Rate My Professor Arthur Sementelli

Arthur Sementelli is Professor of Public Administration and Ph.D. Program Coordinator in the School of Public Administration at Florida Atlantic University, part of the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters. He joined the faculty in August 2003 and has served in his current roles, contributing to the Ph.D. program in Public Administration. Sementelli holds a Ph.D. in Urban Affairs from Cleveland State University. His academic career at FAU includes specialization in Public Administration Theory, as designated by the department's faculty listings. He has been involved in university graduate program steering committees, providing oversight on course changes and new program proposals.

Sementelli's research focuses on critical theory, organizational studies, public administration, critical management, governance, local governance, disaster management, economic development, social exclusion, nonprofit management, and public policy analysis. His publications address topics such as social media in government, service-learning, environmental impacts of underground storage tanks, disaster and crisis theories, border securitization, migrant expulsions, surveillance as rent-seeking, COVID-19 policy implications for asylum seekers, and LNG developments versus local communities. Notable works include the authored book 'Public Administration and Epistemology: Experience, Power and Agency' (Routledge, 2021), which examines experience, power, and agency in public administration organizations; co-edited volume 'Residues of Modernity' with Hugh T. Miller (2009); 'Life imitates art: Yojimbo, critical management, and organization theory' (2020); highly cited article 'A critical examination of social media adoption in government: Introducing omnipresence' (2014, 260 citations); 'Service-learning: History, theory, and issues' (2004, 245 citations); 'The effect of underground storage tanks on residential property values in Cuyahoga County, Ohio' (1997, 91 citations); and 'Toward a taxonomy of disaster and crisis theories' (2007, 79 citations). Recent publications feature 'Overcoming Title 42 and the 2022-3 Venezuelan Migrant Expulsion Spectacle: A Border Securocracy Case Study' (2025), 'Politics of the Rio Grande Valley' (2025), and 'Environmental Justice in Laguna Madre: SpaceX Starship Rocket Launches and the Effects on the People, Plants, and Wildlife' (2025). With 82 publications and 758 citations documented on ResearchGate, Sementelli's scholarship impacts public administration theory and policy discourse.