Elective Officers
Chair (2021 – 2024)- Qian Hu – University of Central Florida
Dr. Qian Hu is a professor at George Mason University’s Schar School of Policy and Government. She specializes in emergency management, organizational networks, network governance, social media, and big data. Before joining the Schar School, Qian was a faculty member in the School of Public Administration at the University of Central Florida (UCF) from 2011 to 2023 and directed its nationally ranked graduate emergency management programs. Dr. Hu has spent more than a decade researching organizational networks and applying network governance to understanding inter-organizational communication and coordination in the context of disasters.
Web: https://schar.gmu.edu/profiles/qhu4
Chair-Elect/Vice Chair – Asim Zia – University of Vermont (2021-2024)
Dr. Asim Zia is currently serving as a Professor of Public Policy and Computer Science in the Department of Community Development and Applied Economics, with a secondary appointment in the Department of Computer Science, at the University of Vermont (UVM). He is the Director of the Institute for Environmental Diplomacy and Security (IEDS) and Co-Director of the Social Ecological Gaming and Simulation (SEGS) lab at the UVM. Dr. Zia is undertaking National Science Foundation (NSF) funded research with a large interdisciplinary team as a science leader to develop computational integrated assessment models that project and quantify high-resolution impacts of global climate change and land-use land cover change on watershed scale hydrological systems and lake systems, and their feedbacks on social systems.
Email:Asim.Zia@uvm.edu Web: https://www.uvm.edu/~azia/
Secretary/Treasurer – Jeongyoon Lee – University of Kentucky
Jeongyoon Lee, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor at the Martin School of Public Policy and Administration at the University of Kentucky. Dr. Lee’s research focuses on intersectoral governance networks, nonprofit organizations, organizational sustainability, and mixed methods. Dr. Lee publishes research across public management, public policy, and political science, including in Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Public Management Review, Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning, and Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis.
Email: jeongyoon.Lee@uky.edu
Web: https://martin.uky.edu/jeongyoon-lee
Immediate Past Chair Michael Siciliano – University of Illinois, Chicago
Michael D. Siciliano is an assistant professor in the Department of Public Administration at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He holds a master’s degree in policy analysis from Carnegie Mellon University and a Ph.D. in public policy and public administration from the University of Pittsburgh. He teaches courses on advanced data analysis, policy analysis, and performance management. Michael’s current research examines the formation of social and professional networks within public organizations and the implications of these networks on individual and organizational behavior and performance. He also studies organizational collaboration in the context of local service provision and emergency management. His research appears in Social Networks, Public Administration Review, The American Review of Public Administration, and Journal of Public Affairs Education.
Email: sicilian@uic.edu Web: http://cuppa-pa.uic.edu/the-department/faculty/dr-siciliano/
Executive Committee
Kate Albrecht, University of Illinois at Chicago (until 2023)
Dr. Kate Albrecht is an assistant professor of public administration at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her primary focus is as a nonprofit scholar specializing in networks and collaborative community governance. Also, her interests in understanding organizations as actors within broader institutional and community environments has led to a secondary focus on research methods, particularly methodologies capable of handling longitudinal, multi-level, dynamic, and inter-dependent data structures. Her research agenda focuses on aspects of nonprofit and public agencies engaging in boundary management. To advance this area of interest, she pursue research questions for understanding collaborative governance, while advancing methods to inform and expand organizational and network theories.
Email: kalbrech@uic.edu
Fatih Demiroz -Sam Houston State University (Until 2024)
Dr. Fatih Demiroz is an Assistant Professor of Public Administration at the Sam Houston State University in the Political Science Department. He earned his bachelor’s degree in economics from Yeditepe University in Istanbul, Turkey, and his MPA and Ph.D. from the University of Central Florida. His research includes disaster management, governance, networks, and complex systems. Dr. Demiroz teaches Public Management, Human Resource Management, Governing Complex Policy Problems, and Public Administration courses. In 2011, he won the “Outstanding Paper Award” at the Literati Network Awards for Excellence.
