KRISHNA
TUMMALA
Professor of political science
Director of the master of public administration program
Krishna Tummala is a professor of political science and director
of K-State's master of public administration program.
Tummala joined the K-State faculty in 1988. He has published more than 45 articles and numerous books in areas of public personnel management in both India and the United States, public budgeting and comparative administrative systems. He was a senior research fellow of the Indian Council of Social Science Research and also a Senior Fulbright Fellow, which permitted him to do research in India for one of his books. He received the first prize for his paper on "Reservations" (preference) in the Indian public service in an international competition held by the Indian Institute of Public Administration, Government of India. He was selected in spring 2001 as the Mike Harder Public Administrator of the Year by the Kansas chapter of the American Society for Public Administration, of which he has also served as chair. In February 2001, he joined a public administration delegation to Cuba.
Tummala has served the national American Society for Public Administration in several leadership positions, which earned him the Don C. Stone Service award in 2005. He also served a three-year term as member of the Executive Council of the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration. He served as president of Pi Alpha Alpha, the national honor society for public administrators, through 2007.
He has two master's degrees from India and taught at the college level there before coming to the United States in 1968. He obtained two degrees in the United States -- a master of public administration from teh State University of New York at Albany and a doctorate from the University of Missouri, Columbia.
He specializes in public personnel management, public budgeting and comparative administration, and occasionally teaches in South Africa.
Tummala can be reached at 785-532-0452, or via e-mail at tummala@k-state.edu.