2024 Emerging Scholars

Gary Adler

Associate Professor, Sociology
Penn State University
Research project: The State and Religious Organizations at the Local Level: Examining Policy Middlemen in an Unsettled Time

Adina Bankier-Karp

Research Affiliate, Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation
Monash University
Research project: Entwined in Giving: Entangled influences of Jewish life on philanthropy

Jamie Goodwin

Assistant Professor, Humanitarian and Disaster Leadership
Wheaton College
Research project: Underground Philanthropy

Shaunesse’ Jacobs Plaisimond

Assistant Professor, Religion and Health
University of South Florida
Research project: Philanthropy’s Promotion of the Common Good through Health Rights Activism

Sheryl Johnson

Lecturer in Ethics, Social Ethics
Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary
Research project: Be Fruitful and Increase, Have Dominion Over All?: Decoloniality, Intersectionality and Racial Justice, De-growth Sustainability, and Church Finance

Amy Lawton

Research Manager, Sociology
Chaplaincy Innovation Lab, Brandeis University
Research project: Closed Churches and Affordable Housing: Bringing “YIGBY” to Boston, MA

Andrew Lynn

Research Fellow, College of Arts & Sciences
University of Virginia
Research project: Gifts, Markets, and Enterprises: Possibilities and Challenges for Integrating Congregational Philanthropy and Economics

Jonathan Oxley

Assistant Professor, Public Management and Policy
Georgia State University
Research project: The Long-Run Impacts of Conversionary Religious Development Missions: A Meta Analysis

Megan Pontes

Assistant Teaching Professor, Nonprofit Leadership & Management
Arizona State University
Research project: Cultivating a Culture of Generosity: The Impacts on Resourcing Congregations in the United States

William Schultz

Assistant Professor, Religious Studies
University of Chicago Divinity School
Research project: The Wages of Sin: Faith, Fraud, and Religious Freedom in Modern America

Gabel Taggart

Associate Professor, Public Administration and Nonprofit Studies
University of Wyoming
Research project: Understanding Philanthropy of the Formerly Religious

Senior Scholars

Heather Curtis

Warren S. Woodbridge Professor in Comparative Religions
Tufts University School of Arts and Sciences

Joseph L. Tucker Edmonds

Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Africana Studies
Indiana University’s School of Liberal Arts
Associate Director of the Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture Philanthropy

Tyrone Freeman

The Glenn Family Chair in Philanthropy, Associate Professor of Philanthropic Studies, Adjunct Associate Professor of Africana Studies
Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy

Patricia Snell Herzog

Melvin Simon Chair and Associate Professor
Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy

Gerardo Martí

William R. Kenan, Jr. Endowed Professor of Sociology
Davidson College

Allison Youatt Schnable

Associate Professor, O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs; Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Sociology; Affiliate Faculty, Lilly Family School of Philanthropy; Affiliate Faculty, African Studies Program; Director, Undergraduate Honors Program Professor
Indiana University Bloomington