Doctoral Fellows

Find copies of past papers and their summaries in the Independent Learning section. Cohorts and working titles listed below.

Class of 2019

• Christianna Sirindah Parr, University of Washington, “Leaders and Laggards: Environmental Treaty Ratification and Civil Society”
• Peter Schubert, University of Hamburg, “The Impact of Donor and Board Pressure on Cost Reporting—an Experiment among Nonprofit Financial Managers”
• Robert W. Ressler, University of Texas at Austin, “Community Organizations and Schools: Can Community Nonprofits Help Children from Diverse Families Learn on a National Scale?”
• Ruodan Zhang, Indiana University—Bloomington, “Does government funding to public charities crowd out or crowd in volunteers?”
• Samantha Zuhlke, Texas A&M University, “Political Exit? Positioning U.S. Nonprofit Donations within Political Context”
• Wendy Chen, George Mason University, “Social Innovation Meets Digital Innovation: Can Social Entrepreneurship Succeed in Crowdfunding?”
• Xintong Chen, North Carolina State University, “Are disasters disastrous to nonprofit organizations? Investigating the financial implications of Hurricane Sandy for nonprofits”
• Zhongsheng Wu, University of Maryland, College Park, “The Impact of Volunteering on Self-Rated Health: Evidence from Analyses of Treatment-Effects Models”

Class of 2017

• Alexandra Gaidos, University of Montpellier, “Exploring Social Innovation Through Incubators’ Lenses”
• ChiaKo Hung, Arizona State University, “What If We Are Not That Close: Members’ Decisions Not to Give to Professional Associations”
• Yuan (Daniel) Cheng, “Exploring the Role of Nonprofits in Public Service Provision: Moving from Co-production to Co-governance”
• Jessica Haynie, North Carolina State University, “Moving Beyond the Numbers: Evidence that Financial Ratios Don’t Predict Nonprofit Outputs”
• Sophie Hersberger-Langloh, University of Basel, “Between Donors and Beneficiaries: Towards a Theory of Dynamic Two-Sided Markets”
• Sebastian Seidel, Hertie School of Governance, “History Matters: The emergence of Germany’s welfare associations – origins, founding ideals, and relevance for the nonprofit sector”
• Yuan Tian, “The Effects of Different Levels of Similarity on Charitable Donations: A Lab Experiment”

Class of 2016

• Abhishek Bhati, University of Nebraska, “The Determinants of Success in Online Giving”
• Yusun Cho, University of Southern California, “Intermediaries as Capacity Builders”
• Mohammad Habibpoura, “Social Capital, Donations, and the Provision of Public Goods”
• Jun Han, University of Oxford, “Social Marketization and Policy Change in China”
• Ji Ma, Indiana University, “State Control and Elite Autonomy: A Network of Chinese Foundations”
• Diarmuid McDonnell, University of Sterling, “Financial Risks in the Non Profit Sector: A Regulatory Perspective”
• Maria Wathen, University of Michigan, “Civic Cultural Frameworks”

Class of 2015

• Maoz Brown, University of Chicago, “Cooperation, Coordination, and Control in the Voluntary Human Services: A New Perspective on Market Developments in the American Nonprofit Sector”
• Anthony DeMattee, Indiana University, “A Salary Bubble in the Republic of NGOs? Complicating Theories of Labor Donation with the Case of Haiti”
• Ekaterina Ivanova, Vienna University of Economics and Business, “Associations in Transition: The Business of Russian Civil Society”
• Marcelo Marchesini, University at Albany, “Spatial Analysis of Nonprofits in Brazil: Following Needs, Money, or the Crowd?”
• Sara Pilgreen, University of California, Los Angeles, “How Nonprofit Human-Service Organizations in the Neighborhood of Concentrated Poverty: A Case Study from Los Angeles”
• Leah Reisman, Princeton University, “Managing Amidst Mosaic”
• Aleksandra Szymanska, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, “Bankruptcy in Belgian Social Purpose Companies: An Analysis of Financial, Environmental and Institutional Factors”

Class of 2014

• Arjen deWit, VU University Amsterdam, “A longitudinal analysis of government expenditures, fundraising and charitable donations in the Dutch voluntary sector”
• Sabith Khan, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, “The Secularization of Muslim-American Giving and New Styles of Community Building by Arab-Americans”
• Mirae Kim, Rutgers, State University of New Jersey, “Does Revenue Diversification Really Matter? The Power of Commercial and Donative Distinction in the Nonprofit Arts”
• Bethany Slater, University at Albany, “In Kind or in Cash? The Effectiveness of Public and Private Support of Nonprofit Food Provision”
• Amanda Stewart, American University, “Understanding nonprofit professionalization: Common concepts and new directions for research”
• Rachel Wright, Stanford University, “Can Nonprofits Lead a Movement for Economic Justice?”

