The life of George

Jimtown High School

Elkhart, IndianaGraduated 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 aidUS Navy ‘Seabees’

1977-82

Dames & Moore, Coffey & Partners

(Northern Territory, Australia)

Civil engineering materials laboratory managerIn 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 Society1987-9

McConnel & Associates

(Brisbane, Queensland)Civil engineering materials technician

1987-9

Ministry of Works(Nuku’alofa, Tonga)

Roads Engineer1990-1

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 inspector1992-3

Indiana University(Bloomington, IN)

Adjunct ProfessorSPEA1998-9

PhD student, instructor1993-8

Field research(Santa Catarina and Sergipe, Brazil)

1997Dissertation 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 Professor1999-2002

Dalhousie University(Halifax, Nova Scotia)

Visiting facultySchool of Management

(Summer 2000 & 1)

Bridgewater State College(Bridgewater, MA)

Assistant professor, MPA program2002-4

IUSB

Associate Professor, Indiana University South Bend, from summer 2004(Associate as of 1 July 2007)

Associate ProfessorUniversity of North Florida

Summer 2010-15

ProfessorUniversity 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.