Priscilla M. Regan

Schar School of Policy and Government
(703) 993-1419 (w)

EDUCATION

Cornell University, Ithaca, New York Ph.D. in Government, 1981
M.A. in Government, 1977
Dissertation: "Public Use of Private Information: A Comparison of Personal Information Policies in the United States and Britain"

New York University, New York, New York
M.A. in Politics, 1975

Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts
B.A. in Political Science, 1972

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1995 - present Professor (2003 – present); Associate Professor (1995 – 2003)
Chair (July 2010 – July 2014)
Co-Director Graduate Political Science Program (2007 – 2009) Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies (2001 – 2005) Department of Public and International Affairs (1989-2014) School of Policy, Government, and International Affairs (2014- 2016)
Schar School of Policy and Government (2016 - ) Acting Senior Associate Dean (July 2014-June 2015) George Mason University

2005 – 2007 Program Director
Science and Society Program National Science Foundation

1998 (Spring) Visiting Associate Professor
Cyberspace Policy Institute
Department of Engineering and Applied Science George Washington University

1989 - 1995 Assistant Professor
Department of Public and International Affairs George Mason University

1984 - 1989 Senior Analyst (1987-1989); Analyst (1984-1987)
Office of Technology Assessment
U.S. Congress

1984 (Spring) Guest Scholar Brookings Institution

1979 - 1985 Assistant Professor University of Puget Sound (On leave Spring, 1984-- Summer 1985)

1981 (Summer) Participant in National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar on "State and Society in Empirical Democratic Theory" held at Harvard University

1972- 1975 Assistant to the President
John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY

PUBLICATIONS

Books

Timothy J. Conlan, Paul L. Posner, and Priscilla M. Regan, Governing Under Stress: The Implementation of Obama’s Economic Stimulus Program (Georgetown University Press, 2016).

Deborah G. Johnson and Priscilla M. Regan, eds., Transparency and Surveillance as Sociotechnical Accountability: A House of Mirrors (Routledge, 2014). Author or co-author of six of ten chapters in volume.

Priscilla M. Regan. Legislating Privacy: Technology, Social Values, and Public Policy. (University of North Carolina Press, 1995).

Articles

Priscilla M. Regan. Forthcoming, “Pathways to Information Privacy Policy: Pluralist vs Expert,” Berkeley Law and Technology Journal

Priscilla M. Regan. Forthcoming. “Three Arenas of Congressional Oversight of Online Platforms Competition, Privacy and Content,” Wayne Law Review

Priscilla M. Regan and Jane Bailey. 2020. “Big Data, Privacy, and Education Applications,” Education and Law Journal 28:55-78.

Priscilla M. Regan. 2020. “A Design for Public Trustee and Privacy Protection Regulation,” Seton Hall Legislative Journal 44(3): 487-513.

Jacquelyn Burkell and Priscilla M. Regan. 2019. “Voter Preferences, Voter Manipulation, Voter Analytics: Policy Options for Less Surveillance and More Autonomy,” Internet Policy Review 8(4):1-24.

Priscilla M. Regan and Valerie Steeves. 2019. “Education, Privacy and Big Data Algorithms: Taking the Persons out of Personalized Learning,” First Monday 24(11) 4 (November).

Jane Bailey, Valerie Steeves, Jacquelyn Burkell, Leslie Regan Shade, Rakhi Ruparelia and Priscilla Regan. 2019. “Getting at Equality: Research Methods Informed by the Lessons of Intersectionality,” International Journal of Qualitative Methods 18:1-14.

Priscilla M. Regan and Elsa Talat Khwaja. 2019. “Mapping the Political Economy of Education Technology,” Policy Futures in Education. First Published March 7, 2019

Priscilla M. Regan and Jolene Jesse. 2018. "Ethical Challenges of Edtech, Big Data and Personalized Learning: 21st Century Student Sorting and Tracking," Ethics and Information Technology, published online 3 December 2018.

Valerie Steeves and Priscilla M. Regan. 2018. “Teaching Digital Citizenship in the Networked Classroom” International Journal of Public Administration in the Digital Age (IJPADA) Volume 5, Issue 4, Oct-Dec 2018, 33-49.

Priscilla M. Regan. 2017. “Reviving the Public Trustee Concept and Applying it to Information Privacy Policy,” Maryland Law Review 76(4): 1025-1043.

Priscilla M. Regan. 2017. “Windows on Surveillance: The Scholarship of Gary Marx,” Society 54(4): 363-366.

Colin Bennett, Priscilla Regan, Robin Bayley. 2017. “If these Canadians lived in the United States, how would they protect their privacy?” First Monday Vol. 22, No. 3 (6 March).

Priscilla M. Regan. 2016. "Response to Privacy as a Public Good," Duke Law Journal Online vol. 65 (February), pp. 51-65.

Krista Craven, Torin Monahan and Priscilla Regan. 2015. “Compromised Trust: DHS Fusion Centers’ Policing of the Occupy Wall Street Movement,” Sociological Research Online vol. 20, issue 3 (August).

Priscilla M. Regan, Torin Monahan and Krista Caven. 2015. “Constructing the Suspicious: Data Production, Circulation and Interpretation by DHS Fusion Centers,” Administration and Society 47(6): 740-762.

Priscilla M. Regan and Torin Monahan. 2014. “Fusion Center Accountability and Intergovernmental Information Sharing,” Publius: The Journal of Federalism (Summer/Annual Review) 44(3): 475-498.

Valerie Steeves and Priscilla Regan. 2014. “Young People and the Social Value of Privacy,” Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society 12(4): 298-313.

Priscilla M. Regan and Torin Monahan. 2013. “Beyond Counterterrorism: Data Sharing, Privacy, and Organizational Histories of DHS Fusion Centers,” International Journal of E-Politics 5(3): 1-14. (Special Issue on Information Technology and Homeland Security.)

Jane Bailey, Valerie Steeves, Jacquelyn Burkell and Priscilla Regan, 2013. “From “Bicycle Face” to Facebook: Negotiating with Gender Stereotypes on Social Networking Sites" Journal of Communication Inquiry 37(2): 91-112.

Priscilla M. Regan, Gerald FitzGerald, and Peter Balint. 2013. "Generational Views of Information Privacy?” Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research 26(1): 1-19.

Torin Monahan and Priscilla M. Regan. 2012. “Zones of Opacity: Data Fusion in Post-9/11 Security Organizations,” Canadian Journal of Law and Society 27(3): 325-341.

Julianne Mahler and Priscilla M. Regan. 2012. “Virtual Intergovernmental Linkage Through the Environmental Information Exchange Network,” Environmental Management 49(1): 14-25.

Julianne Mahler and Priscilla M. Regan. 2011. “Federal Agency Blogs: Agency Mission, Audience and Blog Forms,” Journal of Information Technology and Politics 8(2): 163-176.

Deborah G. Johnson, Priscilla M. Regan, Kent Wayland. 2011. “Campaign Disclosure, Privacy and Transparency,” William and Mary Bill of Rights Journal 19(4): 959-982.

