Ann O'M. Bowman
Professor and Hazel Davis and Robert Kennedy Endowed Chair in Government and Public Service
Dr. Ann Bowman holds the Hazel Davis and Robert Kennedy Endowed Chair in Government and Public Service. Dr. Bowman joined the Bush School faculty in 2008, coming from the University of South Carolina where she was the James F. and Maude B. Byrnes Professor of Government. She specializes in state and local politics and management; public policy, especially the substantive areas of environment, economic development, and land use; and intergovernmental relations.
Dr. Bowman has published articles in various scholarly journals; most recently these include Publius: The Journal of Federalism, State Politics and Policy Quarterly, the Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, and the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory. Recent books include the seventh edition of State and Local Government (Houghton-Mifflin, 2008, co-authored with Richard C. Kearney) and Terra Incognita: Vacant Land and Urban Strategies (Georgetown University Press, 2004, co-authored with Michael A. Pagano).
She has held a Lincoln Government Fellowship at the National League of Cities in Washington, D.C., and later received a Fulbright award to Denmark to serve as the Odense Distinguished Chair in American Studies. Dr. Bowman has won the Donald C. Stone Award for Research, given by the Section on Intergovernmental Administration and Management of the American Society for Public Administration. She has been president of two organized sections of the American Political Science Association (APSA): Public Policy and Urban Politics; she has been Book Review Editor for the Journal of Politics and Urban Affairs Review. Currently, she is a member of the editorial boards of State Politics and Policy Quarterly and Urban Affairs Review, the Advisory Council of Publius: The Journal of Federalism, and the Executive Committee of the APSA's Public Policy section.
Dr. Bowman was on the Texas A&M University faculty previously. She taught in the Department of Political Science from 1979 to 1981, after receiving her Ph.D. from the University of Florida.
