Rob Blanton, Ph.D., an expert on the international political economy, including the human impacts of the global economy and the intersection of human rights and the global economic system, has been named chair of the Department of Political Science and Public Administration. He will begin his new position Aug. 1.
Blanton has been a professor in the department since 2014. Prior to his work at UAB, he was a professor in the Department of Political Science and the Center for Interdisciplin...
Dr. Borry (she/her/hers) has been teaching in the UAB MPA program since 2013. Her research investigates public sector rule behavior, red tape, public administration in pop culture, and social equity. In 2015, Dr. Borry was awarded the College of Arts and Sciences Dean’s grant, which allowed her to explore the utility of the NBC series Parks and Recreation for the public administration classroom. Her work has appeared in Public Administration Review, Perspectives on Public Management and Governan...
Minjung Kim is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Prior to joining UAB, she was a postdoctoral fellow in the Center for Social Impact Strategy at the University of Pennsylvenia's School of Social Policy and Practice in 2021-22. She holds her Ph.D. in public administration from American University.
She has received Emerging Scholar Award from Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizatio...
Rob Blanton, Ph.D., an expert on the international political economy, including the human impacts of the global economy and the intersection of human rights and the global economic system, has been named chair of the Department of Political Science and Public Administration. He will begin his new position Aug. 1.
Blanton has been a professor in the department since 2014. Prior to his work at UAB, he was a professor in the Department of Political Science and the Center for Interdisciplin...
Dr. Tina Kempin Reuter is the Director of the Institute for Human Rights, Director of the Center for Social Science and Justice Research, and Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration and the Department of Anthropology, specializing in human rights, peace studies, and international politics at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). Her research focuses on human rights with a particular emphasis on the struggle of vulnerable and marginalized popu...
