Nicholas C. Peroff (born May 19, 1944) is an American political scientist, public administrator and professor in Native American studies and Complexity Theory at the Henry W. Bloch School of Management at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, he formerly held teaching positions in Taiwan, South Korea and South Africa.

Nicholas C. Peroff
Born (1944-05-19) May 19, 1944 (age 80)
Wisconsin, United States
Alma materUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison
Known forComplexity Theory
Native American studies
Public Management
Policy Analysis
Scientific career
FieldsPolitical science
Public Administration
InstitutionsUniversity of Missouri - Kansas City
Haskell Indian Nations University
University of the Western Cape
Keimyung University

The Secretary of International Relations Council, he was the former President of the Western Social Science Association (2002-2003). A veteran of the Vietnam War, he was named Public Administrator of the Year, Kansas City by the American Society for Public Administration in 2009.[1]

Background

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Born and raised in Wisconsin, U.S. he received a B.A., M.A. and Ph.D in political science (on a Ford Fellowship) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.[2] His doctoral study was interrupted with the onset of the Vietnam War to which he was drafted as a member of the U.S. Navy serving on USS Forrestal (CV-59) during the fire (1967-1968) as Division Officer. In 1986 he was an Instructor at the Chinese Ministry of Economic Affairs.

His book Menominee Drums, Tribal Termination and Restoration, 1954-1974 (University of Oklahoma Press), was a study of the termination and subsequent restoration of federal recognition of the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin. His work with the Menominee Nation has continued, off and on, for over 30 years which led him to research Indian gaming and other areas of interest within American Indian Studies. He also researched and taught public management and administration, public policy analysis, and engaged in the development and application of complexity theory in the study of American Indian policy.[3]

Awards

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Further Study

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  • Menominee Drums: Tribal Termination and Restoration, 1954-1974, 2nd ed., Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press: 2006.
  • Getting Control of the Greenfield City Budget (co-authored with Mark Funkhouser) in Public Administration: Cases in Managerial Role-Playing by Robert P. Watson. ISBN 978-0-321-08552-8

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Personal Vita Nicholas C. Peroff" (PDF). Archived from the original on March 14, 2015. Retrieved 2015-03-14.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  2. ^ Faculty Profile: Nicholas Peroff
  3. ^ Nicholas Peroff Page at UMKC
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