PETER C. WEBER Murray State University Nonprofit Leadership Studies Program Carr Health Building, 105A Murray, KY 42071 Office phone: (270) 809-3079 Mobile phone: (317) 748-5520 Email: pweber@murraystate.edu EMPLOYMENT Program Director and Assistant Professor Nonprofit Leadership Studies Program Murray State University 2015 Present Adjunct Faculty 201o 2014 Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy Research Associate 2014 Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy EDUCATION Ph.D. in Philanthropic Studies 2014 Indiana University, United States Master in International Studies in Philanthropy and Social Innovation 2007 University of Bologna, Italy Laurea Quadriennale (equivalent to M.A.) in History 2005 University of Bologna, Italy HONORS AND AWARDS Future Philanthropic Educator Fellow 2015 Learning by Giving Foundation 2014 IUPUI Chancellor s Scholar 2014 Indiana University Graduate School ARNOVA Emerging Scholars Award (Awarded: $1,200) 2013 Association for Research in Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Research Qualifying Examination with Honors 2011 Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy Summa cum Laude and Right of Publication 2005 Department of History and Cultures, University of Bologna
Weber - 2 PEER- REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS Peter C. Weber. Transnational Asymmetries: U.S. philanthropic foundations and the German School of Politics in the 1920s and 1930s. Forthcoming in Springer (Nonprofit and Civil Society Series). Book chapter in volume edited by Gregory Witkowski and Arnd Bauerkämper. Peter C. Weber (first author) and Amy N. Thayer. Planting the Seeds of Civil Society: An assessment of philanthropic education in K-12 schools. Journal of Nonprofit Education and Leadership. Forthcoming (2016). Peter C. Weber (first author) and Gregory Witkowski. Philanthropic Disruptions: Changing Nonprofit Education for an Engaged Society. Journal of Public Affairs Education, vol. 22, no. 1 (2016), 91-106. Peter C. Weber. The Pacifism of Andrew Carnegie and Edwin Ginn: The emerging of a philanthropic internationalism. Global Society, vol. 29, no. 4 (2015), 530-550. Peter C. Weber. The Paradoxical Modernity of Civil Society: the Weimar Republic, Democracy, and Social Homogeneity. Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, vol. 26, no. 2 (2015), 629-648. Peter C. Weber. Ethnic Identity during War: The Case of German-American Societies during World War I. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, vol. 43, no. 1 (2014), 185-206. Peter C. Weber. Modernity, Civil Society, and Sectarianism: The Muslim Brotherhood and the Takfir Groups. Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, vol. 24, no. 2 (2013), 509-527. OTHER WRITINGS Peter C. Weber. A Historian In A Management-Oriented Field. History of Philanthropy Blog, June 26, 2015, http://histphil.org/2015/06/28/a-historian-in-a-management-oriented-field-2/ Peter C. Weber. Review of: Julie M. Fisher. Importing Democracy. The Role of NGOs in South Africa, Tajikistan, & Argentina, Kettering Foundation Press, Dayton, 2013. Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, vol. 26, no. 1 (2015), 408-410. Peter C. Weber. Conference report: German Philanthropy in Transatlantic Perspective, 09/30/2012-10/02/2012, Indianapolis, IN. H-Soz-u-Kult, 02/02/2013, http://hsozkult.geschichte.huberlin.de/tagungsberichte/id=4653 Peter C. Weber. Research Report: U.S. Foundations in Weimar Germany: Asymmetries and Misunderstandings. Rockefeller Archive Center Research Reports Online, 2013, http://www.rockarch.org/publications/resrep/ Peter C. Weber. Terrorism and Philanthropy. Counter Terrorism Financing Regimes, International Civil Society, and Religious Fundamentalism. In ISTR Conference Working Paper Volume, 2008.
