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Vicky Wilkins Dean, School of Public Affairs Department of Public Administration and Policy

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Vicky M. Wilkins is the Dean of the School of Public Affairs and Professor of Public Administration and Policy at American University. Her primary research interests include representative bureaucracy; bureaucratic discretion; gender and race issues; deservingness; political institutions and human resource management. Her research appears in the American Political Science Review, Public Administration Review, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Governance, Review of Public Personnel Administration, Administration & Society, Policy Studies Journal, and Legislative Studies Quarterly.

Vicky earned her BS in Political Science and History from Northern Michigan University, her MS in Human Resource Management from Chapman University, and her PhD in political science from the University of Missouri.
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Teaching

Summer 2022

  • PUAD-665 Managing Human Capital Assets

  • PUAD-665 Managing Human Capital Assets

  • SPA-085 Topics in Public Affairs: HR 101: What You Don't Know

Fall 2022

  • PUAD-260 Administrative Politics

  • PUAD-665 Managing Human Capital Assets

  • PUAD-665 Managing Human Capital Assets

Spring 2023

  • PUAD-665 Managing Human Capital Assets

  • PUAD-665 Managing Human Capital Assets

  • PUAD-665 Managing Human Capital Assets

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Area of Expertise

Representative bureaucracy; bureaucratic discretion; gender and race issues; deservingness; political institutions and human resource management

Additional Information

Vicky M. Wilkins is the Dean of the School of Public Affairs and Professor of Public Administration and Policy at American University. Her research appears in the American Political Science Review, Public Administration Review, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Governance, Review of Public Personnel Administration, Administration & Society, Policy Studies Journal, and Legislative Studies Quarterly. She earned her BS in Political Science and History from Northern Michigan University, her MS in Human Resource Management from Chapman University, and her PhD in political science from the University of Missouri.

For the Media

To request an interview for a news story, call AU Communications at 202-885-5950 or submit a request.

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