The WPI Research Committee is made up of scholars from a variety of academic disciplines, who collaborate on studies around gender and philanthropy.
WPI Research Committee
Young-joo Lee, Committee Chair
Eileen Lamb O’Gara Chair in Women’s Philanthropy
Professor of Philanthropic Studies
Lilly Family School of Philanthropy
Indiana University Indianapolis
Ruth Bernstein
Associate Professor of Nonprofit Management
Seaver College
Pepperdine University
Beth Breeze
Director, Centre for Philanthropy
Professor of Philanthropic Studies
School of Social Policy, Sociology and Research
University of Kent
Eleanor P. Brown
James Irvine Professor of Economics
Pomona College
Elizabeth Dale
Frey Foundation Chair for Family Philanthropy
Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy
Lauren Dula
Assistant Professor
College of Community and Public Affairs
Binghamton University, SUNY
Angela M. Eikenberry
Professor and School Director
School of Public Policy
University of Connecticut
Christopher J. Einolf
Director, Center for Nonprofit and NGO Studies
Associate Professor of Sociology
College of Liberal Arts and Scientists
Northern Illinois University
Marybeth Gasman
Samuel DeWitt Proctor Endowed Chair in Education
Distinguished Professor in Educational Psychology
Graduate School of Education
Rutgers University—New Brunswick
Charlotte Holgersson
Associate Professor of Industrial Economics and Management
KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
Sara Konrath
Assistant Professor of Philanthropic Studies
Lilly Family School of Philanthropy
Indiana University Indianapolis
Jingjing Ma
Vice Dean and Associate Professor
China Center for Economic Research,
National School of Development
Peking University
Debra Mesch
Professor Emerita of Philanthropic Studies
Lilly Family School of philanthropy
Indiana University Indianapolis
Una Osili
Associate Dean for Research and International Programs
Efroymson Chair in Philanthropy
Dean’s Fellow, Mays Family Institute on Diverse Philanthropy
Lilly Family School of Philanthropy
Indiana University Indianapolis
Lise Vesterlund
Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Economics
Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
University of Pittsburgh
Andrea Walton
Associate Professor of Education
Indiana University Bloomington
Pamala Wiepking
Visiting Stead Family Chair in International Philanthropy
Visiting Associate Professor of Philanthropic Studies
Lilly Family School of Philanthropy
Indiana University Indianapolis
Professor of Societal Significance of Charity Lotteries
Center for Philanthropic Studies
Vrije Universiteit (VU) Amsterdam
Mark Ottoni-Wilhelm
Professor of Economics, School of Liberal Arts
Professor of Philanthropic Studies, Lilly Family School of Philanthropy
Indiana University Indianapolis