Primary Faculty
Jeremy L. Hall, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Public Affairs
Dr. Jeremy L. Hall will be relocating to the University of Texas at Dallas as Assistant Professor of Public Affairs, effective August, 2008.
Dr. Hall served on the UAB faculty from 2005 to 2008, after completing doctoral studies at the University of Kentucky Martin School of Public Administration. He also holds an MPA from the Martin School, and earned a Bachelor's degree in Music and Government from Centre College.
Dr. Hall's research appears, or is forthcoming, in several notable academic journals, including Public Administration Review, American Review of Public Administration, Economic Development Quarterly, Policy Studies Journal, and the Journal of Public Affairs Education. He received the 2004 Pi Alpha Alpha Best Doctoral Manuscript Award (NASPAA), and the 2003 Collins Award for Best Doctoral Paper (SECoPA). He was a Leadership East Kentucky participant in 2003. Dr. Hall is an active member of ASPA, APSA, APPAM, SPSA, and SECoPA, of which he is a member of the Board of Directors. He is Vice President of the Board of Directors for the Birmingham Chapter of ASPA (2008-2009), serves on the Center for Accountability and Performance (CAP) Board of Directors (2008-2011), and chairs a subcommittee of ASPA’s Strategic Workgroup #1, “Be Member Focused”. Dr. Hall is regularly called upon to serve as grant review panel leader for HUD’s Office of University Partnerships. He is the author and co-author of numerous grants, research reports and encyclopedia articles.
Dr. Hall teaches courses including the Public Policymaking Process, Bureaucracy, Economic Development, Strategic Planning, Program Evaluation, Grant Writing and Management, and State and Local Government. His research agenda is focused at the intersection of public policy, public management and economic development. Within this framework, he has developed and tested new measures of innovation capacity in the U.S. states, considering the effects of capacity on economic development and growth in the new economy. Other research topics of interest include Public Policy Analysis, Public Sector Capacity, Public Organizational Performance, Best Practices, Local & Regional Economic Development, Rural Development, Innovation Policy, Science and Technology Policy, Intergovernmental Relations, and Fiscal Federalism.
