Executive Committee
Rachel Shane
President
Chair & Association Professor, Department of Arts Administration
University of Kentucky
Dr. Rachel Shane is the Gary B. Knapp Endowed Chair in Arts Administration and an Associate Professor in the College of Fine Arts and the College of Business of Economics at the University of Kentucky. She teaches and has taught a variety of courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Currently, Dr. Shane is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Arts Management, Law and Society (JAMLS); and serves on the Board of Directors for Social Theory, Politics, and the Arts (STPA).
In 2018, Dr. Shane co-edited the four-volume anthology, Arts and Cultural Management: Critical Sources published by Bloomsbury Press. She has numerous published articles including Resurgence or Deterioration: The State of Cultural Unions in the 21st Century; Inciting the Rank and File: The Impact of Actors’ Equity and Labor Strikes; Deaccessioning: A Policy Perspective; and Integrating Meaningful Technologies in the Arts Administration Classroom: Creating a Constructivist and Connectivist Learning Environment.
James Marchant
Vice President
Associate Director of the School of the Arts and the Program Coordinator University of New Orleans
Dr. James C. Marchant is the Associate Director of the School of the Arts and the Program Coordinator for the graduate program in Arts Administration at the University of New Orleans. He serves on the Board of Directors of Lyrica Baroque and the Tennessee Williams Theatre Company of New Orleans. Previously, Dr. Marchant headed programs in Arts Administration at Elon University, Southern Utah University, and the Savannah College of Art & Design. He received his Doctor of Philosophy degree from The Ohio State University in the area now known as Arts Administration, Education and Policy. He also received his Juris Doctor degree from Temple University Beasley School of Law and his undergraduate degree from The American University. He has worked extensively in the nonprofit sector, both within the arts and with social service organizations. Dr. Marchant is interested in issues surrounding controversial and provocative art, their place in social justice development throughout the world, and the effect they have on nonprofit arts organizations and their communities. He is also interested in how the arts are utilized to develop, strengthen, and revitalize communities.
Anthony Rhine
Secretary
PACE University
Anthony S. Rhine holds a Ph.D. in business administration and both bachelor’s and master’s degrees in theatre management. He worked for the first two decades of his career as a theatre executive, running multi-million-dollar and Tony-nominated theatre companies. During that time, he also wrote the librettos for over twenty produced musicals, including several that toured both nationally and internationally, and directed scores of professional productions. For the last decade-and-a-half, he has been a professor of arts management, focusing his research on advancing and improving arts management education and its application in improving nonprofit arts organizational outcomes such as increased ticket sales and unearned income. His research has been published in the top-ranked journals of arts management, and he is author of the business book, “Leading the Creative Mind,” the textbooks, “Theatre Management: Arts Leadership for the 21st Century,” and “Arts Marketing: An Introduction,” and the forthcoming “How to Market the Arts: A New Approach for the 21st Century,” and “Business Issues in the Arts.” He has also written two novels.
Board Members
WoongJo Chang
Chair, Department of Arts & Cultural Management, Hongik University (Republic of Korea)
WoongJo Chang, Ph.D. is Assistant Professor and Chair of the Department of Arts and Cultural Management in Hongik University, Seoul, Korea. Before coming to Hongik University, he taught in the Arts Leadership Program in Seattle University in the state of Washington, USA. He studied performing arts at Seoul National University and earned a Ph.D. in Cultural Policy and Arts Administration from the Ohio State University. His research is focused on small arts organizations’ entrepreneurial practices and how to support them. His recent works have appeared in books and journals, such as in The Journal of Arts Management, Law and Society, of which he is currently serving as a consulting editor. Chang is also a co-chair of the scientific committee of Korean Society of Arts and Cultural Management.
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Hyojung Cho
Hyojung Cho
Texas Tech University
Dr. Hyojung Cho is an Associate Professor of Heritage Management in the Heritage and Museum Sciences program at Texas Tech University. She holds an M.A. in Museum Science from George Washington University and a Ph.D. in Arts Administration, Education and Policy at The Ohio State University, with a specialization in heritage conservation. Her academic interest is in investigating the use of heritage resources for today’s purposes and ways for safeguarding them, which makes her passionate about communicating, learning, and cooperating with the diverse players beyond the boundaries of academia or the field of heritage.
