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Overview

James E. Wright is affiliated with the University of Georgia in the United States. Their academic work is primarily published in the field of public administration, with a focus on topics related to racial diversity within organizational settings.

Wright has contributed to scholarly discussion through recent research published in the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory. This publication includes a 2025 article titled Internal representation? How Black and White firefighters view racial diversity within the fire service. This paper explores perspectives on racial diversity in fire service organizations and has been cited in academic literature.

Collaboration forms a part of Wright's scholarly activity. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Andrea M. Headley
  • Yeunkyung Cho

The Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory represents a key venue for Wright's published work.

  • Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory

Best Publications

  • Uranium-lead isotopic ages of the Samail Ophiolite, Oman, with applications to Tethyan ocean ridge tectonics

    G. R. Tilton;C. A. Hopson;J. E. Wright

  • Paleozoic rocks of northern Chukotka Peninsula, Russian Far East: Implications for the tectonics of the Arctic region

    Boris A. Natal'in;Jeffrey M. Amato;Jaime Toro;James E. Wright

  • An expanded view of Jurassic orogenesis in the western United States Cordillera: Middle Jurassic (pre-Nevadan) regional metamorphism and thrust faulting within an active arc environment, Klamath Mountains, California

    James E. Wright;Mark R. Fahan

  • Character of the Alleghanian orogeny in the southern Appalachians: Part II. Geochronological constraints on the tectonothermal evolution of the eastern Piedmont in South Carolina

    R. David Dallmeyer;James E. Wright;Donald T. Secor;Arthur W. Snoke

  • Middle to Late Jurassic Tectonic Evolution of the Klamath Mountains, California-Oregon

    Gregory D. Harper;James E. Wright

  • Thermobarometric constraints on the tectonothermal evolution of the East Humboldt Range metamorphic core complex, Nevada

    Allen J. McGrew;Mark T. Peters;James E. Wright

  • The chronology of early Mesozoic arc magmatism in the Yerington district of western Nevada and its regional implications

    John H. Dilles;James E. Wright

  • Early Cretaceous transition from nonaccretionary behavior to strongly accretionary behavior within the Franciscan subduction complex

    Trevor A. Dumitru;John Wakabayashi;James E. Wright;Joseph L. Wooden

  • Mid-crustal flow during Tertiary extension in the Ruby Mountains core complex, Nevada

    Tyler MacCready;Arthur W. Snoke;James E. Wright;Keith A. Howard

  • Detrital zircon provenance of the Late Cretaceous–Eocene California forearc: Influence of Laramide low-angle subduction on sediment dispersal and paleogeography

    Glenn R. Sharman;Stephan A. Graham;Marty Grove;David L. Kimbrough

  • Latest Cretaceous and early Tertiary orogenesis in south-central Arizona: Thrust faulting, regional metamorphism, and granitic plutonism

    Gordon B. Haxel;Richard M. Tosdal;Daniel J. May;James E. Wright

  • Early Mesozoic tectonic evolution of the western U.S. Cordillera

    Jason B. Saleeby;Cathy Busby-Spera;J. S. Oldow;G. C. Dunne

  • Late Triassic paleogeography of the southern Cordillera: The problem of a source for voluminous volcanic detritus in the Chinle Formation of the Colorado Plateau region

    John H. Stewart;Thomas H. Anderson;Gordon B. Haxel;Leon T. Silver

  • U-Pb dating of columbites: A geochronologic tool to date magmatism and ore deposits

    Rolf L Romer;Rolf L Romer;James E Wright

  • Tertiary magmatism and mylonitization in the Ruby-East Humboldt metamorphic core complex, northeastern Nevada: U-Pb geochronology and Sr, Nd, and Pb isotope geochemistry

    James E. Wright;Arthur W. Snoke

  • NEW EVIDENCE FOR CRETACEOUS STRIKE-SLIP FAULTING IN THE UNITED STATES CORDILLERA AND IMPLICATIONS FOR TERRANE-DISPLACEMENT, DEFORMATION PATTERNS, AND PLUTONISM

    Sandra J. Wyld;James E. Wright

  • Late Paleozoic paleogeographic and tectonic evolution of the western U.S. Cordillera

    Elizabeth L. Miller;M. Meghan Miller;Calvin H. Stevens;James E. Wright

  • Permo‐Triassic Accretionary Subduction Complex, southwestern Klamath Mountains, northern California

    James E. Wright

  • Early Mesozoic paleogeography and tectonic evolution of the western United States: Insights from detrital zircon U-Pb geochronology, Blue Mountains Province, northeastern Oregon

    Todd A. LaMaskin;Jeffrey D. Vervoort;Rebecca J. Dorsey;James E. Wright

  • Late Cretaceous subduction initiation on the eastern margin of the Caribbean-Colombian Oceanic Plateau: One Great Arc of the Caribbean (?)

    James E. Wright;Sandra J. Wyld

  • The Rattlesnake Creek terrane, Klamath Mountains, California: An early Mesozoic volcanic arc and its basement of tectonically disrupted oceanic crust

    James E. Wright;Sandra J. Wyld

Frequent Co-Authors

Arthur W. Snoke
Arthur W. Snoke University of Wyoming
Elizabeth Miller
Elizabeth Miller Stanford University
Rolf L. Romer
Rolf L. Romer University of Potsdam
John H. Stewart
John H. Stewart United States Geological Survey
Jason B. Saleeby
Jason B. Saleeby California Institute of Technology
Keith A. Howard
Keith A. Howard United States Geological Survey
Stephan A. Graham
Stephan A. Graham Stanford University
Marty Grove
Marty Grove Stanford University
Joseph L. Wooden
Joseph L. Wooden Stanford University
Leon T. Silver
Leon T. Silver California Institute of Technology

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