Camilla Stivers

Camilla Stivers is Distinguished Professor of Public Administration at Levin College of Cleveland State University.

She received an MPA from the University of Southern California and a Ph.D. in public administration and policy from Virginia Tech.

She is a former Albert A. Levin Professor of Urban Studies and Public Service at Levin College. She is also Associate Editor of Public Administration Review. From 1968 to 1985, she was a practicing manager in public and community-based nonprofit organizations. In 1986-87 she was associate study director for the National Academy of Sciences/Institute of Medicine report, "The Future of Public Health." From 1987 to 1996 she was a member of the public administration faculty at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. She has been an active member of ASPA since 1979, serving on the national council, a variety of committees, and the Evergreen chapter board. She is the author of Gender Images in Public Administration: Legitimacy and the Administrative State, for which she received the Distinguished Research Award from the Section on Women in Public Administration (ASPA). Dr. Stivers is a coauthor of Government is Us: Public Administration in an Anti-government Era, Bureau Men, Settlement Women: Constructing Public Administration in the Progressive Era, and has published widely in peer-reviewed journals. “Democratic Knowledge: Building Civic Capacity Through University Public Service” by Camilla Stivers, Ph.D. Presented at Valedictory Dinner to mark the conclusion of term as holder of the Albert A. Levin Chair in Urban Studies and Public Service, Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs, Cleveland State University, October 29, 2002