Kellen A. Kane, Ph.D., MPA

The University of Texas at Austin - LBJ School of Public Affairs

Social Policy | Health Policy | State Politics | Program Evaluation | LGBTQIA+ Politics and Policy

Welcome to my webpage!

I am a public policy scholar with expertise in social policy, health policy, state politics, program evaluation, and LGBTQIA+ politics.

I am an Assistant Professor of Instruction at the University of Texas at Austin's Lyndon B. Johnson (LBJ) School of Public Affairs. At the LBJ School, I teach core and elective courses in public affairs, public management, and public policy across our undergraduate and graduate programs.

Prior to joining the LBJ School, I was a Program Evaluator for the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM). At OPM, I conducted research on various topics related to public personnel management, including the effects of employee benefits, workplace flexibility, and training on key outcomes for the Federal workforce. I joined OPM after serving as a Research Fellow with the Better Government Lab at Georgetown University's McCourt School of Public Policy, where I collaborated with Federal agencies to design rigorous evaluations and build evaluation capacity.

I completed my Ph.D. in Public Policy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where I maintain an active Research Affiliate appointment.

My research

Currently, I have coauthored work published in The Forum, the Journal of Health Politics, Policy, & Law, and Politics & Gender. I also have a book chapter published in a recent iteration of Interest Group Politics.

My dissertation research was supported by the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law as part of their LGBTQ & Racial Justice grant program and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Graduate School. My dissertation was also selected as the 2022 recipient of the Kenneth Sherrill Prize, an award from APSA's Centennial Center for Political Science and Public Affairs for the best doctoral dissertation proposal for an empirical study of lesbian, gay, or transgender topics in political science.

I have presented work, both solo-authored and co-authored, at conferences, including APSA, SPSA, the State Politics and Policy Conference, and APPAM. My co-authored projects have been presented at major conferences like the Society for Family Planning.

Please use the navigation panel to learn more about my published and ongoing projects.

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