FACULTY DIRECTORY
James F. Guyot
Professor
Mailing Address:
Baruch College/CUNY
School of Public Affairs
One Bernard Baruch Way, Box D-0901
New York, NY 10010
Office Location: 17 Lexington Avenue, Room 1422
Phone Number: 646 660-6853
Fax Number: 646 660-6701
E-mail Address: James.Guyot@baruch.cuny.edu
Biography
Jim Guyot’s professional career has followed two paths. He returned to SPA in spring 2006 after a three year stint establishing a program in Yangon, Myanmar (Burma) to develop the ability of rote-educated Myanmar high school graduates to think critically and to win full-ride scholarships to liberal arts colleges in the U.S., Canada, and Japan. This undertaking built on his earlier field research into the collapse in Burma, and the failure to collapse in Malaysia, of civil service systems following independence from the British Empire. In between he published extensively on the forty-four year history of the world’s longest running military dictatorship.
Another path began with a management internship at the U.S. Civil Service Commission while writing a dissertation at Yale on psychological characteristics of public and private bureaucracies, which was published in the Public Administration Review as “Government Bureaucrats are Different.” He subsequently took a booster shot in bureaucratic behavior as Manager of Personnel Research at the Port of New York Authority. This resulted in a study published as “Management Training and Post-Industrial Apologetics,” in the California Management Review. Jim’s interest in the process of elite recruitment has recently focused on gender equity issues, delineating the progress of women in the law in terms of the difference between calico cats and males who run to extremes. Preliminary results of this analysis appeared in the Chronicle of Higher Education.
Before coming to Baruch and the Graduate Center of CUNY, Guyot was a faculty member at Swarthmore College, the University of Connecticut, UCLA, and Columbia University. At Baruch he has taught Research Design in the MPA program and the Social and Governmental Environment of Business in the MBA program as well as undergraduate introductory courses in public administration.
Outside of school he has been a consultant to the Department of State and a member of the school board in Leonia, NJ, a town where one out of every thousand men, women, and children is a professional oboist. He is an active member of the KL, Bangkok, and Yang Hash House Harriers and of the Yale Russian Chorus.
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