Ralph P. Hummel

Ralph Hummel is Professor of Public Administration at The University of Akron.

He received his PhD from New York University in Government and previously sat on the faculty at the University of Oklahoma.

His most famous work is The Bureaucratic Experience: The Post-Modern Challenge which inspired the ongoing academic debate between himself and his friend Charles Goodsell at Virginia Tech. He has published numerous articles on American bureaucracy, phenomenology, and the theoretical foundations of public administration.