ABSTRACT
Norma M. Riccucci was born in Torrington, Connecticut, and is currently a Distinguished Professor at Rutgers University, Newark, in the School of Public Affairs and Administration. Riccucci has published broadly in the areas of social equity, employment discrimination, diversity management, and human resource management. Some of her award-winning publications include: Public Administration: Traditions of Inquiry and Philosophies of Knowledge (American Society of Public Administration Research Section 2012 Best Book Award), and How Management Matters: Street-Level Bureaucrats and Welfare Reform (American Political Science Association Best Book Award 2009). She is the recipient of many honors and is a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration. In 2005, she was inducted into Phi Beta Delta Honor Society for International Scholars and received the 2006 American Society for Public Administration's Charles H. Levine Award for Excellence in Public Administration Research, Teaching, and Service. She is also the recipient of the American Society of Public Administration Section on Women in Public Administration's Rita Mae Kelly Award for Research Excellence and served as the president of the Public Management Research Association from 2007 to 2009. Riccucci received her doctoral degree in public administration in 1984 from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University and is a graduate of the University of Southern California (Master of Public Administration) and Florida International University (Bachelors of Arts in public administration).