Douglas DeNatale
Boston University
Douglas DeNatale is an Associate Professor of the Practice and the Director of the Graduate Program in Arts Administration at Boston University. Prior to joining the BU faculty, he was president of Community Logic, Inc., an arts consulting firm specializing in research and documentation. He previously served as Director of Research for the New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA), where he played an instrumental role in forecasting the emerging creative economy and in developing NEFA’s web-based regional database. He has directed collaborative arts research projects for the Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Library of Congress. His creative economy research has been widely cited. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, an M.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a B.A. from Wesleyan University.
B. Kathleen Gallagher
MPA Regional Sites Coordinator and a Professor of Practice in the Department of Political Science
Texas Tech University
B. Kathleen Gallagher is the MPA Regional Sites Coordinator and a Professor of Practice in the Department of Political Science at Texas Tech University. She received her Ph.D. in Public Administration from the University of Colorado Denver (2014).
Gallagher’s research interests are broadly focused on mapping sub-national cultural policy, exploring the impact of local ecology and sustainability for nonprofit arts organizations, and creative placemaking practices in rural and rural-serving communities. Her research is published in The Policy Studies Journal, Public Performance and Management Review, The Journal of Rural and Community Development, The International Journal of Arts Management, The Journal of Arts Management, Law, and Society, Artivate, and The Journal of Emergency Management, as well as several book chapters in edited volumes.
Gallagher has taught courses in arts management, cultural policy, and cultural economics for undergraduate and graduate students. She currently teaches graduate MPA courses in public administration and nonprofit management and an undergraduate course in public policy.
Wen Guo
Arts Administration, Department of Art at Elon University
Wen Guo is an Assistant Professor of Art Administration in the Department of Art at Elon University. She graduated with a doctoral degree in Cultural Policy and Arts Administration at Ohio State University in 2019. She is recently named as a Research Fellow for the Strategic National Arts Alumni Project, administered by the Indiana University Center for Postsecondary Research. Wen studies a broad array of arts management and cultural policy issues in the US and China. She has published peer-reviewed articles in The Journal of Arts Management, Law, and Society, Studies in Art Education, Visual Inquiry, Artivate: A Journal of Entrepreneurship in the Arts, and the American Journal of Arts Management. She currently serves as an editorial board member of the American Journal of Arts Management. She works as a faculty mentor in the Center for Design Thinking and Leading Women in Audio Conference of Elon University. Before coming to the US, she worked for Daku Decorative and Artistic Design Company in Beijing 798 Art District.
Jesús Heredia-Carroza
Vice President of Fundación Pública de Estudios Universitarios Francisco Maldonado de Osuna
Jesús Heredia-Carroza, PhD. (c), has merged three disciplines in his doctoral dissertation: Economy, Law, and Music. This refers to the relationship between cultural value and protection and remuneration of performers in traditional popular music, specifically in flamenco. This article is part of his doctoral dissertation. His essays about cultural management and economics and performing arts have appeared in the Journal of Arts Management, Law and Society, Empirical Studies of the Arts, Arbor or Kepes, among others. Nowadays, Jesús is Vice President of Fundación Pública de Estudios Universitarios Francisco Maldonado de Osuna and he is part of the Escuela Universitaria de Osuna Patronato (Universidad de Sevilla, Spain).
Alex Hinand
Jewish Council on Urban Affairs
Alex Hinand serves as the Operations Manager for the Jewish Council on Urban Affairs in Chicago, IL. Previously, he has worked at the Roosevelt University Chicago College of Performing Arts, the Aspen Music Festival and School, the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestras, the Spoleto Festival USA, and the Grove Museum. He has a Masters of Arts in Arts Administration and a Bachelor of Music Education from Florida State University.
Elise Kieffer
Program Director and Assistant Professor of Nonprofit Leadership Studies at Murray State University
Elise Lael Kieffer, PhD – Dr. Kieffer currently serves as Program Director and Assistant Professor of Nonprofit Leadership Studies at Murray State University in Murray, Kentucky. She is also Executive Director of the Nonprofit Resource Center which provides technical support for nonprofit organizations across Western Kentucky. She is the incoming president of Southeastern Arts Leadership Educators (SALE). She holds a PhD in arts administration from Florida State University, an MPA from Tennessee State University and a BFA from Jacksonville University (FL). Her research focuses include developing capacity at nonprofit arts organizations serving rural communities, and improving communication between rural arts organizations and public funding agencies, and maximizing the relationship between universities and their surrounding community arts sector.
