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Patricia Shields Texas State University, San Marcos, USA

View Dr. Patricia Shield's homepage at https://www.polisci.txstate.edu/people/faculty/shields.html.

Dr. Patricia Shields is a Professor in the Department of Political Science of Texas State University. She received her BA in Economics from the University of Maryland College Park (1973). She further pursued her study in Economics at The Ohio State University by earning a Masters of Arts (1975) and finished her educational pursuit with a Ph.D. in Public Administration (1977). She began teaching at Texas State University in1978 and received tenure in 1984. Since her Texas State career began, she has received many awards for excellence in teaching such as the National Association for Schools of Public Affairs and Administration, Leslie A. Whittington Excellence in Teaching Award (2002), The Texas State Presidential Award for Excellence in Teaching (2001), the Texas State Faculty Senate, Everette Swinney Teaching Award (2010) as well as the Professor of the Year Award from the Central Texas Chapter of the American Society for Public Administration (2006). She has taught 10 graduate and undergraduate courses including statistics, public finance, public policy, public sector economics and research methods. Currently she focuses on the MPA Program capstone process and has supervised over 400 Applied Research Projects, many of which have won national and regional awards. She has published over 60 articles and book chapters in subjects such as the history of women in public administration, public pricing, cutback management, privatization, the sunset review process, military recruitment, conscription, women in the military, military families, expeditionary and peacekeeping forces, positive peace, and military bureaucracies. She is most well-known for applying the philosophy of pragmatism to public administration and research methods in public administration. It was in this literature that she found the works of Jane Addams and Addams’s link to public administration. She has also published two books Step by Step: Building a Research Paper and A Playbook for Research Methods: Integrating Conceptual Frameworks and Project Management (with Nandhini Rangarajan) and an edited book Routledge Handbook of Research Methods in Military Studies (with Joseph Soeters and Sebastiaan Rietjens). In 1984 she won the Texas State Presidential Seminar research award and in 2007 she won the Public Administration Review Laverne Burchfield Award for the best review essay. In addition, professionally, she serves on the Editorial Board for Administration & Society and the Journal of Public Affairs Education. Finally, since 2001 she has served as Editor-in-Chief to Armed Forces and Society, the leading peer reviewed journal on civil-military relations. Email Dr. Patricia Shields at afsjournal@txstate.edu.