Peter Dobkin Hall

Lecturer in Public Policy
Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations
Office Address
Bennett-209
Mailing Address
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Mailbox 143
79 JFK Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Contact
Phone: 617-495-5117
Fax: 617-495-0996
Email: pd_hall@harvard.edu
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Peter Dobkin Hall is Hauser Lecturer on Nonprofit Organizations. Before coming to the Kennedy School, Hall served as director of Yale's Program on Nonprofit Organizations (PONPO) and held teaching appointments in Yale's Department of History, School of Management, Divinity School, and Ethics, Politics, and Economics Program. Hall's current research interests include the development of the welfare state and social welfare policy, the role of educational institutions in creating leadership and civic engagement, and the emergence of transnational institutions, communities, and identities. Hall's publications include The Organization of American Culture, 1700-1900: Private Institutions, Elites, and the Origins of American Nationality; Inventing the Nonprofit Sector: Essays on Philanthropy, Voluntarism, and Nonprofit Organizations; and Lives in Trust: The Fortunes of Dynastic Families in Late Twentieth Century America. He coedited Sacred Companies: Organizational Aspects of Religion and Religious Aspects of Organizations and the chapter on nonprofits for Millennial Edition of Historical Statistics of the United States. Full details at http://ksghome.harvard.edu/~phall.

 

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