Priscilla M. Regan. 2011. “In Response to Bennett: Also in Defense of Privacy,” Surveillance & Society 8(4): 497-499.

Priscilla M. Regan and Valerie Steeves. 2010. “Kids R Us: Online Social Networking and the Potential for Empowerment,” Surveillance and Society 8(2): 151-165.

Priscilla M. Regan. 2009. “Federal Security Breach Notifications: Politics and Approaches,” Berkeley Technology Law Journal. 24(3): 1101-1130.

Julianne Mahler and Priscilla M. Regan. 2009. “Blogs as Public Forums for Agency Policymaking,” Issues in Governance Studies No. 26 (August): 1-14.

Priscilla M. Regan and Christopher J. Deering. 2009. “State Opposition to REAL ID,” Publius: The Journal of Federalism 39(3): 476-505.

Julianne Mahler and Priscilla M. Regan. 2006. “Crafting the Message: Controlling the Content of Agency Websites.” Government Information Quarterly (July), Vol. 24, No.3, pp. 505-521.

Julianne Mahler and Priscilla M. Regan. 2006. “The Evolution of Web Governance in the Federal Government.” International Journal of Electronic Government Research 2, 1 (January-March): 21- 35.

Julianne Mahler and Priscilla M. Regan. 2005. “Agency Internets and the Changing Dynamics of Congressional Oversight.” International Journal of Public Administration 28, 7&8: 553-565.

Priscilla M. Regan. 2004. “Old Issues, New Context: Privacy, Information Collection and Homeland Security,” Government Information Quarterly, 21, 4: 481-497.

Michael R. Curry, David J. Phillips, and Priscilla M. Regan. 2004. “Emergency Response Systems and the Creeping Legibility of People and Places,” The Information Society, vol. 20, no. 2 (Nov.– Dec), pp. 357-369.

Colin J. Bennett and Priscilla M. Regan. 2004. “Editorial: Surveillance and Mobilities,” Surveillance and Society, vol. 1, no. 4 , pp 449-455. Guest editors of Special Issue on Surveillance and Mobilities with seven peer-reviewed articles.

Priscilla M. Regan. 2003. “Safe Harbors or Free Frontiers?: Privacy and Transborder Data Flows,” Journal of Social Issues, vol. 59, no. 2, pp. 263-282.

Julianne Mahler and Priscilla M. Regan. 2003. “Developing Intranets for Agency Management,” Public Performance and Management Review, vol. 26, no. 4 (June), pp. 422-432.

Priscilla M. Regan. 2003. “Privacy and Commercial Use of Personal Data: Policy Developments in the United States,” Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, vol. 11, no. 1 (March), pp. 12- 18.

Priscilla M. Regan. 2002. “Privacy as a Common Good,” Information, Communication and Society, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 382-405.

Julianne Mahler and Priscilla M. Regan. 2002. “Learning to Govern Online: Federal Agency Internet Use,” American Review of Public Administration, vol. 32, no. 3 (September), pp. 326-349.

Priscilla M. Regan. 1996. "Privacy Legislation in the United States: The Clash of Ideas and Interests," International Review of Administrative Sciences, vol. 62, no.4 (December), 465-477.

Mary J. Culnan and Priscilla M. Regan. 1995. "Privacy Issues and the Creation of Campaign Mailing Lists," The Information Society Vol. 11, #2 (April-June).

Priscilla M. Regan. 1993. "Data Integrity Boards: Institutional Innovation and Congressional Oversight." Government Information Quarterly Vol. 10, #4 (November), pp. 443-459.

Priscilla M. Regan. 1993. "The Globalization of Privacy: Implications of Recent Changes in Europe," The American Journal of Economics and Sociology Vol. 52, # 3 (July), pp. 257-274.

Priscilla M. Regan. 1993. "Ideas or Interests: Privacy in Electronic Communications," Policy Studies Journal Vol. 21, #3 (Autumn), pp.450-469.

Priscilla M. Regan. 1990. "Protecting Privacy and Controlling Bureaucracies: Constraints of British Constitutional Principles," Governance Vol. 3, No. 1 (Jan.), pp. 33-54.

Priscilla M. Regan. 1988. "From Paper Dossiers to Electronic Dossiers: Gaps in the Privacy Act of 1974," Office: Technology & People, 3, pp. 279-296.

Priscilla M. Regan. 1987. "Communications Privacy in an Electronic Age," Media Law & Practice, (December), pp. 122-125.

Priscilla M. Regan. 1986. "Privacy, Government Information and Technology," Public Administration Review Vol. 46, No. 6 (November/December), pp. 629-634.

Priscilla M. Regan and Fred W. Weingarten. 1986. "The National Communications System and Federal Electronic Surveillance Policy," Science, Technology & Human Values, Vol. 11, Issue 4, pp. 17-30 (Fall).

Priscilla M. Regan. 1986. "Policy Analysis: The Limits of Empirical Analysis," Polity Vol. 18, No. 3 (Spring), pp.521-531 (review article).

Priscilla M. Regan. 1984. "British Administrative Reform: The Need for Incentives," Public Administration Review Vol. 44, No. 6 (November/December), pp. 545-550 (review article).

Priscilla M. Regan. 1984. "Formulation of Personal Information Policies: Programmatic Goals and Implementation Frameworks in the United States and Britain," Journal of Public Policy Vol. 4, No.1, pp. 19-38.

Book Chapters

Jacquelyn Burkell and Priscilla M. Regan. 2020. “Voting Public: Leveraging Personal Information to Construct Voter Preferences,” Janice Richardson, Norman Witzleb and Moira Paterson (Eds.), Big Data, Privacy and the Political Process, Routledge.

Leslie R. Shade, Jane Bailey, Jacquelyn Burkell, Priscilla Regan & Valerie Steeves. 2020. “Framing the challenges of digital inclusion for young Canadians,” in Connected Canada: A Research and Policy Agenda for Digital Citizenship, edited by Elizabeth Dubois and Florian Martin-Bariteau. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press.

Priscilla M. Regan. 2018. “Social Values and Privacy Law and Policy,” González-Fuster, G., van Brakel, R. and P. De Hert. Research Handbook on Privacy and Data Protection Law: Values, Norms and Global Politics, Edward Elgar Publishing.

Jacquelyn Burkell and Priscilla M. Regan. 2018. “The Right to Be Forgotten and Youth: Philosophical and Psychological Contexts,” Human Rights Research and Education Center (HRREC) Yearbook. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press.

Valerie Steeves, Priscilla M. Regan, & Leslie R. Shade. 2018. “Digital surveillance in the networked classroom,” in J. Deakin, E. Taylor & A. Kupchik (Eds.), Handbook of school security, surveillance and punishment. London, UK: Palgrave.

Priscilla M. Regan. 2018. "Legislating Privacy: Technology, Social Values, and Public Policy," Bart van der Sloot and Aviva de Groot, Handbook Privacy Studies: An Interdisciplinary Introduction. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.

