Mary Kay Gugerty
Mary Kay Gugerty
Assistant Professor of Public Affairs
Ph.D. Harvard University, 2001
Contact Information:
Parrington Hall, Room 220
gugerty@u.washington.edu
206.221.4599
Areas of Specialization:
International development; nonprofit and public management; program analysis and evaluation
Mary Kay Gugerty joined the Evans School faculty in 2001. Her research interests focus on governance and the emergence and design of collective action institutions among individuals and organizations, with a particular focus on developing countries.
She has a particular interest in the political economy of development in sub-Saharan Africa. Together with Evans School faculty members Sara Curran and Sanjeev Khagram, Gugerty received funding from the Gates Foundation for a project exploring the nature and structure of public health networks and partnerships in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia. The next phase of the project seeks to develop new methodologies for evaluating the impact of public health advocacy on public health policies and outcomes in these regions.
Gugerty’s other current research focuses on the emergence of voluntary regulation and accountability programs among nonprofits and NGOs globally. She applies her research to a number of domains: the global development of nonprofit accountability programs; the impact of NGO umbrella associations on NGO-state relationships in Africa; and the impact of donor funding and ethnic diversity on NGOs, community groups, and governments in developing countries.
At the Evans School, Gugerty teaches courses on nonprofit and public management, the political economy of NGOs and foreign aid, program evaluation, international policy analysis and management, and African development. She is the recipient of the 2005 Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching and Service at the Evans School.
She is the lead editor of a new volume title Nonprofit Accountability Clubs: Voluntary Regulation of Nonprofit and Nongovernmental Organizations that she co-edited with Evans School adjunct faculty member Aseem Prakash. This project develops a new theoretical approach to understanding nonprofit collective accountability problems, drawing on data on these programs from around the world.
Outside of academia, Gugerty has served as a consultant to the World Bank and USAID studying the impact of economic growth on poverty alleviation, structural barriers to trade in sub-Saharan Africa, and the impact of agricultural commercialization on intra-household resource allocation in Kenya.
She holds a Ph.D. in political economy and government from Harvard University and a MPA from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. She also holds a BA in political science and economics from Georgetown University.
Curriculum Vitae (174KB PDF)
