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CURRICULUM
VITAE
Karen
Mossberger
Department of Political Science
302 Bowman Hall,
Kent State University
Kent, OH 44240 Kent, OH 44242-0001
1 (330) 672-8942 (Office);
1 (330) 672-3362 (Fax)
kmossber@kent.edu
EDUCATION:
Baccalaureate: B.A. with major in Honors Political Science
(Summa Cum Laude) Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, December 1991
Graduate: M.A. Political Science Wayne State University,
Detroit, MI, December 1992 Ph.D. Political Science Wayne State University,
Detroit, MI, December 1996
TEACHING
AND RESEARCH POSITIONS:
Kent State University, 1997 to present: Assistant Professor,
Department of Political Science, teaching Economic Development, Public
Policy, Administrative Theory and Behavior, Urban Public Policy, and Public
Administration.
Eastern Michigan University, 1996-97: Lecturer, full-time,
teaching American Politics, Urban Politics, Municipal Government, and
Health Policy.
University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, 1992-93: Academic Visitor
(teaching and research).
Wayne State University, Center for Urban Studies, June
- December 1990: Drafted two manuals on strategic planning for commercial
revitalization for a pilot program funded by the State of Michigan.
OTHER
WORK EXPERIENCE:
City of Detroit, Employment and Training Department, January
1994-August 1995: Senior Social Planning and Development Assistant. Grantwriting,
program and policy planning. Writer for Detroit's successful Empowerment
Zone application. (Leave of absence for Rumble Fellowship, September 1994-May
1995.)
City of Detroit, Recreation Department, February 1991-January
1994: Technical Aide, Social Science. Grantwriting, policy research. (Leaves
of absence for full-time study and for year in Scotland.)
PROFESSIONAL PUBLICATIONS
AND PAPERS:
Book:
Mossberger, Karen (2000) The Politics of Ideas and the Spread
of the Enterprise Zones. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press.
Journal Articles:
Mossberger, Karen and Gerry Stoker (forthcoming) "The Evolution of Urban
Regime Theory: The Challenge of Conceptualization," Urban Affairs Review,
Summer 2001.
Mossberger, Karen
(1999) "State-Federal Diffusion and Policy Learning in a Federal System:
From Enterprise Zones to Empowerment Zones, " Publius: The Journal of
Federalism, Vol. 29, No. 3.
Mossberger, Karen
and Gerry Stoker (1997) "Inner-City Policy in Britain: Why It Will Not
Go Away," Urban Affairs Review, Vol. 32, No. 3.
Stoker, Gerry and
Karen Mossberger (1994) "Urban Regime Theory in Comparative Perspective,"
Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, Vol. 12, pp. 195-212.
Book Chapters:
Karen
Mossberger (1999) "The Administration of State Economic Development: Decision-Making
Under Uncertainty," in Handbook of State Administration, Jack Gargan,
ed. Marcel-Dekker.
Stoker, Gerry and
Karen Mossberger (1995) "The Post-Fordist Local State: The Dynamics of
Its Development," in Local Government in the 1990's, John Stewart and
Gerry Stoker, eds. London: Macmillan.
Book Reviews:
"Toward a Comparative Agenda for Urban Research," Urban Affairs Review,
Vol. 34, No. 1, 1998.
"The Urban Growth
Machine: Critical Perspectives Two Decades Later," Urban Geography, forthcoming.
Conference Papers/Presentations:
Mossberger,
Karen and Hal Wolman. "Policy
Transfer as Prospective Policy Evaluation," presented at the Social Experiments
Conference sponsored by the Economic and Social Research Council, November
9-10, 2000, London.
"School-to-Work Programs
and the Challenges of Business-Education Partnerships in Urban Economic
Development," presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political
Science Association, August 31-September 3, 2000, Washington, D.C.
"The Evolution of
Urban Regime Theory: The Challenge of Conceptualization," presented at
the Annual Meeting of the Urban Affairs Association, May 3-6, 2000, Los
Angeles.
Mossberger, Karen
and Kathleen Hale. "Information Diffusion in an Intergovernmental Network:
The Implementation of School-to-Work Programs," presented at the Annual
Meeting of the American Political Science Association, September 2-5,
1999, Atlanta.
"Upward Diffusion
and Policy Learning in a Federal System? From Enterprise Zones to Empowerment
Zones," presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science
Association, September 3-6, 1998, Boston.
"Comparing Cities
Cross-Nationally: Promise and Problems," presented at the Michigan Political
Science Association Conference, October 11, 1996, Detroit.
Stoker, Gerry and
Karen Mossberger. "The Dynamics of Cross-National Policy Borrowing: Frameworks
for Analysis in the Urban Setting," presented at the Urban Affairs Association
Conference, March 2-5, 1994, New Orleans.
Mossberger, Karen
and Gerry Stoker. "Urban Policy in Britain: Why It Won't Go Away," co-presented
at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, September
2-5, 1993, Washington, D.C.
Stoker, Gerry and
Karen Mossberger. "The Post-Fordist Local State: the Dynamics of Its Development,"
co-presented at the conference on Post-Fordism and the Welfare State,
September 1992, Middlesbrough, England.
Other:
Editor, Symposium on Information and Public Organizations (Issue in progress
to be posted in December 2000), Public Administration and Management:
An Interactive Journal (Marcel Dekker), www.pamij.com.
TEACHING INTERESTS:
Public Policy Development; Urban Public Policy; Comparative Public Policy;
Economic Development; Administrative Theory and Behavior; American Politics;
Intergovernmental Relations; Urban Politics; Municipal Government
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Economic Development Policy, Urban Policy, Decision-making, Policy Diffusion,
Comparative Public Policy, Intergovernmental Networks, Public-private
Partnerships, Policy Learning
GRANT AWARDS:
Smith-Richardson Foundation, 2000. Junior Faculty Grant
in domestic public policy. Award shared with co-PI's Caroline Tolbert
of Political Science and Mary Stansbury of Library Science. For course
buyout during the 2001-2002 academic year to write a book on "Defining
the Digital Divide." Grant Amount: $60,000.
United States Information Agency, 1999. Participant in
Kent State University project, teaching and research in Russia on regional
economic development (projected for Summer 2001).
Ohio Urban University Program 1999. For research on the
role of business organizations and employer participation in school-to-work
programs in Cleveland, Akron, and Youngstown. Grant Amount: $7,500.
Summer Research and Creativity Grant, Kent State University,
1998. For research on information diffusion in intergovernmental networks,
focusing on school-to-work programs. Grant Amount: $6,500.
HONORS/AWARDS:
Merit Scholarship, Program for Women Scholars, Wayne State
University, 1988-1991
Tudor Award, Political Science Department, Wayne State
University, for a policy analysis of Inequality in School Finance in Michigan,
1990
Government Administrators Association Scholarship, First
Place Award in a state-wide competition for both graduate and undergraduate
students, 1990 Government Administrators Association, Honorable Mention,
for The Distribution of Benefits in Strategic Planning for Communities,
1991
Smith Prize, Department of Geography and Urban Planning,
Wayne State University, for The Community Reinvestment Act: Results and
Prospects, 1991
Sarasohn Award, Political Science Department, Wayne State
University, outstanding undergraduate major, 1991
Pi Sigma Alpha, National Honor Society of Political Science,
1991
Rumble Fellowship, Wayne State University, 1994-1995
European Summer School on Local Government, Odense University,
Denmark, July 1995, with financial support for participation awarded by
Odense University/European Union and Wayne State University
Dissertation Fellowship, College of Urban, Labor and Metropolitan
Affairs, Wayne State University, 1995-96
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