Рецензирование:

журнал "Review of Public Personnel Administration"
журнал "Journal of Eurasian studies (JES)"

2016  ISTR's 12th International Conference: The Third Sector in Transition: Accountability, Transparency, and Social Inclusion, June 28-July 2,  (Paper presented, panel presentation)

2016 XVII Annual April COnference on the development of the economy and society in NRU HSE, April 19-22, 2016 (paper presented)

2015 ARNOVA’s 44th Annual Conference | November 19-21, Chicago IL, USA (paper presented)

2015    XVI Annual April Conference on the development of the economy and the society in NRU HSE Russia, April 8-10, 2015

2014   ASPA - American Society of Public Administration 18th annual conference, Washington DC. USA. March 14-18, 2014

2012   Национальный форум "Государственная служба России: развитие и управление человеческим капиталом" РАНХиГС

2012 10^th International ISTR conference in Siena,  Italy (2 papers presented)

2010  9^th ISTR International Conference in Istanbul, Turkey (2 papers presented)

2008 37^th Annual ARNOVA conference in Philadelphia,USA  (2 papers presented)

2007 36^th Annual ARNOVA conference in Atlanta, USA (paper presented)

2007 Open Society Institute conference for grantees, New York, USA (paper presented)

2006   7th Central Eurasian Studies Society conference at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, USA (paper presented)

2004   33d Annual ARNOVA conference in Los Angeles, USA (paper presented)

2003 4th Central al Eurasian Studies Society Conference at the Harvard University, Cambridge, USA (paper presented)

2002   Local Government Initiative, Open Society Institute. Conference in Kyrgyzstan (paper presented).

Национальный Исследовательский Университет "Высшая школа экономики" -  Москва 2012  доцент

Университет ДеПол  - Чикаго, США 2007-2012 доцент

Университет штата Иллинойс в Чикаго -  Чикаго, США Адьюнкт доцент 2009-2012

Университет штата Джорджия в Атенс,  - Атенс, США, старший инструктор 2002 - 2007

Университет КИМЭП Алматы, Казахстан - инструктор - 1999 - 2002

CURRICULUM VITAE

Tamara G. Nezhina

Ph.D. in Public Administration and Policy

15 Vilnusskaya Str. 116

Moscow, 117574

Russian Federation

Mobile: +7-903-736-5644

email: tgnezhina@hse.ru

     tnezhina@yahoo.com

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Educational Background

Ph.D.                          Public Administration and Policy

2007                            The University of Georgia, Athens (UGA), School of Public and International Affairs, Department of Public Administration and Policy.

M.Phil.                        Maastricht School of Management, Netherlands. Human Resource

2001-2002                   Management.

Summer school          Central European University (CEU), Budapest, Hungary

2000.                           Advanced Certificate in Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations and Local

Financial Management

MPA                           The University of Georgia, Athens (UGA), Department of Political

1998                            Science and Public Administration             

Baccalaureate           Alma-Ata Pedagogic Institute of Foreign Languages, Kazakhstan, USSR

in English

and French

Languages    

1982

Publications

Peer-review Journal Articles and Book Chapters

Нежина Т. Г., Петухова К. А., Чечеткина Н. И., Миндарова И. С. Мотивация участия молодежи в волонтерском движении // Вопросы государственного и муниципального управления. 2014. Т.  3. С. 49-71.

“Public Administration Reforms in Kazakhstan,” Chapter in the volume Public Administration in Post-communist Countries: Former Soviet Union, Central and Eastern Europe, and Mongolia, edited by Stephen Condrey, Saltanat Liebert, and Dmitry Goncharov, in  Public Administration and Public Policy book series by CPC publisher (Taylor & Francis Group), (with Aigerim Ibrayeva) (2013).

“Explaining the Role of Culture and Traditions in Functioning of Civil Society in Central Asia.” VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, (June,2013) Volume 24, Issue 2, pp 335-358

 “The Effects of Adoption of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act by Nonprofit Organizations,” Nonprofit Management and Leadership (with Jeffrey L. Brudney) Vol. 22, N. 3, 321-346, (2012).

“Measuring the Value of Volunteering.” Chapter in The Volunteer Management Leadership Handbook, Edited by Tracy D. Connors, (Second Edition), John Wiley & Sons , (with Jeffrey L. Brudney), (in print, 2011).

"The Sarbanes-Oxley Act: More Bark than Bite for Nonprofits," Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Vol. 39, No. 2, 275-301 (2010),  (with Jeffrey L. Brudney).

 “Challenges of Volunteer Management in Kazakhstan,” in Volume Challenges in Volunteer Management edited by Matthew Liao-Troth, (July 2008), (with Jeffrey L. Brudney, and Aigerim Ibrayeva).

