updated 9/6/10
PETER DOBKIN HALL is
Professor of Public Affairs at Baruch
College, City University of New York, and Senior Research Fellow at the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations, Harvard
University. Click for CV.
He is editor of the Nonprofit News & Comment, the
Hauser Center's Nonprofit News blog, The blog surveys forty sources world-wide
for stories relating to philanthropy, voluntarism, nonprofit organizations, and
civic society to generate weekly news digests.
Hall's publications include The
Organization of American Culture, 1700-1900: Private Institutions, Elites, and
the Origins of American Nationality (New York University Press, 1982)
Inventing
the Nonprofit Sector: Essays on Philanthropy, Voluntarism, and Nonprofit
Organizations (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992)
(with George E. Marcus) Lives
in Trust: The Fortunes of Dynastic Families in Late Twentieth Century America
(Westview Press, 1992)
Editor (with N.J. Demerath
III, Rhys H. Williams, and Terry Schmitt), Sacred
Companies: Organizational Aspects of Religion and Religious Aspects of
Organizations (Oxford University Press, 1998),
(with K.L.K. Hall) The Lehigh
Valley: An Illustrated History (Windsor Publications,1982)
CURRENT RESEARCH, RECENT
PUBLICATIONS, AND WORK-IN-PROGRESS
History of Philanthropy, Voluntary Associations, and
Nonprofit Organizations
Documentary
History of Philanthropy, Voluntarism, and Nonprofit Organizations in the United
States, 1600 to the Present: is an on-line resource for students, teachers,
and scholars. It consists of edited documents, interpretive essays, and bibliographies.
At its present state of completion, entries cover the Colonial Period and much
of the nineteenth century. This is a work-in-progress.
The Philanthropy
Classics Access Project is a series on on-line reissues of important
out-of-print books and articles on charity, civil society, nonprofit
organizations, philanthropy, and related topics. Each volume features an
interpretive essay by a distinguished scholar explaining its significance at
the time of original publication and as it relates to contemporary scholarship.
The volumes, in .pdf format, are downloadable at no charge.
"A
Historical Overview of Philanthropy, Voluntary Associations, and Nonprofit
Organizations in the United States, 1600-2000" appears in W.W. Powell
& R. Steinberg (eds.), The Nonprofit Sector: A Research Handbook -
Second Edition (Yale University
Press, 2006)
"Nonprofit, Voluntary,
and Religious Entities," Historical Statistics of the United States -
Millennial Edition (Cambridge University Press, 2006). This version
contains some sample datasets from the chapter, which was co-authored with
Colin B. Burke.
"Historical
Perspectives on Nonprofit Organizations in the United States." In
Robert Herman (ed.), The Jossey-Bass Handbook of Nonprofit Management and
Leadership -- Second Edition (San
Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 2004).
"Philanthropy,
the Welfare State, and the Transformation of America's Public and Private
Institutions, 1945-2000." Appeared originally as Hauser Center
Working Paper #5 (2000). Published In Lawrence Friedman & Mark McGarvie
(eds.), Charity, Philanthropy, and Civility in American History (Cambridge University Press, 2002). This expanded
2006 version, was presented at the German Historical Institute's 2006
conference, Philanthropy in History: German and American Perspectives. It was
published as "Philanthropie,
Wohlfahrtsstat und die Tranformation der Offenlichen Insitutionen in den USA,
1945-2000." In Thomas Adam, Simon Lassig, & Gabriele Lingelbach
(eds.). 2009. Stifter, Spender und Mazene: USA und Deutschland im
historischen Vergleich. Franz Steiner
Verlag, 69-99.
"The Work of
Many Hands: A Response to Stanley N. Katz on the Origins of the 'Serious' Study
of Philanthropy." Nonprofit & Voluntary Sector Quarterly 28(4)(December 1999).
"Why Should Men
Leave Great Fortunes to Their Children: Class, Dynasty, and Inheritance in
America", co-authored with Rice University anthropologist George E.
Marcus, appeared in in Robert K. Miller and Stephen J. Williams, (eds.), Wealth
and Inheritance in America
(Plenum, 1998).
"'The
dealings of my trade were but a drop in the comprehensive ocean of my
business:' Business Giving and Social Investment in the United States,
1790-1995," New York Law School Law Review XLI (3-4) (1997), 789-824.
"No One Best Way:
Management Careers and Curriculum in an Era of Institutional Crisis," The
Philanthropy Monthly (May-June 1996).
