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Tara BryanTara Bryan, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Public Administration
Date of Appointment: 2012

Phone: (402) 554.2751
E-mail: tbryan@unomaha.edu
Fax: (402) 554.2682
Office: CB 111N

Primary Expertise

Organization capacity
Public and Nonprofit strategic management
Large scale organization and system change
Metropolitan governance

Education

B.A., Political Science, St. Mary's University, San Antonio, Texas, 2000
M.P.S.A., Public Service Administration, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, 2004
Ph.D.,  Public Administration and Policy, Virginia Tech, Alexandria, Virginia, 2011

Professional Research

Professor Bryan's areas of research include the strategic management of  public and nonprofit organizations, large-scale organizational and systems change, and regional governance.  Her research has been published in Public Organization Review and State and Local Government Review.  Her current research include organizational capacity in local nonprofit and public organizations delivering social services, governance capacity of regional organizations in addressing energy and climate policy efforts, and the roles of external funders, including national foundations,  in large-scale change efforts in public institutions.

Publications

Wolf, James F. and Tara Kolar Bryan. 2009.  “Identifying the Capacities of Regional Councils of Government.” State and Local Government Review 41(1): 61-68.

Bryan, Tara Kolar and James F. Wolf. “Soft Regionalism in Action: Examining Voluntary Regional Councils’ Structures, Processes and Programs” Public Organization Review. Forthcoming.  Published online November 12, 2009.

Professional Activities

Professor Bryan is a member of the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action, Academy of Management, and Public Management Research Association