Priscilla M. Regan. 2017. “Big Data and Privacy,” in Analytics, Policy and Governance. Ed by Jennifer Bachner, Kathryn Wagner Hill, and Benjamin Ginsberg. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Priscilla M. Regan. 2015. “Privacy and the Common Good: Revisited,” in Social Dimensions of Privacy: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Ed by Beate Roessler and Dorota Mokrosinska. London: Cambridge University Press.

Priscilla M. Regan and Diana L. Sweet. 2015. “Girls and Online Drama: Aggression, Surveillance, or Entertainment,” in eGirls, eCitizens. Ed by Jane Bailey and Valerie Steeves. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press.

Priscilla M. Regan and Deborah G. Johnson. 2012. “Privacy and Trust in Socio-technical systems of Accountability,” in Managing Privacy through Accountability. Ed by Daniel Guagnin, Leon Hempel, Carla Ilten, Inga Kroener, Daniel Neyland and Hector Postigo. London and NY: Palgrave Macmillan.

Priscilla M. Regan. 2012. “Regulating Surveillance Technologies: Institutional Arrangements,” in Routledge Handbook of Surveillance Studies. Ed by Kirstie Ball, Kevin D. Haggerty and David Lyon. London and New York: Routledge.

Mahler, Julianne and Priscilla M. Regan. 2010. “Agency-Related Blogs as Forums for Policy Communities,” in The Future of Governance Eds. Taco Brandsen and Marc Holzer. Washington, D.C.: American Society for Public Administration .

Priscilla M. Regan. 2010. “The Liberal State and the Surveillance State: Politics of Information Privacy Policy,” in Political Science as Public Philosophy: Essays in Honor of Theodore J. Lowi, Benjamin Ginsberg and Gwendolyn Mink (eds) (New York: W.W. Norton & Co.).

Priscilla M. Regan. 2010. “Global Privacy Issues,” in The International Studies Compendium Project: International Communication, ed. by Robert A. Denemark and Nannette Levinson (Hoboken, NJ: Wiley/Blackwell Publishing Co.)

Julianne Mahler and Priscilla M. Regan. 2010. “Agency-Related Blogs as Forums for Deliberative Management.” In Handbook of Public Information Systems, Third Edition, edited by G. David Garson and Christopher Shea. Boca Raton: Taylor and Francis.

Priscilla M. Regan. 2008. “The United States,” in Global Privacy Protection, ed by James Rule and Graham Greenleaf, pp. 50-79, London: Edward Elgar.

Julianne Mahler and Priscilla M. Regan. 2007. “The Evolution of Web Governance in the Federal Government.,” in Donald F. Norris, E-Government Research: Policy and Management (Idea Publishers). Reprint of article from International Journal of Electronic Government Research 2, 1 (January-March): 21-35.

Priscilla M. Regan. 2006. “Privacy in the Context of Electronic Government,” chapter in Digital Government: Advanced Research and Case Studies, ed by Hsinchun Chen (editor in chief), Lawrence Brandt, Sharon Dawes, et. al (Springer, forthcoming)

Colin Bennett, David J. Phillips, and Priscilla M. Regan. 2003. “Technology, geography, economics, and regulation: Factors affecting surveillance and privacy in the implementation of wireless 911.” In Rethinking Rights and Regulations: Institutional Responses to New Communications Technologies, ed. Lorrie Faith Cranor and Steven S. Wildman (Cambridge: The MIT Press).

Julianne Mahler and Priscilla Regan. 2003. "Federal Agency Intranets: Worksites for Management Problem Solving and Collaboration." In Managing IT in Government, Business & Communities, ed. Gerry Gingrich (Hershey, PA: IRM Press), pp. 28-42.

Colin Bennett, Charles Raab and Priscilla Regan. 2003. “People and Place: Patterns of Individual Identification within Intelligent Transportation Systems.” In Surveillance as Social Sorting: Privacy, Risk, and Automated Discrimination ed. David Lyon. (London: Routledge), pp. 153-175.

Priscilla M. Regan. 2001. “From Privacy Rights to Privacy Protection: Congressional Formulation of Online Privacy Policy.” In Congress and the Politics of Rights. Ed. Colton Campbell and John Stack. (Boulder, CO: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers), pp. 45-63.

Priscilla M. Regan. 2001. "Dry Counties in Cyberspace: Government Enforcement without Geographic Borders," The Wired Worlds of Electronic Commerce, edited by Stanley D. Brunn and Thomas R. Leinbach (Chichester: John Wiley and Sons, Ltd), pp. 257-276.

Priscilla M. Regan. 2001. “Brokering Trust in Online Privacy: Analysis of Issues and Options,” Technology Policy for the Knowledge-based Economy, edited by Maryann Feldman and Albert N. Link (Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers), pp. 289-310.

Priscilla M. Regan. 1999. “American Business and the European Data Protection Directive: Lobbying Strategies and Tactics,” Visions for Privacy in the 21st Century, edited by Colin Bennett and Rebecca Grant (University of Toronto Press), pp. 199-216.

Priscilla M. Regan. 1996. "Surveillance and New Technologies: Changing Nature of Workplace Surveillance." Chapter Two in New Technology, Surveillance and Social Control, edited by David Lyon and Elia Zureik (University of Minnesota Press).

Priscilla M. Regan. 1992. "Privacy, Efficiency, and Surveillance: Policy Choices in an Age of Computers and Communication Technologies." Chapter in Science, Technology, and Politics: Policy Analysis in Congress edited by Gary Bryner (Westview Press).

Research Grants

Collaborator with Jacquelyn Burkell as Principal Investigator. “The Matter of Consent: Participants’ Perspectives on the Research Use of Social Media Posts,” Insight Development Grant funded by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Project period: July 2019-June 2021. Total budget: $74,947.00 (all through University of Western Ontario).

Co-Principal Investigator with Eric McGlinchey on grant from US State Department entitled “University Public Policy Research Methods for Republic of Georgia.” 10/01/2015 - 9/30/2017. Total funding = $343,956.90.

Co-Investigator, with faculty team from University of Ottawa, University of Toronto and University of Western Ontario led by Jane Bailey and Valerie Steeves. “The eQaulity Project,” funded by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Project period: May 2015- April 2021. Total budget: $2,499,520.00 (GMU budget: $249,575.00).

Co-Principal Investigator, with Paul Posner and Eric McGlinchey, and Sheldon Edner as Senior Personnel. “GIPA – Mason Public Administration Partnership,” US Department of State. Project Period: September 2012-September 2015 (no cost extension through March 2016). Total budget: $740,000.

Member of Project Team for EGirls Project with Jane Bailey, Jacqueline Burkell, and Valerie Steeves at University of Ottawa. Funded by the Canadian Social Science and Humanities Research Council. Project period: March 2011- March 2014. Total budget: $199,998

“Collaborative Research: Exploring Homeland Security Fusion Centers,” with Torin Monahan at Vanderbilt University. GMU budget is $23,432.00 for May 1, 2010 through April 30, 2014. Two year grant; total GMU budget is $50,515.

