EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND:
A.B., Political Science, University of California, Berkeley, 1968.
M.A., Public Policy & Administration, University of California, Berkeley, 1969.
Ph.D., Political Science (Economics Minor), University of California, Berkeley, 1977.
Postdoctoral Study Science, Technology and Public Policy, George Washington University, Washington, D.C., 1982-91.
Ford Foundation, National Research Council, Postdoctoral Fellow, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, Washington, D.C. 1983-84.
FULL TIME TEACHING EXPERIENCE
CURRENT POSITION:
Visiting Professor, The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia
2013-present: Assistant Dean for Civic and International Engagement, College of Public Affairs, The University of Baltimore, Emeritus
1989 - Distinguished Professor, Government and Public Administration; Senior Fellow, William Donald Schaefer Center for Public Policy; Henry C. Welcome Fellow, The University of Baltimore. National Academy of Public Administration Fellow
PUBLICATIONS AND RESEARCH:
Books, Monographs and Edited Journal Symposia
Dimensions of Learning: Education for Life 6th Edition, co-authored with Bernice Duffy Johnson, Debra Parker, Magnoria Lunsford (Bent Tree Press, 2009).
Neal Peirce and Curt Johnson, Century of the City (New York: Rockefeller Foundation, 2008)
The Baltimore CitiStat Program: Performance and Accountability (Washington, D.C.: The IBM Endowment for the Business of Government, 2003)
The State of the Black Triangle (Raleigh, North Carolina: Triangle Urban League, May 2003).
Energy Management and the Challenge of International Development (forthcoming December 2003)
Managing Editor, The State of Black America 2000 (New York: National Urban League)
Editor, Symposium on International and Comparative Management of Urban Regions for The Regionalist Journal, 2000
Editor, Special Symposium. Metropolitan Government and Citizen Participation, National Civic Review, 1990.
Co-Editor, Minorities and Labor Markets (special issue of the Urban League Review, co-edited with Regina Nixon, 1983).
The New Black Politics: The Search for Political Power (New York: Longman Publishing Company, 1982), co-edited with Michael Preston and Paul Puryear. (Second Edition, 1987).
Municipal Energy Management and Conservation (Washington, D.C.: National Conference of Black Mayors, 1982--DOE-funded).
Administrative Advocacy (Palo Alto, California: R & E Research Associates, Inc., 1979)
Public Administration and Public Policy: A Minority Perspective (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Public Policy Press of Pittsburgh, 1977), co-edited with Lawrence Howard and Deryl Hunt.
On Linking Policy and Administration: A Minority Perspective (Pittsburg, Pennsylvania: Public Policy Press of Pittsburgh, 1981); co-authored with Lawrence C. Howard and Deryl G. Hunt
Black Political Life in the U.S. (San Francisco, California: Chandler Publishing Co., 1972).
Publications and Research: Book Chapters and Journal Articles
Environmental Justice in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed: The Case of Public Housing, William and Mary Environmental Policy and Law Review. Forthcoming 2016
Robert Mack Bell: Public Policy and Judicial Leader and Advocate, The Maryland Law Review, 2013
“Managing Disaster in Developing Nations,” in Ali Farazmand, Editor, Handbook of Emergency Management, 2013.
“The Louisiana Recovery Authority and Administrative Resiliency,” Public Administration Quarterly, 2013
“Electricity Management and Hurricane Katrina,” The Public Manager, 2011
“Emergency Management in Developing Nations: Towards a Theory of Pervasive Risk,” Public Organization Review: A Global Journal, June 2004
“Brown v. the Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas: The Legal and Ethical Legacy for Policy and Administration,” Public Administration Review, May 2004.
“Public Investment in Public Goods: A Theory of Business and Consumer Behavior, “ The Journal of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Summer 2003
“Social Equity Theory and Public Management: Three Cases,” The Journal of Public Management and Social Policy, Fall 2003
“Emergency and Disaster: The Dynamics of Public Bureaucracy and Developing Nations,” in R.C. Tripathi, Agam Prasad and Shalini Awasthi, Editors, Heritage, Governance and Equity, Volume 5 (Delhi, India: Agam Kala Prakashan, 2003), pp. 1333-1351.