"Architecture,
Landscape, and Civic Space." Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector
Quarterly 22:2 (Summer, 1993),
167-183. Review-essay of Howard Colvin's Architecture and the Afterlife (Yale, 1992), David Charles Sloane's The Last
Great Necessity: Cemeteries in American History (Johns Hopkins, 1992), and Michael Sorkin (ed.) Variations
on a Theme Park: The New American City and the End of Public Space (Noonday, 1992).
"Teaching
and Research on Philanthropy, Voluntarism, and Nonprofit Organizations: A Case
Study of Academic Innovation," Teachers College Record 93:3 (Spring 1992), 403-435.
Governance and Accountability
This study of the use of evaluation research by
foundations exists in two versions: a long unpubished draft titled "A solution is a
product in search of a problem": A History of Foundations and Evaluation
Research" and a shorter version, , "A Historical Perspective on Evaluation in
Foundations," which can be found in Marc Braverman,
Norman A. Constantine, & Jana Slater (eds.)., Philanthropy and Evaluation:
Contexts and Practices for Effective Philanthropy (Wiley, 2005).
"Rediscovering
the Bourgeoisie: Higher Education and Governing Class Formation in the United
States, 1870-1914" In Sven Beckert & Julia Rosenbaum (eds.), Distinction
and Identity: Bourgeoise Culture in the Nineteenth Century United States (Palgrave-MacMillan, in press).
"Law, Politics, and Charities in the
Post-Liberal Era," in Paul Pribbenow (ed.)., Serving
the Public Trust: Insights into Fundraising Research and Practice (San Francisco, CA:
Jossey-Bass, 2000).
"Resolving
the Dilemmas of Democratic Governance: The Accountability of Voluntary and
Nonprofit Organizations in America, 1800-1998." In Ellen
Condliffe Lagemann (ed.), Philanthropic
Foundations: New Scholarship, New Possibilities (Bloomington, IN:
Indiana University Press, 1999).
This
short History of Nonprofit Boards in the United
States was
published by the National Center for Nonprofit Boards (now Boardsource) in 1997.
"Noah Porter
writ large:" Reflections on the Modernization of American Education and
Its Critics, 1866-1916," in Roger L.
Geiger (ed.), American
Colleges in the Nineteenth Century. (Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt
University Press). An earlier version of this essay appeared in History of
Higher Education Annual 17, 1997.
"Conflicting
Managerial Cultures in a Museum," in Miriam M. Wood, ed., Nonprofit
Boards and Leadership: Cases on Governance, Change, and Board-Staff Dynamics (San Francisco:
Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1995).
Religion and Civic Leadership
"The Decline, Transformation, and Revival of the
Christian Right in the United States." In Stephen Brint &
Jean Schroedel (eds), The Christian Conservative Movement and American
Democracy. New York, NY: Russell Sage
Foundation, 2009.
"Religion, Philanthropy,
Service and Civic Engagement in Twentieth Century America" this
paper carries the exploration of the formative power of religious belief into a
contemporary study of religious affiliation, giving, and volunteering. Prepared
for a Campbell Institute/Syracuse University's symposium in April 2004, it
appeared in an volume edited by Arthur C. Brooks, Gifts of
Time and Money: The Role of Charity in America's Communities
(Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006).
"The Civic Engagement
Tradition" appears in Mary Jo Bane, Brent Coffin, and Richard
Higgins (eds.), Taking Faith Seriously (Harvard
University Press, 2005).
"Moving Targets: Evangelicalism and
the Transformation of American Economic Life, 1870-1920," which appears in Larry
Eskridge & Mark A. Noll (eds.), More
Money, More Ministry: Money and Evangelicals in Recent North American History (Eerdmans, 2000)
"Historical Perspectives on
Religion, Government, and Social Welfare in America" (2001) and "Religion
and the Post-Welfare State: The Untold Story" (1998)
"Accountability
in Faith-Based Organizations and the Future of Charitable Choice," an
unpublished paper presented at the 2002 ARNOVA meeting, suggests that the
constitutional protections enjoyed by religious bodies compound the
difficulties of monitoring and oversight in human services contracting regimes.
"Divergent
and Conflicting Meanings of Congregational Development: A Case Study of an
Urban Parish in Transition," presented at the 2002 ARNOVA meeting, is
an effort, in the form of a case study, to explore the ways in which religious
belief and practice affected governance and financial management in an
Episcopal congregation.