“A US-Russia Collaboration: Reading Networked Societies,” FIPSE, US Department of Education (with Amy Best, Eric McGlinchey and Jim Witte). Budget: $382,581 for three years, 2010-2013.

Member of Project Team for Smith Richardson Foundation proposal with Paul Posner, Alan Abramson, Tim Conlan and Lehn Benjamin, Navigating in a System of Shared Governance: New Management Strategies for 21st Century Federal Managers, Fourteen Months: July 1, 2009 – August 30, 2010, Grant Request: $152,113 for Phase One, Funded by Smith Richardson Foundation June 12, 2009

Consultant on NSF Project SES-0823363, “Technology and Democracy: Surveillance and Transparency as Sociotechnical Systems of Accountability,” with Deborah G. Johnson and Kent Wyland. Project period: January 1, 2009 to December 31, 2010.

Collaborator on an international research collaboration funded by the Canadian Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). This SSHRC project, The New Transparency: Surveillance as Social Sorting (Lyon, Queens University), is a seven-year $2.5 million grant that provides a framework for more than thirty scholars, including myself, from more than a dozen countries to meet about similar research interests. Ongoing research with Valerie Steeves on generational privacy and with Torin Monahan on fusion centers is related to this grant.

"People and Place: Geographic Information Systems and Changing Patterns of Individual Identification." NSF grant submitted with Colin Bennett, Michael Curry, David Phillips, and Charles Raab to the Directorate for Societal Dimensions of Engineering, Science and Technology: Ethics and Values Studies, Research on Science and Technology. Grant No. SES-0083271. Project period: August 15, 2000 to July 31, 2002; no-cost extension granted until July 31, 2003. Amount funded to GMU: $138,556.

“Federal Agency Web-based Worksites: Management Problem Solving and Collaboration.” With Julianne Mahler. PricewaterhouseCoopers Endowment for the Business of Government. Project period: June-December, 2001. Amount funded: $15,000.

“Developing Digital Resources for Citizenship Education in a Diverse Urban High School.” Planning Grant submitted with Scott Keeter, Joel Clark, and Hugh Sockett to the National Endowment for the Humanities. April 1, 1999. Total project funding: $52,201.

Consultancies/Research Reports

Member, National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA) Election 2020: Working Group on Ensure Data Security and Privacy Rights of Individuals, “Data Privacy and Security: An Agenda for 2021.”

Priscilla M. Regan and Karl Maschimo. 2019. “A Public Administrator’s Practical Guide to Ethics and Artificial Intelligence,” Artificial Intelligence and its Impact on Public Administration. National Academy of Public Administration, Standing Panel on Technology Leadership.

Committee on Authentication Technologies and Their Privacy Implications, Who Goes There? Authentication Through the Lens of Privacy (Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2003)

Committee on Authentication Technologies and Their Privacy Implications, IDs – Not That Easy: Questions about National Idenity Systems (Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2003)

Federal Intranet Work Sites: An Interim Assessment, PricewaterhouseCoopers Endowment for The Business of Government, E-Government Series (June 2002) (with Julianne G. Mahler).

Member of the National Academy of Sciences, Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, Committee on Authentication Technologies and their Privacy Implications, February 2001 to December 31, 2002.

Georgetown Internet Privacy Policy Survey: Report to the Federal Trade Commission. Member of the Advisory Group and served as consultant to Mary Culnan in designing and implementing survey and in analyzing survey results. Washington, DC: Georgetown University. Spring 1999.

Department of Commerce, Conversations on Internet Privacy: Served as one of three academic facilitators in discussions between industry and privacy advocates. Washington, D.C. May-June 1998.

Social Security Administration, member of the Panel of Expert Advisors on Internet Services and Electronic Data Exchange, 1998 - 1999.

National Information Infrastructure Advisory Committee. Facilitated development of privacy principles, and wrote briefing papers and scenarios for MegaProject Three of the Advisory Committee, 1993 - 1994.

"Analysis of Privacy Issues Raised by Operational Tests of Intelligent Transportation Systems," submitted to the Department of Transportation, December 1996. (with Laurie Schintler and Sheila Hearne).

"National Public Opinion Survey of Attitudes about Privacy Issues Raised by Intelligent Transportation Systems," submitted to the Department of Transportation, December 1996. (with Laurie Schintler and Sheila Hearne).

"Typology of Federal Government Services Relevant to Electronic Delivery." Submitted to the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment, December 1991.

Congressional Reports

U.S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment, The Use of Integrity Tests for Pre-Employment Screening, OTA-SET-442 (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, September, 1990). (Author of first draft of report)

U.S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment, Critical Connections: Communication for the Future, OTA-CIT-407 (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, January 1990) (Author of Chapter 6 and contributor)

U.S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment, Electronic Delivery of Public Assistance Benefits: Technology Options and Policy Issues OTA-BP-CIT-47 (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, April 1988). (Co-author)

U.S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment, Electronic Record Systems and Individual Privacy OTA-CIT-296 (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, June 1986). (Principal Author)

U.S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment, Federal Government Information Technology: Management, Security, and Congressional Oversight, OTA-CIT-297 (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, February 1986). (Contributor)

U.S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment, Electronic Surveillance and Civil Liberties OTA- CIT-293 (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, October 1985). (Principal Author)

Short Articles/Newsletters

Tim Conlan and Priscilla Regan, “Implementing the 2020 Stimulus: Lessons From the 2009 Recovery Act,” GovExec (April 2, 2020) available at: 

Jane Bailey, Jacquelyn Burkell, Priscilla Regan & Valerie Steeves, “Children's privacy is at risk with rapid shifts to online online schooling under coronavirus,” The Conversation (April 21, 2020) available at: 

“At Issue: Can Consumer Online Data Be Protected,” CQ Researcher (February 9, 2018).

“Privacy, the Common Good and Individual Liberties in the 21st Century: A Dialogue among Scholars,” Focus on Law Studies, vol. XV, no. 2 (Spring 2000), pp. 1-12.

“Numbers Are Not Enough: Women in the Bush Administration,” Matrix (Newsletter of the Women’s Studies program, GMU) (May 2001).

"Privacy and IVHS," IVHS Legal Issues Vol. 2, #1 (Winter 1994), pp. 21-22.

"Privacy Legislation," The Encyclopedia of the United States Congress, ed. Donald C. Bacon, Roger H. Davidson and Morton Keller (Simon and Schuster Academic Reference Division, 1996).

Book Reviews

Priscilla M. Regan, Book review essay for Public Administration Review (forthcoming, Sept/Oct, 2010): “Roles and Dynamics of Political Blogging: Issues, Controversies, and Examples,” review of: Lowell Feld and Nate Wilcox, Netroots Rising: How a Citizen Army of Bloggers and Online Activists is Changing American Politics (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2008), and David D. Perlmutter, Blogwars (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008).

