@article{rickabaugh_siegel_2025, title={Teaching the orchestra, not just the conductor: Early undergraduate transdisciplinary education in public affairs designed for non-majors}, volume={2}, ISSN={["2328-9643"]}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15236803.2025.2465021}, DOI={10.1080/15236803.2025.2465021}, journal={JOURNAL OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS EDUCATION}, author={Rickabaugh, Jay and Siegel, Jacob}, year={2025}, month={Feb} }
 @article{deviney_bhadha_crane_cuchiara_delanthamajalu_gatiboni_guzman_hendren_marshall_morrison_et al._2024, title={Triple Bottom Line Scenario Sites as Boundary Objects for Integrating Diverse Disciplines in Convergent Research}, volume={16}, ISSN={["2071-1050"]}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su162310429}, DOI={10.3390/su162310429}, abstractNote={Today’s challenges with sustainability are driven by complexity, lack necessary information, resist straightforward solutions, span multiple scales, and encompass diverse or sometimes conflicting perspectives. To tackle these issues effectively, research organizations need tools that support and accelerate the integration of disciplinary knowledge across both natural and social sciences so that they can explore and execute workable solutions. Boundary objects are tools that can bring diverse perspectives together through a shared point of focus that is meaningful across different groups and perspectives, enhancing communication between them. Here, we introduce a framework to develop Triple Bottom Line Scenario Sites (TBL Sites) as “convergence” boundary objects and intervention testbeds to support a holistic approach to sustainability research within multidisciplinary and multi-institutional organizations. We describe four key criteria used to identify a potential TBL Site: (1) proximity to researchers, (2) a bounded geographic location encompassing a particular ecosystem, (3) an integrated stakeholder network, and (4) access to existing resources. We explain how TBL Sites may be used to assess research impacts on environmental, economic, and social sustainability goals. Finally, we provide examples of aquatic, agricultural, and urban TBL Sites used by the Science and Technologies for Phosphorus Sustainability (STEPS) Center, demonstrating how these boundary objects facilitate convergence across a large multidisciplinary research team to tackle sustainable phosphorus management.}, number={23}, journal={SUSTAINABILITY}, author={Deviney, Alison V. and Bhadha, Jehangir H. and Crane, Lucas and Cuchiara, Maude and Delanthamajalu, Shwetha and Gatiboni, Luciano and Guzman, Sandra M. and Hendren, Christine Ogilvie and Marshall, Anna-Maria and Morrison, Elise and et al.}, year={2024}, month={Dec} }
 @article{tepperman_rickabaugh_2023, title={Historical criminology, a moving target: Understanding and challenging trends in British and American periodization}, volume={85}, ISSN={0047-2352}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2022.101978}, DOI={10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2022.101978}, journal={Journal of Criminal Justice}, publisher={Elsevier BV}, author={Tepperman, Alex and Rickabaugh, Jay}, year={2023}, month={Mar}, pages={101978} }
 @article{rickabaugh_2023, title={Regional Public Sector Organizations: A broader taxonomic classification to <scp>cross‐pollinate</scp> empirical research}, volume={101}, ISSN={0033-3298 1467-9299}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/padm.12779}, DOI={10.1111/padm.12779}, abstractNote={Abstract The present scholarship on cross‐boundary organizations of local governments often splinters its focus and investigates narrow species of organizations with specific powers or unique policy domains. However, many organizations share common governance structures and mechanisms. Investigating these commonalities from a broader perspective permits stronger cross‐pollination of knowledge and sharpens generalizable theories of governance and administration. In this article, I first provide easily and unambiguously measurable criteria capturing a genus I term Regional Public Sector Organizations (RPSOs). These criteria rely on a rescaled common definition of International Governmental Organizations (IGOs). In the United States, this broad genus includes many species of public authorities, regional councils, and policy‐specific organizations. Terminology may differ in other nations, but the underlying idea sustains. The second contribution is five research questions largely inspired by IGO scholarship. Considering the parallels of RPSOs to IGOs can chart a rigorous, empirical path toward more coherent theoretical conversations on regional governance.}, number={1}, journal={Public Administration}, publisher={Wiley}, author={Rickabaugh, Jay}, year={2023}, month={Mar}, pages={271–283} }
 @inproceedings{rickabaugh_2022, title={Digital Literacy and Co-Regional Activity in Southwestern North Carolina}, booktitle={Research and Creative Activity at Appalachian Conference (ReCAPP)}, author={Rickabaugh, J.}, year={2022}, month={Oct} }
 @inproceedings{rickabaugh_2022, title={Mapping Co-Regional Landscapes and the Roles of Regional Leaders}, booktitle={2022 Annual Conference of the Southern Political Science Association}, author={Rickabaugh, J.}, year={2022}, month={Jan} }
 @inproceedings{rickabaugh_2022, title={Rural Broadband and Co-Regional Activity in Southwestern North Carolina}, booktitle={Deil Wright Symposium, American Society for Public Administration}, author={Rickabaugh, J.}, year={2022}, month={Mar} }
 @inproceedings{rickabaugh_2021, title={Applying Your Knowledge: Incorporating Examples from Your Research into the Courses You Teach}, booktitle={Network of Schools of Public Policy, Affairs, and Administration (NASPAA)}, author={Rickabaugh, J.}, year={2021}, month={Nov} }
 @article{nelles_rickabaugh_2021, title={Developing Co-Regional Activity to Conceptualize Constellations of Governance Mechanisms}, url={https://www.urbanaffairsreview.com/uar-archive/american-regionalism-and-the-constellation-of-mechanisms-for-cross-boundary-cooperation}, journal={Urban Affairs Review}, author={Nelles, J. and Rickabaugh, J.}, year={2021}, month={Nov} }
