Commission on Peer Review and Accreditation (COPRA)

Angela M. Eikenberry

CHAIR

Term Ends: August 2025

Professor and Incoming Director

School of Public Policy

University of Connecticut

angela.eikenberry@uconn.edu 

Susan Appe

MEMBER

Term Ends: August 2027

Associate Professor 

University at Albany, SUNY

sappe@albany.edu

Shahjahan Bhuiyan

MEMBER

Term Ends: August 2026

Professor of Public Administration and Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies and Administration

School of Global Affairs and Public Policy

The American University in Cairo

sbhuiyan@aucegypt.edu

Lori Brainard

MEMBER

Term Ends: August 2026

Professor

Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration

The George Washington University

brainard@gwu.edu

Mary Bruce

MEMBER

Term Ends: August 2026

Professor of Public Administration

College of Arts and Sciences

Governors State University

mclark@govst.edu

Shaoming Cheng

MEMBER

Term Ends: August 2025

Associate Professor and Department Chair, Public Policy and Administration

Florida International University

scheng@fiu.edu

Jerrell D. Coggburn

MEMBER

Term Ends: August 2025

Professor and Chair

PhD Program Director

Department of Public Administration

School of Public and International Affairs

North Carolina State University

jcoggburn@ncsu.edu

Trenton J. Davis

MEMBER

Term Ends: August 2027

Professor and Department Chair

Department of Public and Nonprofit Studies

Georgia Southern University

tjdavis@georgiasouthern.edu

Jayce Farmer

MEMBER

Term Ends: August 2027

Associate Professor 

School of Public Policy and Leadership

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Yuna Fontoura

MEMBER

Term Ends: August 2027

Professor and Head of Accreditation and International Affairs 

Fundação Getúlio Vargas, Rio de Janeiro

yuna.fontoura@fgv.br 

Madinah F. Hamidullah

MEMBER

Term Ends: August 2026

Professor and MPA Program Director

School of Government and International Affairs Norman J. Radow College of Humanities and Social Sciences

Kennesaw State University

madinah.hamidullah@kennesaw.edu

Calvin Johnson

MEMBER

Term Ends: August 2026

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Research, Evaluation and Monitoring  Office of Policy Development and Research

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

Bowie State University

ccjohnson@bowiestate.edu

Anna Ya Ni

MEMBER

Term Ends: August 2025

Associate Dean

Jack H. Brown College of Business and Public Administration

California State University, San Bernardino

yni@csusb.edu

C. Kurt Zorn

MEMBER

Term Ends: August 2025

Professor Emeritus

Paul H. O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Room 314

Indiana University, Bloomington

zorn@iu.edu