MPA Program Faculty

Nandhini Rangarajan is a professor of public administration in the department of political Science at Texas State University, San Marcos. She was the Director of the Master of Public Administration Program from 2017-2024. Dr. Rangarajan has taught at Texas State University since 2005 after earning...

Dr. Howard R. Balanoff
William P. Hobby Professor of Public Service
Director, William P. Hobby Center for Public Service
Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas
Email: Hb02@txstate.edu | Phone: (512) 694-7864
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Dr. Howard R. Balanoff holds the Texas State...

Christopher R. Brown serves as Associate Professor in the Political Science Department at Texas State University, where he focuses on legal studies and public administration. He completed his undergraduate studies in History and Biology Phi Beta Kappa at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois....

Billy Fields (Ph.D., Urban Studies, University of New Orleans) is a Professor of Political Science at Texas State University. His research focuses on understanding the key elements of resilient communities. He is the lead author of the Adaptation Urbanism and Resilient Communities (Routledge 2021)...

Dr. Emily Kay Hanks (Ph.D., University of Texas- Austin, 2011) is an Associate Professor in Political Science at Texas State University where she teaches and conducts research on ethics in government, public values, the nonprofit and voluntary sector, applied communication, and public administration...

Dr. Susan Johnson has held several high-level management positions in state government. She is currently the Manager for the Organizational Development and Training for the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts, She holds an undergraduate degree from Fisk University, a Master of Arts in Managing Human...

Thomas Longoria is professor of Political Science at Texas State University. Longoria teaches courses on public management, public administration, and non-profit administration. Longoria has conducted nearly $3,000,000 in research and sponsored projects in the area of community development. He has received...

Dianne Rahm, Ph.D., is Professor in the Department of Political Science at Texas State University. She holds a Ph.D. in Public Administration from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University. Her research interests include environmental policy, energy policy, science and...

Patricia Shields received a BS in Economics from the University of Maryland in 1973. She received a MA in Economics in 1975 and a PhD in Public Administration in 1977 from Ohio State University. At Ohio State she worked with the National Longitudinal Survey data at the Center for Human Resource Research....

Hassan Tajalli received his MBA and MA from the University of North Texas. He received his Ph.D. in 1988 from the University of Texas at Austin

Miha Vindis is the Director of the Certified Public Manager Program (Texas) and Professor of Practice at the Department of Political Science. He was previously a faculty member at UT Austin as well ACC & St. Edwards.

Dr. Vindis is a founding partner at Engage Leadership Consulting and has extensive...