Bonnie Stabile

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Titles and Organizations

Associate Professor, Associate Dean for Student and Academic Affairs;  Founder and Director, Gender and Policy Center

Contact Information

bstabile@gmu.edu
Mason Square, Van Metre Hall, Room 519
3351 Fairfax Drive
Arlington, VA 22201
MSN: 3B1

Biography

Bonnie Stabile is an associate professor and associate dean of student and academic affairs in the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University.

She teaches courses on policy analysis, program evaluation, ethics, and gender in the Schar School's master's programs in public policy, public administration, and biodefense. Stabile was the 2019 recipient of the Schar School's Teaching Award. 

She is founder and director of the Gender and Policy (GAP) Center at the Schar School. Her recent research projects and publications include articles in Public Integrity and the Journal of Public Affairs Education considering the role of women as MPA directors; the implications of women's choice of concentrations in MPA programs; the implication of fake news for women in politics; and Diversity and Inclusion in Emergency Management and First Response. Her book, Women, Power and Rape Culture: The Politics and Policy of Underrepresentation, with coauthor Aubrey Grant, graduate research assistant and doctoral candidate at the Schar School, was published by Praeger in 2022. 

Stabile served as editor-in-chief of World Medical & Health Policy, a peer-reviewed academic journal published by Wiley, from 2019-20, after having served as deputy and then coeditor since 2011. Her federal government work experience includes acting as installation coordinator of a U.S. Army post in Amberg, Germany, and as a program analyst for the Federal Home Loan Bank Board. From 1989-93, she was program coordinator of the Senior Managers in Government Program at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. 

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Areas of Research:

  • Gender
  • Policy Analysis
  • Program Evaluation
  • Bioethics
  • Ethics in Public Policy