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Professor Richard Boyd
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Richard Boyd
Professor, Voluntary Associations & Democracy
Richard Boyd is an associate professor of government at Georgetown University. His research interests include the intellectual history of liberalism, civil society and pluralism, economic and sociological theory, post-colonialism, and the theory and practice of immigration and citizenship policies in the United States. Before coming to Georgetown in 2007, Boyd taught at the University of Chicago, University of Pennsylvania, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Deep Springs College.
Professor Boyd is author of Uncivil Society: The Perils of Pluralism and the Making of Modern Liberalism. His articles have appeared in Review of Politics, Journal of Politics, Political Theory, History of Political Thought, Polity, European Journal of Political Theory, Urban Studies, Social Philosophy & Policy, and other journals. He is currently completing a book-length manuscript titled “Membership and Belonging: On the Boundaries of Liberal Political Theory.”
Professor Kimberly Mullins
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Kimberly Mullins
Professor, Nonprofit Internship Seminar
Kimberly Mullins is currently the Director of Marketing at WealthEngine.com where she is responsible for creating marketing campaigns and developing relationships with charities. With a career based in nonprofit leadership, Kimberly previously served as the Executive Director of the Alexandria Volunteer Bureau and Development and Special Events Coordinator of Stop Child Abuse Now of Northern Virginia. She helped create nonprofit councils and collaborative programs and founded the Alexandria Business Philanthropy Summit. She has also served as the Director of Strategic Marketing for Gifts In Kind International where she managed the membership and strategic recruitment of nonprofits, especially in building strong national charity partnerships.
Kimberly has a BA degree in Government and Politics from George Mason University and an MS degree in Business Technology from Marymount University. An enthusiastic speaker, she has presented at several national conferences and workshops. She has also appeared in several print and television stories, including People, The Washington Post, and local television.
“There’s a happy coincidence between the kind of program that TFAS is running…and Tocqueville’s thinking in Democracy in America. The students might think they’re working for a voluntary organization, but in Tocqueville’s account, they’re saving democracy.”
Professor Joshua Mitchell (former Voluntary Associations and Democracy Professor)
Click here to read an interview with Professor Joshua Mitchell
Professor James Otteson
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James R. Otteson
Professor, Ethics & Values of Philanthropy
James R. Otteson is a professor of philosophy and economics at Yeshiva University in New York. He earned a BA from the Program of Liberal Studies at the University of Notre Dame, an MA in philosophy from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and an AM and PhD in philosophy from the University of Chicago. He is a Charles G. Koch Senior Fellow at The Fund for American Studies.
Professor Otteson is the author of Adam Smith’s Marketplace of Life and Actual Ethics, the latter of which won the 2007 Templeton Enterprise Award. He is also the editor of The Levellers: Overton, Walwyn, and Lilburne, 5 vols. and of Adam Smith: Selected Philosophical Writings. He is currently working on a book entitled simply Adam Smith, which will be part of Continuum Press’s series, Major Conservative and Libertarian Thinker.
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