Susan Appe

Biography

Susan Appe is an Associate Professor of Public Administration and Policy at the Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy at the University at Albany, SUNY. Before coming to UAlbany, she was a faculty member at Binghamton University, SUNY for six years. Her research focuses on government-nonprofit relations and the dimensions and evolution of the nonprofit sector. Current projects include examining how government policy influences and shapes civil society and nonprofit organizations; how and why nonprofit organizations form national-level networks and their implications; and the relationship between organized civil society, foreign aid and development—with a focus on development administration and private philanthropy in development. She is currently working on research projects related to diaspora philanthropy as well as about the roles of public administration and nonprofit organizations in mass atrocity prevention. In addition, Professor Appe researches nonprofit management education and pedagogy related to the internationalization of public affairs education. Professor Appe has taught courses in nonprofit management, philanthropy, public management, and public policy. In 2018, she was recipient of the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching in the State University of New York system.

She has published articles related to government-nonprofit relations, collaborative governance and foreign aid provision across public administration and development studies peer-reviewed journals including Public Administration Review, Administration & Society, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Nonprofit Management and Leadership, Nonprofit Policy Forum, Public Administration and Development, Development in Practice, and the Journal of International Development. She presents her work at the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA), the International Society for Third Sector Research (ISTR), and the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration (NASPAA).

Professor Appe has had Fulbright appointments in Ecuador (2015-2016) and Colombia (2006; 2017) and is the Co-Editor-in-Chief of VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, and serves on the Executive Council of the Inter-American Network of Public Administration Education (INPAE) and on the Board of Directors of the International Society for Third-Sector Research (ISTR). She was an elected member on the Non-profit Management Education Section Executive Council and co-chaired its Task Force on Nonprofit Competencies for the Network of Schools of Public Policy, Affairs, and Administration (NASPAA) from 2014-2016. She is regularly invited to guest lecture at universities around the world including Los Andes University, National University, Javeriana University, and EAFIT in Colombia; Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar in Ecuador; Yerevan State University in Armenia; and Strathmore University in Kenya.

Dr. Appe has a BA from Saint Michael’s College and a MA in Arts Management from the University of Oregon. She is a Rockefeller alum, having received her MPA and PhD in Public Administration and Policy from the College.