Karen Mossberger , Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
Ph.D., Political Science (1996)
Wayne State University

Public Administration (M/C 278)
135 CUPPA Hall
phone: 312-413-8246
fax: 312-996-8804
mossberg@uic.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Karen Mossberger is Associate Professor of Public Administration at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She specializes in research and teaching on local government and public policy. Within public policy, her interests include urban policy, information technology, and policy diffusion and learning. She is co-author of a new book, Digital Citizenship: The Internet, Society and Participation (Mossberger, Tolbert and McNeal, MIT Press 2008), which demonstrates the effects of technology disparities on equality of opportunity in the political and economic spheres. Her other research on digital inequality includes an article on "Race, Place, and Information Technology" co-authored with Caroline Tolbert and Michele Gilbert, which won the 2005 best paper award for the Public Policy Section of the American Political Science Association. Mossberger has also co-authored research on e-government and is active in the science and technology policy research group in the department. A forthcoming co-authored article in Public Administration Review examines innovation in e-government in the American states, using time series analysis. Currently, Mossberger is involved in research on local government in the Chicago area. She is conducting research on neighborhood initiatives in Chicago as part of a cross-national project on Regenerating Urban Neighborhoods that includes 18 cities in 11 countries. Mossberger is also a co-PI (with Rebecca Hendrick) on research on suburban local government capacity to meet human services needs with the shifting geography of poverty in the Chicago area.

Her work has appeared in Public Administration Review, Urban Affairs Review, Social Science Quarterly, Publius: The Journal of Federalism, and Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy and has been supported by grants from the Smith Richardson Foundation, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and the Chicago Community Trust, among others. She is currently co-editor of the Oxford University Press Handbook of Urban Politics, and is a series editor for Georgetown University Press.