Nicole M. Rishel Elias is an assistant professor in the Department of Public Management at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY and Research Fellow at the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Office. Dr. Elias did her undergraduate work in political science and philosophy at John Carroll University. She earned her MPA and Ph.D. in Public Administration and Affairs from the Center for Public Administration and Policy at Virginia Tech. While at Virginia Tech, she also received the Women’s and Gender Studies Graduate Certificate and served as managing editor of Administration & Society for three years.
Her research explores diversity and representation issues in public administration and policy, with a particular focus on sex, gender, and race. Dr. Elias’s dissertation, “Promoting Diversity and Inclusion in the U.S. Federal Workforce: Representative Bureaucracy and the Challenge of Multiculturalism,” analyzes ways in which approaches toward diversity management areshifting in the current U.S. context and the potential for this change to shape bureaucratic representation in the form of positive policy outcomes. Her current research agenda targets applying her dissertation findings to different dimensions of diversity management, organizational behavior, and policy processes surrounding representative role sand policy outcomes. Specifically, she examines how the Government-wide Diversity and Inclusion Initiative and Strategic Plan have been implemented at the federal level. Her recent work appears in Administrative Theory & Praxis, Public Administration Quarterly, and The American Review of Public Administration.
Her research explores diversity and representation issues in public administration and policy, with a particular focus on sex, gender, and race. Dr. Elias’s dissertation, “Promoting Diversity and Inclusion in the U.S. Federal Workforce: Representative Bureaucracy and the Challenge of Multiculturalism,” analyzes ways in which approaches toward diversity management areshifting in the current U.S. context and the potential for this change to shape bureaucratic representation in the form of positive policy outcomes. Her current research agenda targets applying her dissertation findings to different dimensions of diversity management, organizational behavior, and policy processes surrounding representative role sand policy outcomes. Specifically, she examines how the Government-wide Diversity and Inclusion Initiative and Strategic Plan have been implemented at the federal level. Her recent work appears in Administrative Theory & Praxis, Public Administration Quarterly, and The American Review of Public Administration.
