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Angela Eikenberry, Ph.D.

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Angela M. Eikenberry, Ph.D.

Angela M. Eikenberry, Ph.D.

  • Professor | D. B. and Paula Varner Professor
  • School of Public Administration

email:
aeikenberry@unomaha.edu
office:
CPACS  111
office phone:
402.554.3488
office hours:
Book a time to meet: https://calendly.com/aeikenberry
fax:
402.554.2682
Google Scholar:
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=F0rg8fYAAAAJ&hl=en&authuser=1
ORCID:
0000-0002-6493-182X
personal website:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Angela-Eikenberry

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If you’d like to request a meeting with me, please book here: https://calendly.com/aeikenberry

Biography

Dr. Eikenberry's research has been featured on National Public Radio's All Things Considered and The Takeaway 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, 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, Strategic Planning, and PhD committees; UNO American Association of University Professors (AAUP) executive committee; 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, Journal of Social Equity and Public Administration, 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 D.B. and Paula Varner Professorship, Scholarship/Research - 2020

UNO Award for Distinguished Research or Creative Activity - 2016

US-UK Fulbright Scholar Award - 2015

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

Dodge, Jennifer, Eikenberry, Angela, Coule, Tracey. 2021. Illustrating the Value of Critical Methodologies through Third Sector Gender Studies: A Case for Pluralism, Voluntas.

Coule, Tracey, Dodge, Jennifer, Eikenberry, Angela. 2022. Towards a Typology of Critical Nonprofit Studies: A Literature Review, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly.

Carboni, Julia, Eikenberry, Angela. 2021. Do giving circles democratize philanthropy? Donor identity and giving to historically marginalized groups, Voluntas, 32, 247-256.

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

Jung, Grace, Eikenberry, Angela, Farley, Kathy, Brainard, Lori. 2022. How do foundations support (anti-)racism? A critical race theory perspective on philanthropy and racial equity. , Journal of Philanthropy and Marketing.

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