• Public human resources management
• Use of telework in public organizations
• Managing workforce diversity
• Ethical behaviors in the workplace

Hongseok Lee is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Administration and Policy at the University at Albany, SUNY. He is also a faculty fellow at the Center for Technology in Government. His research agenda includes public human resources management, use of telework in public organizations, managing diversity in the workplace, and ethical behaviors in the workplace. He has taught graduate and undergraduate courses in public management, human resources management, and managing workforce diversity.

• Lee, Hongseok. “Perceived Racial Discrimination in the Workplace: Considering Minority Supervisory Representation and Inter-Minority Relations.” Public Management Review 24, no. 4 (2022): 512-535
• Lee, Hongseok, Minsung Michael Kang, and Sun Young Kim. “A Psychological Process of Bureaucratic Whistleblowing: Applying the Theory of Planned Behavior.” The American Review of Public Administration 51, no. 5 (2021): 374-392
• Rabovsky, Thomas, and Hongseok Lee. "Exploring the Antecedents of the Gender Pay Gap in US Higher Education." Public Administration Review 78, no. 3 (2018): 375-385. 

• Ph.D. Public Affairs, O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University Bloomington, June 2018
• M.P.A.Public Affairs, O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University Bloomington, 2013
• B.A. Public Administration, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (Seoul), South Korea, 2011