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Peter May (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1979) is a professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Washington. He undertakes research on public policy processes and environmental policy. His current research addresses risk management and disaster preparedness. His prior research addressed the intergovernmental aspects of environmental management, including research funded by the National Science Foundation for a comparative study in Australia, New Zealand, and the United States. This resulted in a series of journal articles and two collaborative books, Environmental Management and Governance: Intergovernmental Approaches to Hazards and Sustainability (Routledge), and Making Governments Plan: State Experiments in Managing Land Use (Johns Hopkins). May's publications addressing public policy processes have emphasized the political aspects of policy design, including "Policy Learning and Failure" and "Reconsidering Policy Design: Policies and Publics." May has served on boards of several policy associations, on National Research Council panels, as a member of the policy analysis staff of the U.S. Department of Interior, and as an advisor to several governmental agencies.
May's graduate teaching includes courses in public policy processes, environmental policy and politics, bureaucratic politics, empirical methods and research design, and American politics.
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