Doug Goodman

Dr. Doug Goodman is a Professor & Director of the School of Public Administration at the University of Central Florida. He is also an inaugural John C. Stennis Fellow at the John C. Stennis Institute of Government and Community Development at Mississippi State University.

Dr. Goodman's main teaching and research area focuses on public human resource management and public administration. Dr. Goodman joined UCF as the Director of the School of Public Administration in August 2020. Prior to that, Dr. Goodman served a the program head for Public & Nonprofit Management (2015-2018) and was the MPA Director (2012-2016). In 2019, he received his program's Outstanding Graduate Professor Award. Dr. Goodman began is career at Mississippi State University in 2001. He was the graduate coordinator from 2008 to 2010. While at MSU where he received his department's Outstanding Professor award twice (2004 and 2007). He was nominated for several other college and university awards. Dr. Goodman has directed a number of Ph.D. dissertations and serves on many other dissertation committees. Dr. Goodman served as the Chair for the Section on Personnel and Labor Relations at ASPA from 2016-2018. He is currently the Vice-President of the Southeastern Conference from Public Administration.

Dr. Goodman's research interests include at-will employment in the public sector, human resource management reforms, diversity, equity, and inclusion in public organizations, organization behavior, local government, sustainability, and public sector retirement benefits. Dr. Goodman has a co-edited 2 books, Texas: Yesterday and Today—Readings in Texas Politics and Public Policy and Contested Landscape: The Politics of Wilderness in Utah and the West. His publications appear in journals such as Public Administration, American Review of Public Administration, Review of Public Personnel Administration, Political Research Quarterly, Human Resource Development Quarterly, Public Personnel Management, Politics & Policy, Public Administration Review, and American Review of Politics. His and his co-authors' 2010 American Review of Public Administration article was named the journal's best article for 2010. Dr. Goodman serves on the editorial boards at the Review of Public Personnel Administration, Public Personnel Management, and Journal of Public and Nonprofit Administration.