The School of Public Administration MSC05 3100 1 University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM 87131 (505) 277-1092
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SPA DirectorProfessor Uday Desai received his Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh. He was chair of the Political Science department at Southern Illinois University from 1995-2005. He was a Fulbright Senior Specialist, at the Department of Government, University College Cork, Ireland in March 2005 and a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Malaysia Sabah in Spring 2004. He has been a Visiting Professor in the School of Public Policy and Administration, Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, and at the Administrative Staff College of India in Hyderabad, India. He has also been a Visiting Scholar at The University of Texas at Austin and a Senior Research Fellow of the American Institute of Indian Studies. Desai teaches public administration, organization theory and behavior, policy analysis, and environmental policy and administration. His published works include Profiles of Leadership: University Vice Chancellors in India (Hindustan Publishing Co., 1991), Moving the Earth: Cooperative Federalism and Implementation of the Surface Mining Act (Greenwood Press, 1993), Ecological Policy and Politics in Developing Countries: Economic Growth, Democracy and Environmental Protection (State University of New York Press, 1998), Environmental Policy and Politics in Industrialized Countries (The MIT Press, 2002), and over forty-five journal articles and book chapters. Desai has conducted several training and research projects in Russia, Bulgaria and India funded by, among others, the Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs, U.S. State Department; U.S. Department of the Interior; United Nations Development Programme (UNDP); The Aspen Institute; the American Council of Teachers of Russian (ACTR); Foreign Affairs Office, Liaoning Province, China; and the Indian Council for Social Science Research (ICSSR). Dr. Uday Desai Faculty
Bruce J. Perlman
On leave of absence Professor Perlman specializes in public management, organizational behavior, and institutional reform, focusing on policy, technology, and information systems.
Santa Falcone
Transferred to Extended University Professor Falcone specializes in Public Finance and Budgeting. Her research interests include ethics, the role of government in society, productivity and administrative issues.  Mario Rivera
Regents Professor Professor Rivera holds Ph.D. and Masters degrees in political science and public policy from the University of Notre Dame, and the B.A. from Harvard College. He teaches institutional development and behavior, program and policy evaluation, and comparative public administration. Dr. Rivera's major research interests are public sector innovation and ethics.  Roli Varma
Ph.D., Renssalaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York Professor Varma holds Ph.D. in Science and Technology Studies from Renssalaer Polytechnic Institute. She teaches Analytical Research Methods and Public Policy for the SPA and Technology in Society for the School of Engineering. Major research areas are Immigrants in Science and Engineering Workforce, Women and Minorities in Information Technology Education, and Management of Industrial Science. She is recipient of research grants from the National Science Foundation and the Sloan Foundation. ASSOCIATE PROFESSORS
Constantine Hadjilambrinos
On leave of absence Professor Hadjilambrinos' research interests are in the broad areas of environmental policy and administration, natural resource policy and management, science and technology and society. He has a special interest on Global climate change, especially the development of effective policies for greenhouse gas emissions reductions and issues of intergenerational, social and geographic equity. ASSISTANT PROFESSORS
Kun Huang
Ph.D., University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 
Stephanie Smith
Ph.D., Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York Professor Smith holds Ph.D in public administration from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. Her research and teaching interests focus on public and nonprofit management, global health policy, and the intellectual history of public administration. 
Gao Liu
Ph.D., University of Kentucky Gao Liu holds Ph.D in public administration from the Martin School of Public Policy and Administration, University of Kentucky. His research and teaching interests focus on public budgeting and finance, public economics and research methods. He has published articles on the journal of Public Budgeting and Finance and has given presentations on national conferences such as the annual conferences of Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM) and Association for Public Budgeting and Finance (ABFM). 
Chih-Wei "Will" Hsieh
Ph.D., Florida State University Chih-Wei "Will" Hsieh (Hsieh is pronounced as "shi-e") holds Ph.D in public administration from the Askew School of Public Administration and Policy, Florida State University. Before coming to the U.S., he served in the Taiwanese central government and worked as a Taiwanese coastguard. His research interests focus on public service delivery, human resource management, organizational dynamics, and non-profit governance. EMERITI FACULTY
Dr. F. Lee Brown
Economics and Public Administration Professor Brown specializes in public administration and economics. 
Dr. T. Zane Reeves
Ph.D., University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California Professor Reeves has published numerous journal articles and consulted with private and public sector organizations in areas of performance appraisal, discipline, grievance handling, dispute resolution and labor-management relations.
Leonard Stitelman
Ph.D., University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado Professor Stitleman specializes in public administration.
Alan Reed Affiliated Faculty
Anthony Cahill
Suzanne Ortega
Ric Richardson
Richard Santos
Robert Schwarts Adjunct Faculty
Elaine Brightwater
Tony Dorame
James Jimenez
Steven Meilleur
Arley Williams Staff
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