Name: Claire Felbinger  Title: Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Public Administration
Email: claire@american.edu
Organization: American University

Biography: Claire L. Felbinger, Ph.D. is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Public Administration at the School of Public Affairs, American University. Professor Felbinger has written extensively in public works management, urban service delivery, economic development, and evaluation methodology. The second edition of her book, Evaluation in Practice: A Methodological Approach, will be published this year. She is the founding Editor of Public Works Management & Policy, a refereed, multidisciplinary journal concerned with infrastructure systems and the environment. PWMP is the Journal for the American Public Works Association. She consults regularly for public and non-profit organizations particularly as it involves survey research and data analysis. Professor Felbinger is active in a number of professional associations including the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration (President, Pi Alpha Alpha, Chair, Doctoral Committee), the American Society for Public Administration (Chair, Publications; Chair, Goal One Strategic Plan; Board, Section for Women in PA), American Public Works Association (Board, Public Works Historical Society), the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (Board and Engineering Accreditation Commission), National Academy of Sciences (Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment). Professor Felbinger received the ASPA's Donald C. Stone Award for service to the organization in 2000. She also received APWA's Stone Award for Excellence in Education in 1993. Education: Ph.D., Political Science, University of WI-Milwaukee, 1986.

Professor Felbinger has written extensively in public works management, urban service delivery, economic development, and evaluation methodology. The second edition of her book, Evaluation in Practice: A Methodological Approach, will be published this year. She is the founding Editor of Public Works Management & Policy, a refereed, multidisciplinary journal concerned with infrastructure systems and the environment. PWMP is the Journal for the American Public Works Association. She consults regularly for public and non-profit organizations particularly as it involves survey research and data analysis.

Professor Felbinger is active in a number of professional associations including the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration (President, Pi Alpha Alpha, Chair, Doctoral Committee), the American Society for Public Administration (Chair, Publications; Chair, Goal One Strategic Plan; Board, Section for Women in PA), American Public Works Association (Board, Public Works Historical Society), the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (Board and Engineering Accreditation Commission), National Academy of Sciences (Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment).

Professor Felbinger will received ASPA's Donald C. Stone Award for service to the organization in 2000. She also received APWA's Stone Award for Excellence in Education in 1993.

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