Karen Munnelly
Director of Graduate Arts Administration, Assistant Professor
Florida State University
Karen Munnelly is the Director of Graduate Arts Administration and an Assistant Professor in the College of Music at Florida State University. Prior to her appointment at FSU, Dr. Munnelly served as the Director of Professional Programs at the University of Texas at Austin, where she oversaw Fine Arts Career Services and assisted in implementing a variety of professional development initiatives including an intern scholarship and the minor in arts management and administration. Dr. Munnelly also served as the Director of Undergraduate Studies in Arts Administration at the University of Kentucky.
Before pursuing a career in higher education, Dr. Munnelly enjoyed a successful career as an arts administrator. She served as the Director of Operations for the Aspen Music Festival & School, the Artistic & Operations Director for the National Repertory Orchestra, and the Artistic Assistant for the National Symphony Orchestra at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
Dr. Munnelly’s research centers around career preparation and the arts portfolio career. Her articles appear in the Journal of Arts Management, Law & Society, the American Journal of Arts Management and Artivate: A Journal of Entrepreneurship in the Arts.
Dr. Munnelly received a Ph.D. in Arts Administration, Education & Policy from The Ohio State University, a Master of Arts in Arts Administration from Florida State University and a Bachelor of Music in Flute Performance from the University of South Florida.
Jennifer Novak-Leonard
Research Associate Professor
Research Director, Arts Impact Initiative at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Dr. Jennifer Novak-Leonard is a Research Associate Professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in the College of Fine & Applied Arts and serves as Research Director of its newly launched Arts Impact Initiative. Her influential work includes the creation of both conceptual and analytical frameworks for interrogating the diverse modes in which individuals participate in art and creative expression, and the value those experiences provide. Her intersectional work links culture and creativity, social impact, cultural policy, and arts management. She is often called upon by policymakers and cultural practitioners to guide their use of research and data for strategic decision-making. Novak-Leonard has also led numerous applied research efforts, including those funded by the National Endowment for the Arts; The James Irvine Foundation; First People’s Fund; the American Academy of Arts & Sciences; and the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. From 2016 – 2020, Novak-Leonard was the Principal Investigator of one of the four inaugural National Endowment for the Arts’ Research Labs. She serves as the Board Vice President for the Strategic National Arts Alumni Project (SNAAP) and on the editorial advisory boards of Cultural Trends, Artivate: A Journal of Entrepreneurship in the Arts, and The Journal of Arts Management, Law and Society.
Gordon Shockley
Associate Professor of Social Entrepreneurship, Arizona State University
Gordon E. Shockley, Ph.D., M.M., M.A., is an Associate Professor of Social Entrepreneurship in the School of Community Resources and Development at Arizona State University. He earned his doctorate in public policy at George Mason University’s School of Public Policy in 2006. Before returning to academia, he utilized his Master of Management from Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management (1998) in working for all levels of American government, including the finance division of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and the budget offices of Milwaukee County, Kentucky, and Missouri. He also earned an M.A. in Art History at Arizona State University and a B.A. with high honors in Ancient Greek and English Literature from the University of California, Los Angeles. His teaching and research interests concentrate on building the field of non-market entrepreneurship (specifically, social and policy entrepreneurship) as well as contributing to public policy modeling and the politics, economics, and sociology of the arts and humanities.
Dr. Shockley publishes his research in many social-science journals, including Nonprofit & Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Journal of Arts Management, Law & Society, Public Administration Review, and Journal of Social Entrepreneurship. He also has produced many book chapters and an edited book, Non-market Entrepreneurship: Interdisciplinary Approaches (2008, Edward Elgar) and has recently submitted two new book projects.
He has served as chair and board member for several terms of the Social Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Section of ARNOVA and as a board member of the Federalism and Intergovernmental Relations Section of APSA. He currently serves on the board of Social Theory, Politics and the Arts as well as on the editorial board of the journal Artivate: A Journal of Entrepreneurship in the Arts. He has also several years of experience in managing, volunteering, and coaching community youth sports, such as the American Youth Soccer Association and the Special Olympics.