Danny L. Balfour

236C DeVos Center
(616) 331-6594
BalfourD@gvsu.edu

Danny L. Balfour is a professor in the School of Public and Nonprofit Administration and a faculty fellow of the Honors College at Grand Valley State University. He received a BA in history from Michigan State University and a Ph.D. in public administration from the Florida State University. His teaching and research interests are in the areas of organizational theory, public management, social policy, administrative ethics, and the Holocaust. He serves on the board of several academic journals and is an elected member of the Governing Board of ASPA's Section on Public Administration Research.

Professor Balfour has published more than 30 scholarly articles and book chapters. He is co-author of Unmasking Administrative Evil (M.E. Sharpe,2004; Sage Publications, 1998), which won the 1998 Brownlow Book Award from the National Academy of Public Administration, the 1998 Best Book Award from the Public and Nonprofit Division of the Academy of Management, and the 2002 Book Award from the Social Issues in Management Division of the Academy of Management. Professor Balfour and his coauthors, Guy Adams and George Reed, received the 2007 Marshall E. Dimock Award, presented for the best lead article in Public Administration Review (PAR). Their article, "Abu Ghraib, Administrative Evil, and Moral Inversion: The Value of 'Putting Cruelty First'" was published in the September 2006 issue of PAR.