Professor of Public Administration

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Education

• Ph.D., (Public Budgeting & Finance, Public Policy, Public Administration), 1995, The University of Georgia
• M.P.A., (General Public Administration), 1989, University of Memphis
• B.A., Political Science (Public Policy concentration), 1984, Rhodes College

Teaching Specialties

• Special Topics: Politics and Popular Culture of the Twenties, Thirties, Sixties, Seventies and Eighties
• Public Budgeting & Finance
• Seminar in Human Resource Administration
• Women and Politics (a.k.a. Gender, Politics and Popular Culture)
• Public Budgeting Process
• Public Personnel Administration
• State & Local Government
• Introduction to U.S. Government

Research Interests

• Public Budgeting & Finance
• Public Personnel Administration
• Public Policy
• State Government
• Women & Politics

Affiliations

• American Society for Public Administration & its Section on Public Budgeting & Finance & its Section on Personnel & Labor Relations
• Arkansas Political Science Association
• Government Finance Officers Association
• Pi Alpha Alpha - National Honor Society for Public Affairs and Administration
• Pi Sigma Alpha - National Honor Society for Political Science

Curriculum Vitae

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Biography

Dr. Catherine C. Reese is a Professor of Public Administration in the Department of Political Science at Arkansas State University. She teaches public budgeting and finance, Women and Politics, public human resource management, and public policy courses, including several on the politics and popular culture of different decades. Dr. Reese is the 2009 recipient of the ASU Board of Trustees Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Articles by Dr. Reese have appeared in Public Administration Review, Public Budgeting & Finance, the Review of Public Personnel Administration, and Politics & Policy. She has several co-authored chapters in Readings in Arkansas Politics & Government, which came out in December 2019, of which she was also co-editor. She released an e-book in December 2022 entitled Fair Pay for Women: Time for a Revolution, available on Apple Books. Her research interests include the gender pay gap, state-level public policy, human resource management, and public budgeting and finance.