Priscilla M. Regan, Book review of Wolfgang Sofsky, Privacy: A Manifesto (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008) in Surveillance & Society , 2009 6(3): pp. 345-346.

Priscilla M. Regan, Book review of Peter K. Manning, The Technology of Policing: Crime Mapping, Information Technology and the Rationality of Crime Control (New York University Press, 2008) in Journal of Information Technology and Politics, 2008 5 (2): pp. 264 – 266.

Death of Privacy in the 21st Century. Simson Garfinkel. Issues in Science and Technology, Vol. XVI, #4 (Summer 2000), pp.85-87.

The Democratic Class Struggle. Walter Korpi. (Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1983). American Political Science Review, December, 1984.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Congressional Testimony

"Electronic Record Systems and Individual Privacy" before a hearing of the Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, Committee on Governmental Affairs, U.S. Senate (September 16, 1986).

Conference Papers

Priscilla M. Regan, “A Design for Public Trustee and Privacy Protection Regulation,” Presented at the Privacy Law Scholars Conference, Berkeley, CA, May 2019.

Jacquelyn Burkell and Priscilla M. Regan, “Voter Preferences, Voter Manipulation, Voter Analytics: Policy Options for Less Surveillance and More Autonomy,” Presented at the Workshop on Data Driven Elections, Victoria, British Columbia, April 2019.

Priscilla M. Regan and Valerie Steeves, “Education, Privacy and Big Data Algorithms: Taking the Persons out of Personalized Learning,” Presented at the Computers, Privacy and Data Protection Conference, Brussels, January 2019.

Jacquelyn Burkell and Priscilla M. Regan, “Voting Public: Leveraging Personal Information to Construct Voter Preference,” Presented at Amsterdam Privacy Conference, October 2018.

Priscilla M. Regan, “Public Trustee Regulation and Privacy Protection: Design and Political Feasibility?” Presented at Amsterdam Privacy Conference, October 2018.

Priscilla Regan and Jane Bailey, “Big Data, Privacy and Education Applications,” Presented at Surveillance Studies Network Conference, June 7-9, 2018, Aarhus University, Denmark.

Priscilla M. Regan and Elsa T. Khwaja, “ Mapping the Political Economic Landscape of Educational Technology: A Network Perspective,” Presented at the 1St North American Social Networks Conference, July 2017, Washington DC.

Priscilla M. Regan and Elsa Talat Khwaja, “Ethical Implementation of Big Data in Education: Policy and Practices in the US and Canada,” Presented at the Law and Society Association Annual Conference, June 2017, Mexico City

Priscilla M. Regan, Colin Bennett and Robin Bayley, "If These Canadians Lived in the United States How Would They Protect Their Privacy? The Functional Equivalence of Privacy Redress Mechanisms in Canada and the US," at the Privacy Law Scholars Conference in Washington DC from June 2-3, 2016.

Priscilla M. Regan, Jolene Jesse and Elsa Talat Khwaja, "Big Data in the Education Arena: 21st Century Student Sorting and Tracking," at the 7th Biannual Surveillance and Society Conference in Barcelona Spain, April 20 to April 23, 2016.

Priscilla M. Regan, Jolene Jesse and Elsa Talat Khwaja, "Big Data in Education: Developing Policy for Ethical Implementation in the US and Canada" at the annual meetings of the American Society for Public Administration in Seattle, March 18-22, 2016.

Priscilla M. Regan and Diana Sweet, "Girls and Online Drama: Aggression, Surveillance or Entertainment" at the Amsterdam Privacy Conference, October 23-26, 2015.

Priscilla M. Regan, “Big Data, Privacy, and Federal Agency Accountability” at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association in September, 2015 in San Francisco.

Torin Monahan, Krista Craven and Priscilla M. Regan, “Compromised Trust: DHS Fusion Centers’ Policing of the Occupy Wall Street Movement,” 6th Biannual Surveillance and Society Conference, Barcelona, Spain April 24-26, 2014.

Priscilla M. Regan, “Location Privacy in Congress, the Courts and the States: Rebalancing Privacy, Law Enforcement and Industry Interests,” American Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, August 28- September 1, 2013.

Priscilla M. Regan and Torin Monahan,” Fusion Center Accountability Arrangements: Intergovernmental Information Sharing,” Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, April 11-13, 2013.

Valerie Steeves and Priscilla M. Regan, “Young People Online and the Social Value of Privacy,” Amsterdam Privacy Conference, Amsterdam October 7-10, 2012.

Tim Conlan, Sheldon Edner, Paul Posner, and Priscilla M. Regan, “Implementation Networks and Shared Governance in the Intergovernmental System,” Paper presented to the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, New Orleans, LA, Aug 30-Sept 2, 2012.

Priscilla M. Regan and Torin Monahan, “Fusion Centers’ Information Sharing: Revisiting Reliance on Suspicious Activity Reports,” paper presented at the 2012 Privacy Law Scholars Conference George Washington University Law School Washington, DC, June 7-8, 2012.

Torin Monahan and Priscilla M. Regan, “Centers of Concatenation: Fusing Data in Post-9/11 Security Organizations,” paper presented at Academic Workshop on The Expanding Surveillance Net: Ten Years after 9/11, September 8, 2011.

Priscilla M. Regan and Torin Monahan, “Data Sharing, Privacy and Organizational History: DHS Fusion Centers,” paper presented at the American Political Science Association Meetings, September 1-4, 2011, Washington DC.

Priscilla M. Regan, “Privacy and Trust In Sociotechnical Systems of Accountability,” (paper and keynote), Privacy and Accountability 201l: International Conference of the PATS project, Centre for Technology and Society (Technical University Berlin), April 5-6, 2011.

Priscilla M. Regan and Deborah Johnson, “Reconfiguring the House of Mirrors: Narrowing Digitally Mediated Surveillance on Facebook,” Paper presented at International Workshop on Cyber-Surveillance in Everyday Life, University of Toronto (May 12-15, 2011)

Deborah Johnson, Priscilla M. Regan, and Kent Wayland, Privacy, “Campaign Disclosure, Privacy and Transparency,” Democracy & Elections Symposium, at William & Mary Law School, Williamsburg, Virginia, on Friday, October 22, 2010.

Julianne Mahler and Priscilla M. Regan, “Virtual Intergovernmental Linkage through the Environmental Information Exchange Network,” paper presented at American Political Science Association Meetings, September, 2-5, 2010, Washington DC.

Priscilla M. Regan and Gerald FitzGerald, “Generational Views of Privacy?”, paper presented at the 2010 Privacy Law Scholars Conference, co-sponsored by George Washington and Berkeley Law Schools, June 3-4, 2010, Washington, DC.

