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Biography
Patricia Snell Herzog is the Melvin Simon Chair and associate professor of philanthropic studies in the IU Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, as well as affiliate faculty in the IU Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, Indianapolis.
Prior to joining IU, Herzog was an associate professor of sociology and co-director of the Center for Social Research at the University of Arkansas. Herzog completed her doctoral degree in sociology at the University of Notre Dame, while also serving as the assistant director for the Center for the study of Religion and Society. Afterward, Herzog was a postdoctoral fellow with Kinder Institute for Urban Research at Rice University.
With the rise in availability of and organizational attention to data analytics, Herzog is interested in data for good, including the social impact of data, philanthropy analytics, data-informed decision-making, and philanthropic funding for artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data science. Herzog’s topic interests also include social scientific investigations of charitable giving, youth and emerging adults, and religiosity.
Her research focuses on how people are shaped by and shape their organizational contexts, with particular emphasis on understanding motivations and social supports for voluntary participation in charitable and religious organizations, as well as generational changes in organizational values.
Her scholarship has won multiple awards and grant funding, including the Distinguished Article award from the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Lilly Fellows Book Award, and grant awards totaling to more than $10 million from sponsors such as the National Science Foundation, Lilly Endowment Inc., and the John Templeton Foundation.
With a commitment to outreach, Herzog has delivered numerous research-related talks to a variety of organizational audiences, and her research has received media attention in the New York Times, CNBC, ABC News, Seattle Times, The Atlantic, The Foundation Review, Philanthropy News Digest, The Chronicle of Philanthropy,The Nonprofit Times, and NPR.
Education
- PhD, Sociology, University of Notre Dame
- MA, Sociology, University of Notre Dame
- MSW, Community Practice, University of Denver
- BA, Sociology & Psychology, University of Arizona
Courses Taught
- PHST-P201: Introduction to Philanthropic Studies
- PHST-P210: Philanthropy & the Social Sciences
- PHST-P495: Readings in Philanthropic Studies
- PHST-P530: Data for Good
- PHST-P530: NextGen Tech & Social Change
- PHST-P555: Directed Readings in Philanthropic Studies
- PHST-P600: Master’s Thesis in Philanthropic Studies
- PHST-P690: Introduction to Research Methods
- PHST-P693: Mixed-Methods Research Designs
- PHST-P727: The Art & Science of Synthesis
- PHST-P890: Doctoral Dissertation in Philanthropic Studies