Branda Nowell
Branda Nowell is an associate professor at Michigan State University and an organizational-community psychologist specializing in inter-organizational relationships, social networks, and community capacity for multi-agent collaboration and coordination within complex problem domains. She teaches courses in organizational behavior, change management, organizational theory, and program evaluation.
As an interdisciplinary scholar, Nowell integrates community and organizational psychology with public management to better understand community-based networks of public and nonprofit agencies working in a common problem domain. She currently co-leads a research team focused on advancing the science of adaptive capacity toward more disaster resilient communities. Since 2008, this team has worked in collaboration with the U.S. Forest Service on research aimed at improving inter-agency coordination and communication during large scale wildfire events.
Nowell's research has received awards from both the American Psychological Association Society for Community Action and Research, as well as the Academy of Management Public and Nonprofit Division. Her published work appears in the American Journal of Community Psychology, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Evaluation and Program Planning, and Conflict Resolution Quarterly.