“What is Old is New Again: Achieving Effectiveness with Volunteer Programs in Kazakhstan,” Voluntas (September 2005), Vol. 16, No. 3, pp. 293-308 (with Jeffrey L. Brudney).

Forthcoming in 2014:

“Informal volunteering in Central Asia and Russia,” Chapter 10, Co-author in Palgrave Handbook on Volunteering and Nonprofit Associations, ed. by Colin Rochester (UK), Robert A. Stebbins (Canada), and David Norton Smith (USA) (2014)

Work in progress for publications

“Corruption in Kazakhstan: theoretical approaches to determine causal factors of systemic corruption” 2014.

“Comparative analysis of Open Government initiatives in Russia and the USA”

“Defining the framework of trust in Kazakhstan and Russia: traditions over modernity,” (with Aigerim Ibrayeva)

"Patterns, motives, and obstacles toward giving in transition economies: the example of Kazakhstan" (with Aigerim Ibrayeva).

 “Social enterprise in Europe and America: effects of ideology and economic crisis”.

“Women united: new role for women’s organizations in Kazakhstan” (with Aigerim Ibrayeva)

Research presentations

“Motivation for public service among the MPA students in Russia” – 15^th April international conference, Russia, Moscow, April 7-11, 2015.

“Corruption in Kazakhstan: causes and prospects” –ASPA's 2014 Annual Conference, Washington D.C. USA, March 5-8, 2014.

“Open government : the problem of access and understanding,” scientific-practical conference at Russian academy of national economy and public administration, Moscow, October 24, 2012

“Civil society in Kazakhstan and Russia: defining the framework of trust,” biannual  ISTR  10^th international conference, Siena Italy, July 9-13, 2012.

“Social enterprise in Europe and America: effects of ideology and economic crisis” (2010) presented at the 9^th biannual ISTR conference in Turkey, July 7-10, 2010.

“Women united: new role for women’s organizations in Kazakhstan” (2010), presented at the 9^th biannual ISTR conference in Turkey, July 7-10, 2010.

“Explaining the Role of Culture and Traditions in Building Civil Society in Central Asia” (2008), presented at the 37^th Annual ARNOVA conference in Philadelphia, November 19-22, 2008.

“The Effects of Adoption of The Sarbanes-Oxley Act by Nonprofit Organizations” (2008), presented at the 37^th Annual ARNOVA conference in Philadelphia, November 19-22, 2008

"The Sarbanes-Oxley Act: Unintended effects for the nonprofit sector" (2007), presented at the 36^th Annual ARNOVA conference in Atlanta, November 20-23, 2007

“Achieving Effectiveness with Volunteer Programs in Kazakhstan,” presented at the Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS) conference at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, 2006

“Challenges of Volunteer Management in Kazakhstan” (2004), presented at 33th ARNOVA conference in Los Angeles, November 19-22, 2004.

“First-Generation in the Graduate School and the Response: The University of Georgia Summer Bridge Program,” (2005) presented at the University of Georgia Graduate School professional conference in Athens, Georgia, October 24, 2005.

“The Value of Valuing Volunteers”  Presented at the 34^th ARNOVA conference November 17-19, 2005. Washington DC.

“Expenditure Allocation among Levels of Government in Kazakhstan: Application of the Model for Functional Analysis,” presented at the Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS) conference at Harvard University, October 2-5, 2003. Unpublished manuscript.

“The Prospects for Devolution of Local Governments in Kazakhstan,” presented in 2002 at the conference for Local Government Initiative in Central Asia, sponsored by Open Society Institute.

Conference Participation

      2015                     15^th International April Conference, Russia, Moscow (paper presented)

      2014                     Annual ASPA Conference, Washington DC, USA (paper presented)

      2012                      10^th International ISTR conference in Siena,  Italy (2 papers presented)

     2010                     9^th ISTR International Conference in Istanbul, Turkey (2 papers presented)

2008.       37^th Annual ARNOVA conference in Philadelphia (2 papers presented)

2007. 36^th Annual ARNOVA conference in Atlanta (paper presented)

2007                     Open Society Institute conference for grantees, New York

2006. 4^th Central Eurasian Studies Society conference at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor (paper presented)

2005                     34^th Annual ARNOVA conference in Washington DC, (paper presented)

2004. 33d Annual ARNOVA conference in Los Angeles (paper presented)

2003.             7^th Central Eurasian Studies Society Conference at the

Harvard University (paper presented)

      2002                     Local Government Initiative, Open Society Institute. Conference in

Kyrgyzstan (paper presented).

