Nicholas Peroff

Nicholas C. Peroff (born May 19, 1944) is an American political scientist, public administrator and professor in Native American studies and complexity theory at the Henry W. Bloch School of Management at the University of Missouri-Kansas City; he formerly held teaching positions in Taiwan, South Korea and South Africa.

Nicholas C. Peroff
Born	(1944-05-19) May 19, 1944 (age 81) Wisconsin, United States
Alma mater	University of Wisconsin-Madison
Known for	Complexity theory Native American studies Public management Policy analysis
Scientific career
Fields	Political science Public administration
Institutions	University of Missouri - Kansas City Haskell Indian Nations University University of the Western Cape Keimyung University

The secretary of International Relations Council, he is the former president of the Western Social Science Association (2002-2003). A veteran of the Vietnam War, he was named Public Administrator of the Year, Kansas City, by the American Society for Public Administration in 2009.^[1]

Background

Born and raised in Wisconsin, US, he received a B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. in political science (on a Ford Fellowship) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.^[2] His doctoral study was interrupted with the onset of the Vietnam War, to which he was drafted as a member of the U.S. Navy serving on USS Forrestal (CV-59) during the fire (1967–1968) as division officer. In 1986 he was an instructor at the Chinese Ministry of Economic Affairs.

His book Menominee Drums, Tribal Termination and Restoration, 1954–1974 (University of Oklahoma Press), was a study of the termination and subsequent restoration of federal recognition of the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin. His work with the Menominee Nation has continued, off and on, for over 30 years, which led him to research Indian gaming and other areas of interest within American Indian studies. He also researched and taught public management and administration, public policy analysis, and engaged in the development and application of complexity theory in the study of American Indian policy.^[3]

Awards

• Elmer P. Pierson Teaching Award, Bloch School, 1986–87.
• Marquis Who's Who, February 2008

Further reading

• Menominee Drums: Tribal Termination and Restoration, 1954-1974, 2nd ed., Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press: 2006.
• Getting Control of the Greenfield City Budget (co-authored with Mark Funkhouser) in Public Administration: Cases in Managerial Role-Playing by Robert P. Watson. ISBN 978-0-321-08552-8

See also

• New England Complex Systems Institute
• Menominee Tribe v. United States
• Native American recognition in the United States
• Menominee Restoration Act
• Native American identity in the United States
• Indian termination policy