Faculty

Helisse Levine

Assistant Professor of Public Administration

B.A., College at Florham, Fairleigh Dickinson UniversityM.A., College at Florham, Fairleigh Dickinson UniversityPh.D., Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Campus at Newark

helisse.levine@liu.edu

Description

Helisse Levine joined Long Island University’s Brooklyn Campus in 2008 as an assistant professor in the M.P.A. Program in the Campus’ School of Business, Public Administration and Information Sciences. Her research interests include government resource allocation, municipal securities markets and the issue of gender in the public sector.

Dr. Levine remains committed to empowering M.P.A. students with the tools of financial analysis and methods of research in public, nonprofit and health care organizations. She teaches courses in analytical methods, public budgeting, health care finance, political economy and public organizations, and serves as mentor to the development of M.P.A. student capstone projects.

She has contributed to the Municipal Finance Journal, Administrative Theory & Praxis, the Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting and Financial Management and The Journal of Management: An International Journal. Dr. Levine is co-editor of “The Handbook of Fiscal Crisis” and “Women in Public Administration: Theory and Practice.”

Specialties

State and Local Government Resource Allocation; Capital Markets and Public Organizations; Topical Fiscal Issues in Public, Nonprofit and Health Care Financial Management

Publications

• Author, Articles in the Municipal Finance Journal, Administrative Theory & Praxis, the Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting and Financial Management and The Journal of Management: An International Journal.
• Co-editor, “The Handbook of Fiscal Crisis”
• Co-editor, “Women in Public Administration: Theory and Practice”

Honors/Awards

• Nominee, 2005 NASPAA Dissertation Award – Rutgers University
• Member, Pi Alpha Alpha, National Honor Society for Public Affairs and Administration (Inducted in 2003)
• Summa Cum Laude Graduate, Fairleigh Dickinson University (1996)
• Excellence in Economics Award, Fairleigh Dickinson University (1996)
• Member, Phi Omega Epsilon Scholastic Honor Society (Inducted in 1996)
• Member, Omicron Delta Epsilon International Economics Honor Society (Inducted in 1994)

Professional Affiliations

• Member, American Society of Public Administration
• Member, Association for Public Budgeting and Financial Management
• Member, Section on Women in Public Administrating