Present | Assistant Professor, San Jose State University ‐ Public Administration | |
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Disciplines
Research Interests
Grants
2021 - 2022 | USC-SJSU ICCAE Consortium's National Security & Intelligence Scholars Research Program |
Office of the Director of National Intelligence - #PO00019321 | |
Role: Principal Investigator | |
Colleague(s): Young Park | |
$25,000 | |
2020 - 2021 | USC-SJSU ICCAE Consortium's National Security Scholars Research Program |
Office of the Director of National Intelligence - #PO10926375 | |
Role: Principal Investigator | |
Colleague(s): Young Park; Karthika Sasikumar | |
$25,000 | |
2019 - 2020 | Faculty-In-Residence Impact on Student Success and Faculty Development |
Project Succeed: Title III Strengthening Institutions Project & U.S. Department of Education - #P031A140081 | |
Project Succeed | |
Role: Co-Investigator | |
Colleague(s): Patrica Baker (PI), Kyle Hambrook; Luis Arabit; Jennifer Johnston, Christing Ma-Kellem; Ravneet Tiwana; Lina Anastasovitou; | |
$12,500 | |
2017 - 2018 | Building a field of Veteran Studies Research |
San Jose State University | |
College of Social Science Research Award | |
Role: Principal Investigator | |
Colleague(s): Janani Chandrasekar | |
$2,160 | |
2003 - 2004 | Transformation in Training: the Nation-Building Imperative |
Foreign Military Studies Office, of the U.S. Army Combined Arms Center, | |
Role: Co-Principal Investigator | |
Colleague(s): Sean Morgan, Christina Schweiss | |
$5,000 |
Professional Service and Affiliations
2018 - Present | Chair, SJSU, Political Science Department, MPA Committee, Assessment & Curriculum Sub-Committee | 2018 - Present | Faculty Advisor, San Jose State University Student Chapter of the International City Manager Association | 2017 - Present | Editorial Review Board Member, Public Integrity | 2017 - Present | Faculty Advisor, San Jose State University Veterans Student Organization | 2017 - Present | Co-Chair, San Jose State University, Veteran Advisory Committee, Academic Policy Subcommittee | 2018 - 2020 | Co-Chair, San Jose State University Veteran Advisory Committee | 2018 - 2020 | Faculty Fellow, San Jose State University Veterans Resource Center | 2014 - 2017 | Board Member, ASPA Section on Personal Administration and Labor Relations |
Honors and Awards
- First Annual Dissertation Award, from the Section on Personnel Administration and Labor Relations of the American Society for Public Administration, 2014
- Educator of the Year, Army University, Army Command and General Staff College, 2011
- Award for Excellence in Joint Professional Military Education and Instruction, from the Military Officers Association of America, Army University, Army Command and General Staff College 2011
- 1st place Award, Faculty research & writing competition from the Colonel Arthur D. Simons Interagency Center, Army University, Army Command and General Staff College, 2010
- 7 x Silver Pen Faculty Publication Awards – Command and General Staff College, 2010
- Bronze Pen Faculty Publication Award – Command and General Staff College, 2010
- Master Teacher Certificate, Center for Teaching Excellence, USMA, West Point NY. 2003
Courses
- SS490B Colloquium: Winning the Peace
- SS376 Organizational Theory and Bureaucratic Politics
- SS379 Legislative Politics
- SS202 Introduction to American Politics
- A599 Design for Military and Interagency Planning
- A533 Joint and Interagency Planning and Synchronization Exercise
- A528 Roots and Resolution of Conflict
- C303 U.S. Space Strategy, Policy, and Operations
- A525 U.S. Strategy and Policy for Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction
- A512 National Security Strategy Policy Formulation
- O100 Combined/Joint Force Land Component Command and Army Corps Planning
- C400 Army Doctrine and Planning
- C303 U.S. Space Strategy, Policy, and Operations
- C300 The Joint, Interagency, Intergovernmental, and Multinational Environment
- C200 Strategic Context of Operational Art
- C160 Civil-Military Relations and the Army Profession
- C311 US Space Operations and Forces, Fundamentals, Capabilities, and Limitations
- E100 Ethics
- PADM 217 Organization Theory
- C130 Leader Development
- C120 Critical and Creative Thinking
- MTM 217 Leadeship and Management in Transportation Organizations
- POLS 170V - American Politics in Global Perspective
- POLS 4 Introduction to International Relations
- PADM 218 Public Budgeting
- PADM 214 Public Management
2011 - 2016 | Doctorate, Public Administration, University of Kansas ‐ School of Public Affairs and Administration | |
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2001 - 2003 | MPA, Syracuse University ‐ Maxwell School of Public Affairs and Administration | |
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2001 - 2003 | Master of Arts - International Relations, Syracuse University | |
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1990 - 1994 | Bachelor of Arts, Sam Houston State University | |
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