I am an Assistant Professor of public administration and management at the Evans School of Public Policy and Governance at the University of Washington Seattle. I am also a Research Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Women and Public Policy Program (WAPPP).
My research lies at the intersection of public management and administration, personnel management, and social equity. Broadly, I apply research that investigates organizational equity performance.
UPCOMING EVENTS
Research Seminar Presentation
University of Illinois Chicago, Department of Public Administration research seminar presentation.
Presentation Title: Effects of Shared Social Identity on Bureaucrat-Citizen Information Seeking and Sharing Behavior
Date: October 29, 2021
RECENT UPDATES
CAREER UPDATE
I joined the Evans School of Public Policy and Governance at the University of Washington in Seattle as an Assistant Professor in the fall of 2021
FELLOWSHIP
I was recently awarded a third year research fellowship extension, for the academic year 2021-2022, at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, (the Women and Public Policy Program, WAPPP)
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Bishu, S.G. & Heckler, N. (2020). Women Municipal Managers Doing and Undoing Gender. Journal of Public Administration and Theory.
Bishu, S.G. and Headley, A.M. (2020). Equal Employment Opportunity: Women Administrators in Male Roles. Public Administration Review.
Kennedy, A. and Bishu, S.G. (2020). This for That: EEOC Outcomes and Representative Bureaucracy. Review of Public Personnel Administration.
Stonehill, A., Bishu, S.G., and Taddse, H. (2020). Factors associated with long-acting and short-acting reversible contraceptive use in Ethiopia. British Medical Journal Sexual and Reproductive Health.
Bishu, S.G. and Kennedy, A. (2020). Facing the Giant: A Framework to Undo Sex-Based Discrimination in Academia. Public Administration Review.
Kennedy, A., Bishu, S.G., and Heckler, N. (2020). Feminism, Masculinity, and Active Representation: A Gender Analysis of Representative Bureaucracy. Administration and Society.