College of Architecture and Urban Studies | School of Public and International Affairs

Director, Virginia Tech Institute for Policy and Governance School of Public and International Affairs and Office of Outreach and International Affairs 205 W. Roanoke Street 540-231-7340 mstephen@vt.edu

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ACADEMIC BIOGRAPHY

Education

• Ph.D.in Government (University of Virginia, 1985)
• M.A.P.A. in Public Administration (University of Virginia, 1979)
• B.A. (University of Virginia, 1977)

Areas of Specialization and Teaching

• Nonprofit/Nongovernmental Organizations, Leadership, Management and Civil Society
• Nonprofit Leadership and Governance
• Public Policy and Policy Theory
• Community Development/ Cultural Change
• Governance and Administration
• Humanitarian and Refugee Relief
• Conflict Management Theory and Practice
• The Washington Semester
• Capstone Doctoral Seminar in Network Governance

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RECENT AND FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS

Edited Volumes:

• Forthcoming: Two American Behavioral Scientist issues Democracy in an Age of Networked Governance, Fall 2007. Editor for two volumes (17 articles and introductory essay) with Joyce Rothschild.
• Peer Reviewed Articles Forthcoming: Introduction: Charting the Currents of Changing Democratic Governance for American Behavioral Scientist symposium Democracy in an Age of Networked Governance Scheduled for Fall 2007.
• Forthcoming: Bridging the Organizational Divide: A Comparative Institutional Analysis of United States and International Humanitarian Service Delivery Structures. Voluntas: The International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, Scheduled for Vol. 18, (3). September 2007.
• Forthcoming: Program Development issues in Nonprofit and Civil Society Studies: Learning from One University's Experience Journal of Public Affairs Education. Scheduled for Vol. 13, spring/summer (2) 2007.
• Forthcoming, Exploring the Challenges and Prospects for Polycentricity in International Humanitarian Relief (With Marcy Schnitzer). American Behavioral Scientist issue Democracy in an Age of Networked Governance, Fall,2007.
• Forthcoming: Reconceiving Land Grant Civic Engagement as Adaptive Leadership Journal of Planning Education and Research. Not yet scheduled.
• Forthcoming: Mentoring for Doctoral Student Praxis-Centered Learning: Creating a Shared Culture of Intellectual Aspiration. (With Rachel Christensen). Accepted at Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly February 20, 2007. Scheduled for September 2007.
• The "Permanent Things" and the Role of the Moral Imagination in Organizational Life: Revisiting the Foundations of Public and Nonprofit Leadership. Administrative Theory and Praxis, 29(2), June 2007, 260-277.
• Aesthetic Imagination, Civic Imagination, and the Role of the Arts in Community Change and Development With Katherine Fox Lanham. International Journal of the Arts in Society, Vol. 1,3 (February 2007), 83-92.
• Environmental Justice: Right Answers, Wrong Questions: Environmental Justice as Urban Research With Lisa Schweitzer. Urban Studies, Vol. 44, 2 (February 2007), pp. 319-337.
• Developing Community Leadership Through the Arts In Southside Virginia: Social Networks, Civic Identity and Civic Change Community Development Journal. Web access provided: July 12, 2005. Print copy, Vol. 42, 1, 79-96. (February 2007).
• "American Governance," in Mark Bevir, ed. Sage Encyclopedia of Governance, Sage Publications: Thousand Oaks, Ca., 2006, pp.16-18.
• "Policy Implementation," in Mark Bevir, ed. Sage Encyclopedia of Governance, Sage Publications: Thousand Oaks, Ca., 2006, pp. 692-695.
• "Government Performance and Results Act," in Mark Bevir, ed. Sage Encyclopedia of Governance, Sage Publications: Thousand Oaks, Ca., 2006., pp.393-394.
• The Role of Trust and Boundary Spanning Behavior in Humanitarian Assistance Coordination With Marcy Schnitzer. Non-Profit Management and Leadership. Vol. 17, 2 (Winter 2006), pp. 211-233.
• The Nature Conservancy, the Press and Accountability With Elisabeth Chaves. Non Profit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly. Vol. 35,3. (September 2006), pp. 1-22.
• Toward a Descriptive Model of Humanitarian Assistance Coordination Voluntas: The International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, Vol. 17,1 (March 2006), pp.41-57.
• Making humanitarian relief networks more effective: operational coordination, trust and sense making Disasters, Vol.29, 4 (December, 2005), pp. 337-350

Articles/Reviews Under Review or Under Development:

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Upcoming Professional Paper Presentations

• "Cities and Regions as Justice Spaces: Exploring the Tensions between Sustainability and Justice in the City" With Lisa Schweitzer. Accepted for presentation at Urban Justice and Sustainability conference. Sponsored by International Sociological Association Research Committee on Sociology of Urban and Regional Research (ISA-RC21). Vancouver, British Columbia, August 22-25, 2007.
• "Community, Trust and the Habits of Democracy: An Investigation into Social Capital and Civic Engagement in U.S. Cohousing Neighborhoods" With Lisa Poley. Accepted for presentation at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association to be held August 30-September 2, 2007, Chicago, Illinois.
• "Network Learning and Humanitarian Relief: A Punctuated Equilibrium Approach," Accepted for presentation at the annual national conference of the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA), Atlanta, Georgia, November 15-17, 2007. With Marcy Schnitzer.

