advisory Board

REBECCA M. BLANK, University of Michigan

CHRISTOPHER BARRETT, Cornell University

NICHOLAS CAPALDI, Loyola University

EMILY CHAMLEE-WRIGHT, Beloit College

THEODORE MALLOCH, The Roosevelt Group

MICHAEL MCCULLOUGH, University of Miami

ROBERT H. NELSON, University of Maryland

ROBERT D. PUTNAM, Harvard University

CORWIN SMIDT, Calvin College

CHRISTIAN SMITH, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

R. STEPHEN WARNER, University of Illinois at Chicago

REBECCA M. BLANK, University of Michigan
Rebecca M. Blank is Dean of the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan, Henry Carter Adams Collegiate Professor of Public Policy, and Professor of Economics. She is also the co-director of the National Poverty Center at the Ford School, funded by HHS to promote poverty-related research. Prior to coming to Michigan, she served as a Member of the President's Council of Economic Advisers from 1997-1999. She has been Professor of Economics at Northwestern University and served as the first Director of the Northwestern University/University of Chicago Joint Center for Poverty Research. Professor Blank's research has focused on the interaction between the macroeconomy, government anti-poverty programs, and the behavior and well-being of low-income families. Her book, It Takes A Nation: A New Agenda for Fighting Poverty, was published by Princeton University Press in 1997 and won the Richard A. Lester Prize for the Outstanding Book in Labor Economics and Industrial Relations. Her more recent work includes the book Finding Jobs: Work and Welfare Reform (jointly edited with David Card, 2000, Russell Sage Press), The New World of Welfare (jointly edited with Ron Haskins, 2001, Brookings Press), and Is the Market Moral? (co-authored with William McGurn, 2003, Brookings Press). Blank received her Ph.D. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

CHRISTOPHER BARRETT, Cornell University
Christopher Barrett is International Professor of Applied Economics and Management and co-Director of the African Food Security and Natural Resources Management program at Cornell University. He holds degrees from Princeton (A.B. 1984), Oxford (M.S. 1985) and the University of Wisconsin-Madison (dual Ph.D., 1994) and worked as a staff economist with the Institute for International Finance in Washington, DC in the 1980s. There are three basic, interrelated thrusts to his research program. The first concerns poverty, hunger, food security, economic policy and the structural transformation of low-income societies. The second considers issues of individual and market behavior under risk and uncertainty. The third revolves around the interrelationship between poverty, food security and environmental stress in developing areas. Professor Barrett has published or in press 7 books and more than 120 journal articles, book chapters and other professional publications. He has been principal investigator or co-PI on extramural research grants from the National Science Foundation, Pew Charitable Trusts, Rockefeller Foundation, USAID and other sponsors totaling more than $15 million. He serves on the Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research Science Council’s Standing Panel on Strategies and Priorities, as editor of the American Journal of Agricultural Economics, and as an associate editor or editorial board member of Environment and Development Economics, the Journal of African Economies and World Development and was previously President of the Association of Christian Economists.

NICHOLAS CAPALDI, Loyola University
Nicholas Capaldi is the Legendre-Soule Distinguished Chair in Business Ethics and Director of the Loyola Institute for Ethics and Spirituality in Business at Loyola University in New Orleans, LA. His principal research and teaching interest is in public policy and its intersection with political science, philosophy, law, religion, and economics. He is a member of the editorial board of six journals and has served most recently as editor of Public Affairs Quarterly. He is an internationally recognized Hume scholar and a domestic public policy specialist on such issues as higher education, bioethics, business ethics, affirmative action, and immigration. Professor Capaldi has recently published John Stuart Mill: A Biography for Cambridge University Press. He is the author of six books, including The Art of Deception (Prometheus, 1987), over fifty articles, and editor of six anthologies. He is a recent recipient of the Templeton Foundation Freedom Project Award. In addition, he is creator and editor of MasterWorks in the Western Tradition, a series of books on major thinkers being published by Peter Lang. Capaldi received a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Columbia University.

