Shirley Geiger, Council 2003-05 Savannah State University

Shirley M. Geiger, Savannah State University
Council 2003-05

Shirley Geiger is an associate professor of public administration and political science at Savannah State University, where she has taught for the past seven years. Dr. Geiger formerly served as interim director of the MPA program and is currently coordinator of the University's Community Development Work Study Program grant that prepares graduate students for careers in community building. Before beginning her academic career in 1990, Dr. Geiger worked in housing and community development at the state, local, and federal levels. Prior to joining the SSU faculty, she taught at the University of South Carolina at Columbia, McMurray College (Abilene, TX), and Columbia College (Columbia, SC). She is a graduate of the University of South Carolina (Ph.D. and MPA) and Howard University (BA) and participated in a post-doctoral fellowship in public policy and minority communities at the Roy Wilkins Center for Social Justice at the Humphrey Institute, University of Minnesota. Additional training includes completion of an executive seminar on Budgeting and Finance in the Public Sector at the John F. Kennedy School of Govern-ment, Harvard University, and advanced leadership training seminars at the Center for Creative Leadership, Greensboro.

Dr. Geiger's research focuses on public budgetary decision making, women and public policy, non-traditional leaders, affirmative action, conflict resolution in the public sector, and housing and com-munity development. Her work has appeared in Legislative Quarterly; Leadership Journal; PS; National Women's Studies Association Journal; and The Proceedings of the Tenth Annual Conference on Housing, and she recently co-edited a special issue of Politics and Policy.

As a member of the APSA Council, Dr. Geiger will bring her interest in issues of work and family for women in the academy, community-university linkages, and the continued importance of HBCU's in preparing the next generation of political scientists and public administrators.