The life of George

Jimtown High School

Elkhart, Indiana

Graduated 1977

“Now when I was a little chap I had a passion for maps. I would look for hours at South America, or Africa, or Australia, and lose myself in all the glories of exploration. At that time there were many blank spaces on the earth, and when I saw one that looked particularly inviting on a map (but they all look that) I would put my finger on it and say, When I grow up I will go there.”

-- The narrator, in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness (1902)

US Navy

(Panama, Japan, Philippines)

Engineering aid

US Navy ‘Seabees’

1977-82

Dames & Moore, Coffey & Partners

(Northern Territory, Australia)

Civil engineering materials laboratory manager

In Darwin (1983-5) and Katherine (1986)

Also student:

Introduction to Politics,

at Darwin Institute of Technology

(1986)

Griffith University

(Brisbane, Queensland)

B.A. Politics and Society

1987-9

McConnel & Associates

(Brisbane, Queensland)

Civil engineering materials technician

1987-9

Ministry of Works

(Nuku’alofa, Tonga)

Roads Engineer

1990-1

Position arranged as part of the

Australian Volunteers Abroad program(rough equivalent of US Peace Corps)

Deakin University

(Geelong, Victoria)

B.Litt (hons)

International development

1990-1

(external student)

Geotechnical and Materials Testing, Inc.

(Sterling, VA)

Construction inspector

1992-3

Indiana University

(Bloomington, IN)

Adjunct Professor

SPEA

1998-9

PhD student, instructor

1993-8

Field research

(Santa Catarina and Sergipe, Brazil)

1997

Dissertation topic:

Civil society and development -- the role of the third sector in the public policy process

in Santa Catarina and Sergipe, Brazil.

University of Vermont

(Burlington, VT)

Visiting Assistant Professor

1999-2002

Dalhousie University

(Halifax, Nova Scotia)

Visiting faculty

School of Management

(Summer 2000 & 1)

Bridgewater State College

(Bridgewater, MA)

Assistant professor, MPA program

2002-4

IUSB

Associate Professor, Indiana University South Bend, from summer 2004

(Associate as of 1 July 2007)

Associate Professor

University of North Florida

Summer 2010-15

Professor

University of North Florida

From Fall 2015

What makes me tick:“The study of public administration in India, the Philippines, Canada and Australia: the

universal struggle against epistemic colonization, and toward critical assimilation.” Revista de Administração Pública, 48(5), 2014.

“‘Assimilação crítica’ and research on the periphery.” Presented at the Seminário Internacional Guerreiro Ramos: O Legado de uma Dupla Cidadania Acadêmica.” Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 15 October 2014.