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Christopher A. Simon
Christopher A. Simon received his Ph.D. in political science from Washington State University, Pullman in 1997. Prior to being hired at the University of Nevada, Reno, he was a visiting assistant professor at Oregon State University (his undergraduate alma mater) and also served as adjunct faculty at Washington State University, Tri-Cities. His dissertation work dealt with the application of structural contingency theory to analyses of public school administrative expenditures. He continues to conduct research in this area. His monograph, To Run a School: Administrative Organization and Learning (Praeger, 2001), is a longitudinal analysis of public school organization and performance in 296 school districts in the State of Washington. It was re-published in a Mandarin Chinese edition (Beijing: China Light Industry Press, 2005). Available in March, 2006, Public Policy: Preferences and Outcomes (Longman, 2007), is a standard introductory undergraduate textbook in public policy. In 2007, Dr. Simon published a monograph entitled Alternative Energy: Political, Economic, and Social Feasibility (Rowman & Littlefield, 2007). Co-authored with Nicholas Lovrich and Brent Steel, Dr. Simon recently completed a monograph entitled, State and Local Government: Sustainable Communities of the 21st Century (Oxford University Press, forthcoming).
Professor Simon's research work is multi-focused. He has and continues to conduct research in the areas of: localism and natural resource policymaking; elementary and secondary education policy; higher education policy (with others); criminal justice policy (with Nicholas Lovrich and Jihong Zhao; racial profiling (with Eric Herzik); alternative energy (with Eric Herzik); emergency first responder and homeland security (with Eric Herzik and James Richardson); civic volunteerism (with Mary Van Verst and Changhua Wang); religion and politics (with Nicholas Lovrich); administrative ethics (with David Nice); land use policy (with John Dobra); and public personnel diversity issues. His publications have appeared in Public Administration Review, American Review of Public Administration, Administration & Society, Policy Studies Journal, Land Use Policy (UK); Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education (UK); ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education; and Inroads (Canada)
Professor Simon was awarded the title of Mentor to Senior Scholar for his work with Christina Kim (summa cum laude, College of Liberal Arts, Winter 2005). Primarily, he teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on public administration, public policy and related topics. He has taught courses on American politics, research methods and social science statistics, American public policy, public policy analysis, public policy evaluation techniques, budget theory, organization theory, state and local government, natural resource policy, and political philosophy. Professor Simon is also an adjunct faculty member in the Justice Management program, Grant Sawyer Center for Justice Studies.