Social Science Research Council
First Annual Fellows’ Workshop
February 8-9, 2001
The Program on Philanthropy and the Nonprofit Sector,in conjunction with the Aspen Institute’s Nonprofit Research Fund and the Indiana University’s Center on Philanthropy, hosted its first annual Fellows’ Workshop at the Aspen Institute in Washington, DC. This event was not only the first dissertation workshop of the SSRC's Program on Philanthropy and the Nonprofit Sector; it marked the first collaboration between the SSRC, the Aspen Institute, and Indiana University.
The two-day workshop was organized around extensive discussion of the thesis projects of the graduate fellows, and included seminars by the faculty. The faculty who participated in the workshop were Francie Ostrower (sociology), the Urban Institute; David Hammack (history), Case-Western Reserve University; and Richard Steinberg (economics), Indiana University. Student participants included:
SSRC Fellows
- Christopher CappozzolaHistory, Columbia University"Uncle Sam Wants You: Citizenship and Obligation in World War I America"
- Sarah DeschenesEducation Policy, Stanford University"Taking Care of Their Own: Creating Strong Communities for Youth in San Francisco"
- Omar ElishaAnthropology, New York University"Making Middle-Class Kingdoms: The Dynamics of Faith-based Philanthropy and Social Patronage in Three Evangelical Megachurches"
- Theresa HarrisonEconomics, University of Texas, Austin"What Do Nonprofit Hospitals Really Do? An Empirical Analysis of Nonprofit Hospitals' Behavior"
- Gabriel KaplanPublic Policy, Harvard University"Between Politics and Markets: The Institutional Allocation of Resources in Higher Education"
- Jodi MelamedEnglish, Columbia University"Killing Sympathies: Literature, the Philanthropic Moral Imagination, and Dilemmas of Racial Liberalism in the United States, 1935-1960"
- Dan WadhwaniHistory, University of Pennsylvania"Creating the Citizen Saver: The Incorporation of Working and Poor People into the Financial Institutions of Modern America, 1830's-1930's"
Indiana Fellows
- Karen BuerkleSociology, University of California, San Diego"Do Civic Associations Produce a Civil Society?"
- Susan Fitzpatrick-BehrensHistory, University of California, San Diego"Of Divine Import: The Maryknoll Missionaries in Peru and Guatemala, 1943-2000"
Aspen Fellows
- Jem BendallUniversity of Bristol"Banana Drama: Business-CSO Relations and Responsible International Trade"
- Robert PekkanenHarvard University"The State, Law and Civil Society"
- Salma ShawaLSE, Center for Voluntary Organization"The Change in the Role of Third Sector Organizations: The Palestinian Case"
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