Cheon Geun Choi
Doctoral Student
Email: cc06e@fsu.edu

Research Interest:
Public Policy and Innovation
Public Safety

MPA Seoul National University, 1999
Bachelor of Law Korea National Police University, 1994

Experience:
Senior Inspector, Working Group on Municipal Police System, Ministry of Government Administration and Home Affairs, South Korea.
Senior Inspector, Office of Police Innovation Planning Group, National Police Agency, South Korea.
Senior Inspector,Office of Security Planning for 2002 FIFA WorldCup Korea, Japan, National Police Agency, South Korea.

Danielle Duffourc
Doctoral Candidate
Email: dfd03@fsu.edu

Research Interest:
Education policy, equity issues, and the role of ethics in public administration

MPA, Louisiana State University, 2003
BS in Psychology, Louisiana State University, 2001

Danielle is from New Orleans, LA. She spent several years as a teaching and research assistant at the Askew School before becoming an educational policy analyst for the Board of Governors of the State University System of Florida. Her work has been published in the Review of Policy Research. Her dissertation will focus on the One Florida Initiative.

Wendy Xinfang Gao
Doctoral Candidate
Email: xgao@fsu.edu

Research Interest:
structure and management of policy networks, non-profit management, strategic management, comparative public management with special interest in Chinese public management and gender issues in the workplace

L.L.B., Foreign Affairs College, Beijing
B. A., Xi’an Jiaotong University

Being an Askew Research Fellow for four years, Wendy has been very active in the academic community. Her papers were accepted and presented in various conferences including the PMRC, the ASPA, the Sino-U. S International Conference for Public Administration, the MPS , the Academy of Management, and SECoPA.

Chih Wei Hsieh
Dotoral Candidate
Email: ch04g@fsu.edu

Research: workforce diversity, workplace violence, and application of qualitative analysis software

Interest:
emotional labor issues as they affect
quality of services and job performance.

Upon completing the dissertation, he will be seeking an academic post.

Chih Wei Hsieh is from Taiwan, Republic of China.

Jun Yi Hsieh
Doctoral Candidate
Email: jh04e@fsu.edu

Research Interest:
Public Policy, Management Reform, Performance Management, Strategic Management, Local Governments
Ph. D. , Public Administration, National Chengchi University, Taiwan(2007)
MPA, National Chengchi University, Taiwan(1999)
B.A. in Public Administration, National Chengchi University, Taiwan(1996)

Certifications: Senior Examination of the Career Civil Servant, Examination Yuan of the Republic of China (Taiwan).
Appointment: Junior Public Official, the Presidential House of the Republic of China (Taiwan).

Myung Jin
Doctoral Student
Email: Myung.Jin@fldfs.com

Myung Jin is from Chicago, Illinois. He is a third year student and is interested in public management with a focus on humanistic models of organizational motivation, and policy analysis as it relates to service delivery.

He will be seeking an academic post after completing his dissertation.

He currently works as a research associate for the Florida Department of Financial Services.

Tony Kassekert
Doctoral Student
Email: ajk05f@fsu.edu

Research Interest:
quantitative research methods, information and IT policy, public finance, and the impact of institutions on public policy process.

MPA, Clemson University and University of South Carolina joint program
B.S. in Mathematical Statistics, Political Science, and Economics, Iowa State University, 2001

Tony serves as a research assistant for both Dr. Coursey and Dr. Yang.

Daejin Kim
Doctoral Candidate
Email: dk04d@fsu.edu

Research Interest:
Sales Tax Adoption in Florida Counties, Strategic Tax Competition in Local Jurisdictions, Policy Innovation and Diffusion of State and Local Governments

Masters Degree of City Planning, Seoul National University, South Korea
B.A. in Economics, Seould National Univeristy, South Korea

Claire Connolly Knox
Doctoral Student
Email: cc03e@fsu.edu

Research Interest:
Environmental Policy and Management, Critical Theory, Science Belief Systems of the Mass Public
MPA, Florida State Univeristy, 2005
B.A. in English, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 1999
B.S. in Renewable and Sustainable Resources, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2000

A Cajun from Lafayette, Claire worked at the the USGS National Wetlands Research Center. Her passion is to raise awareness about Louisiana's vanishing coastal wetlands.

She currently is a research analyst with the Florida Public Affairs Center at Florida State University.

Wenjue Lu
Doctoral Candidate
Email: wenjuelu@hotmail.com

Research Interest:
sociological institutionalism, nonprofit and voluntary organizations, and urban policies
MPA,Wayne State University
B. A. in Economics, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China

Wenjue's cooperative work has recently appeared in "State and Local Government Review."

Elizabeth Winslow McAuliffe
Doctoral Candidate
Email: ebw02d@fsu.edu

MPA, Floridate State University
B.A. in English, University of Florida


Her dissertation will focus on poll workers.

Elizabeth is the assistant editor for Review of Public Personnel Administration.

Ed Moore
Doctoral Candidate
Email: emoore@icuf.org

Ed is in the last stages of his dissertation on the application of organizational learning theory to the Florida legislative processes.
Ed is currently the Executive Director of the Independent Colleges and Universities of Florida.

He also serves as the Executive Director of the Higher Education Facilities Finance Authority in Florida.

Jongsun Park
Doctoral Candidate
Email: jp03f@fsu.edu

Research Interest:
Local Governance, Institutions & Organizations, Strategic Management, Public Health System, Korean Government
Master of Public Administration, Kyungwon University, South Korea
B.A. in Public Administration, Kyungwon University, South Korea.

Jongsun has been in the Askew School since 2003. Currently he has been working as a Research Assistant for Dr. Feiock, and voluntarily as a Teaching Assistant for Dr. Yang, Research Design. He was awarded Devoe Moore Dissertation Fellowship for 2007-2008.

Yahong Zhang
Doctoral Candidate
Email: yz03c@fsu.edu

Research Interest:
local government politics and administration, public policy adoption and implementation, gender issues in the public sector, research design in public administration

M.A. in Political Science, University of Kansas
B.A. and M.A. in Economics, Nanjing University (China)

Yahong was a faculty member at Nanjing University for several years before she came to the United States originally as a visiting scholar at the University of Kansas.