Commission on Peer Review and Accreditation (COPRA)

Madinah F. Hamidullah

CHAIR

Term Ends: August 2026

Professor and Past MPA Program Director

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

Kennesaw State University

Susan Appe

MEMBER

Term Ends: August 2027

Associate Professor 

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 

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 C. Johnson

MEMBER

Term Ends: August 2026

Dean

Barbara Jordan-Mickey Leland School of Public Affairs

Texas Southern University

calvin.johnson@tsu.edu

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