Hello!

My name is Xiaoyang Xu (she/her/hers). I received my Ph.D. in public administration and public policy from the Department of Public Administration and Policy at American University in 2023. 

I am currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Better Government Lab, McCourt School of Public Policy, Georgetown University working on case studies of how government adopts technology innovations from civic tech by interviewing state and local government officials and civic tech organizations.  

My research interests include gender and public administration, equal access to public services, budgeting, and theories of representative bureaucracy. 

I use qualitative (interviews and archival research), quantitive (large-N data analysis), and survey experiment methods in my research.

I received my bachelor's degree in public administration (2017) and Master of Public Administration from Rutgers University (2018).