Invited Conference Participation

• Ways of Knowing Workshop A national workshop convened by Anne Khademian and Martha Feldman, May 18-19, 2007 to probe the theoretical possibilities around the topic of ways of knowing. Participation by invitation only. Served as a presenter.
• Council of Europe Development Bank, World Bank and Inter-American Development Bank, November 20-21, 2006. Paris, France. Disaster Risk Management: Taking Lessons from Evaluation. Participation by invitation only.
• The Fritz Institute, May 19-20, 2006, Sebastopol California. Thirty scholars from around the world invited to participate in Humanitarian Impact Conference: Evidence of Impact: Challenges and new Directions to chart the status of efforts to improve relief delivery implementation. Served as invited discussion leader for one morning of the proceedings (May 20). Participation by invitation only.
• Harvard University School of Public Health. April 26-28, 2006. American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Disasters: Prevention and Mitigation, A Global Conference. By invitation.

Recent Professional Conference Paper Presentations

• Leadership as Imagination: The "Permanent Things" and the Role of the Moral Imagination in Organizational Life: Revisiting the Foundations of Public and Nonprofit Leadership. Presented at "Ways of Knowing" National Workshop convened by Professors Martha Feldman and Anne Khademian. Alexandria, Virginia. May 17-19, 2007. Presented by invitation.
• Exploring the Rhetorical Foundations of Board Governance: Market-Based Strategies versus Common Good Claims in Five Nonprofit Organizations," With Courtney Jensen and Jessie Reckart. Presented at Networks, Stakeholders and Nonprofit Organization Governance: Whither Boards, to be held at the University of Missouri at Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri. April 26-April 27, 2007
• "Exploring the Challenges and Prospects for Polycentricity in International Humanitarian Relief" With Marcy Schnitzer. Presented at American Society for Public Administration National Conference Washington, D.C., March 25-27, 2007.
• "Curriculum Design issues in Nonprofit and Civil Society Studies: Learning from one University's Experience." Presented at the 2006 ARNOVA conference. With David Moore. November 16-18, 2006. Chicago, Illinois.
• "Crisis Governance, Management and Organizational Learning: Exploring the Dynamics of One Super Gift," presented at the 2006 ARNOVA Conference, With Marcy Schnitzer and Veronica Arroyave. November 16-18, 2006, Chicago, Illinois.
• "Aesthetic Imagination, Civic Imagination, and the Role of the Arts in Community Change and Development," presented at The International Conference on the Arts in Society. Edinburgh, Scotland, August 15-18, 2006. With Katherine Fox Lanham.
• "Bridging the Organizational Divide: A Comparative Institutional Analysis of United States and International Humanitarian Service Delivery Structures." Seventh International Society for Third Sector Research Conference in Bangkok, Thailand, July 9-12, 2006.
• "Right Answers, Wrong Questions: Environmental Justice as Urban Research". With Lisa Schweitzer. Urban Affairs Association conference, April 19-21, 2006, Montreal, Canada. Presented by Lisa Schweitzer.
• Discussant for "Democratic Accountability in Nonprofit/Nongovernmental Organizations," a panel at the American Society for Public Administration National Conference, Denver, Colorado. March 31-April 4, 2006.
• "The Role of Trust and Boundary Spanning Behavior in Humanitarian Assistance Coordination" (With Marcy Schnitzer). Presented at American Society for Public Administration National Conference. Denver, Colorado. March 31-April 4, 2006.
• "Mentoring for Doctoral Student Praxis-Centered Learning: Creating a Shared Culture of Intellectual Aspiration"" With Rachel Christensen. Presented at Benchmark 3 (State of Nonprofit Sector Studies conference), Tempe, Arizona, March 16-19, 2006,
• "Adaptive Leadership, Social Networks, and Civic Change" at G05 Global Democracy: Civil Society Visions and Strategies, Montreal, Canada. May 29-31, 2005. Presented for me by Marcy Schnitzer.
• "The Nature Conservancy, the Press and the Social Construction of Accountability." Boards and Beyond: Understanding the Changing Realities of Nonprofit Organizational Governance Conference. Midwest Center for Nonprofit Leadership, University of Missouri-Kansas City, March 31-April 1, 2005. Kansas City, Missouri.
• "Rethinking Humanitarian Assistance Coordination," International Society for Third Sector Research, July 11-14, 2004. Toronto, Canada.
• "Developing Community Leadership Through the Arts In Southside Virginia: Social Networks, Civic Identity and Civic Change," American Collegiate Schools of Planning, October 18-21, 2004, Portland, Oregon.
• "Making Humanitarian Relief Networks More Effective: Exploring the Relationships Among Coordination, Trust and Sense Making," ARNOVA, November 18-21, 2004. Los Angeles, California.
• "Of Land Grants, Leadership, Non-Profits and Social Change: A Model for Catalyzing Sustained Community-Based Learning and Change" ARNOVA November 20-23, 2003, Denver, Colorado.