Julia Melkers
Associate Professor

Ph.D., Syracuse University, The Maxwell School, Public Administration

r. Julia Melkers teaches and conducts research in the areas of public management, organizational theory, and science and technology policy. Her current funded work addresses collaboration patterns and social networks in science, outcomes of science, and issues around career development and mentoring in STEM fields. Dr. Melkers has conducted performance-related work for the governments of Mexico and Latvia, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the National Research Council, HUD, the States of Alaska, Georgia, Rhode Island and Maine, the City of Atlanta, and the Atlanta Urban League. Dr. Melkers joined the Public Policy faculty in 2007. She previously was on the faculty of the University of Illinois at Chicago, Georgia State University, and the University of Alaska. She earned her PhD in Public Administration at the Maxwell School at Syracuse University in 1993. She is co-editor of The New Generation of R&D Evaluation Methods: A Cross-National Review of Performance Measurement, to be published by Edward Elgar Publishing in 2007. Her publications may be found in journals such as Public Administration Review, Urban Studies Review, Policy Studies Journal, Public Budgeting and Finance, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Journal of Technology Transfer and Evaluation and Program Planning. Dr. Melkers also serves on the editorial boards of Research Evaluation, Evaluation and Program Planning, State and Local Government Review and Economic Development Quarterly.