Area of Expertise: Space policy, American politics, science policy

Additional Information: Howard E. McCurdy, professor of public administration and policy in the School of Public Affairs, specializes in space policy, the management culture of NASA, public administration, and American politics. He recently coauthored Robots in Space: Technology, Evolution, and Interplanetary Travel. He authored a study of NASA’s low-cost initiatives, Faster, Better, Cheaper,in 2001. In 2006 he collaborated with AU colleague David Rosenbloom to produce Revisiting Waldo's Administrative State: Constancy and Change in Public Administration, which reassesses the political theory of American public administration. In addition, McCurdy wrote Space and the American Imagination and coedited Space Flight and the Myth of Presidential Leadership. An earlier book, Inside NASA: High Technology and Organizational Change in the U.S. Space Program, was awarded the 1994 Henry Adams prize for the best book on the history of the federal government. McCurdy also publishes in journals such as Public Administration Review and Space Policy and has authored various book chapters and monographs. McCurdy is often consulted by the media on public policy and space policy issues and has appeared on NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, CNN's Newsmaker Saturday,and the NBC, ABC, and CBS evening news. He has been interviewed by VOA, NPR, BBC Radio, the Orlando Sentinel, Houston Chronicle, the New York Times, the Washington Post,and others.

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