Expertise

Areas of Interest:

  • Nonprofit and public sector relationships
  • Scope and community dimensions of the Indiana nonprofit sector
  • American welfare system, nonprofit funding relations, and nonprofit data sources

Her other research and publications focus on nonprofit funding relations, nonprofit capacity, nonprofit data sources, and the American welfare system. 


Areas:

  • Cultural Policy & Arts Administration
  • Civil Society, Civic Engagement & Volunteering
  • Local Governance
  • Methods, Econometrics, & Data Management

 

Past Affiliations

Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University Bloomington

Professor, Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

Efroymson Chair, Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

Professor, Philanthropic Studies

Chair, Sociology and Anthropology

Chair, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University Bloomington

Associate Dean, Academic Affairs

Professor, Sociology

Associate Professor, Sociology

Assistant Professor, Sociology

Assistant Professor, Sociology Department, College of Arts and Sciences, State University of New York at Stony Brook (past)

Lecturer, Sociology Department, College of Arts and Sciences, State University of New York at Stony Brook (past)

Lecturer, Sociology

Affiliate Faculty, Institute for European Studies, Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies, Indiana University Bloomington

Associate Faculty, Institute for European Studies, Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies, Indiana University Bloomington

Efroymson Chair in Philanthropy, 2001-2020, Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

Efroymson Chair in Philanthropy, Center on Philanthropy, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

Distinguished Professor, O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University Bloomington

Communities
Environmental Policy, Management, Sociology, Public Administration
Degrees
PhD, University of Chicago, Sociology, 1974
MA, University of Chicago, Sociology, 1970
BA, Pitzer College, Sociology, 1968
Keywords
international affairs social service planning or policy social welfare planning or policy social welfare sociology public affairs educational administration and policy public administration nonprofit management corporate or nonprofit philanthropy
Languages
Danish, French, German, Norwegian, Swedish
Honors

Award for Distinguished Achievement and Leadership in Nonprofit and Voluntary Action Research, ARNOVA, Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (Washington, D.C., November 18), 2005

Honorable Mention, Mayor's Award for Civic Engagement (Bloomington, IN), 2004

Efroymson Chair in Philanthropy, Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University (Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis), 2001-2006

Outstanding Article Award, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 2001

Honorary Mention, Virginia A. Hodgkinson Research Prize, 1999

Academic Leadership Program Fellow, Committee on Institutional Cooperation, 1998-1999

Honorable Mention for Outstanding Article, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 1997

"Architect, Advocate, Advisor" Tribute, United Way/Crusade of Mercy, 1996

Chairman's Award, United Way of Chicago, 1995

Distinguished Book in Nonprofit and Voluntary Action, ARNOVA, 1995

Distinguished Service Award, Past-President (November 3), ARNOVA, 1995

Honorable Mention, Staley-Robeson-Ryan-St.Lawrence Prize for Research on Fund-Raising, 1994

Associations
Academy of Management
American Society for Public Administration
American Sociological Association
Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management
Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action
International Society for Third-Sector Research
National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration