Workshop on Academic Paper Writing and Publishing will be held on 21st-22nd Dec.2016@Tsinghua Uni.

The Workshop on Academic Paper Writing and Publishing will be held on 21st-22nd Dec. 2016 at Tsinghua University.

Date: December 21th-22th, 2016 (Thursday & Friday)

Time: 09:00--17:00 (Lunch will be served)

Location: Room 302, SPPM, Tsinghua University

Guest Introduction

Chao Guo (Ph.D., Public Administration, University of Southern California) is an Associate Professor in the School of Social Policy and Practice at the University of Pennsylvania. He is also the founding co-director of the Institute for Philanthropic Innovation at Renmin University of China. A current Penn Fellow, Chao also serves as a Nonresident Senior Fellow at Fox Leadership International at the University of Pennsylvania. He has recently published a book titled “Social Entrepreneurship: An Evidence-Based Approach to Creating Social Value”, with Jossey-Bass Publishers. Previously, Chao was on the faculties of Indiana University, the University of Georgia, and Arizona State University.

Khaldoun AbouAssi is an assistant professor at the Department of Public Administration and Policy, School of Public Affairs of the American University. His primary research focuses on public and nonprofit management, examining organizational capacity, resources, and inter-organizational relations. Khaldoun has several years of substantial practical experience in international development working on human and institutional development whether in the public sector or with NGOs or for donor agencies. He is the recipient of the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action’s (ARNOVA) 2013 Gabriel G. Rudney Memorial Award for Outstanding Dissertation in Nonprofit and Voluntary Action.

Mary Tschirhart is a Professor at the Ohio State University.  She teaches and studies nonprofit management.  Current projects examine sense of identity and community, careers, volunteerism, and membership representation. Her latest book, co-authored, is Managing Nonprofit Organizations.  Tschirhart’s experience includes service on boards of associations, foundations, library, and social service and animal welfare organizations and CEO of an arts organization. She has an M.B.A. in arts administration and doctorate in organizational behavior and human resource management.  Prior to joining OSU, she was a center director and faculty member at NC State and Syracuse and on the faculty of Indiana University.

Mark Sidel is Doyle-Bascom Professor of Law and Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison; Charles Stewart Mott Foundation Visiting Chair in Community Foundations at the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, Indiana University (2016-2017); and Consultant for Asia at the International Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ICNL). He works on government/civil society relations in China, India, Vietnam and the United States, with a focus on regulation and self-regulation. Sidel is also a frequent consultant to foundations and donor agencies on their work in Asia. His current academic work includes research for a book on modern secessionary movements in the United States.

Shariq Siddiqui is the Executive Director of (ARNOVA), Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action. ARNOVA is a leading international association that connects scholars, teachers, and practice leaders in research on nonprofit organizations, voluntary action, philanthropy and civil society. Siddiqui serves as the co-editor of the new Journal on Muslim Philanthropy and Civil Society that will be in published through a partnership of the Center on American Muslim Philanthropy and Indiana University – Indianapolis University Library. Prior to taking over the helm of ARNOVA, Shariq was Director of Development for the Indiana University School of Education.

Professor Siddiqui has taught and has served in leadership roles in the local, regional, national and international nonprofit organizations for over fifteen years.

Shariq has been teaching since 2008 in multiple formats (online, in-class and executive formats), settings (including internationally) and for many institutions at the undergraduate and graduate level. Shariq has also taught professional development courses geared towards nonprofit managers and leaders.  His research interests include diversity, legitimacy and power in nonprofit organizations; nonprofit change dynamics during crisis, failure and turn-around; membership associations in the United States; and the development of civil society from a comparative perspective, with a specific focus on the development of international humanitarian non-governmental organizations (NGO).

Shariq’s volunteer service includes the American Muslim Peace Mission to Darfur; Indiana’s Circles Out of Poverty; Interfaith Delegation to Kenya investigating support for orphans and vulnerable children through education; Common Cause Interfaith Delegation to Vietnam on Agent Orange; Fatimid Foundation serving people with blood disorders in Pakistan; and ObatHelpers, providing micro-financing, education and job training to people in Bangladesh. Shariq is the founder of the Center on American Muslim Philanthropy and the Association of Muslim Nonprofit Professionals. He currently also serves on the board of the YMCA of Greater Indianapolis.  Dr. Shariq Siddiqui has a Ph.D. and MA in Philanthropic Studies from the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy at Indiana University. He also has JD from the McKinney School of Law at Indiana University and holds a BA in History from the University of Indianapolis.