 @inproceedings{rickabaugh_2020, title={Collaboration for the Services You Can’t Afford to Lose and You Can’t Afford to Keep}, booktitle={NC Local Government Budget and Policy Association}, author={Rickabaugh, J.}, year={2020}, month={Dec} }
 @inproceedings{rickabaugh_cortinas price_2020, title={How Do Local Governments and Regional Stakeholders Plan for Transportation in Appalachia?}, booktitle={North Carolina Political Science Association}, author={Rickabaugh, J. and Cortinas Price, S.}, year={2020}, month={Feb} }
 @inbook{not state, not local: regional intergovernmental organizations_2020, booktitle={Cooperation and Conflict between State and Local Government}, year={2020}, month={Aug} }
 @article{rickabaugh_2020, title={Regionalism With and Without Metropolitanism: Governance Structures of Rural and Non-Rural Regional Intergovernmental Organizations}, volume={51}, ISSN={0275-0740 1552-3357}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0275074020939883}, DOI={10.1177/0275074020939883}, abstractNote={While prior scholarship has investigated many tools for regional governance across the rural-to-urban spectrum, the literature on regional organizations (councils of governments, planning district commissions, etc.) has been dominated by metropolitan regions. As a result, we know very little about the plethora of these regional organizations serving rural local governments. The omission of rural regions as a control variable from this conversation limits our ability to determine what traits are truly intergovernmental across this spectrum and what traits are specific to metropolitan and rural regions. Using a new, nationwide database of Regional Intergovernmental Organizations (RIGOs) and original governance documents, I present two unexpected empirical similarities between rural and non-rural RIGOs. First, I demonstrate that the quantity and relative dominance of the local governments within the territorial footprint of rural and non-rural RIGOs are nearly identical when population is held constant. Given the smaller populations within most rural RIGOs, this finding raises serious questions about how limited capacity is diffused and the need for multijurisdictional collaboration in rural areas. Second, I demonstrate that rural and non-rural RIGOs do not substantially differ in the way representational rights are apportioned to local governments on RIGO governing boards. Both rural and non-rural RIGOs similarly balance institutional membership with population proportionality in these collective choice arrangements. This evidence supports a broader intergovernmental hypothesis that an individual local government’s representational rights on a RIGO board are more likely to result from relative size differences among members than facets specific to a city–suburb dynamic.}, number={2}, journal={The American Review of Public Administration}, publisher={SAGE Publications}, author={Rickabaugh, Jay}, year={2020}, month={Jul}, pages={155–164} }
 @inproceedings{rickabaugh_2020, title={The “Un-Metropolizing” of Regional Intergovernmental Organizations (RIGOs)}, booktitle={Southern Political Science Association}, author={Rickabaugh, J.}, year={2020}, month={Jan} }
 @inproceedings{rickabaugh_2019, title={The Role of Local Governments in U.S. and European Regional Governance}, booktitle={Deil Wright Symposium, American Society for Public Administration}, author={Rickabaugh, J.}, year={2019}, month={Mar} }
 @inproceedings{rickabaugh_2018, title={An Introduction to Regional Intergovernmental Organizations}, booktitle={Upjohn Institute for Employment Research}, author={Rickabaugh, J.}, year={2018}, month={May} }
 @inproceedings{rickabaugh_2018, title={Discovering American Regions}, booktitle={Southeast Regional Directors Institute}, author={Rickabaugh, J.}, year={2018}, month={May} }
 @inbook{distributing decision-making between local governments on rigo boards_2018, booktitle={Discovering American Regionalism: An Introduction to Regional Intergovernmental Organizations}, year={2018} }
 @phdthesis{finding the unique balance: local government representation on the boards of regional intergovernmental organizations (rigos)_2018, url={http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/35737/1/Rickabaugh%20Dissertation%2012.9.18%20FINAL.pdf}, year={2018}, month={Dec} }
 @inproceedings{rickabaugh_2018, title={Leading Actors: The Role of Elected Officials on the Boards of Regional Intergovernmental Organizations}, booktitle={Deil Wright Symposium, American Society for Public Administration}, author={Rickabaugh, J.}, year={2018}, month={Mar} }
 @inproceedings{rickabaugh_2018, title={Professional Education and Research Needs for Regional Intergovernmental Organization Executive Directors}, booktitle={National Association of Development Organizations (NADO) Annual Training Conference}, author={Rickabaugh, J.}, year={2018}, month={Oct} }
 @inproceedings{rickabaugh_2018, title={The Unvarnished Truth about Large Cities’ Representation on the Boards of Regional Intergovernmental Organizations}, booktitle={Urban Affairs Association}, author={Rickabaugh, J.}, year={2018}, month={Apr} }
 @inproceedings{rickabaugh_2018, title={The Unvarnished Truth about Large Cities’ Representation on the Boards of Regional Intergovernmental Organizations}, booktitle={International Public Policy Association}, author={Rickabaugh, J.}, year={2018}, month={Jun} }
 @inproceedings{rickabaugh_2017, title={Reconceptualizing Local Government Membership and Representational Rights in Cross-Boundary Organizations}, booktitle={Urban Affairs Association}, author={Rickabaugh, J.}, year={2017}, month={Apr} }
 @book{rickabaugh_kearns_livingston_mcshane_2009, place={Pittsburgh, PA}, title={Coleen Rowley and the FBI}, institution={Johnson Institute for Responsible Leadership}, author={Rickabaugh, J. and Kearns, Kevin and Livingston, Jonathan and McShane, Lydia}, year={2009} }