Gaylord G. Candler

George Candler is a truck driver’s kid from Elkhart, Indiana. After high school he enlisted in the US Navy ‘Seabees’, deploying to Panama (with Oceanographic Unit Four, deployed aboard USNS Chauvenet), and to Okinawa and the Philippines (with Naval Mobile Construction Battalion Three).

After discharge he emigrated to Australia, working construction for a few years in the Northern Territory, before moving to Brisbane to complete a B.A. at Griffith University. This was followed by a B.Litt(Hons) from Deakin University, completed as an external student while working as a roads engineer for the Ministry of Works in the Kingdom of Tonga, a position arranged through the Australian Volunteers Abroad program. After returning to the US he completed a PhD in Public Policy from Indiana University, with dissertation research that looked at the involvement of nonprofit organizations in public policy in the Brazilian states of Santa Catarina and Sergipe.

Prior to arriving at UNF he held faculty positions at the University of Vermont, Bridgewater State College, and Indiana University South Bend, and has also taught courses at Dalhousie University (Halifax, Nova Scotia) and the State University of Santa Catarina. His research still focuses largely on Brazil (as well as Australia, Canada, and a handful of other countries), and has covered a range of topics in public and nonprofit management. His recent interest, though, is on the development of different national approaches to the study of public administration.  His research focus is probably best reflected through his having published in the best journal in the country in his field, in five different countries: Brazil, Australia, the United Kingdom, Canada (twice) and the United States (twice).