Dr. Clement Mensah Damoah is an incoming tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Division of Politics, Administration and Justice at California State University, Fullerton.
Damoah is a public administration scholar whose research sits at the intersection of digital governance, disability, and civic engagement. He examines how digital technologies shape the social, civic, economic, and political lives of marginalized populations. His current work explores disability and digital inequality, online political participation among people with disabilities, and telework as a pathway to employment retention for disabled individuals.
His research has been published in Information, Communication & Society, Review of Policy Research, Development in Practice, and Research in Transportation Business & Management, and appears in book chapters with Routledge, Sage, Springer, and Edward Elgar Publishing. His broader interests include collaborative governance, participatory governance, civic engagement, and public-private partnerships.
Damoah earned his Ph.D. in Public Administration and Policy from Arizona State University, where he was a Research Assistant at the Center on Technology, Data, and Society and an Instructor of Record in the School of Public Affairs. He contributed to Tempe’s digital equity planning initiative and co-taught the Digital Inclusion Leadership Certificate Program. He holds an M.Phil. in Public Administration and a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Ghana.
He is an ASPA Founders’ Fellow (2026), a Fellow of the Institute for Civically Engaged Research through the American Political Science Association (2025), and a member of Pi Alpha Alpha. He is also an active member of ASPA, APPAM, APSA, and MPSA.