2024 Lake Institute Network of Emerging Scholars
On September 11-13, 2024, six senior and 11 emerging scholars gathered in Indianapolis to advance the interdisciplinary field of scholarly research on religion and philanthropy.
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