EMILY CHAMLEE-WRIGHT, Beloit College
Emily Chamlee-Wright, Associate Professor of Economics at Beloit College. She received her PhD in Economics from George Mason University in 1993. Her research investigates the confluence of cultural and economic processes. Her first book, The Cultural Foundations of Economic Development (Routledge 1997) was based on ethnographic research she conducted in the urban markets of Ghana. Her more recent ethnographic work is a study of urban market women in Zimbabwe, documenting their strategies for economic survival and accumulation. Professor Chamlee-Wright is also the co-author (with Don Lavoie) of Culture and Enterprise: The Development, Representation, and Morality of Business (Routledge 2000). Her current research explores the nature of knowledge embedded within informal economies and social networks. Prof. Chamlee-Wright received the Underkoffler Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1997. From 1995-1998 she was a W.K. Kellogg National Leadership Fellow, and currently directs the Beloit College Leadership Institute.

THEODORE MALLOCH, The Roosevelt Group
Theodore Malloch is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of The Roosevelt Group, a leading strategic management and thought leadership company that Malloch co-founded (1994), and has since directed the CEO Learning PartnershipSM for PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. He has been a senior fellow of The Aspen Institute, where he previously directed all of its national seminars. He was also president of the World Economic Development Congress sponsored by CNN that focused on “Building the Integrated Global Economy” and has served on the executive board of the World Economic Forum. He held an ambassadorial level position in the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland (1989-91); he headed consulting at Wharton-Chase Econometrics; has worked in international capital markets at the investment bank, Salomon Brothers, Inc.; and has served in senior policy positions at the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations and in the U.S. State Department. He has written five books—the latest are Trade and Development Policy (Praeger, 1989); along with Don Norris, Unleashing the Power of Perpetual Learning, 1998; and The Global Century, 2001 — and numerous journal articles and corporate reports. He has appeared frequently on television. Malloch earned his Ph.D. in International Political Economy from the University of Toronto, where he held the Hart House Open University Fellowship.

MICHAEL MCCULLOUGH, University of Miami
Michael McCullough is Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology and the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida. He received his PhD from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1995. His research focuses on religion, spirituality, and virtues such as gratitude, forgiveness, and self-control. His current work focuses on two topics: The evolution of revenge and forgiveness, and the development of religiousness over the adult life course and its links to health and well-being. Books to his credit include Forgiveness: Theory Research and Practice (Guilford Press, 2000), The Handbook of Religion and Health (Oxford Press, 2001) and The Psychology of Gratitude (Oxford Press, 2004). His work has been funded by a variety of private foundations.

ROBERT H. NELSON, University of Maryland
Robert H. Nelson is Professor of Environmental Policy at the School of Public Policy of the University of Maryland. He is a nationally recognized authority on land and natural resource management in the United States, with a particular emphasis on management of federally owned lands. His writings have appeared in many professional journals and edited book collections, including the Journal of Economic Literature, Journal of Political Economy, Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics and Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. He is the author of six books, including Reaching for Heaven on Earth: The Theological Meaning of Economics (Rowman & Littlefield, 1991), Public Lands and Private Rights: The Failure of Scientific Management (Rowman & Littlefield, 1995); and Economics as Religion: From Samuelson to Chicago and Beyond (Penn State University Press, 2001). He has written widely for broader audiences in the Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Financial Times, The Weekly Standard, Reason, Technology Review, Environment and many other publications. From 1993 to 2000 he was a columnist for Forbes magazine. Prior to coming to the University of Maryland, he worked in the Office of Policy Analysis of the Office of the Secretary of the Interior from 1975 to 1993. Nelson earned a Ph.D. in Economics from Princeton University.

