Office: 304B Dale Hall Tower
Email: alfranklin@ou.edu
Research Fields: Public Budgeting & Finance, Financial Management, Strategic Planning, Performance Measurement & Benchmarking, Evaluation
Favorite Courses: Administration & Society, Making Public Policy, Public Financial Management, Qualitative Research Methods
B.S., Moorhead State University
M.P.A., Arizona State University
Ph.D., University at Albany - State University of New York
My current research agenda examines how communities can collaboratively develop shared financial resources to undertake adaptation activities to make them more resilient to severe weather events and climate change. Like much of my past research, this NOAA-funded research emphasizes the role of stakeholders in resource planning allocation decisions.
I like this kind of research since it connects my scholarly and practitioner experiences. I have led retail banking and mortgage lending firms in the private sector and was a strategic planning and budget analyst in the Arizona Governor’s Office. These real-world experiences also inform my teaching and public service activities since they integrate research and analysis, planning & policy implementation, performance measurement, and program evaluation.
I regularly include graduate and undergraduate students in my research activities. A lot of my job satisfaction comes when students present our research at a professional conference or when jointly authored research publications appear in press. Another significant aspect of my job is staying in touch with my students after they graduate, especially when they have questions about how to do something in the real world, even better is when they want to tell me about how the real world is different from the world of theory we discuss in these ivory towers!
(For Co-authors who were/are students: 1denotes PhD student, 2denotes MPA student, 3denotes Undergraduate student).
