Faculty Directory
DR. DEBRA MESCH
Dr. Debra Mesch, Director, Public Affairs Program
Director, Public Affairs Programs
Associate Professor of Public and Nonprofit Management
School of Public and Environmental Affairs
OFFICE: BS 4060
PHONE: 317-274-8635
E-MAIL: dmesch@iupui.edu
Debra Mesch joined SPEA IUPUI in 1992. Prior to teaching at IUPUI, she taught at Simmons College and Northeastern University in Boston. Her current research agenda focuses on issues of board diversity, race and gender differences in philanthropic behavior, and executive compensation.
EDUCATION
- Ph.D., Organizational Behavior/Human Resource Management, Kelley School of Business at Indiana University - Bloomington
- M.B.A., Kelley School of Business at Indiana University - Bloomington
- M.S., Vanderbilt University
- B.S., University of Cincinnati
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE/ CONSULTANTCIES
- United Way of Central Indiana
- Goodwill Industries
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Indiana
OTHER PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
- Academy of Management
- American Society of Public Administration
- Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA)
MAJOR FIELDS OF EXPERTISE
- National and community service
- Management of volunteers
- Human Resource management in public and nonprofit organizations
- Downsizing and mergers
- Executive compensation
- Race and gender effects on giving and volunteering
INTELLECTUAL CONTRIBUTIONS
- Mesch, Debra J. & Rooney, P.M. Determinants of compensation for fundraising professionals: A study of pay, performance, and gender differences (In Press). Nonprofit Management and Leadership.
- Mesch, Debra .J., Rooney, P.M., Steinberg, K., & Denton, B. (2006). The Effects of Race, Gender, and Marital Status on Giving and Volunteering in Indiana. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 35, 565-587.
- Perry, J.L., Mesch, D.J. & Paarlberg, L. (2006). Motivating employees in a new governance era: The performance paradigm revisited. Public Administration Review, 66, 505-514.
- Rooney, P.M., Mesch, D.J., Chin, W., & Steinberg, K. (2005). The effects of race, gender, and survey methodology on giving in the U.S. Economics Letters, 86, 173-180.
- Tschirhart, M., Mesch, Debra J., Perry, J.L., Miller, T.K. & Lee, G. (2001). Stipended volunteers: Their goals, experience, satisfaction, and likelihood of future service. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 30, 422-443.
- Bingham, L. & Mesch, Debra J., (2000). Decision-making in employment and labor arbitration. Industrial Relations, 39, 671-694.
- Perry, J.L., Thomson, A., Tschirhart, M., Mesch, Debra J., Lee, G. (1999). Inside a Swiss-army knife: An assessment of AmeriCorps. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 9, 225-250.
- Mesch, Debra J, McGrew, J, Pescosolido, B, Haugh, D. (1999). The effects of hospital closure on mental health workers: An overview of employment, mental and physical health, and attitudinal outcomes. The Journal of Behavioral Health Services & Research, 26, 305-317.
- Mesch, Debra J., Tschirhart, M., Perry, J.L. Lee, G. (1998). Altruists or egoists; Retention in stipended service. Nonprofit Management & Leadership, 9, 3-21.
COURSES TAUGHT
- SPEA-V 443 Managing Workforce Diversity
- SPEA-V 504 Public Organizations
- SPEA-V 522 Human Resource Management for Nonprofit Organizations
- Public Personnel Management
- Management of Group and Individual Behavior
SERVICE
- Chair, Philanthropic Studies Faculty (1999-2003)
- Chair, Ph.D. in Philanthropic Studies Committee (2000-2003)
- Chair, Policy and Administration Faculty (1999-2000)
- Board of Directors, Executive Committee, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Indiana
- Co-coordinator for the Academy of Management Doctoral Consortium and pre-conference workshops for the Public and Nonprofit Management Division, Academy of Management Meetings (1997, 2001)
- Chair, Best Book Award Committee, Academy of Management, Public and Nonprofit Division (2003)
AWARDS AND RECOGNITION
- Recipient of the IUPUI Outstanding New Faculty Award (1996)
- Recipient of a Teaching Excellence Recognition Award (1998)
- First Visiting International Scholar at the Israeli Center for Third Sector Research (1999)