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 [1]. He was born on February 22, 1946 in New York City, to David Hall and Bernice (Dobkin) Hall.
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[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 0-8147-3415-4 (paperback)
- (with Karyl Lee Kibler Hall) The Lehigh Valley: An Illustrated History (1982) ISBN 0-89781-044-9 (hardcover)
- Inventing the Nonprofit Sector and Other Essays on Philanthropy, Voluntarism, and Nonprofit Organizations (1992) ISBN 0-8018-6979-X (paperback)
- (with George E. Marcus) Lives in Trust: The Fortunes of Dynastic Families in Late Twentieth Century America (1992) ISBN 0-8133-0464-4 (hardcover) and ISBN 0-8133-0467-9 (paperback)
- (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 0-19-511322-5 (hardcover).
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) ISBN 13-978-0-521-81791-2 (hardcover) and ISBN 13-978-0-511-13297-1 (on-line edition)
[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 on the editorial board of Nonprofit Management & Leadership. Between 2000 and 2006, He served as Chair of the Annual Book Award Committee for the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA) [2] and 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[3] (New Haven, Connecticut), Church of Christ (Stony Creek, Connecticut), St Thomas Day School (New Haven, Connecticut), St Thomas Episcopal Church [4](New Haven, Connecticut), and the Ronan-Edgehill Neighborhood Association [5] (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[6], the International Society for Third Sector Research, the Organization of American Historians, and the Social Science History Association[7], the Young Men's Institute Library (New Haven), and the Century Association (New York).
