Mir Usman Ali

Assistant Professor. Public Policy

miruali@umbc.edu

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Biography

Mir Usman Ali is an Assistant Professor in the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland-Baltimore County. His research revolves around building a theory of the conditions under which public managers and organizations can foster social equity-enhancing institutional change. His research has looked at a variety of topics such as citizen oversight of police, the impact of body-worn cameras on law enforcement outcomes, policies intended to curb intimate partner violence, and epistemic justice in collaborative knowledge production. He holds a Ph.D. in Public Affairs Indiana University-Bloomington, an M.S. in Statistics from Texas A&M University, College Station and MBA and BBA degrees from the Institute of Business Administration, Karachi. His research has been published in Public Administration Review, Public Performance and Management Review, Policy Studies Journal, and American Review of Public Administration.

Education

• Ph.D., Public Affairs, Indiana University Bloomington, 2019
• Major Fields: Public Management and Policy Analysis; Minor: Sociology
• M.S., Statistics, Texas A&M University, 2009
• M.B.A., Finance, Institute of Business Administration, Karachi, 2005
• B.B.A., Finance, Institute of Business Administration, Karachi, 2003

Publications

• Ali, M. U., Edwards, L. H. & Wright II, J. E. (2024). Administrative Decentralization and the Role of Information: The Case of Intimate Partner Violence During the COVID-19 Pandemic. American Review of Public Administration.
• Ali, M. U., & Wright II, J. E. (2024). Use of Performance Information and External Accountability: The Role of Citizen Oversight in Mitigating the Motivated Evaluation of Body-Worn Camera Evidence. American Review of Public Administration.
• Ali, M. U. (2023). The Adoption of Culturally Contentious Institutions: The Case of Citizen Oversight of Police. Policy Studies Journal. 
• Ali, M. U. & Nicholson-Crotty, S. (2020). Examining the Accountability-Performance Link: The Case of Citizen Oversight of Police. Public Performance and Management Review. 
• Ali, M. U. & Pirog, M. (2019). Social Accountability and Institutional Change: The Case of Citizen Oversight of Police. Public Administration Review, 79(3), 411-426.

Submitted

• Ali, M. U., Aponte, F. T. & Ringoir, T. The Life-Preserving Impact of Local Health Departments During the Covid-19 Pandemic.

Works in Progress

• Wright II, J. E., & Ali, M. U. The Impact of Officer Rank, Experience, Gender, and Race on Use of Force: A Synthetic Matching Study.
• Ali, M. U. The Organizational Antecedents of Underreported Police-Involved Deaths.
• Ali, M. U., Dodson, A., Dudley, D., Getachew, A., Kriebel, J., Kyles-Smith, K., Lichtinger, S. T. Structuring Collaborative Governance for Epistemic Justice: A Multi-Disciplinary Systematic Review.
• Ali, M. U., Dodson, A., Dudley, D., Getachew, A., Kriebel, J., Kyles-Smith, K., & Lichtinger, S. T. From Margins to Center: A Collaborative Autoethnographic Account of Reimagining Epistemic Justice through Collaborative Research Praxis.

Non-Peer-Reviewed Publications/Reports

• Edwards, L. H., Ali, M. U., Ringoir, T., West, T. Baltimore County Traffic Stop Deep Dive, 2017-2022. (2023). Report prepared for the Baltimore County Government.

Awards and Honors

• 2019    Best Journal Article Award “Social Accountability and Institutional Change: The Case of Citizen Oversight of Police”, Academy of Management, Public and Nonprofit Division.
• 2019    Horowitz Foundation Scholarship for Social Policy Research
• 2018    Santosh Jain Endowed Memorial Scholarship, Indiana University
• 2018    Outstanding Teaching Award, O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University
• 2017    President’s Scholarship, National Association for Civilian Oversight of Law Enforcement (NACOLE)
• 2013    Best Paper Award in Policy Analysis and Management, Association of SPEA PhD Student Conference
• 2011    Fellowship and Tuition Remission, Ph.D. Program, O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University Bloomington
• 2007    Fulbright Scholarship, Texas A&M University, College Station

Selected Conference Activity

•  2024    Promoting Epistemic Justice in Collaborations: Lessons from Systematic Reviews and a Collaborative Autoethnographic Project. Social Equity Leadership Conference, University of Connecticut, Stamford. Role: Panel Convener, Co-Author, and Presenter
  • Collaborative Governance for Epistemic Justice: A Systematic Review of the Public Policy and Administration Literature
  • Structuring Collaborative Governance for Epistemic Justice: A Multi-disciplinary Systematic Review
  • A Collaborative Autoethnographic Account of Reimagining Epistemic Justice Through Collaborative Research Praxis
• 2023    Use of Performance Information and External Accountability: The Role of Citizen Oversight in Mitigating the Motivated Evaluation of Body-Worn Camera Evidence. Social Equity Leadership Conference, University of Kansas, Kansas City. Role: Presenter.
• 2022    The Adoption of Culturally Contentious Institutions: The Case of Citizen Oversight of Police. American Society of Public Administration Annual Conference. Role: Presenter.
• 2019    Does Police Oversight Compromise Public or Police Officer Safety? American Political Science Association Annual Meeting. Role: Presenter.
• 2019    (1) Social Accountability and Institutional Change: The Case of Citizen Oversight of Police (2) Citizen Oversight Agencies and the “Ferguson Effect”: Exploring the Impact of Police Accountability, Social Equity Leadership Conference, Rutgers University, Newark. Role: Presenter.
• 2019    Citizen Oversight Agencies and the “Ferguson Effect:” Exploring the Impact of Police Accountability, Midwest Political Science Association Conference. Role: Presenter.

 

 

 

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