I am an Assistant Professor in the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland. I am also affiliated with the Do Good Institute. Previously, I worked in the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University. I graduated with a Ph.D. from the Department of Political Science at the University of Washington in Seattle, WA (where I was a Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) doctoral fellow). I am originally from a small town near Montreal, Quebec. I received an M.A. in Public Policy and Public Administration and a B.A. in Political Science from Concordia University in Montreal.
My research centers on non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and nonprofits, studying their accountability, internal structure, and legal and funding environments. My dissertation focused on why American foundations make grants to certain charities and not others. Using a mixed-method approach, I argued that while foundations try to address issues facing underprivileged populations worldwide, other factors also matter when they make grant decisions, including government interests, media attention, a foundation’s organizational structure, and previously existing ties with charities. Currently, I am expanding my work on grantmaking foundations, examining the population ecology of foundations and conducting comparative analyses of foundation behavior across countries. Other topics of interest include nonprofit/NGO regulation and self-regulatory initiatives, as well as power dynamics between nonprofits/NGOs and their institutional funders.
My work has appeared in Public Administration Review, Public Performance & Management Review, European Political Science Review, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, and Voluntas. I received the William E. Mosher and Frederick C. Mosher Award for the best article written by an academic in Public Administration Review in 2016 (with co-authors Aseem Prakash and Mary Kay Gugerty).
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My research centers on non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and nonprofits, studying their accountability, internal structure, and legal and funding environments. My dissertation focused on why American foundations make grants to certain charities and not others. Using a mixed-method approach, I argued that while foundations try to address issues facing underprivileged populations worldwide, other factors also matter when they make grant decisions, including government interests, media attention, a foundation’s organizational structure, and previously existing ties with charities. Currently, I am expanding my work on grantmaking foundations, examining the population ecology of foundations and conducting comparative analyses of foundation behavior across countries. Other topics of interest include nonprofit/NGO regulation and self-regulatory initiatives, as well as power dynamics between nonprofits/NGOs and their institutional funders.
My work has appeared in Public Administration Review, Public Performance & Management Review, European Political Science Review, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, and Voluntas. I received the William E. Mosher and Frederick C. Mosher Award for the best article written by an academic in Public Administration Review in 2016 (with co-authors Aseem Prakash and Mary Kay Gugerty).
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