EDUCATION

University of Wisconsin-Madison
Ph.D. in Political Science, 1998

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Master of Urban Planning, 1978

Harvard University
Graduate course work, Department of Government, 1974-1975

Marquette University
B.A., summa cum laude, Political Science and History, 1974

PUBLICATIONS

Books

Hoffmann, Susan. Politics and Banking: Ideas, Public Policy, and the Creation of Financial Institutions. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.

Journal articles

Hoffmann, Susan M. and Mark K. Cassell. "Understanding Mission Expansion in FHLBs: A Return to Behavioral Choice Theory. Public Administration Review 65 (Nov/Dec 2005): 677-689.

Corder, Kevin and Susan Hoffmann. “Privatizing Federal Credit Programs: Why Sallie Mae?” Public Administration Review 64 (March/April 2004):180–191.

Hoffmann, Susan and Mark Cassell. “What Are the Federal Home Loan Banks up To? Emerging Views of Purpose Among Institutional Leadership,” Public Administration Review 62 (July/August 2002): 461–470.

Hoffmann, Susan, et. al. “How Capital Budgeting Helped a Sick City: Thirty Years of Capital Improvement Planning in Cleveland,” Public Budgeting and Finance (Spring 2000): 24–37.

Hoffmann, Susan, and Norman Krumholz. “Revitalization of the Urban Center: Business and the Neighborhoods,” National Civic Review 68: (March, 1979) 130-5.

Reports and other articles

Cassell, Mark and Susan Hoffmann. “A Case Study of the Federal Home Loan Bank System’s Affordable Housing Program.” Report prepared for the New Economics Foundation (London), as part of “Getting the Framework Right” Project. 2001. Available at project website: http://www.localdeveurope.org/studies.htm#10.

Hoffmann, Susan. “Capital Improvement Budgeting and Programming in the City of Cleveland,” Urban Fiscal Ledger. Cleveland: Cleveland State University College of Urban Affairs, March/April 1985.

Hoffmann, Susan. “Cleveland Developing Capital Project Monitoring System,” Urban Fiscal Ledger. Cleveland: Cleveland State Univ. College of Urban Affairs, March/April 1985.

Hoffmann, Susan and Brian Peterson. Commercial Insurance Problems: Selected Areas in the City of Milwaukee. Milwaukee, Wisconsin: UW-M Urban Observatory, 1978.

Book reviews

Hoffmann, Susan M. "Housing Inequality in the Twenty-First Century: Why it Persists and How We Ask." Urban Affairs Review 41, no. 4. (March 2006): 572-576.
Review of Charles M. Lamb, Housing Segregation in Suburban America since 1960: Presidential and Judicial Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2005) and Mara S. Sidney, Unfair Housing: How National Policy Shapes Community Action (University press of Kansas, 2003).

In process

Hoffmann, Susan M. and Mark K. Cassell. Public Problems and Administrative Capacity: Mission Expansion in the Federal Home Loan Bank System. (Working book title)

INVITED PRESENTATIONS AND CONSULTATION

"A New Player in Housing and Community Development: Federal Home Loan Banks." WMU Geography Department Colloquium Series. February 22, 2006.

"Ideas and Institutions in U.S. Banking." Keynote talk presented as part of the 140th Anniversary Celebration of the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. Washington, D.C. June 3, 2003.

Interview with the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS, Singapore’s Central Bank). Discussed U.S. experience with GSEs in context of MAS exploration of designing a capital market approach to increasing Singapore’s international education market. October 1, 2003.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

"Mission Expansion in the Federal Home Loan Bank System: Supporting the Viability of Community Banks." Paper presented at the 2003 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, Penn. August. With Mark Cassell.

"Federal Home Loan Banks as a Support Mechanism for Small Community Banks." Paper presented at the 2003 Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago. March. With Mark Cassell.

"Privatizing Federal Credit Programs: Why Sallie Mae?" (Revised) Paper presented at the 2002 Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, Long Beach, California, March. With Kevin Corder.