“The Civic Index: Learning Across Cities in Theory and Praxis,´ Administrative Theory and Praxis, September 2003
“International and Comparative Management of Urban Regions,” The Regionalist, Spring 2000
“Managing Diversity in the Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Corridor,” Maryland Policy Choices, 1999.
“The Distribution of Household Energy Consumption and Expenditure Patterns in Latino and Non-Latno Households, “ Energy Economics, Fall 1997 (co-authored with David Poyer and Arvind Teotia
“Diversity Management in the Metropolitan Region,” The Regionalist, Fall 1997.
"Federal Contract Policy & Management: The Small Business Administration's Set-Aside Program," International Journal of Public Administration, June 1995
"The Government Performance and Results Act: Metrics, Marketing and Meaning," The Public Manager, April 1995
"Managing Diversity in Organizations: Empirical, Normative and Public Policy Issues," in Elsie Cross, Frederick Miller and Edith Seashore, Editors, The Promise of Diversity (Burr Ridge, Illinois: Richard D. Irwin, Inc. (1994)
"Managing Human and Natural Disasters in Developing Nations: The Multidimensional bureaucratic Role," in Ali Farazmand, Editor, The Handbook of Bureaucracy (New York: Marcel Dekker, Inc. 1994).
"Baltimore: Managing the Civics of a `Turnaround' Community," National Civic Review, V.80, N.3., Fall 1993.
"African Americans in the Urban Millieu: Conditions and Trends," in Billy Tidwell, Ed., The State of Black America, 1994 (New York: National Urban League,1994).
"Budgets, Taxes and Politics: Options for African American Politics," in Huey L. Perry and Wayne Parent, Editors, Blacks in the American Political System (Gainesville, Florida: 1994) University of Florida Press.
"Empowerment Through Entrepreneurship Among African Americans,"The State of Black America, 1993.
"Energy Management in the Bureaucracy of India," in R. B. Jain and Haile Asmerom, eds., Proceedings of the Study Group on Bureaucracy and Developing Societies in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, August 1990.
"Budgets, Taxes and Politics: Options for the African-American Community," State of Black America, 1991.
"The Socioeconomic Bases of Energy Policy," Proceedings of the U.S. Department of Energy, 1990.
"Fiscal Strategy, Public Policy and Ethical Choice," Urban League Review, Vol 13, No. 1 & 2, Summer/Winter, 1989-90.
"Metropolitan Government and Citizen Participation," National Civic Review, March-April 1990.
"Budget and Tax Strategy: Implications for Blacks," National Urban League, The State of Black America, 1990.
"Neighborhoods in the Capitol: The Role of Advisory Neighborhood Commissions," National Civic Review, July-August, 1989.
"Mayor of the Colony: The Challenges of Mayoral Leadership in Washington, D.C.," National Political Science Review, Vol. I. No. 2, 1990, co-authored with Georgia A. Persons.
"Urban Minority Administrators: The Politics of Role Elasticity," in Albert Karnig and Paula McClain, Eds., Urban Minority Administrators: Politics, Policy and Style (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood press, 1988).
"Black Politics and American Presidential Elections," in Michael Preston, Lenneal Henderson and Paul Puryear, eds., The New Black Politics: The Search for Political Power (New York: Longman Publishing Co., 1982--1st Edition, 1987, 2nd Edition).
"Blacks, Budgets and Taxes: Gramm, Rudman Hollins and the Tax Reform Act of 1986," State of Black America (New York: National Urban League, 1986).
"Black Business Enterprise," in Mitchell Rice and Woodrow Jones, eds., Contemporary Public Policy and Black Americans (New York: Greenwood Publishing Co., 1984).
"Black, Public Employment and Public Interest Theory," in Mitchell Rice and Woodrow Jones, eds., Contemporary Public Policy and Black Americans (New York: Greenwood Publishing Co., 1984) (Lead author with Michael B. Preston).
