Thank You and Welcome Aboard!

• Date: 01 January 2014
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/puar.12182
• Published date: 01 January 2014

Thank You and Welcome Aboard! 5

Public Administration Review,

Vol. 74, Iss. 1, pp. 5–7. © 2014 by

The American Society for Public Administration.

DOI: 10.1111/puar.12182.

The PAR editorial team would like to thank

nine individuals who have served on the

Editorial Board for the past three years.  ey

have shown their support for the journal by reviewing

articles and providing feedback to the editors about

present and future plans. We recognize the following

individuals for their service:

Maria Aristigueta, University of Delaware

Bidhya Bowornwathana, Chulalongkorn

University,  ailand

William D. Duncombe, Syracuse University

Ali Farazmand, Florida Atlantic University

James L. Garnett, Rutgers University–Camden

Jim Hartmann, Seminole County, Florida

Martha Joynt Kumar, Towson University

Christine R. Martell, University of Colorado

Denver

Patricia Shields, Texas State University at

San Marcos

Eran Vigoda-Gadot, University of Haifa, Israel

Kaifeng Yang, Florida State University

We also welcome aboard 22 new editorial board mem-

bers for 2014–16. We are excited about their partici-

pation in the coming years.

R. Paul Battaglio, Jr., is associate professor of

public af‌f airs at the University of Texas at Dallas.

Dr. Battaglio’s research interests include public human

resource management, organization theory and behav-

ior, public and nonprof‌i t management, comparative

public policy, and research methods. Dr. Battaglio

is currently editor in chief of the Review of Public

Personnel Administration.

Victor Bekkers is professor of public administration

and public policy at Erasmus University Rotterdam

in the Netherlands. His research focuses on how infor-

mation communications technologies, the Internet,

and social media change the content and course of

policy, governance, and service delivery processes

in the public sector. He also coordinates a program

funded by the European Union (EU, Seventh

Framework) that investigates the drivers and barri-

ers behind social innovation in the public sectors of

12 EU countries.

Norton N. Bonaparte, Jr., is city manager of

Sanford, Florida, and has held similar posi-

tions in Topeka, Kansas; Plainf‌i eld, Camden, and

Willingboro, New Jersey; and Glenarden, Maryland.

He has taught graduate public management courses

at Rutgers University and served as principal instruc-

tor for the University of Kansas’s Emerging Leaders

Academy. He is a fellow of the National Academy of

Public Administration.

 omas Bryer is associate professor and director of

the Center for Public and Nonprof‌i t Management in

the School of Public Administration at the University

of Central Florida. His research and teaching focuses

on citizen participation, cross-sector collaboration

and governance, and the scholarship of teaching and

learning, with an emphasis on university–community

partnership. Professor Bryer serves as chair of the

American Society for Public Administration (ASPA)

Section on Public Administration Education and

was founding chair of ASPA’s Technology Advisory

Committee.

Heungsuk Choi is professor in the Department of

Public Administration at Korea University in Seoul.

His research focuses on institutional development and

administrative reform, comparative analysis of public

service delivery, e-government, and local govern-

ance. He is the founding director of the Center for

Governance Design at Korea University.

Robert K. Christensen is associate professor of public

administration and policy in the School of Public and

International Af‌f airs at the University of Georgia. His

research focuses on prosocial and antisocial motiva-

tions and behaviors in public and nonprof‌i t organiza-

tions. He is currently a Lilly Teaching Fellow at the

University of Georgia.

 ank You and Welcome Aboard!