Mary Feeney is professor and Lincoln Professor of Ethics in Public Affairs. She is the editor of the Journal of Public Administration Research & Theory and associate Director of the Center for Science, Technology and Environmental Policy Studies (C-STEPS). She is a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration. 

Feeney's research focuses on public and nonprofit management, sector comparisons, and science and technology policy. She is currently working on a CSTEPS team project, SciOPS, that investigates scientists’ opinions about current issues such as working with the media and the effects of COVID19 on their work. Her previous research investigated materials sharing among academic scientists and technology use in municipal governments.

Feeney serves on the editorial boards for Government Information Quarterly, Perspectives on Public Management & Governance, and Journal of Behavioral Public Administration. She was previously on the editorial boards of American Review of Public Administration, International Public Management Journal, Journal of Public Administration Research & Theory, Public Administration Review, Public Integrity, and Public Performance & Management Review.

She has published more than 60 peer reviewed journal articles in public administration, higher education, and science and technology policy. Feeney has two books: "Nonprofit Organizations & Civil Society in the United States" with Kelly LeRoux (Routledge, 2014) and "Rules and Red Tape: A Prism for Public Administration Theory and Research" with Barry Bozeman (ME Sharpe, 2011).