The online Master of Public Administration and Policy (MPAP) is spearheaded by American University’s School of Public Affairs’ highly regarded on-campus faculty and instructors. These academics do more than facilitate a learning experience online — they elevate the quality of instruction by incorporating their own real-world and practical experiences. Well-connected and influential, these leading scholars come from a variety of areas within public administration, public policy, and organization development.
American University professors bring more than just academics to the classroom—they bring years of experience as respected practitioners, resulting in valuable and applicable insights for students.
The expertise of the faculty made me feel like I was gaining real-world knowledge. Many of my professors also had day jobs in the very areas on which they were teaching, and I found their first-hand experience to be valuable.
– Stephanie Bream, Alumni, Master of Public Administration and Policy
Khaldoun AbouAssi
Assistant Professor
Khaldoun AbouAssi’s research focuses on nonprofit and public management from a comparative perspective, examining organizational capacity, resources, and inter-organizational relations. His work has appeared in such scholarly journals as Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly...
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Jean Accius
Adjunct Professorial Lecturer
Dr. Jean C. Accius is a senior executive and nationally recognized thought leader on how the private sector, public sector, and philanthropy can work together to solve the economic, social and moral problems around equity, longevity and aging. As Senior Vice President at AARP, Accius leads a multimillion-dollar team that puts data into action to ensure everyone has the opportunity to live longer, healthier and productive lives. He oversees the Longevity Economy work for AARP that measures the economic impact of an aging population — a program that stimulates the global marketplace and guides CEOs and policymakers in decision making.
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Anna Amirkhanyan
Professor
Professor Amirkhanyan’s research and teaching focuses on public and nonprofit management, public sector reform, organizational performance, social policy, research methodology, and intellectual history of public administration…
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Karen Baehler
Scholar in Residence
Professor Baehler brings ten years of experience teaching courses in policy analysis and the policy process at the doctoral, master’s, executive-training, and undergraduate levels in the U.S....
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Allison Bawden
Adjunct Professorial Lecturer
Ms. Bawden provides leadership and oversight on GAO’s portfolio related to domestic and international nuclear security and cleanup. Before becoming a GAO executive, Ms. Bawden spent more than a decade in NRE managing audits and evaluations of the Department of Energy’s national laboratories...
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Quentin Brummet
Adjunct Professorial Lecturer
Quentin Brummet is currently an Adjunct Professorial Lecturer at American University and an Economist in the Center for Administrative Records Research and Applications at the U.S. Census Bureau. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from Michigan State University...
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Frances Carter-Johnson
Adjunct Professorial Lecturer
Dr. Frances Carter-Johnson works in data science for a leading federal scientific funding agency where she is responsible for assessing outcomes of broadening participation programs and contributing to the body of knowledge about advancement of groups traditionally underrepresented in STEM. Frances applied her evaluation and analytical methods...
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Albert C. Hyde
Adjunct Professorial Lecturer
Albert C. Hyde is an adjunct professorial lecturer at American University where he teaches graduate courses in budgeting and public administration. He is the author or editor of numerous textbooks in public administration. He is the author or editor of numerous textbooks in public administration to include the forthcoming 8th edition of Classics of Public Administration. He was a senior staff member and staff consultant at the Brookings Institution from 1997 to 2009...
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Alison Jacknowitz
Professor, Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
Alison Jacknowitz is the Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at American University and an Associate Professor. Her research interests focus on children’s well-being, particularly food insecurity, poverty, and food assistance…..
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Nathan Newman
Adjunct Professorial Lecturer
Along with his teaching at American University’ School of Public Affairs, Nathan Newman also teaches Public Policy at Park University...
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Evelyn Ploumis-Devick
Adjunct Professorial Lecturer
Dr. Ploumis-Devick is recognized nationally in the areas of leadership, organizational change, innovation, strategic planning, program design and professional development. For more than 25 years she has held graduate faculty, administrative, senior leadership, and consulting positions within legislative, governmental, higher education, non-profit, and community settings.
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Jeffrey Poirier
Adjunct Professorial Lecturer
Professor Jeffrey Poirier, PhD, PMP, brings over 15 years of experience addressing an array of public policy issues and conducting policy and program evaluation related to human service systems.
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Stephan Putansu
Adjunct Professorial Lecturer
Steven Putansu is a "pracademic," who splits his time between being a senior social science analyst at the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) on the one hand, and academic research and teaching on the other. Steven specializes in evidence-based decision making, including political consequences of incorporating evidence into policy debates, research on leading practices for making evidence-based decisions, and applied work in a variety of policy areas...
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David Rosenbloom
Distinguished Professor of Public Administration
Professor Rosenbloom specializes in constitutional-administrative law, administrative theory, history, reform, and personnel management. Professor...
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Carletta Taylor Sims
Adjunct Professorial Lecturer
Carletta Taylor Sims is currently serving as a Postdoctoral Scholar and Adjunct Professorial Lecturer in the Department of Public Administration and Policy. She teaches courses...
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Matthew Vanderschuere
Adjunct Professorial Lecturer
Matthew Vanderschuere has a PhD in Public Administration from American University and an M.P.A. from the University of Colorado-Denver. His research interests include human resource management, leadership, and employee motivation within public organizations...
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Sonja Walti
Assistant Professor, MPAP Program Director
Professor Walti is an international scholar in public policy. Her fields of specialization include comparative public policy and public administration, policy...
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Vicky M. Wilkins
Professor, Dean of the School of Public Affairs
Vicky M. Wilkins is the Dean for the School of Public Affairs at American University. Her primary research interests include representative bureaucracy; bureaucratic discretion…
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Winfield Wilson
Adjunct Professorial Lecturer
Winfield Wilson is an attorney and policy analyst specializing in environmental, natural resources, and labor issues. Wilson also teaches environmental law at the Washington College of Law. Wilson holds advanced degrees from American University...
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Ruth Zaplin
Executive in Residence
Dr. Ruth Zaplin is an Executive in Residence, School of Public Affairs, Department of Public Administration & Policy and Director of International Programs, Key Executive Leadership Programs at American University. Dr. Zaplin served as a senior advisor and project director…
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