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Angela Eikenberry

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Dr. Angela M. Eikenberry

  • D. B. and Paula Varner Professor
  • Public Administration, Professor
email:
aeikenberry@unomaha.edu
office:
CPACS  111
office phone:
402.554.3488
fax:
402.554.2682
personal website:
https://unomaha.academia.edu/AngelaMEikenberry

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General Information

Biography

Dr. Eikenberry's research has been featured on National Public Radio's All Things Considered and in the Stanford Social Innovation Review. She recently co-edited a textbook on nonprofit management: Reframing Nonprofit Management: Democracy, Inclusion, and Social Change (Melvin & Leigh, 2018). She is a Fellow in the National Academy of Public Administration.

Teaching Interests

Nonprofit management, philanthropy, public administration and democracy, organization theory and behavior, philanthropy and democracy, qualitative research methods, critical theory and pedagogy.

Research Interests

The social, economic and political roles philanthropy, voluntary associations, and nonprofit organizations play in democratic governance. Empirical and theoretical areas of focus include: Giving circles and collaborative giving, marketization of nonprofit organizations and philanthropy, and critical approaches to public and nonprofit administration.

Service Summary

School Personnel and PhD committees; advisory board for the Indiana University Women's Philanthropy Institute; board member of Creating the Future; member of the editorial boards of NVSQ, Voluntas, Public Integrity, Voluntary Sector Review, and Administrative Theory & Praxis. Past-President, Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA).

Awards and Honors

National Academy of Public Administration Fellow - 2020

UNO Award for Distinguished Research or Creative Activity - 2016

US-UK Fulbright Scholar Award - 2015

David Scott Diamond Alumni Professor of Public Affairs & Community Service - 2013

UNO Alumni Association CPACS Outstanding Teaching Award - 2011

Education

Ph D, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, NE, Public Administration, 2005

MPA, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, NE, Nonprofit Management, 1998

BA, University of Nebraska at Omaha, International Studies, 1993

Scholarship/Research/Creative Activity

Selected Publications

Coule, Tracey, Dodge, Jennifer, Eikenberry, Angela. 2020. Towards a Typology of Critical Nonprofit Studies: A Literature Review, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly.

Eikenberry, Angela, Mirabella, Roseanne, Sandberg, Billie. 2019. Reframing nonprofit organizations: Democracy, inclusion, and social change , Melvin & Leigh.

Eikenberry, Angela. 2019. Discourses of Volunteering and Civic Action in the USA, Voluntas, 30, 1, 54-61.

Eikenberry, Angela, Mirabella, Roseanne. 2018. Extreme Philanthropy: Philanthrocapitalism, Effective Altruism and the Discourse of Neoliberalism, PS: Political Science & Politics, 51, 1, 43-47.

Eikenberry, Angela. 2017. Who benefits from giving circles in the U.S. and UK?, The Foundation Review, 9, 3, 33-45.