Dwight Vick, PhD-Assistant Professor and Graduate Director, Public Administration and Political Science, West Texas A&M University
Dwight Vick, PhD, is Assistant Professor and Graduate Director of Public Administration programs at West Texas A&M University. Holding an honorary rank of Lieutenant Colonel with the U.S. military, he has taught public administration courses for the past nine years. He earned a Master of Public Administration degree from the University of Memphis and a Ph.D. in Public Administration from the School of Public Affairs at Arizona State University. He also completed a one-year post-doctoral program at the Center for Substance Abuse and Addiction (CASAA) at the University of New Mexico.
Dr. Vick has researched and published several articles that have appeared in journals such as JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association, Addiction, PA Times, Public Administration Review, International Journal of Harm Reduction, America in the 1990s and America in the 1930s. Dr. Vick is the editor of PB&J: Politics, Bureaucracy, and Justice, an online journal managed through WTAMU. He won the 2007 Best Article Award from the American Society for Public Administration for his work on federalism and the Katrina relief efforts in Biloxi, Mississippi. He has authored the first book on community-panel drug courts. Also, he is the 2010 national co-chairperson of the American Society for Public Administration conference in San Jose, California. He also serves on the organization’s National Council.
Considering himself to be both a practitioner and academic, Dr. Vick interned at various government agencies throughout his graduate experiences and early career: The White House during the Clinton administration; Congressman Ed Pastor of Arizona; the Arizona Department of Corrections; Maricopa County, Arizona’s Department of Public Health, and Woodbury County, Iowa’s Drug Court Program.
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