Profile

Dr. Doug Goodman is a Professor and Director of the School of Public Administration at the University of Central Florida. He is also an inaugural John C. Stennis Fellow at the John C. Stennis Institute of Government and Community Development at Mississippi State University.

Before arriving at UCF, Dr. Goodman worked as a professor of Public and Nonprofit Management at the University of Texas at Dallas where is served terms as the MPA Director and the Program Head. Prior to working at UT Dallas, Dr. Goodman was a faculty member in the Political Science and Public Administration Department at Mississippi State University. Dr. Goodman has directed numerous dissertations and has served on dozens of dissertation committees over the course of his career. He is the former Chair of the Section on Personnel and Labor Relations at ASPA. He has served on the Executive Board for the Southeastern Conference for Public Administration (SECoPA). He was elected as the Vice-President Elect in 2021 and will serve as president in 2022. He has won outstanding professor awards at both UT Dallas and MSU.

• Public Human Resource Management
• Public Administration
• Organization Behavior

• Ph.D. Political Science, The University of Utah, 2002
• MS Political Science, The University of Utah, 1996
• BA Political Science, Brigham Young University, 1992
• AAS, Administration of Justice, Eastern Arizona College, 1986

Dr. Goodman's research focuses on Public Human Resource Management, Organization Behavior, Comparative Public Administration, and state and local government. He has three co-edited books, Texas: Yesterday and Today—Readings in Texas Politics and Public Policy (Revised edition) and Contested Landscape: The Politics of Wilderness in Utah and the West. Dr. Goodman’s research appears in journals such as the Public Administration Review, American Review of Public Administration, Public Administration, Review of Public Personnel Administration, Political Research Quarterly, Human Resource Development Quarterly, and Public Personnel Management. Dr. Goodman serves on the editorial boards of Public Administration Review, Journal of Public Affairs Education, Review of Public Personnel Administration, and Public Personnel Management.

• Public Human Resource Management
• Organization Behavior
• Comparative Public Administration

John C. Stennis Fellow, Stennis Institute of Government and Community Development, Mississippi State University

Dr. Goodman has served on executive boards for national and regional professional associations, including the Executive Board for the Southeastern Conference for Public Administration (SECoPA) and ASPA's Section on Personnel and Labor Relations where he served as the Section Chair from 2016-2018. He serves on the editorial boards for Review of Public Personnel Administration (associate editor 2013-2017), Journal of Public Affairs Education, Public Administration Review, and Public Personnel Management. He has been on sight visit teams for NASPAA, conference committees for regional and national conferences, and reviews number manuscripts each year.

• Vice-President Elect, SECoPA
• Editorial Boards: Review of Public Personnel Administration, Journal of Public Affairs Education, Public Administration Review, and Public Personnel Management
• Conference Committee, Points of Light National Conference, 2021, 2022