Rate My Professor Jeremy Hall

Jeremy L. Hall is Professor of Public Administration and Director of the Ph.D. Program in Public Affairs at the University of Central Florida's College of Community Innovation and Education, School of Public Administration. He holds a Ph.D. in Public Administration (2005) and an M.P.A. with a specialization in Policy Analysis (2004), both from the University of Kentucky's Martin School of Public Policy and Administration, and a B.A. from Centre College (1998). Hall's career includes prior faculty appointments as Associate Professor at Rutgers University-Newark (2012-2016), Associate Professor at the University of Texas at Dallas (2010-2012) and Assistant Professor there (2008-2010), Assistant Professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (2005-2008), and various research roles earlier at the University of Kentucky and Morehead State University. At UCF since 2016, he previously directed the M.P.A. program (2016-2019) and served as a Visiting Professor at the University of Kentucky (2016-2017).

Hall specializes in public management, performance and accountability systems, and evidence-based practice and policy, with research interests encompassing public sector performance, public policy processes, intergovernmental relations, public sector capacity, and local and regional economic development. He is the author of Grant Management: Funding for Public and Nonprofit Programs (2010) and co-author of Managing and Measuring Performance in Public and Nonprofit Organizations: An Integrated Approach, second edition (2014, with Theodore H. Poister and Maria Aristigueta). His publications appear in premier journals including Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Public Administration Review, American Review of Public Administration, and Economic Development Quarterly. As Editor-in-Chief of Public Administration Review since 2018 and former Co-Editor-in-Chief, he influences the field through editorial leadership and serves on boards of Public Performance & Management Review, State and Local Government Review, and others. A National Academy of Public Administration Fellow (2020), Hall received the Southeastern Conference for Public Administration's highest honor (2025), multiple Chester Newland Presidential Citations of Merit from ASPA, and chaired the 2016 ASPA conference program committee. His work advances performance management, economic development policy, and evidence use in public administration.