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BETSY P. SIGMAN
Professor of the Practice


EDUCATION:
Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
M.A., Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
B.A., College of William and Mary

Phone: 202-687-7062

Email Address: bps@georgetown.edu

2007 Winner of the Joseph F. LeMoine Award for Undergraduate and Graduate Teaching Excellence

2008 Faculty Inductee for Beta Gamma Sigma

2009 Dean's Distinguished Service Award

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Management of Information Systems, Electronic Commerce, Databases, Survey Research, Decision Sciences

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
Consulting to various trade and interest groups (Issues Management, Web Sites), Reviewer (textbooks, Journal of Electronic Commerce Research)

ASSOCIATIONS:

· Decision Sciences Institute

· INFORMS

PAPERS AND PUBLICATIONS:

· "Election Results: A New Direction" Public Opinion. August 1979. 

· "The Voting Behavior of Mexican Americans: Its Present and Future Impacts." Southwestern Political Science Association Conference, San Antonio, Texas, March 1982. 

· "The Impact of Locus of Control and Self-Concept on the Political Participation of Young Adults." XX Interamerican Congress of Psychology, Caracas, Venezuela, March 1985. (with Sarah-Kathryn McDonald) 

· "Issues Management: Its Relationship to Policy and Public Opinion Theories and Methods." American Political Science Association Convention, Washington, D.C. August 1986. (with Sarah-Kathryn McDonald)

· "The Issues Manager as Public Opinion and Policy Analyst," in Alfred A. Marcus (ed.) Business Strategy and Public Policy. Greenwood Press, 1987. 

· "Improving the Design of the Decennial Census Questionnaire" (with Theresa J. DeMaio and Elizabeth A. Martin), presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Statistical Association, San Francisco, California, August 1987. 

· "Nonsampling Error on Self-Administered Questionnaires: Results from the Census Bureau's Questionnaire Design Project," (with Theresa J. DeMaio and Elizabeth A. Martin), presented at the Annual Convention of the Southern Association for Public Opinion Research, Raleigh, NC, 1988. 

· Solutions Manual, for Political Science Research Methods by Janet Buttolph Johnson and Richard A. Joslyn. Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly Press, 1994. 

· "Issues Management: Its Relationship to Policy and Public Opinion Theories and Methods (with Sarah-Kathryn McDonald), Review on Public Policy Analysis and Management, JAI Press, 1995. 

· "Strategic Initiatives in Government: Interacting with Big Brother"., E-Gov, Volume 1, Issue 3, September/October, 1998, p. 1. 

· "Survey Solutions Review," CTI Maths&Stats, November 1998, Volume 4, Number 9, p. 25. Published by the University of Glascow.