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Sheila Hearne

Sheila Hearne

Visiting Professor

Contact

Home Campus: St. Petersburg
Office: Williams House
Telephone: TBD
Email: hearnes@usf.edu

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Bio 

Dr. Sheila Hearne is a researcher, analyst and consultant in the government and non-profit sectors.   She spent more than twenty years in defense contracting and more recently worked in the non-profit sector. She has worked with numerous corporations, government entities and nonprofit organizations including Sprint, Siemens, Boeing, USAF, DISA, Red Cross and the Goy Foundation.
Dr. Hearne holds a bachelor’s of science degree in business administration from the University of Maryland, a Masters of Public Administration from Troy University and a doctorate in Public Policy from George Mason University.   She has taught Political Science at the undergraduate and graduate levels for more than twenty years but began her teaching career by teaching computer application classes in community colleges and to corporate clients.  
Dr. Hearne’s current research interests include the political subsystems in Haitian education as well as health care policy subsystems in the United States.
Dr. Hearne grew up in south central Pennsylvania.  She lived in the Washington, DC metropolitan area for many years where she worked and volunteered.  Currently, Dr. Hearne resides in St Petersburg, Florida with her family.