Email: fxd009@shsu.edu
Perry Gross – US Department of Transportation (Until 2025)
Email: perry.gros@dot.gov
Aleksey Kolpakov -Florida Atlantic University (Until 2023)
Aleksey Kolpakov is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at Florida Atlantic University, Reno. He holds a Master of Science degree in organizational and social psychology from London School of Economics and Political Science and a Ph.D. in public policy analysis and public administration from Indiana university. He teaches courses on public policy, public policy analysis and public administration. His research interests include collaborative governance, network management, network sustainability, evolution of public management networks, power sharing in networks, collaborative performance and network accountability. His research has been published in academic journals such as International Journal of Public Administration, Regional Science Inquiry and Journal of Health Science. He is author of two books and numerous technical and program evaluation reports for federal, state and international agencies such as United Nations Development Program, United Nations Population Fund, Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, Eurasia Foundation, Conrad Adenaur Foundation and UK Department for International Development.
Email: akolpakov@fau.edu
Web: https://www.unr.edu/political-science/people/aleksey-kolpokav
Robin Lemaire – Louisiana State University (Until 2024)
Robin H. Lemaire is an Associate Professor in the Department of Public Administration at Louisiana State University. She teaches courses on organization theory and human resource management. Her research focuses on managing and governing organizational networks, mostly in the area of health and human services, collaborating closely with practitioners on those research projects. She has published research in journals such as Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, American Review of Public Administration, Perspectives on Public Management and Governance, Public Administration Review, and International Public Management Journal.
Email: rlemaire@lsu.edu
Alejandra Medina – University of Illinois at Chicago (Until 2024)
Alejandra Medina is an assistant professor at the University of Colorado Denver School of Public Affairs (SPA). She has a PhD in Public Administration from the University of Illinois Chicago. Her primary research interests lie in understanding the drivers of network formation, evolution, and performance, positing her work within the fields of public sector networks, public management, collaborative governance, and organizational behavior. Alejandra is affiliated faculty at the Center for Policy and Democracy of SPA. Her current research includes the formation and evolution of emergency management collaborative networks and the effects of large-scale disaster events in collaboration. Her teaching focuses on research methods and collaboration across sectors.
Email: amedin54@uic.edu
Jörg Raab – Tilburg University (Until 2024)
Jörg Raab is an Associate Professor of Policy and Organization at the Department of Organization Studies, Tilburg University, The Netherlands. He has extensive experience in social science research in the field of (temporary) organizations, inter- and intra-organizational relationships, and networks. Jörg is currently involved in research projects on the governance and effectiveness of purpose-oriented networks, organizational responses to infectious disease threats, and social enterprises as new organizational forms.
Email: J.Raab@tilburguniversity.edu
José (Pepe) Sánchez – University of Colorado Denver (Until 2026)
José (Pepe) Sánchez is an assistant professor at the University of Colorado Denver School of Public Affairs. His research and teaching are focused on local governments, urban policy, and metropolitan governance. He teaches public policy analysis and has taught urban policy and metropolitan governance. Born and raised in Mexico City, he takes central or principal cities as his main object of study.
Email: j.sanchez@ucdenver.edu
Web: https://publicaffairs.ucdenver.edu/people/faculty/jos%C3%A9-s%C3%A1nchez
Ruowen Shen – Wichita State University (Until 2025)
Email: ruowen.shen@wichita.edu
Travis Whetsell – Georgia Institute of Technology (Until 2025)
Dr. Travis Whetsell is an assistant professor in the Department of Public Administration at Georgia Institute of Technology. He earned his Ph.D. in public policy and management from the John Glenn College of Public Affairs at Ohio State University, as well as his M.P.A. and B.A. in political science from Texas State University. His research interests include network governance, science and technology policy, social network analysis, and philosophy of public administration.
Email: travis.whetsell@gatech.edu
Google scholar profile page – https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=A6kiEDkAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
Section for Complexity and Network Studies 