Catherine Horiuchi

Catherine Horiuchi serves as associate dean for graduate managmeent programs. She is an associate professor and has taught organizational theory, public policy analysis, quantitative methods, statistics, emerging technologies, and the introductory course in public administration. Her most recent research has been on public sector values and resilient governance.

Her empirical research focuses on the implementation and outcomes of public policy, principally in energy and fuels. Her theory research explores effects related to the limits of human decision making and rationality. In addition to refereed publications, she has contributed a chapter on nuclear waste management to the Handbook of Globalization and the Environment, and a chapter on California's renewables portfolio standard to Sustainable Energy and the States: Essays on Politics, Markets and Leadership. She serves on the editorial board for the Journal of Information Technology and Politics, and as a peer reviewer for Administrative Theory & Praxis, Public Administration Quarterly, and Public Administration Review, the discipline's flagship journal.

A native of Northampton, Massachusetts, she later moved west and attended the University of Utah, receiving her B.A. in Latin (magna cum laude) and an M.A. in Linguistics. After a year working for a subsidiary of AC Nielsen crunching ready-to-eat cereal sales figures for General Mills, she served three years as a Peace Corps volunteer in the Sultanate of Oman. She completed her studies in Public Administration at the University of Southern California's School of Policy, Planning and Development, where her dissertation on the implementation of electric system restructuring in California won the school's Reining Award in 2001.