Commission on Peer Review and Accreditation (COPRA)

Madinah F. Hamidullah

CHAIR

Term Ends: August 2026

Professor and MPA Program Director

School of Government and International Affairs Norman J. Radow College of Humanities and Social Sciences

Kennesaw State University

madinah.hamidullah@kennesaw.edu

 

Susan Appe

MEMBER

Term Ends: August 2027

Associate Professor 

Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy

University at Albany, SUNY

sappe@albany.edu

 

Shahjahan Bhuiyan

MEMBER

Term Ends: August 2026

Professor of Public Administration and Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies and Administration

School of Global Affairs and Public Policy

The American University in Cairo

sbhuiyan@aucegypt.edu

 

 

Lori Brainard

MEMBER

Term Ends: August 2026

Professor

Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration

The George Washington University

brainard@gwu.edu

 

Mary Bruce

MEMBER

Term Ends: August 2026

Professor of Public Administration

College of Arts and Sciences

 

Governors State University

mclark@govst.edu

 

Trenton J. Davis

MEMBER

Term Ends: August 2027

Professor and Department Chair

Department of Public and Nonprofit Studies

Georgia Southern University

tjdavis@georgiasouthern.edu

 

 

Jayce Farmer

MEMBER

Term Ends: August 2027

Associate Professor 

School of Public Policy and Leadership

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Yuna Fontoura

MEMBER

Term Ends: August 2027

Professor and Head of Accreditation and International Affairs 

Escola Brasileira de Administração Pública e de Empresas
 

Fundação Getúlio Vargas, Rio de Janeiro

yuna.fontoura@fgv.br 

 

Alexander C. Henderson

MEMBER

Term Ends: August 2028

Associate Professor of Public Administration

School of Management

Marist University

Alexander.Henderson@marist.edu

 

Willow S. Jacobson

MEMBER

Term Ends: August 2028

Robert W. Bradshaw Jr. Distinguished Professor of Public Administration and Government

Associate Dean of Graduate Studies

Director, MPA Program

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Jacobson@sog.unc.edu

 

Calvin Johnson

MEMBER

Term Ends: August 2026

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Research, Evaluation and Monitoring  Office of Policy Development and Research

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

calvin.c.johnson@hud.gov

 

Brent S. Steel

MEMBER

Term Ends: August 2028

University Distinguished Professor

School of Public Policy

Oregon State University

bsteel@oregonstate.edu

Kendra Stewart

MEMBER

Term Ends: August 2028

Professor of Political Science and Director of The Joseph P. Riley Jr. Center for Livable Communities

College of Charleston

stewartk@cofc.edu

 

Jinping Sun

MEMBER

Term Ends: August 2028

Professor and Department Chair

Department of Public Policy and Administration

College of Business and Public Administration

California State University, Bakersfield

jsun2@csub.edu