Nonprofit Studies Program
Core Faculty
- Dennis Young
- Janet Johnson
- Janelle Kerlin
- Harvey Newman
- Bruce Seaman
- David Sjoquist
- William Waugh
- Katherine Willoughby
Bernard B. and Eugenia A. Ramsey Chair of Private Enterprise
Phone: 404-413-0126
E-mail: dennisryoung@gsu.edu
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Dennis Young is Director of the Nonprofit Studies Program and Professor of Public Administration and Urban Studies (Joint with Economics). He helped establish the Mandel Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Case Western and was its director from 1988 to 1996. He is also president and founding CEO of the National Center on Nonprofit Enterprise based in Arlington, Virginia. From 1972 to 1987, he was a Professor at the W. Averell Harriman School for Management and Policy. He is the recipient of numerous grants concentrating on nonprofit interests, and is a widely respected authority in the nonprofit field. Young has written many articles and several books, including co-authoring Corporate Philanthropy at the Crossroads, and Economics for Nonprofit Managers. He is founding editor of the journal Nonprofit Management & Leadership, which he edited from 1990 through 2000. He was recently named to the NonProfit Times "Power and Influence Top 50" list.
Janet L. JohnsonPhone: 404-892-8096 or 404-413-0118
E-mail: janetjohnson@gsu.edu
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Janet Johnson is an Adjunct Professor at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University and a Senior Research Fellow in the Nonprofit Studies Program. She received her Doctorate in economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and taught at the Maxwell School at Syracuse University and at the University of Colorado prior to moving to Georgia in 1999.
Dr. Johnson's work has focused on human resource economics and quantitative analysis. She has consulted with organizations on employee compensation and benefits, and on the linking of strategic plans to action plans, and then to employee accountability. The majority of her clients have been public or nonprofit organizations. Most recently Dr. Johnson has been working exclusively on nonprofit sector issues. Her current research interests include the economic determinants of giving, policy issues surrounding homelessness and poverty, human resource utilization in nonprofits, and faith-based NPOs. She recently completed a study, along with co-investigator Shena Ashley, of 800 questionnaires administered to Atlanta's homeless. She also published two studies with co-investigator David Van Slyke, which were sponsored by The Community Foundation of Greater Atlanta: “Tracking Trends: Giving, Volunteering and Trust in Metro Atlanta,” and "African American Philanthropy in Metro Atlanta."
Phone: 404-413-0127
E-mail: jkerlin@gsu.edu
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Janelle Kerlin is an Assistant Professor in the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies. She holds an M.S. in social work from Columbia University and a Ph.D. in political science from the Maxwell School at Syracuse University. Prior to joining the faculty, she was a research associate in the Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy at The Urban Institute in Washington, D.C.
Dr. Kerlin conducts research on politics and policy related to nonprofit development and operation often from an international perspective. Her present areas of interest include social enterprise and international nonprofit organizations. She is currently editing the book Social Enterprise: A Global Comparison, which compares social enterprise in seven regions of the world. She is also heading up research on trends in nonprofit commercial activity in the United States. Recent research on international organizations focuses on the role of U.S. nonprofits in diaspora philanthropy during and after homeland crises. She is co-author of the Urban Institute report on "The International Charitable Nonprofit Subsector in the United States," and author of several book chapters on social enterprise and international nonprofits. She is also author of Social Service Reform in the Postcommunist State: Decentralization in Poland. Among other awards, Dr. Kerlin was the recipient of a Fulbright-Hays Fellowship and a research scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
Harvey K. NewmanPhone: 404-413-0112
E-mail: hnewman@gsu.edu
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Harvey Newman began his career at Georgia State University in 1971. He has an extensive academic and professional background in a variety of nonprofit organizations. He currently serves as Chair of the Department of Public Administration and Urban Policy, as well as Education Director of the Nonprofit Studies Program, Georgia State University. Dr. Newman developed the nonprofit management program at Georgia State in 1975, with an initial grant from the Kellogg Foundation. His publications include articles on the role of nonprofit organizations in the urban environment as well as economic development policy. He is also a long-time board member of several nonprofits in Atlanta and the region, and is a frequent speaker to a variety of community organizations. Recent awards received by Dr. Newman include the University’s Faculty Award for Extraordinary Service to the Community, the ML King, Jr. Torch of Peace Award, and the Andrew Young School’s Outstanding Teaching Award.