Priscilla M. Regan and Kent Wayland, “Facebook Funhouse: Notes on Personal Transparency and Peer Surveillance,” paper prepared for Conference Presentation at: A Global Surveillance Society? City University London, April 13-15, 2010

Julianne Mahler and Priscilla M. Regan, “Federal Agency Blogs in Transition: Comparison of Late Bush Administration and Early Obama Administration Use of Blogs,” paper prepared for presentation at the 2009 American Political Science Administration meetings, Toronto, Canada.

Julianne Mahler and Priscilla M. Regan, “Agency-Related Blogs as Forums for Policy Communities,” paper prepared for presentation at the Fifth Trans-Atlantic Dialogue, George Washington and George Mason Universities, June 11-13, 2009.

Julianne Mahler and Priscilla M. Regan, “Blogging for Policy and Management Purposes: Federal Agency Blogs,” paper prepared for presentation at the Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meetings, Chicago, IL April 2-5, 2009

Julianne Mahler and Priscilla M. Regan, “Agency-Related Blogs as Forums for Deliberative Management,” paper prepared for presentation at the Annual Meetings of the American Society for Public Administration, Miami, Florida March 20-24, 2009.

Priscilla M. Regan, “Federal Security Breach Notifications: Politics and Approaches,” paper prepared for presentation at the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology, Security Breach Notification Symposium, paper prepared for presentation at March 6, 2009, Berkeley, CA, March 6, 2009.

Priscilla M. Regan, “Opposition to REAL-ID at the State Level: Privacy, Immigration or Unfunded Mandates,” paper prepared for presentation at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, August 28-31, 2008.

Julianne Mahler and Priscilla M. Regan, “Agency-Related Blogs as Forums for Policy Networks,” paper prepared for presentation at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, August 28-31, 2008.

Julianne Mahler, Priscilla M. Regan, and Caitlin Schopp, “Virtual Intergovernmental Linkage through the Environmental Information Exchange Network,” paper prepared for presentation at the Fourth Annual Trans-Atlantic Dialogue Conference, Milan Italy, June 2008.

Julianne Mahler and Priscilla M. Regan, “Active and Passive Leadership in Virtual Collaboration Networks,” presented at Workshop 5: Leadership and the New Public Management,

Leading the Future of the Public Sector: The Third Transatlantic Dialogue, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, USA, May 31–June 2, 2007

Deborah Johnson and Priscilla Regan, “Privacy Theory: State of the Art and New Frontier,” presented at Workshop on Information Privacy Regulation Workshop at the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR), Helsinki, Finland (May 7-12).

Julianne Mahler and Priscilla M. Regan, “Using Virtual Collaboration in Complex Government Organizations,” Presented at: Conference of the American Society for Public Administration Washington, D.C., March 23-27, 2007

Julianne Mahler and Priscilla M. Regan, “Federal Agencies and the Evolution of Web Governance,” International Conference on Digital Government Research, San Diego, CA., May 24, 2006

Julianne Mahler and Priscilla M. Regan, “The Evolution of Web Governance in the Federal Government,” Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, Washington, D.C., November 5, 2005.

Julianne Mahler and Priscilla M. Regan, “Homestyle Online: Casework over the Internet,” American Political Science Association Meetings, Washington, D.C., September 1, 2005

Julianne Mahler and Priscilla M. Regan, “Crafting the Message: Agency Websites and Political Control,” Paper presented at the 2004 American Political Science Association meetings, Chicago, IL, Sept. 1-3, 2004.

Julianne Mahler and Priscilla M. Regan, “Agency Internets and the Changing Dynamics of Congressional Oversight,” Poster presentation at the American Political Science Association Annual Meetings, Philadelphia, PA, August 30, 2003.

Colin J. Bennett, Priscilla Regan, and Charles D. Raab. “Onboard Telematics and the Surveillance of Movement: The Case of Car Rental Systems.” Paper for presentation at the Sixth ETHICOMP International Conference on the Social and Ethical Impacts of Information and Communication Technologies, Universidade Lusiada, Lisbon, Portugal 13 to 15 November 2002.

Michael J. Curry, David J. Phillips, and Priscilla M. Regan. “Implications of the Deployment of Wireless Emergency Response Systems.” Paper for presentation at the Sixth ETHICOMP International Conference on the Social and Ethical Impacts of Information and Communication Technologies, Universidade Lusiada, Lisbon, Portugal 13 to 15 November 2002.

Colin Bennett, David J. Phillips, and Priscilla M. Regan. “Technology, geography, economics, and regulation: Factors affecting surveillance and privacy in the implementation of wireless 911.” Paper for the Telecommunications Policy Research Council, Alexandria, VA, September 28-30, 2002.

Colin Bennett and Priscilla M. Regan, “What Happens When You Make a 911 Call? Privacy and the Regulation of Cellular Technology in the United States and Canada.” Presented at the 2002 Canadian Political Science Convention, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, May 30, 2002.

Julianne Mahler and Priscilla M. Regan, “Federal Agency Intranets: Worksites for Management Problem Solving and Collaboration,” Presented at the Information Resource Management Association’s International Conference, Seattle, May 19-22, 2002.

Priscilla M. Regan, “Privacy and Commercial Use of Personal Data: Policy Developments in the United States.” Presented at the Rathenau Institute Conference on Privacy, Amsterdam, Netherlands, January 17, 2002.

Priscilla M. Regan, “From Clipper to Carnivore: Balancing Privacy, Law Enforcement and Industry Interests.” Presented at the American Political Science Association annual meeting, San Francisco, August 29-September 2, 2001.

Colin Bennett, Charles Raab and Priscilla M. Regan, “People and Place: Patterns of Individual Identification within Intelligent Transportation Systems.” Paper prepared for the Workshop on Surveillance Categories, Risk, and Social Ordering, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, May 3- 5, 2001.

Priscilla M. Regan, “From Privacy Rights to Privacy Protection: Congressional Formulation of Online Privacy Policy.” Paper prepared for a conference on Congress and Rights, Florida International University, February 23-24, 2001.

Priscilla M. Regan, “Harmonization of Privacy Protections in the Global Economy: Resolving Conflicts Between the European Union and the United States” Presented at the Annual Research Conference of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management , Seattle, WA., November 2-4, 2000.

Priscilla M. Regan, “Politics of Online Privacy Policy: Politics as Usual?” Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington D.C., August 31-September 3, 2000.

Julianne Mahler and Priscilla M. Regan, “Federal Agency Internet Use: Learning to Govern Online.” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Palmer House Chicago, ILL., April 28-30, 2000.

Priscilla M. Regan, "Brokering Trust in Online Privacy: Analysis of Issues and Options." Presented at the Annual Research Conference of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, Monarch Hotel, Washington DC, November 4-6, 1999.

Priscilla M. Regan, "Privacy as a Common Good in the Digital World." Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Atlanta Marriott Marquis and Atlanta Hilton Towers, September 2-5, 1999.

Priscilla M. Regan, "Is There a Dry County in Cyberspace?" Presented at the Conference on Place and Identity in an Age of Technologically Regulated Movement, Santa Barbara, California, October 8-10, 1998. Conference was funded by the National Science Foundation's Varenius Project at the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis at the University of California at Santa Barbara.

