Rosemary O'Leary
Distinguished Professor, Public AdministrationContact Information
| Office: | 400 Eggers |
| Phone: | 443-4991 |
| Web Page: | Available here |
| Email: | roleary at maxwell.syr.edu |
Brief Biography
Rosemary O’Leary is Distinguished Professor of Public Administration and the author of six books and over one hundred articles on environmental management, environmental policy, public management, dispute resolution, bureaucratic politics, and law and public policy. An elected member of the U.S. National Academy of Public Administration, she was a senior Fulbright scholar conducting research on environmental policy in Malaysia and the Philippines. She was professor of public and environmental affairs at Indiana University, and cofounder and co-director of the Indiana Conflict Resolution Institute. O’Leary has served as the director of policy and planning for a state environmental agency and has worked as an environmental attorney. She was a consultant to the U.S. Department of the Interior, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Indiana Department of Environmental Management, the U.S. Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution, the International City/County Management Association, the National Science Foundation, and the National Academy of Sciences. She served on the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Return to Flight Task Group and the Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel as a consultant to NASA management on issues pertaining to organization culture and change. O’Leary received her J.D. from the University of Kansas in 1981 and her Ph.D. from Syracuse University in 1988.
Environmental Research Areas
- Environmental Conflict Resolution
- Environmental Governance
- Environmental Management
- Environmental Policy
Selected Papers and Abstracts since 2000
- The Ethics of Dissent: Managing Guerrilla Government, Rosemary O'Leary, CQ Press, Washington, DC, December 2005.
- Environmental Governance Reconsidered: Challenges, Choices and Opportunities, Edited by Robert F. Durant, Daniel J. Fiorino and Rosemary O'Leary, The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, January 2004.
- Public Managers, Attorneys and Alternative Dispute Resolution of Environmental and Natural Resources Conflicts: Results and Implications of a National Survey, Rosemary O'Leary and Maja Husar, International Journal of Public Administration, 25(11), pp. 1267-1280, December 2002.