Awards 2001.(Brief Article)

Dwight Waldo Award

For Outstanding Contributions to the Literature and Leadership of Public Administration through an Extended Career

John A. Rohr is a professor of public administration at the Center for Public Administration and Policy at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Virginia. In addition to his doctorate in political science from the University of Chicago, Dr. Rohr holds graduate degrees in philosophy and theology from Loyola and Georgetown Universities, respectively. He has written and lectured extensively on the constitutional foundations of public administration and on ethical issues that confront the career civil servant. He is the author of seven books and more than 100 articles and reviews. He has lectured at many universities and government institutions throughout the United States and in Canada, France, Germany, and Portugal. In 1988, he received the Distinguished Research Award, presented jointly by the American Society for Public Administration and the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration (NASPAA). The following year, he received a Fulbright Research Scholar Award, which enabled him to spend eight months in Paris in 1990 at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris. He has also received grants from the Canadian Embassy in Washington, the Earhart Foundation, the German Marshall Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Borchard Foundation, and the Bradley Foundation. During 1980-87, Dr. Rohr was managing editor of the scholarly journal Administration and Society, and he currently serves as associate editor of that journal. Presently, he is a member of the editorial boards of the Public Administration Review, American Review of Public Administration, Public Integrity, ...