Priscilla M. Regan, "American Business and the European Data Protection Directive: Lobbying Strategies and Tactics." Presented at the Conference on Visions for Privacy in the 21st Century: A Search for Solutions," Victoria, British Columbia, May 9-11, 1996.

Priscilla M. Regan, "The Prospect for Modern Surveillance Techniques: Implications for Individuals and Democracy." Presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, Washington, DC, August 19-23, 1995.

Mary Culnan and Priscilla M. Regan, "Privacy Issues and the Creation of Campaign Mailing Lists," Presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Statistical Association, Toronto, August 14-18, 1994.

Priscilla M. Regan and Amy Bunger Pool, "Mapping the Human Genome: Comparative Analysis of Social and Ethical Implications." Presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Political Science Association, August 1993.

Priscilla M. Regan, "Surveillance and New Technologies: The Changing Nature of Workplace Surveillance." Presented at New Technologies and Surveillance Research Workshop funded by the Social Science Research Council of Canada, Kingston, Ontario, May 1993.

Priscilla M. Regan, "Data Integrity Boards: Institutional Innovation and Congressional Oversight." Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, September 1992.

Priscilla M. Regan, "The Globalization of Privacy: Implications of Recent Changes in Europe." Presented at the 87th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Pittsburgh, August 1992.

Priscilla M. Regan, "The Social Importance of Privacy." Presented at the 1991 Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 1991.

Priscilla M. Regan, "Privacy, Efficiency, and Surveillance: Policy Choices in an Age of Computers and Communication Technologies." Presented at the Eleventh Annual Research Conference of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, Arlington VA, November 1989.

Priscilla M. Regan, "Bureaucracy and Democracy Revisited: Computer and Communication Technologies in Public Organizations." Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Atlanta, September 1989.

Priscilla M. Regan and Fred W. Weingarten, "The National Communications System and Federal Electronic Surveillance Policy." Presented at the Fourteenth Annual Telecommunications Policy Research Conference, Airlie VA, April 1986.

Priscilla M. Regan, "Informational Privacy and Government Efficiency: Striking a Balance." Presented at the American Political Science Association Meetings, New Orleans, August 1985.

Priscilla M. Regan, "Judicial Insulation and the Legal Audience: The Stone/Frankfurter Correspondence." Presented at the Law and Society Meetings, Denver, June 1983.

Priscilla M. Regan, "Accountability of Organizational Exchanges of Personal Information: United States and Britain." Presented at the National Conference of the American Society for Public Administration, Honolulu, March 1982.

Priscilla M. Regan, "Control of Personal Information in Policy Implementation: United States and Britain." Presented at the American Political Science Association Meetings, New York, September 1981.

Conference Workshops and Roundtables (selected)

“Pathways to Information Privacy Policy: Pluralist vs Expert,” Berkeley Law and Technology Conference, Feb 27-28, 2020, Berkeley CA

Workshop on Technology Expertise in Algorithmic Systems in the Executive Branch and Government Agencies, hosted by Berkeley Center on Law and Technology, Feb 29, 2020

“A Design for Public Trustee and Privacy Protection Regulation,” George Mason University and Seoul National University conference on International Perspectives on Public Policy and Public Administration, Feb 6, 2020, George Mason University, Arlington VA

Panel member, “Privacy Protection Regulation,” Conference on Regulating Cyberspace: Proposals for New Regulatory Regimes, Project on Democracy and the Internet, October 3-4, 2019, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA

Panel member, “Record and Data Privacy in Schools,” Seton Hall Law School Privacy Symposium, Nov 15, 2019 Newark NJ

Panel member, "How Does Privacy as a Good, and Issues of Measurement, Relate to Regulatory Choices" at the Privacy by Design Workshop at Georgetown Law School on January 6, 2016. The workshop was sponsored by the Computing Community Consortium and NSF.

Panel member, “Institutional Barriers to Cybersecurity,” sponsored by the National Academy of Public Administration and American University, November 17, 2015 at the University Club in Washington DC.

Member of Roundtable on “Digital Government: Focusing on Freedom of Expression, Information, Liberty, Digital Surveillance and Lawful Access,” at Ryerson Law Research Centre Digital Rights Roundtable, Toronto, Canada, June 18, 2010.

Priscilla Regan. “DHS Fusion Centers and Data Aggregation,” at What About Us? Privacy, Identity and Equality in a Network Society, A Workshop for the University Of Puerto Rico Cyberlaw Clinic, Thursday January 14, 2010.

Priscilla M. Regan, “Secure Flight and Government Surveillance,” at panel on Surveillance and Transparency as Sociotechnical Systems of Accountability, The Society for the Social Studies of Science Annual Meeting, Washington DC, October 28-31, 2009.

Deborah Johnson, Priscilla M. Regan, Siva Vaidhyanathn, and Kent Wayland, “Surveillance and Transparency as Socio-technical Systems of Accountability,” Humanities and Technology Association Annual Conference, University of Virginia, Sept. 25, 2009.

Danielle Citron, Frank Pasquale, and Priscilla M. Regan, Tutorial on Fusion Centers vs. Privacy Silos at the19th Annual Computers, Freedom, and Privacy Conference, June 1-4, 2009, Washington DC

Priscilla M. Regan and Valerie Steeves, “Kids R Us: Online Social Networking and the Potential for Empowerment,” discussion at Workshop on Surveillance & Empowerment, March 20-22, 2009, Vanderbilt University; Nashville, Tennessee.

"Public Trust in the Internet: Industry and Public Policy Issues." Co-chair of all day workshop at U.S. Capitol, Washington, DC, January 14, 1999. Workshop organized by the Institute of Public Policy, the Department of Public and International Affairs, and the Congressional Institute for the Future, George Mason University.

"Limits of Privacy." Participant on an "author meets his critics" panel for Amitai Etzioni's book, The Limits of Privacy at the Communitarian Summit, Arlington, VA, February 28, 1999.

"Privacy and Information Technology: The Social Science Contribution." Chair of and participant in this roundtable discussion at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington D.C., August 1991.

Conference Discussant (selected)

“Internet Governance: Structures and Issues,” Panel discussant at Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Toronto, Sept. 3-6, 2009.

“Governing Information Technologies,” Panel discussant at Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, Aug. 30, 2007.

“Access to Government: Citizen Participation and Freedom of Information.” Chair and panel discussant at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, August 2003.

“Judicial Policymaking in a Federal System.” Panel discussant at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, San Francisco, August 2001.

“Politics and Cyberspace.” Panel discussant at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Atlanta, September 1999.

"Internet and Governance: Local, State, National and Global Issues." Chair and panel discussant at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, DC, August 1997.

"Cross-National Lesson Drawing." Panel discussant at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, September 1992.

"Policy Innovation." Panel discussant at the 13th Annual Research Conference of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, Bethesda, October 1991.