"Perils of Black Postal Workers in a Technological Age: Some Strategies for Survival," The Urban League Review, v.7, n. 2, Summer 1983 (Lead author with Charles Murphy).
"Africans in Search of Work: Migration and Diaspora," The Urban League Review, v. 7, n. 2, Summer 1983.
"Black Managers and the Future of Municipal Employment," Public Management, June 1982.
"Blacks in the Labor Movement: Working or Not," The State of Black America (New York: National Urban League, 1985).
"Black Business and Public Policy," The State of Black America (New York: National Urban League, 1983).
"Energy Policy and Minority Business Opportunity," The Journal of Minority Business Finance, Fall 1981.
"Energy Policy and Public Administration: A Social Systems Perspective," Howard Law Journal, v. 24, 1981.
"Energy Policy and Urban Fiscal Management," Public Administration Review, v. 41, January 1981.
"Political and Administrative Aspects of Urban Revitalization," Review of Black Political Economy, Fall 1979.
"Public Utilities: The Socioeconomic Bases of Reform," The Review of Black Political Economy, Fall 1979.
"Energy Policy and Social Equity," in Robert Lawrence, ed., New Dimensions of Energy Policy (Lexington, Massachusetts: Lexington Books, 1979).
"Black Administrators and the Politics of Administrative Advocacy," in Lennox Yearwood, ed., Black Organizations: Strategies for Survival (Washington, D.C.: University Press of America, 1980).
"From Moon to Morial: The Dynamics of Affirmative Action in New Orleans," The Journal of Peace and Change, Fall 1980.
"Minorities, Women and Affirmative Action in Municipal Government," Policy Studies Journal, Winter 1978.
"Administrative Advocacy and Black Urban Administrators," The Annals (of the Academy of Political and Social Science), September 1978.
"Black Politics and the Carter Administrative: The Politics of Backlash Pragmatism," The Journal of Afro-American Issues, v. 5, n. 3, Summer 1977.
"Energy Policy and Socioeconomic Growth in Low-Income Communities," The Review of Black Political Economy, Fall 1977.
"Public Utility Regulation and Social Equity," in Ellis Cose, eds., Energy and Equity: Some Social Concerns (Washington, D.C.: The Joint Center for Political Studies, 1978).
"Public Technology and the Metropolitan Ghetto," The Black Scholar, March 1974 (received honorable mention in the annual W.E.B. DeBois essay competition sponsored by the Black Work Foundation).
RESEARCH MONOGRAPHS
Energy Consumption Patterns in the Residential and Institutional Sectors of the District of Columbia (Commissioned by the District of Columbia Office of Energy, 2002).
The Impact of Rising Energy Prices on Household Energy Consumption and Expenditure Patterns: The Persian Gulf Crisis As A Case Example. Lead author with David Poyer and Arvand Teotia (Argonne National Laboratory, ANL/ESD/TM-34, September 1992.
Energy Policy and Employment (National Institute of Public Management, 1979).
Proposition 13: The Income Security Impacts (Washington, D.C.: National Institute of Public Management, 1979).
SELECTED GOVERNMENT AND CONSULTING REPORTS
An Evaluation of the Baltimore Regional Council of Government (Baltimore: Produced by the William Donald Schaefer Center for Public Policy for the Maryland Office of Planning, 1991), with Larry W. Thomas, Patricia Atkins and Laura Wilson-Gentry.
Operations Management for Manufacturers and Farmers (a three volume training book developed under contract with the firm of Birch and Davis Associates, Inc., under contract with the Agency for International Development and the National African Federated Chambers of Commerce in South Africa, 1985, 1986).
The Service and Methods Demonstration Program in Urban Rail Transit (Urban Mass Transportation Department, U.S. Department of Transportation, 1985).
The Impact of Cargo Preference Requirements on the Competitiveness of U.S. Agricultural Export (Project Manager; client: U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1984).
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