Civil Society in New Haven, Connecticut
Setting, Landscape, Architecture, and the
Creation of Civic Space in the United States, 1790-1920. An earlier version of
this essay appears in Ram Cnaan & Carl Milofsky (eds.), Handbook
of Community Movements and Local Organizations (Springer, 2007).
A Question of Empowerment: Information
Technology and Civic Engagement in New Haven, Connecticut appears in Michael
Cortes & Kevin Rafter (eds.), Nonprofits and
Technology: Emerging Research for Usable Knowledge (Lyceum, 2007).
The final revision of "The Privatization of Public
Decisionmaking: Land Use, the Utilities Infrastructure, and Economic
Development in New Haven, Connecticut, 1880-1930" is still in draft form
Earlier versions of this paper appeared as "Organization as Artifact:
Technical Innovation and Management Reform at the New Haven Water Company,
1893-1920," in Joan Scott, (ed.), The Mythmaking Frame of Mind: Social Imagination and
American Culture (Belmont, California: Wadsworth Press, 1993). An earlier version of this
paper appeared as "Images of Innovation: The New Haven Water Company,
1894-1906," in the Journal of the New Haven Colony Historical Society 35:1 (Fall 1988).
"Is Tax Exemption Intrinsic or
Contingent? The Tax Treatment of Voluntary Associations, Nonprofit
Organizations, and Religious Bodies in New Haven, Connecticut, 1750-2000" appears in Evelyn Brody
(ed.), Property-Tax Exemption for
Charities: Mapping the Battlefield (Urban Institute, 2002).
"Vital Signs: Organizational
Population Trends and Civic Engagement in New Haven, Connecticut,
1850-1998" appears in Theda Skocpol & Morris Fiorina (eds.)., Civic
Engagement in American Democracy (Brookings Institution, 1999).
"Blurred Boundaries, Hybrids, and
Changlings: The Fortunes of Nonprofit Organizations in the Late Twentieth
Century," appears in George E. Marcus (ed.), Critical
Anthropology Now: Unexpected Contexts, Shifting Constituencies, Changing
Agendas
(School
of American Research, Press, 1999).
Globalization and Transnationality
"Globalization:
A Chapter in the Sociology of Knowledge" was presented
at the 2002 annual meeting of the Social Science History Association.
"The New Globalism: Reflecting on
the Sources of Transnational Identity" appears in Srilatha Batilwala
& L. David Brown (eds.), Transnational Civil Society
(Kumarian,
2006)
Teaching
(2010-2011)
PAF 9299: Giving and Getting:
Introduction to Philanthropy (Spring 2010).
PAF 9150: Introduction to the Nonprofit
Sector
(Fall 2010, Spring 2011)
PAF 9151: The Administration of Non-for-Profit and Voluntary
Agencies
(January 2011)
PAF
9299: Religion, Politics, and Public Policy in the United States (Spring
2011)
Fun
Stuff
The Ives Vocal Marathon is an enterprise devoted
to presenting , performing, and interpreting all the songs of Charles Ives --
America's greatest composer. Hall is a resident humanist with the group.
East
Rock: Facts, Artifacts, and Memories originally appeared in The
Journal of the New Haven Colony Historical Society in 2002. This is a
lavishly illustrated version of the original text.
For an
illustrated history of New Haven's Ronan-Edgehill Neighborhood, where I live, click this link. For the neighborhood
webpages click this link.
"Thomas
Phillips & Son: Artisans and Entrepreneurs" is a web document devoted to the
history of one of New England's oldest monument companies and the extraordinary
collection of photographs, ledgers, correspondence, drawings, and trade
publications on and about the company and the stone industry currently housed
at the New Haven Colony Historical Society. The Phillips Company began business
in 1848, carving gravestones and architectural stonework. It ceased operations
in 1988. Because its owners never threw anything away, the collection --
donated by Dorothy (Mrs. John) Perkins -- is the most complete and
comprehensive archive on American stonecarving in existence.
Alamoosook Island Camp is an archive of materials
documenting the history of a classic Maine summer camp. An example of the
extracurriculum created by progressive educators of the 1920s and 30s to impart
civic values and develop character, AIC was established in 1929 and closed in
1968. During that time some 600 young men and women shared remarkable formative
experiences -- and had a lot of fun too!
The Harvard Squirrel Archive is a collection of
articles, published between the 1880s and the present, chronicling the antics
of America's most learned rodents. For comments on the Squirrel Archive, check this out.