Selected Professional Presentations

“Legislating Privacy 2012,” Keynote Address, Amsterdam Privacy Conference, October 9, 2012.

“Location Privacy: Societal Perspectives,” Location Privacy Workshop (NSF Funded), Acadia National Park, Maine. August 5-7, 2004.

“Privacy and Public Access: Are Family Court Records Too Valuable to be On-Line?” Education program presentation (with Martha Steketee) at the Conference of State Court Administrators, San Antonio, Dec. 12, 2003.

"Implementing the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act." Panel presentation at the Federal Trade Commission, Washington, D.C., July 20, 1999.

"Evaluating Effective Self Regulation." Panel presentation at the U.S. Department of Commerce, Public Meeting on Internet Privacy, Washington, D.C., June 23, 1998.

"Perspectives on Privacy: Changing Institutional Roles and Responsibilities." Presented at the Information Privacy Seminar Series, Georgetown Business School, January 30, 1998.

"Two Conceptual Frameworks for Viewing Data Privacy." Presented at a Symposium on Privacy at the Crossroads: Law, Technology and Public Policy held at Georgetown University Law Center, October 20, 1997.

"Privacy and Technology." Plenary panel participant at ACLU's National Biennial Conference, Santa Fe, June 6, 1997.

"Framework for Analyzing Public Policy." Presented at the Conference on Public Policy and Public Health: Local to International Perspectives, National Council of State Boards of Nursing, Crystal City, June 3, 1997.

"Employee Monitoring: Privacy or Employee Relations Issue?" Panel chair, The First Annual Conference on American Business and Privacy, L'Enfant Plaza Hotel, Washington, DC, October 4, 1994.

"The Dynamics of American Public Policy Making: Privacy and Technology." Presented to the American University - American Political Science Association Summer Institute on the American Political System," American University, July 13, 1994.

"Ethical Considerations in Health Care Reform." Presentation to the Center for Health Policy's Annual Health Policy Summer Seminar and Internship, George Mason University, June 6, 1994.

"The Politics of Privacy: Individual Rights and Social Values." Presentation to the Institute of Public Policy Colloquium, George Mason University, April 14, 1994.

"Is It Time for a U.S. Data Protection Agency?" Panel chair, The Fourth Conference on Computers, Freedom and Privacy, The Palmer House, Chicago, March 24, 1994.

"Privacy and Information Technology: Trade-Offs and Resolution," Policy Task Force on Privacy and Computer Technology, The Woodrow Wilson School and The Center for Human Values, Princeton University, February 22, 1994.

"The Policy Process in the United States." Presentation to the Center for Health Policy's Annual Health Policy Summer Seminar and Internship, George Mason University, June 14, 1993.

"The American Policy Process and Health Care Reform." Presented to Public Health Service, Primary Care Policy Fellowship, Department of Health and Human Services, June 22, 1994.

"Information Privacy and the Common Good: The Challenge of New Technology." Presentation at the Second Summer Symposium of the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, Charlotte NC, August 1992.

"The Public Interest and Ethical Issues." Panel discussion at the Panel on Confidentiality and Data Access, National Research Council, June 11, 1991.

"Caller ID and Privacy Issues." Panel discussion at the Annenberg Washington Program's Summer Faculty Workshop, June 5, 1991.

"The Social Importance of Privacy." Seminar at the Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility, May 3, 1991.

"Electronic Matching and Individual Privacy." Seminar at the Social Security Administration's Executive Seminar Series on Strategic Planning, December 1987.

"Detecting The Insider Threat: Civil Liberties Concerns." Presentation to the Department of Defense/National Security Administration Computer Security Conference, September 1987.

"Computer and Telecommunications Advances, Civil Liberties and Due Process Protections, and Law Enforcement Investigations." Seminar at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, Glynco, Georgia, September 1986.

"The Privacy Act and Electronic Recordkeeping." Plenary address at the General Services Administration Conference on Information Resources Management, September 1986.

"Law Enforcement and Security Issues Under Access to Information and Privacy Laws." Panel at Canadian National Forum on Access to Information and Privacy, sponsored by the Department of Justice and Treasury Board of Canada, March 1986.

"Technology and Liberty: The Impact of New Technologies on Privacy and Related Rights." Panel at Conference on Technology and Political Thinking sponsored by the New Jersey Department of Higher Education, October 1985.

"The Challenge of Technology and Information Access." Panel at American Society of Access Professionals Annual Symposium, October 1985.

"Privacy Problems Relating to Computer Security." Presentation at the 7th Annual Symposium on the Freedom of Information and Privacy Acts sponsored by OPM's Government Executive Institute, August 1985.

"Technology and Government: Can the Constitution Survive in the Modern Age?" Panel for the Virginia Court Days Forums, sponsored by the Institute of Government at the University of Virginia, May 1985. (later aired on public television in Virginia.)

"Federal Government's Use of Information Technology: Privacy Implications." Presentation at the Women in Communications, Inc. Public Affairs Conference, March 1985.

ACADEMIC AWARDS AND GRANTS

2012 Deil Wright Best Paper Award, APSA Section on Federalism and Intergovernmental Relations with Tim Conlan and Paul Posner for “Implementation and Shared Governance in the U.S. Intergovernmental System: Lessons from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.”

George Mason University. Technology Across the Curriculum Grant. Summer 2000. George Mason University. Study Leave. Spring 1998.

George Mason University. Recipient of Teaching Excellence Award. 1994.

George Mason University, International Institute. Summer Faculty Fellowship. 1993. George Mason University, Graduate School. Summer Faculty Fellowship. 1992.

George Mason University, Graduate School. Graduate Research Assistant. Academic Year 1992- 1993.

University of Puget Sound, Committee on Faculty Enrichment. Research Grants, Spring 1984 and Summer 1983.

National Endowment for the Humanities. Summer Seminar for College Teachers. 1981. Cornell University, Summer Research Fellowship. 1978.

Western Societies Program, Cornell University. Summer Travel Fellowship to conduct research in Britain, 1977.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

Fellow, National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA) 2014-present.

Member of Nominations Committee (2017- present), Membership Committee (2017-present) and Task Force on AI, NAPA (2018-2019).

American Political Science Association (APSA), 1979 – present.

Chair, Departmental Services Committee, American Political Science Association, 2013-2015. President, Information Technology and Politics Division, APSA, 2010.

Section Chair for Information Technology and Politics, 2009 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association.

Member of program committee, Privacy Law Scholars Conference, 2015-2016.

Member of program committee, Section Chair for Science, Technology and Environmental Policy, 1997 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association.

Member of program committee, Fourth Annual Conference on Computers, Freedoms and Privacy (1993-1994).

Member (1991-1992) of the Information Security and Applications Subcommittee of the Committee on Communications and Information Policy, United States Activities Board of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc (IEEE).

Member of editorial board Journal of Information Technology and Politics.

Member of advisory panel, study on money laundering, congressional Office of Technology Assessment.