ROBERT D. PUTNAM, Harvard University
Robert D. Putnam is the Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy at Harvard, where he teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the British Academy, and past president of the American Political Science Association. Raised in a small town in the Midwest and educated at Swarthmore, Oxford, and Yale, he has served as Dean of the Kennedy School of Government. He has written a dozen books, translated into seventeen languages, including the best-selling Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community, and more recently Better Together: Restoring the American Community, a study of promising new forms of social connectedness. He has worked on these themes with both the Clinton and Bush White House and with other political leaders around the world. He founded the Saguaro Seminar, bringing together leading thinkers and practitioners to develop actionable ideas for civic renewal. He is now studying the challenges of building community in an increasingly diverse society.

CORWIN SMIDT, Calvin College
Corwin Smidt holds the Paul B. Henry Chair in Christianity and Politics and serves as Executive Director of the Henry Institute for the Study of Christianity and Politics at Calvin College, where he has taught since 1977. He is the author, editor, or co-author of eight books, including Religion and the Culture Wars (Rowman & Littlefield, 1996), In God We Trust? Religion and American Politics (Baker Academic, 2001), and Religion As Social Capital: Producing the Common Good (Baylor University Press, 2003). In addition, he is author or co-author of over 25 refereed journal articles and over 35 chapters in edited volumes. Prof. Smidt has served as President of Christians in Political Science, as Executive Director of the Religion and Politics Section of the American Political Science Association, and as President of the Michigan Conference of Political Scientists. His current work focuses on the role of religion in American politics generally, with specific attention being given to the role evangelicals play in American politics, the role of clergy in American public life, and the role religion plays in the formation of social capital in American democratic life. Smidt received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Iowa.

CHRISTIAN SMITH, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Christian Smith is the Stuart Chapin Distinguished Professor and Associate Chair in the Department of Sociology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Dr. Smith serves as principal investigator for the National Study on Youth and Religion, funded by the Lilly Endowment, which seeks to research the shape and influence of religion and spirituality in the lives of American adolescents and to identify the religious practices and influences among that group. The findings of the study will be published in Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers (forthcoming, Oxford University Press, 2005). He is the author of six books and three edited volumes, including Christian America? What Evangelicals Really Want (University of California Press, 2000), Moral, Believing Animals: Human Personhood and Culture (Oxford University Press, 2003), and The Secular Revolution: Power, Interest, and Conflict in the Secularization of American Public Life (University of California Press, 2003). Divided by Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America (Oxford University Press, 2000), which he co-authored with Michael Emerson, received the "Outstanding Book Award 2001" from the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion. Smith holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from Harvard University.

R. STEPHEN WARNER, University of Illinois at Chicago
R. Stephen Warner is Professor of Sociology at the University of Illinois at Chicago and a Fellow of the Theology, Ethics, and Human Sciences Center of Chicago Theological Seminary. Having earned his Ph.D. at the University of California at Berkeley in 1972, Warner was elected president of the Association for the Sociology of Religion in 1995 and the Religion Section of the American Sociological Association in 2002. He has held Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships, and his research has been supported by the Lilly Endowment and the Pew Charitable Trusts. Among Warner’s publications are New Wine in Old Wineskins: Evangelicals and Liberals in a Small-Town Church (University of California Press 1988), which won the 1989 Distinguished Book Award from the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion; "Work in Progress Toward a New Paradigm for the Sociological Study of Religion in the United States," in the American Journal of Sociology, March 1993 (winner of the 1994 SSSR Distinguished Article Award); Gatherings in Diaspora: Religious Communities and the New Immigration (with Judith Wittner; Temple University Press, 1998); Korean Americans and their Religions: Pilgrims and Missionaries From a Different Shore (with Ho-Youn Kwon and Kwang Chung Kim; Penn State University Press, 2001); and A Church of Our Own: Disestablishment and Diversity in American Religion is forthcoming in 2005 from Rutgers University Press. Warner is co-founder of the Chicago-Area Group for the Study of Religious Communities and a member of the Congregational Studies Project Team.