MPA Faculty
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Arsneault, ShellyShelly Arsneault received her Ph.D. from Michigan State University and has been an Assistant Professor in the CSUF MPA program since 2002. She specializes in public administration and policy, with a special interest in welfare and poverty policies. She has authored pieces on implementation of the 1996 welfare reforms, abstinence-only sex education, and state health policy. Among her published work are articles in State and Local Government Review, American Review of Public Administration, and The Social Policy Journal. She is currently working on several projects involving rural policy administration, and the not-for-profit sector. |
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Mallicoat, StacyDr. Stacy Mallicoat received her Ph.D from the University of Colorado-Boulder in Sociology/Criminology in 2003. Her teaching interests include criminal justice policy, juvenile delinquency, feminist criminology and the death penalty. Her research on the processing of female offenders highlights the needs for gender-specific training for officials in the juvenile court and she has also been involved in evaluating the programmatic needs for women exiting prostitution. Her current research project focuses on the value expressive nature of death penalty support and opposition amongst CSUF students. Currently she teaches CRJU / POSC 404: Capital Punishment, which is an elective course for students pursuing the MPA with an emphasis in Criminal Justice. Her publications include: Mallicoat, Stacy L. (2007). "Gendered Justice: Attributional Differences between Males and Females in the Juvenile Courts." Feminist Criminology, 2:1, 4-30. Mallicoat, Stacy L., Stephanie Amedeo Marquez and Jill Leslie Rosenbaum. (2007). "Guiding Philosophies for Rape Crisis Centers". In R. Muraskin (ed.) It’s A Crime: Women and Criminal Justice, 4th ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall. P. 217-225. Mallicoat, Stacy L. and Michael L. Radelet. (2004.) "The Growing Significance of Public Opinion for Death Penalty Jurisprudence". Journal of Crime and Justice, 27:1, 119-130. |
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Myungjung, KwonMyungjung (“MJ”) Kwon is currently an Assistant Professor in the Division of Politics, Administration and Justice and a fellow in the Center for Sustainability at California State University Fullerton. MJ received his Ph.D from the Askew School of Public Administration and Policy at Florida State University. He teaches a variety of MPA courses, including human resource management, policy analysis, quantitative methods, and program evaluation. He is published in the Public Administration Review, the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, and Local Government Studies. |
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Peretz, PaulPaul Peretz is the Public Administration Coordinator and is an expert on Public Finance. He is the author of The Political Economy of Inflation in the United States, The Politics of American Economic Policy Making and numerous articles primarily on economic policy making. He has a PhD from the University of Chicago and has taught at the University of Washington, Brown University, Cornell University and Columbia University. His hobbies include collecting historic houses and collecting (largely fake) ancient Chinese jade ornaments. He has recently become interested in the politics and economics of American social programs. He is rumored to have a sense of humor (but awaits the definitive study.) |
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Sonenshein, Raphael J.Raphael J. Sonenshein, professor of political science and public administration at California State University, Fullerton, received his B.A. in public policy from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in political science from Yale University. He has written extensively on the relationships among racial and ethnic groups, and on the governance of American cities. His book Politics in Black and White: Race and Power in Los Angeles (Princeton University Press, 1993) received the 1994 Ralph J. Bunche Award from the American Political Science Association as the best political science book of the year on the subject of racial and ethnic pluralism. Dr. Sonenshein served as Executive Director of the City of Los Angeles (Appointed) Charter Reform Commission between 1997 and 1999. In 2006, Dr. Sonenshein was named Executive Director of the Los Angeles Neighborhood Council Review Commission to examine the system set up in the 1999 charter. The Commission will deliver its recommendations to the City Council in September 2007. |
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Ting, YuanYuan Ting (Ph.D. Northern Illinois University) is a professor of political science at California State University Fullerton. His research and teaching interests include administrative behavior, government reform, human resource management, public administration theory, and research methods. He has published articles in Administrative Science Quarterly, American Review of Public Administration, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Public Administration Review, and Public Personnel Management. His current research projects include studies of government reforms. He is a Fulbright Scholar in China in 2007. Recent publications include: "Influence of Internet Use at Work on Organizational Commitment," Public Personnel Management (forthcoming); "Internet usage of local government employees: A study of the effect of individual preferences, group influences, and administrative factors", Social Science Journal, 2005; "Work-family balance and job satisfaction: The impact of family-friendly policies on attitudes of federal government employees," Public Administration Review, 2001. |
Part-time Faculty
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Consoli, JohnDr. John Consoli holds a senior management position in the government, leading a team of auditors specializing in the area of fraud detection and providing support for criminal investigations and grand jury investigations led by the US Attorney's office. Prior to his current position, Dr. Consoli was assigned to the National Training Office in Arlington, Virginia, where he was responsible for the development and delivery of technical training materials used nationwide. During this period, he also served as an Equal Employment Opportunity Investigator. Prior to beginning his career in the accounting field, Dr. Consoli served as a Deputy Sheriff in San Diego, California, and held investigator positions in both the Economic Crimes Unit of the San Francisco District Attorney's Office and the Medicaid Fraud Unit of the Texas Attorney General's Office. Dr. Consoli has taught courses in organizational behavior, organizational theory, teams, ethics, systems theory, leadership, and communication and conflict at five colleges and universities throughout Southern California and the Midwest. He has also taught graduate level courses in public policy analysis and criminal justice administration. Dr. Consoli holds a DPA from the University of Southern California. He is an active member of several professional organizations, including the Academy of Management. |
Staff
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Collea, SuzanneMy job as secretary to our two Master Programs consists mostly of being liaison between student and advisor. A good deal of my communication with students is spent on the phone answering quex re: applications - entrance requirements, classes, etc. and basically making them feel comfortable about contacting the advisor or me at any time with their concerns. |










