Contributors

• Published date: 01 June 2001
• Date: 01 June 2001
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1177/0734371X0102100207
• Subject Matter: Articles

REVIEWOFPUBLICPERSONNELADMINISTRATION / Summer 2001

CONTRIBUTORS

Calvin Gibson is a research assistant at the Carl Vinson Institute of Government

and a D.P.A. student at the University of Georgia. He is an attorney and formerly

served as a staff attorney and the personnel manager for the Arkansas State High-

way and Transportation Department.

Gregory B. Lewis is professor of public administration and urban studies in the

Andrew YoungSchool of Policy Studies at Georgia State University. He has previ-

ously taught at American University and the University of Georgia. His research

focuses on the effects of race, sex, sexual orientation, and other personal character-

istics on the careers of public employees.

Dahlia Bradshaw Lynn is assistant professor of PublicPolicy and Management at

the University of Southern Maine. Her research interests include alternatives to

civil service systems, HRM and technological change, leadership development,

and workforce diversity.Her recent publications have appeared in Public Adminis-

trationReview,Journal of Public PersonnelManagement, and Policy Studies Journal.

Howard E. Taylor currently teaches high school in metropolitan Atlanta. He

received his Ph.D. from The Ohio State Universityand has held positions at Old

Dominion University and Georgia State University.

James R. Thompson is an assistant professor in the Graduate Program in Public

Administration at the University of Illinois-Chicago, where he teaches courses in

public personnel management, information technology,and public management.

He received his Ph.D. in public administration from the Maxwell School of Citi-

zenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University in 1996. His primary research

interests are in the areas of personnel management, administrative reform, and

organizational change in the public sector.He is the coeditor of Transforming Gov-

ernment: Lessons From the Reinvention Laboratories(1998) and the author or coau-

thor of several articles addressing issues of administrative reform and strategic

change in public organizations.

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