Christopher L. Atkinson is an Associate Professor in the Public Administration program at the University of West Florida in Pensacola, Florida, USA. He received his PhD from Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida, and BA and MPA degrees from George Washington University in Washington, DC. His research interests include public management and policy studies, public budgeting and procurement, regulation, and emergency management. Before joining UWF in 2018, he taught in the public administration program at Florida Atlantic University (Boca Raton, Florida). He was also a doctoral dissertation chairperson and committee member at Walden University (Minneapolis, Minnesota). He is the author of two books, Semiotic Analysis and Public Policy: Connecting Theory and Practice (2019), and Toward Resilient Communities: Examining the Impacts of Local Governments in Disasters (2014), both published by Routledge. He is the book review editor for Public Organization Review. He is a member of the American Society for Public Administration and the National Contract Management Association. In addition to research and teaching, he worked full-time in local government in equal opportunity and economic development from 2001 to 2018, and as a contract specialist at the Federal Trade Commission in Washington, DC, from 1999 to 2000.