Geoffrey Whitebread

Curriculum Vitae

Dr. Whitebread is a student-centered professor. Dr. Geoffrey Whitebread has been teaching at Gallaudet University since 2006. He served as a coordinator and lecturer in the Honors Program from 2006 - 2019, supporting more than 120 student Honors capstone projects! He has served as the Director of the Master in Public Administration (MPA) program since 2020, leading the revamp of the MPA curriculum and the creation of the hybrid program.

Dr. Whitebread’s teaching emphasizes student engagement, creativity, and innovative teaching methods. Dr. Whitebread teaches both undergraduate and graduate students in the Government program, Honors Program, Disaster and Emergency Preparedness program, and the MPA Program. He has created more than 25 unique courses over his career with a wide range of topics designed to keep students interested and engaged! These topics include Public Leadership, Deaf Leadership, Research Methods (statistics), Understanding Genocide, Insurrections in Democracies, Racism and Sexism, Social Equity, Organizational Culture, Employee Engagement, Artificial Intelligence, and the Past and Future of Public Administration. 

Dr. Whitebread does research in a variety of academic fields. Dr. Whitebread’s multidisciplinary research agenda advances knowledge of leadership and management, pedagogy, data equity, marijuana policy, Deaf people in public administration, and the inclusion of people with disabilities in the public sector. Dr. Whitebread is currently developing a database of U.S. deaf-serving nonprofits, and understanding how AI can contribute to language equity in the classroom and the workplace.