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Charles H. Levine Memorial Fund & Lecture

Charles H. Levine

The Charles H. Levine Memorial Fund and Lecture in Public Administration and Policy honors the life, scholarly contributions, and public service of one of the most respected public management scholars in these fields, and the first Distinguished Professor of Government and Public Administration in the School of Public Affairs (SPA) at 小蓝视频.
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2025 Event

This year's Levine Lecture will be part of the Department of Public Administration and Policy Awards Night. The lecture will be delivered by Alasdair Roberts. On May 2, Dr. Roberts will discuss听his recent work, .

Alasdair Roberts is a professor of public policy at University of Massachusetts Amherst.听He writes extensively on problems of governance and public policy. His most recent book, The Adaptable Country: How Canada Can Survive the Twenty-First Century, was published by McGill-Queen's University Press in 2024. It is a finalist for the 2025 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing. His preceding book, Superstates: Empires of the Twenty-First Century, was published by Polity in 2023. Eight earlier books have received five book awards.听

Professor Roberts grew up in Pembroke, Ontario, Canada. He received his BA from Queen's University, his JD from the University of Toronto, and his MPP and PhD in Public Policy from Harvard University.听

Before University of Massachusetts Amherst, Professor Roberts held tenured faculty appointments at Queen's University, Syracuse University, Suffolk University Law School, and the University of Missouri. In 2007, he became the first non-US citizen to be elected as a Fellow of the US National Academy of Public Administration. In 2014 he received the Grace-P茅pin Access to Information Award for his research on open government. In 2022, he received the ASPA Riggs Award for Lifetime Achievement in International and Comparative Public Administration.听

From 2009 to 2017, Professor Roberts was co-editor of the journal Governance. He was Inaugural Director of the School of Public Policy at University of Massachusetts Amherst from 2017 to 2022. In 2022, he served as co-chair of the ASPA Presidential Committee on International Scholarly Engagement. In 2022-23, he was the Jocelyne Bourgon Visiting Scholar at the Canada School of Public Service.

His website is http://www.alasdairroberts.ca

Previous Speakers

2024:听Amy Ellen Schwartz

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2022: David H. Rosenbloom

2021: Don Moynihan

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2018: Carolyn J. Hill

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2010:听Kenneth Meier

PhD Student Manuscript Award Winners

2024:听William Prince

2023:听Xiaoyang Xu and Katie Engel

2022: Kari Dalane

2021: Joohyung Park

2019: Rui Wang

2018: Long Tran

2017:听Catherine Bampoky & Beth A. Hawks

2016:听Stephen Holt

2015:听Matthew Vanderschuere

2014:听Christopher Birdsall

2013:听Katie Vinopal

2012:听Michael Hayes

2011:听John Marvel &听Jaclyn Schede Piatak

Doctoral Research Fellowship Winners

2021: William Prince

2020: Sarah Nielsen

2019: Christopher Burks

2018:听Anita Dhillion

2017:听Fei Wang

2016:听Zachary Bauer