Senegal RPCV William N. Dunn is Professor at University of Pittsburg Graduate School of Public and International Affairs
William N. Dunn
Professor
Public and Urban Affairs
412-648-7661
3R27 Posvar Hall
E-Mail: dunn@pitt.edu
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Education:
PhD, 1969, government and international relations, Claremont Graduate School and University Center; MA, 1966, government, Claremont; BA, 1964, political science, University of California at Santa Barbara.
Teaching and Research Areas:
Public policy analysis, program evaluation, research methodology, knowledge utilization, diffusion of innovations, impact of science on today's society.
Selected Publications:
1. Public Policy Analysis, 3rd ed, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2003.
2. "A Pragmatic Strategy for Discovering and Testing Threats to the Validity of Sociotechnical Experiments," Simulation Modeling: Practice and Theory (Winter 2003), 1-26.
3. Knowledge, Power, and Participation in Environmental Policy Analysis (co-editor and author), New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction, 2001.
4. "Pattern Matching: Methodology," The International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, Elsevier, 2001.
5. The Experimenting Society: Essays in Honor of Donald T. Campbell (1998).
6. "Context Validation in Applied Social Experimentation," Philosophica 60, 2 (1997).
Consultancies and Public Service:
* Director, Center for Public Policy and Management in Macedonia, a multi-year GSPIA program supported by the U.S. Department of State and the Government of Macedonia
* National Science Foundation
* Development Alternatives, Inc
* Founding Editor, Knowledge and Policy: The International Journal of Knowledge Transfer
* President, Policy Studies Organization · Donald T. Campbell Award for Methodological Innovation in Policy Studies
* Douglas McGregor Award for the Study of Values and Social Change
* Peace Corps Volunteer, Senegal
