled "Child Care Advocacy in Georgia," which was used in the report, Getting Compensation for Child Care Workers on the Policy Agenda: An In-depth Look at Advocacy Efforts, The Urban Institute, February 2002.

William L. Waugh, Jr.

was elected to a two year term as chair of the American Society for Public Administration's Section in Emergency and Crisis Management and to a three year term on the executive council of the Section on Public Administration Research.

served on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Economic Development, Public Organization Review, Journal of Emergency Management, and Journal of the Academy of Strategic e-Commerce.

served on the advisory board of Annual Edition: Violence & Terrorism, Duskin Publishing Group/McGraw-Hill.

served on the program committee for 2002 Southeastern Conference on Public Administration in Columbia, S.C.

served as referee for the International Journal of Public Administration, Journal of the Academy of Strategic e-Commerce, and Oxford University Press.

served twice as an evaluator for the Distance Education and Training Council’s Accreditation Commission.

served as an external reviewer for Promotion and Tenure for the Department of Political Science at Oklahoma State University.

served a three-year term on the International Association of Emergency Manager's Certification Commission for the Certified Emergency Manager program.

was interviewed as part of the McKinsey & Company study for the Commissioner of the New York Police Department on the NYPD response to the World Trade Center attack.

served on the Board of Directors of the Family Assistance Foundation, a nonprofit organization created to facilitate airline compliance with the Aviation Disaster Family Assistance Act of 1996.

see also Journals Edited by AYSPS Faculty.

Verna J. Willis

was appointed to the Editorial Board of the new journal, Action Learning: Research and Practice.

served as referee for Human Resource Development Quarterly and Human Resource Development Review. Refereed papers for the Proceedings of the Annual Conference, Academy of Human Resource Development.

served as co-conference organizer of the Globalization Preconference, Academy of Human Resource Development, Honolulu, Hawaii, Feb. 26-27, 2002.

has been invited to serve as external reviewer for a Fielding Institute student’s forthcoming dissertation on Action Learning.

conducted a beta test of a new survey instrument that studies perceptions of members in an action learning set, and provides anonymous, collective feedback to each participant. The instrument allows for “course correction” of group behaviors. The test of the Action Learning Team Process Questionnaire has been further refined and will be tested again in 2003.

Katherine G. Willoughby

served as referee for Urban Affairs Review, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Policy Studies Review, Public Budgeting and Finance, State and Local Government Review, and American Review of Public Administration.

Yongsheng Xu

served as a referee for Social Choice and Welfare, Mathematical Social Science, Journal of Economic Theory, Economics of Governance, Theory and Decision, Journal of Public Economic Theory, Review of Economic Design, The Economic Bulletin, and The Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research.

 

 

 

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