Michael Overton

Michael Overton, Associate Professor of public administration and Associate Director of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Data Sciences at the University of Idaho, primarily researches the integration of data science and public administration through data science literacy and Administrative Informatics. His scholarship also covers local governments, economic development, and the Community Development Block Grant program, funded by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, SMART Transit, and the North Central Texas Council of Governments. In 2015, Overton received UNT's Toulouse Dissertation Award in Social Science. He was selected for the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy's Emerging Scholars Award in 2016 and as a Founders Fellow by the American Society of Public Administration in 2017.