Healso serves as the director of the MPA program and the director of the Municipal Research Lab. Currently, he serves as the co-editor-in-chief of both the Journal of Public Affairs Education and the Journal of Public and Nonprofit Affairs. A graduate of Florida State University and the London School of Economics, his current research focuses on issues of defense finance and human capital, the measurement of fiscal health within local governments, and the intellectual history of public administration field. His research has appeared in the Annual Review of Political and Military Sociology, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Public Administration Review, and the Journal of Public and Nonprofit Affairs, among others.