Professional Journal reviewer

• The Nonprofit Management and Leadership
• The Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly
• The Central Eurasian Studies Review
• Public Personnel Administration and Management

Research Interests

• Public and nonprofit human resource management
• Civil society and nonprofit management
• Policy and Program evaluation
• Policy effects on nonprofit organizations and government agencies

Employment history and teaching

Associate Professor (Dotsent)            Quantitative research

Higher School of Economics             Economics and management in NCOs

National Research University            Instruments of sociological research

Moscow, Russia, 2012- onward        Research seminar       

On-line teaching                  Applied Research and Capstone Integrative Seminar

DePaul University, 2011        (MPS 590 and 593)   

Responsibilities: training and supervision of evaluation projects by more than 50 students.

Assistant professor,                DePaul University, School of Public Service

 2007-2011                             Cross-Sector Analysis (MPS 501)

                                               Ethical Leadership (MPS 502)

                                               Fundraising and Resource Development (MPS 519)

                                               Administrative Ethics (MPS 504)

                                               Managing Local Government (MPS 526)

Applied Research (MPS 590) in-class and on-line

Integrative Seminar (capstone) (MPS 593) in-class and on-line

Senior Research Associate,                Projects: (1) Measurement of the Value of Volunteers in

2004-2007                                          Nonprofit Organizations;

                                                           (2) Summer Bridge Program for the First Generation

 Students at the UGA Graduate School

(3)The Effects of Mothers’ Prenatal Behavior on Health Outcomes of Newly Born Children.

Instructor, 2005                      The University of Georgia in Athens, Department of Public Administration and Policy.

Data Applications in Government and Nonprofit Organizations

Instructor                                The University of Georgia in Athens, Department of Public

2004                                       Administration and Policy. 

                                                Managing Volunteers in Government and Nonprofit Organizations

Teaching Assistant                 The University of Georgia in Athens, Department of Public

1. Administration and Policy, Department of

Political Science.

Introduction to American Government (1101).

Lecturer                                   The Kazakhstan Institute of Management, Economics, and

1999-2002                               Strategic Research, Republic of  Kazakhstan

                                               Department of Political Science and Public Administration

Introduction to Public Administration (undergraduate)

Administrative Ethics (graduate)

Local Government (graduate and undergraduate)

                       Research, Reading and Writing Skills (undergraduate)

University and Community Service

2011-2012                   Fundraising consultant, west Cook YMCA, Oak Park, Illinois

                                    wrote successful grant for $20000 for YMCA Saitama program

Coordinator of volunteers at the West Cook YMCA, Oak Park, Illinois

                            Volunteer to West Suburban P.A.D.S – services to homeless people

                                   Volunteer to the YMCA Tops swim team

                                   Volunteer to the Strikers soccer team

                                   Volunteer auditor at the United Way of Metropolitan Chicago, USA

2009-2011                  Member of Study Abroad Committee, Curriculum Committee, and

Academic Oversight Committee at the School of Public Service at DePaul

University, USA

2008-2009                   SSRC Task Force and Search Committee at the College of Arts and

Science, DePaul University, SSRC External Fundraising Committee.

1.                   Volunteer auditor at the United Way of Northeast Georgia in Athens, USA

2004                            First Generation at College – extracurricular evaluation project of the

                                    Summer Bridge Program for first generation students at the University of

                                    Georgia, conducted with the University of Georgia Graduate School.   

1997-1998                  UGA Habitat for Humanity, Student Coordinator

Professional Membership

• Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA)

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Language Proficiency

• Russian (native language)
• English (fluent)
• French (fair)
• Uzbek and Kazakh languages (theoretical and basic practical knowledge)

International professional travel

2012                     ISTR conference, Siena, Italy

2010                     Conference and data collection, Istanbul, Turkey; Almaty, Kazakhstan 

2008. Data collection,  Almaty, Kazakhstan; Toshkent, Uzbekistan
2009. ARNOVA conference, Philadelphia, PA, USA

2007                     ARNOVA conference, Atlanta, GA, USA

2007                     Open Society Institute conference for grantees, New York

2007. Central Eurasian Studies Society conference, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

2005                     ARNOVA conference, Washington DC, USA

2005. ARNOVA conference, Los Angeles, CA, USA

2004.             Central Eurasian Studies Society Conference, Cambridge,  MA, US
2005.                 Data collection, Almaty, Kazakhstan

2002                     Ph.D. program, Athens, GA, USA

2002                     M.Phil. program, Maastricht, Netherlands 

2000                     Local government training, Budapest, Hungary

2000                     IMF consultant, Almaty, Kazakhstan