Peter Dobkin Hall

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Peter Dobkin Hall, historian, author, and educator, is Hauser Lecturer on Nonprofit Organizations at the Kennedy School of Government, and Lecturer in the Department of History, Harvard University <http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/hauser/>. He was born on February 22, 1946 in New York City, to David Hall and Bernice (Dobkin) Hall.

1 Education
2 Authorship
3 Professional responsibilities
4 Community service
5 Memberships
6 See also
7 External links

[edit] Education

Hall received his B.A. in American Studies at Reed College in 1968 and his M.A. (1970) and Ph.D. (1973) in American History from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

[edit] Authorship

Hall's published work includes

"The Organization of American Culture, 1700-1900: Institutions, Elites, and the Origins of American Nationality" (1982) ISBN 0814734154
"Inventing the Nonprofit Sector and Other Essays on Philanthropy, Voluntarism, and Nonprofit Organizations" (1992) ISBN 0-8018-6979-X
(with George E. Marcus) "Lives in Trust: The Fortunes of Dynastic Families in Late Twentieth Century America" (1992) ISBN 0813304644 (hardcover), ISBN 0813304679 (paperback) and
(with N.J. Demerath III, Rhys H. Williams, & Terry Schmitt as co-editors), "Sacred Companies: Organizational Aspects of Religion and Religious Aspects of Organizations" (1998) ISBN 0195113225 (paperback).

He is editor (with Colin B. Burke), of the chapter on nonprofit organizations, voluntary associations, and religious entities in "Historical Statistics of the United States, Millennial Edition" (2006).

[edit] Professional responsibilities

Hall has served on the editorial boards of *"History of Education Quarterly"* and *"History of Higher Education Annual."* He has also served as Book Review Editor of *"Nonprofit & Voluntary Sector Quarterly"* (1992-96) and Contributing Editor of *"The Philanthropy Monthly"* (1990-1996). He is currently Book Review Editor of *"Nonprofit Management & Leadership"* and Chair of the Annual Book Award Committee for the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA) <http://www.arnova.org>, He also served as the organization's Vice-President for Membership and Information (1992-94).

Hall has served as consultant to the Lilly Endowment, Ford Foundation, Nonprofit Sector Research Fund, Disabilities History Project, and Greater Middletown (CT) Preservation Trust.

[edit] Community service

Hall has served as director or trustee of the Eli Whitney Museum (Hamden, Connecticut), New Haven Colony Historical Society (New Haven, Connecticut), Church of Christ (Stony Creek, Connecticut), St Thomas Day School (New Haven, Connecticut), St Thomas Episcopal Church (New Haven, Connecticut), and the Ronan-Edgehill Neighborhood Association (New Haven, Connecticut). He was also a member of the Planning & Zoning and Inland Wetlands commissions (Branford, Connecticut), and the New Haven Historic District Commission (New Haven, Connecticut).

[edit] Memberships

Hall is a member of the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA), the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, the International Society for Third Sector Research, the Organization of American Historians, and the Religious Research Association/Society for the Scientific Study of Religion.