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). 

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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

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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

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FELLOWSHIP

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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)

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RECENT PUBLICATIONS

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Bishu, S.G. & Heckler, N. (2020). Women Municipal Managers Doing and Undoing Gender. Journal of Public Administration and Theory.

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Bishu, S.G. and Headley, A.M. (2020). Equal Employment Opportunity: Women Administrators in Male Roles. Public Administration Review.

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Kennedy, A. and Bishu, S.G. (2020). This for That: EEOC Outcomes and Representative Bureaucracy. Review of Public Personnel Administration. 

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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.

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Bishu, S.G. and Kennedy, A. (2020).  Facing the Giant: A Framework to Undo Sex-Based Discrimination in Academia. Public Administration Review.

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Kennedy, A., Bishu, S.G., and Heckler, N. (2020). Feminism, Masculinity, and Active Representation: A Gender Analysis of Representative Bureaucracy. Administration and Society.