Phone: 404-413-0157
E-mail: ecobas@langate.gsu.edu
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Bruce A. Seaman is Associate Professor of Economics and an Affiliated Faculty member in the Fiscal Research Program in the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University. He teaches courses in applied microeconomic theory, industrial organization, antitrust and regulation, and the modern theory of the firm and business strategy, including non-profit organizations.
Dr. Seaman’s work on non-profit organizations has focused largely on the arts sector, beginning with his doctoral dissertation at the University of Chicago on arts funding, which led to several published papers on the relationship between tax financed, contributed and earned income support for the arts. His 2002 monograph on National Investment in the Arts (National Center for Arts and Culture) focused in part on the cooperation between the for-profit and non-profit arts sectors. He has served as President of the Association for Cultural Economics, International, and his 2002 presidential lecture, “Industrial Organization in the Arts Before the Discovery of the Cultural Industries,” reviewed the state of our knowledge of the competitive interactions among largely non-profit arts firms in regional markets. He has also written extensively on competing methodologies for measuring the economic impact of the arts and other economic sectors, and has examined the price discrimination strategies employed by non-profit firms. The complex interaction between the profit and non-profit sectors was part of his extensive review “Cultural and Sport Economics: Conceptual Twins?”
Phone: 404-413-0246
E-mail: sjoquist@gsu.edu
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David L. Sjoquist is Professor of Economics in the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University, and holder of the Dan E. Sweat Distinguished Chair in Educational and Community Policy. He serves as Director of Domestic Programs and Director of the Fiscal Research Program in the Andrew Young School.
Dr. Sjoquist is a specialist in the field of public finance, particularly state and local public finance, and has an extensive interest in urban economics, especially local economic development and central city poverty, and educational policy. He has written over 80 professional articles, book chapters and books, and published numerous reports. He serves on the Board of Editors of the National Tax Journal. Dr. Sjoquist holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Minnesota. He has been on the boards of many local civic and nonprofit organizations and has served as advisor to numerous public and nonprofit groups and public officials. Currently, he is on the board of the Atlanta Regional Commission.
Phone: 404-413-0119
E-mail: wwaugh@gsu.edu
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William L. Waugh, Jr., is Professor of Public Administration, Urban Studies and Political Science in the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies. He is the author of Living with Hazards, Dealing with Disasters (2000), Terrorism and Emergency Management (1990), and International Terrorism (1982); coauthor of State and Local Tax Policies (1995); and coeditor of Disaster Management in the US and Canada (1996), Cities and Disaster (1990), and Handbook of Emergency Management (1990), as well as author of over a hundred articles, chapters, essays, and reports published in the US, Canada, Europe, and Asia.
Dr. Waugh currently serves on the Certified Emergency Manager (CEM) Commission that oversees the national credential for professional emergency managers in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors and on the Emergency Management Accreditation Program (EMAP) Commission that develops standards for and accredits state and local emergency management programs. EMAP is a nonprofit organization administered through the Council of State Governments. He has been a consultant to public, private, and nonprofit organizations on leadership development and emergency planning and served on the board of directors of a nonprofit foundation that facilitates commercial airline compliance with the Aviation Disaster Family Assistance Act of 1996. Current projects include the development of alert and warning systems for the sensory disabled community (a WGBH-PBS in Boston project) and the development of a national standard to prepare the public for disasters (an EMAP project). Professor Waugh’s principal nonprofit sector interests are the roles of nonprofits in the national emergency management system and capacity building in nonprofit organizations.
Phone: 404-413-0117
E-mail: kwilloughby@gsu.edu
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Katherine Willoughby is Professor of Public Administration and Urban Studies in The Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University. She teaches courses about public budgeting and finance, administration and organizational decision making. With Dr. Gregory Streib, she coordinates the department's graduate and undergraduate internship courses, helping students couple their academic and work experiences in the public and nonprofit sectors locally, across the nation, and around the world.
Dr. Willoughby's principal areas of research are state and local governmental budgeting and financial management, public policy development, and organizational decision making. She is published in numerous academic and practical journals of public administration, budgeting and finance, in texts on public administration and budgeting, and is co-author with Dr. Kurt Thurmaier of Policy and Politics in State Budgeting (M.E. Sharpe, 2001). This book examines the work and decisions of nearly 200 state government executive budget analysts regarding state revenues and expenditures. A graduate of both Duke University (BS, Psychology) and North Carolina State University (MPA), she received her doctoral degree in public administration from the University of Georgia.