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Karen Mossberger is the Frank and June Sackton Professor in the School of Public Affairs in the Watts College of Public Service and Community Solutions at Arizona State University. She is the director of the Center on Technology, Data and Society and also a senior sustainability scholar with the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability. Her research interests include local governance, urban policy, digital inequality, evaluation of broadband programs and digital government. Her most recent books are "Digital Cities: The Internet and the Geography of Opportunity" (Oxford University Press 2012, with C. Tolbert and W. Franko), as well as the "Oxford Handbook of Urban Politics" (2012, with S. Clarke and P. John). Previous books include "Digital Citizenship: The Internet, Society and Participation" (Mossberger, Tolbert and McNeal 2008, MIT Press), "Virtual Inequality: Beyond the Digital Divide" (Mossberger, Tolbert and Stansbury 2003, Georgetown University Press), and "The Politics of Ideas and the Spread of Enterprise Zones" (2000, Georgetown University Press). Co-authored research on “Race, Place, and Information Technology” won the best paper award for the Public Policy Section of the American Political Science Association in 2005, and "The Effects of E-Government on Trust and Confidence in Government" was honored as one of the 75 most influential articles in the first 75 years of Public Administration Review. In 2018, she received the Donald C. Stone Scholar award from the American Society for Public Administration's Section on Intergovernmental Administration and Management (SIAM). In 2019 she was selected by UK nonprofit Apolitical as one of the World's 100 Most Influential People in Digital Government - a list including practitioners and academics.
Mossberger's research includes a National Science Foundation-sponsored repository for broadband data (in collaboration with the University of Iowa) and the evaluation of the Smart Communities Program, a digital inclusion initiative in nine Chicago neighborhoods. She is working on an edited volume on the evaluation of the policy impacts of broadband. Her research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, Smith Richardson Foundation, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Chicago Community Trust, and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, among others. She has served as president of the American Political Science Association's Urban Politics section and Information and Technology Politics section, chair of the International Political Science Association's research committee on Electronic Democracy and was elected a fellow in the National Academy of Public Administration in 2016.
Information technology and policy (digital inequality, digital government, evaluating policy impacts of Internet use and broadband); urban policy and local governance; policy diffusion and innovation
Fall 2020 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
PAF 582 | E-Public Administration |
Spring 2020 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
PAF 582 | E-Public Administration |
Spring 2019 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
PAF 582 | E-Public Administration |
Fall 2018 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
URB 493 | Honors Thesis |
PAF 503 | Public Affairs |
PAF 601 | Advanced Public Policy Seminar |
Fall 2017 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
URB 493 | Honors Thesis |
Summer 2017 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
PAF 499 | Individualized Instruction |
PAF 590 | Reading and Conference |
PAF 790 | Reading and Conference |
PAF 792 | Research |
PAF 795 | Continuing Registration |
PAF 799 | Dissertation |
Spring 2017 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
PAF 492 | Honors Directed Study |
URB 493 | Honors Thesis |
PAF 493 | Honors Thesis |
PAF 499 | Individualized Instruction |
PAF 590 | Reading and Conference |
PAF 790 | Reading and Conference |
PAF 792 | Research |
PAF 795 | Continuing Registration |
PAF 799 | Dissertation |
Fall 2016 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
PAF 492 | Honors Directed Study |
URB 493 | Honors Thesis |
PAF 493 | Honors Thesis |
PAF 499 | Individualized Instruction |
PAF 590 | Reading and Conference |
PAF 595 | Continuing Registration |
PAF 790 | Reading and Conference |
PAF 792 | Research |
PAF 795 | Continuing Registration |
PAF 799 | Dissertation |
Summer 2016 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
PAF 499 | Individualized Instruction |
PAF 590 | Reading and Conference |
PAF 790 | Reading and Conference |
PAF 792 | Research |
PAF 795 | Continuing Registration |
PAF 799 | Dissertation |
Fellow, National Academy of Public Administration (elected 2016)
Donald C. Stone Scholar Award, Section on Intergovernmental Administration and Management, American Society for Public Administration, 2018.
75 most influential articles in Public Administration Review since 1940 (selected 2014 for 75th anniversary), "The Effects of E-Government on Trust and Confidence in Government
Best Paper Award, Public Policy Section, American Political Science Association, "Race, Place and Information Technology" (2005)
Google Scholar Classic, "The Effects of E-Government on Trust and Confidence in Government," (10 most-cited Public Affairs articles of 2006 over 10 years) (2016)
Honorary Professor, School of Government and Society, University of Birmingham, UK
Series co-editor, American Governance and Public Policy, Georgetown University Press (2004-2014)
Series co-editor, Studies in Digital Politics and Governance, Springer International Publishers (2018-present)
Director, School of Public Affairs (2013-2017)