Class of 2013

• Angela Addae, University of Arizona, “Pathways to Sector Selection: A Conceptual Framework for Social Entrepreneurs”
• Theresa Anasti, University of Chicago, “The Representative Role of Community Based Organizations: Characteristics Associated with Involvement in Participatory Processes”
• Mindy Chen, University of California, Los Angeles, “A New Frontier of Immigrant Labor Organizing: Explaining Worker Center Presence in 2011”
• Zachariah Rodgers, Stanford University, “Good form? Organizational Form, Social and Financial Performance in Microfinance”
• Lonneke Roza, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, “Costs and benefits of involving corporate volunteers in NPOs”
• Thomas Scheuerle, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, “How social value is created on markets—A taxonomy of market-based strategies by social entrepreneurs”
• Joannie Tremblay-Boire, University of Washington, “Change Can Be Good: A New Perspective on Mission Drift”

Class of 2011

• Fredrik Andersson, University of Missouri, “Social Entrepreneurship as a Relational Concept: Testing an Interactive Model”
• Sarah Dury, Free University of Brussels, “Social Ties, Volunteering and Civic Life”
• David Gastwirth, University of Southern California, “Executive Change and Nonprofit Performance: An Empirical Test”
• Christina Giannopoulou, Athens University of Economics and Business, “Leading for Impact: Learning, Innovation, and Effectiveness in Greek Nonprofit Organizations”
• Marlene Walk, University of Pennsylvania, “Expectations and Experiences of Young Nonprofit Employees: Toward a Typology”

Class of 2010

• Susan Appe, SUNY Albany, “A Trellis for Nonprofits? The Growth of Government Civil Society Registries”
• Lewis Faulk, Georgia State University & GIT, “Edifice Complex: Building Ownership and Financial Strength of Nonprofit Theaters”
• Parissa Jahromi, Stanford University, “What Motivates Youth Civic Involvement?”
• Avishag Rudich-Cohn, Hebrew University, “Philanthropic Giving through Municipalities in Israel – an alternative or a threat to the future of philanthropy”
• Jurgen Willems, Free University Brussels, “Don’t change a winning team,…Or Should You? The Impact of Social Interactions Among Nonprofit Leaders On Organizational Effectiveness”
• Nathaniel Wright, University of Kansas, “Revitalizing American Cities: Do Community Development Corporations Matter?”

Class of 2009

• Erica Coslor, University of Chicago, “Art Investment Collections: A New Model for Museum Finance?”
• Sondra Barringer, University of Arizona, “Assessing the Structure of Organizational Fields: Multilevel Latent Class Analysis as a Tool for Institutional Analysis”
• Olena Verbenko, University of Chicago, “Corporate Philanthrophy: Are Corporations Strategic in Their Philanthropic Practices?”
• Lindsey McDougle, University of San Diego, “Getting to Know You: Awareness and Confidence in the Nonprofit Sector”
• Tamitha Walker, Rutgers University, “Costs and benefits of involving corporate volunteers in NPOs”
• Jasmine McGinnis, Georgia Institute of Technology, “The Young and Restless: Generation Y in the Nonprofit Workforce”
• John Ronquillo, University of Georgia, “Drawing Lines, Spanning Boundaries: Managerial Perceptions of Innovation Value in Public and Nonprofit Organizations”

Class of 2008

• Rebecca Nesbitt, Indiana University Bloomington, “Soldiers to Citizens: The Link between Military Service and Volunteering”
• Celeste Benson, University of Wisconsin at Madison, “The Politics of Need and Politics of Politics: Exploring the Motives of Donative Actors to Social Service Nonprofit Organizations in a Highly Politicized Field”
• Helen Liu, Indiana University Bloomington, “The Safety Net as a Network”
• Kristen Hopewell, University of Michigan, “Global Governance and the Structuring of Global Civil Society: the Field of Transnational Advocacy and the WTO”
• Evgeny Firsov, Harvard University, “A New Analysis of Corporate Social Responsibility”
• Christopher Gauthier, University of Michigan, “Constructing Meaning Through Service: Beyond Beliefs and Actions”
• Lindsey Peterson, Ohio State University, “Who gets USAID Democracy Assistance?: Thinking About Foreign Aid in a Global Society”