Global Growth of Voluntaristics Research and Voluntaristics Researcher Associations, Journals, Research Centers, University Courses, etc


Speaker: Dr. David Horton SMITH

Time: 1:00pm~3:00, March 24th

Place: 606-6317,  The meeting room of School of Politics & Public Administration

Speaker Biography:

      Dr. David Horton SMITH,  Research and Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, USA; Honorary Visiting Research Professor, Centre for Studies of Civil Society and the  Nonprofit Sector, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russian Federation (2013+); Honorary Visiting Professor, School of Arts and Sciences,City, University of London, London, UK(2016+);  Visiting Scholar, Institute for Philanthropy, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China (2015+);  US Government Fulbright Commission Senior Specialist Award Grantee and Distinguished Visiting Lecturer (2010-2014);  Editor-in-Chief, Voluntaristics Review, new academic journal of survey/review articles published by Brill Publishers, Leiden, Netherlands, and Boston, MA, USA (2014+);  First Co-Editor, Brill [Publishers] Nonprofit Sector Research [Book] Series (2014+);  Founder (2010+), President and CEO, ICSERA, the International Council of Voluntarism, Civil Society, and Social Economy Researcher Associations Inc.; an IRS 501(c)(3) Non-Profit Organization registered in Florida, USA (www.icsera.org);  Founder (in 1971) and first President, ARNOVA, the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (www.arnova.org);  Founder & first Editor-in-Chief of NVSQ (Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector  Quarterly), an SSCI academic journal.