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H. Wayne Huizenga
College of Business and Entrepreneurship
College of Business and Entrepreneurship
Associate Professor - Public Administration
Philanthropy/Public Administration/Real Estate
H. Wayne Huizenga College of Business & Entrepreneurship
Pallavi Awasthi recently completed her Ph.D. in Public Affairs from the Florida International
University, Miami. She also holds a Masters in Public Administration and a Masters
in Personnel Management. In addition, she has about 10 years of research and consulting
experience in leadership development and organizational behavior in both the public
and private sectors in India.
Prior to her doctoral studies, she was a consultant with UNDP on a government of India
leadership development in civil services project'. Pallavi's research intersects public
management, leadership development, local government capacity building, and sustainable
community development. Her research has featured in the governance journal and the
ASPA section on comparative administration. She is also the founding member of the
ASPA Section of the South Asian Public Administration.
She was awarded the Greenleaf Center for Servant Leadership Doctoral Award, APPAM
Equity & Inclusion Fellowship Award, ASPA Young Scholars fellowship Award.
Servant Leaders as Community Custodians: Enhancing Service Delivery Co-Production in Local Governments, ASPA Annual Conference, 2020, Anaheim
Theoretical Framework of Servant Leadership in Local Governments, International Servant Leadership Summit, 2020, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Emotive Competencies in Public Affairs Education, NASPAA Annual Conference, 2019, LA
Meredith Newman & Pallavi Awasthi (2021). Gendered Images of Leadership and the Global Pandemic Response: Revisiting the Value of Feminine Leadership. International Journal of Spirituality and Organizational Leadership 9(2), pp.
Pallavi Awasthi & Sharon Mastracci (2021). Integrating Emotive Competencies in Public Affairs Education. Journal of Public Affairs Education, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1080/15236803.2021.1947072.
Pallavi Awasthi (2020). Lateral Entry Scheme: Path to Civil Service Reforms in India. SICA Occasional Paper Series, American Society for Public Administration 2(1), 17-40.
Pallavi Awasthi (2020). Healing Communities: Servant Leadership for Municipal Leaders During COVID-19 Pandemic. [Journal]. ( ), pp.
Alexander Kroll, Christa Remington & Pallavi Awasthi (2020). Mitigating the Negative Effects of Emotional Labor: A Study of Disaster Response and Recovery Workers after the 2010 Haiti Earthquake. Governance 34(1), 87-106.
Pallavi Awasthi (2019). India. In Mary E. Guy, Sharon H. Mastracci & Seung-Bum Yang (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Global Perspectives on Emotional Labor in Public Service. ( ), 267-298.
Pallavi Awasthi (2017). East-West Knowledge Transfer: Resolving Paradoxes in Public Service. [Journal]. ( ), pp.