A Multidisciplinary Faculty

PSM faculty members represent a variety of academic disciplines. This carefully balanced blend provides the basis for the interdisciplinary curriculum that integrates theory and practice.

Selecting, mentoring and engaging instructors in continuous improvement of the program are key elements designed to ensure its success. For this reason, the program sponsors faculty workshops to maintain state-of-the art instruction and current understanding of public sector issues. Faculty share the program's commitment to excellence and to ensuring that the program is an integrated whole, not a series of separate, disconnected courses.

Faculty

The following list of faculty, although not exhaustive, provides the names of current CSUN faculty members with scholarly and teaching expertise relevant to PSM who will be either instructing courses or acting in a consultative manner to PSM. To complement this group, veteran faculty from other universities and professionals respected in their fields will be invited to participate as instructors in order to offer coursework that is not only of the highest quality but also addresses those issues currently predominant in the public sector arena.

Bernardo Attias
Associate Professor, Ph.D., University of Iowa, 1997. Communication and Technology.

James David Ballard
Associate Professor, Ph. D., University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 2000. Research Methods, Political Sociology.

Lawrence Becker
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, 2001. Public Policy Process, Legislative Relations, Budgeting.

Matthew A. Cahn
Professor, Ph.D., University of Southern California, 1991. Public Policy Process, Policy Analysis, Environmental Policy, Research Methods.

Nancy Grass Hemmert
Lecturer, MA, California State University, Northridge, 1999. Intercultural and Group Communication.

Thomas Hogen-Esh
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., University of Southern California, 2002. Budgeting, Public Policy Process, Public Administration, Urban Policy.

Peter Kappas
Lecturer, Ph.D., UCLA, 1997. Interest Groups & Regulatory Techniques, Political Institutions & Regulatory Policy

Paul Krivonos
Professor, Ph.D., Purdue University, 1975. Organizational and Intercultural Communication.

Daisy Lemus
Professor, MA, UCSB, 2002. Communication and Technology, Organizational Communication, Communication Research Methods, Group Communication.

Henrik Minassians
Director, Public Sector Programs, Ph.D., SUNY, 2002. Public Policy, Public Administration, Policy Implementation Theory.

Rex Mitchell
Department Chair, Management Department. Professor, Ph.D., UCLA, 1980. Strategic Management, Organizational Development, Organizational Behavior.

Patrick Nichelson
Department Chair, Religious Studies Department. Professor, Ph.D., University of Southern California, 1974. Ethics and Professionalism.

Karen Peck
Lecturer, M.A., California State University, Northridge, 1998. Rhetorical Discourse, Advanced Public Speaking.

Ravi Roy
Adjunct Faculty, Ph.D., Claremont Graduate University, 2000. Principles and Methods of Political Science, Public Policy Theory, Public Administration.

Martin Saiz
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., University of Colorado at Boulder, 1992. Budgeting, Public Policy Process, Urban Politics.

Stephan D. Schuster
Professor (Emeritus), Ph.D., University of Texas, 1966. Organizational Behavior, Human Resource Management, Organizational and Managerial Effectiveness.

Paula Silva
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., University of Florida, 2000. Human Resource Management, Management Skills Development.

Victor Shaw
Associate Professor, University of Hawaii, Manoa, 1994. Crime, Drug Abuse, Social Control, Public Policy, Organizational Behavior.

John Yudelson
Lecturer, M.S.O.B., University of Southern California, 1986. Organizational Behavior.