"Leveraging the Private Sector to Meet Public Goals: Federal Home Loan Bank Implementation of New Affordable Housing and Community Development Mandates." Paper presented at the 23rd Annual Research Conference of the Association for Public Policy and Management, Washington D.C. November 2001. With Mark Cassell.

"Privatizing Federal Credit Programs: Why Sallie Mae?" Paper presented at the 6th Annual National Public Management Conference, Bloomington, Indiana. October 2001. With Kevin Corder.

"Public Good, Private Means: the Federal Home Loan Bank System's Current Role in the Creation of Affordable Housing." Paper delivered at the 2001 Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, Las Vegas. March. With Mark Cassell.

"What Are the Federal Home Loan Banks up To? Emerging Views of Purpose Among Institutional Leadership." Paper delivered at the 2000 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C. With Mark Cassell.

"The Federal Home Loan Banks in the Financial System: Are They Serving the Public’s Purposes Now?" Poster session presented at the 1999 Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April. With Mark Cassell.

READER/REVIEWER FOR:

Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory (J-PART)

Journal of Policy History

Pearson Education: public policy textbooks

Routledge: public policy textbooks

TEACHING

Western Michigan University
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, 2004-
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, 2000-2004
Adjunct, School of Public Affairs and Administration, 1999–2000

Marquette University
Adjunct, Institute for Urban Life, Master of Public Service Program, Spring 1999
Visiting Instructor, Department of Political Science, 1996-97

University of South Dakota
Adjunct, Department of Political Science, 1989

Western Iowa Tech Community College
Instructor, Division of Arts and Science, 1988-1990

PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS IN URBAN PLANNING & PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

City of Cleveland

Capital Budget Manager, Office of Budget & Management, 1985-88, 1982-1984
Managed multi-year capital programming process
Recommended annual capital budget, approximately $50 million
Developed and implemented capital projects monitoring system
Prepared special financial analyses
Provided intergovernmental liaison
Managed staff

Program Development Manager, Dept. of Economic Development, May, 1984-May, 1985
Coordinated interdepartmental development teams
Neighborhood Planning Manager, City Planning Department, 1981-1982
Coordinated projects for neighborhood-based housing & business organizations
Supervised analysis of population and housing data by neighborhood
Managed staff

Neighborhood Planner, City Planning Department, 1978-1979
Provided technical assistance to neighborhood groups on housing, commercial & industrial projects
Designed and conducted surveys
Prepared federal grant applications

U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

Housing Rehabilitation Specialist, Milwaukee Area Office, 1979-1980
Managed Section 312 rehab financing program
Monitored local implementation of CDBG-funded housing rehab programs

Park West Redevelopment Task Force, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Staff to Housing Committee, 1977
Prepared study of housing market in redevelopment area

AWARDS AND SPECIAL RECOGNITION - ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL

American Association of State College & Universities, Exemplary Voter Education Program. Selected Kalamazoo City Commission Candidate Forum for inclusion in best practices monograph, 2006

Community and Economic Development Award for Outstanding Scholarship, Michigan, Partnership for Economic Development Assistance, 2002

City of Cleveland, Mayoral Certificate of Appreciation, 1988

All-university fellowship, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1977-1978

Full tuition scholarship, Harvard University, 1974-1975

Dean's Gold Medal, Marquette University, 1974

Phi Beta Kappa

TEACHING INTERESTS

Public policy process, public administration, urban politics, qualitative methods

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Financial policy and administration, GSEs, housing & community development policy, policy process

COMMUNITY SERVICE

Kalamazoo City Commission Candidate Forum, sponsored by WMU Institute of Government & Politics and Western Student Association, organizer and host, October 26, 2005 and October 22, 2003.

City Plan Commission, Monona, Wisconsin
Commissioner, 1993 - 1999

Gund Foundation, Cleveland
Self Help Grant Advisory Committee, 1983

Central Bank, Cleveland
Neighborhood Marketing Grant Distribution Committee, 1982

Fair Housing Council, Milwaukee
Incorporating member, 1978