Weber - 3 MANUSCRIPTS UNDER REVIEW & WORKING PAPERS Peter C. Weber. The Impact of 9/11 on Muslim American Donations: The role of trust and confidence. Peter C. Weber. Forced Civil Society: Associational Life, Philanthropy, and the Athenaeum Turners in the 1920s. Peter C. Weber. Lost in Translation: the Local Representatives of the Carnegie Endowment for Peace in interwar Germany. Peter C. Weber. Building Global Civil Society in a Time of Nationalism: Philanthropic Foundations in Interwar Europe. TRAVEL & CONFERENCE GRANTS ARNOVA Scholarship & Travel Grant (Awarded $250) 2014 Center on Philanthropy at IUPUI Travel Grant (Awarded: $800) 2012 IUPUI Graduate School Travel Grant (Awarded: $500) 2011 IUPUI Graduate School Travel Grant (Awarded: $800) 2010 RESEARCH & TEACHING GRANTS Ruth Lilly Archives Research Award, IUPUI 2015 Awarded: $950 Learning by Giving Foundation 2015 Awarded: $5,000 for Student Philanthropy Course Max Kade Institute Fellowship 2009/10; 2010/11; Total awarded: $30,000 2013/14 Lilly Family School of Philanthropy Graduate Student Research Grant 2013 Awarded: $1,000 The Dickinson-Stone-Ilchman Fellowship for Graduate Education 2013 Awarded: $5,000 IU-OVPIA Free University of Berlin Exchange 2013 Awarded: One year with EUR 14,000; Accepted: One semester with EUR 7,000 Rockefeller Archive Center Grant-in-Aid 2013 Awarded: $1,000 ZEIT-Stiftung Fellowship 2006/07 Awarded: EUR 12,000
Weber - 4 CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS Forced Civil Society: Associational Life, Philanthropy, and the Athenaeum Turners in the 1920s. Hoosier Philanthropy Conference, February 2016, Indianapolis, United States. Building Global Civil Society in a Time of Nationalism: Philanthropic Foundations in Interwar Europe. 2015 ARNOVA Conference, Chicago, United States. Experiential Philanthropy as the New Frontier of Nonprofit Education: the Case of the Learning by Giving Foundation. 2015 Nonprofit Academic Center Council (NACC) Conference, Chicago, United States. Defining the Dark Side: From evil to terror. 2014 VRADS-ARNOVA Pre-Conference, Denver, United States. The Blurring Boundaries of Democracy Assistance: The case of German political foundations in Egypt. 2014 ARNOVA Conference, Denver, United States. Philanthropic Foundations and their Local Representatives: The case of the Carnegie Endowment for Peace in interwar Germany. 2014 ARNOVA Conference, Denver, United States. Conceptualizing Global Civil Society in Inter-War Europe: The nationalist goals of internationalism. 2014 ISTR 11th International Conference, Münster, Germany. Philanthropic Foundations and Crises. 2014 Conference on U.S. and European Philanthropy in Europe after 1945. Historical Research and the Role of Foundations. Berlin, Germany. Archives in the Digital Era. 2014 Conference on U.S. and European Philanthropy in Europe after 1945. Historical Research and the Role of Foundations. Berlin, Germany. Associational Life in an Era of Political Turbulence: German political clubs in World War One and the limits of Tocquevillian civil society. 2013 ARNOVA Conference, Hartford, United States. American Philanthropic Foundations in Weimar Germany: asymmetries and misunderstandings. 2013 ARNOVA Conference, Hartford, United States. Higher Education and the Public Sphere: The German College of Politics and civil discourse in the Weimar Republic. 2012 ARNOVA Conference, Indianapolis, United States. Conceptions of Civil Society in the Weimar Republic. 2012 Conference on German Philanthropy in Transatlantic Perspective, Indianapolis, United States. Civil Society and International Philanthropy in the Weimar Republic: The Deutsche Hochschule für Politik and American philanthropic foundations. 2012 ISTR 10th International Conference, Siena, Italy. The Limits of Private Philanthropy: The pacifism of Edwin Ginn and Andrew Carnegie. 2011 ARNOVA Conference, Toronto, Canada.
Weber - 5 CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS, cont d Islamic terrorism and Mafia-kind organizations: Extreme examples of social entrepreneurship? 2010 Nitte International Conference, India. Co-authored with Paolo Palenzona. Civil Society as a metaphor of the Good Society. The limits of a normative concept and the case of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. 2010 ISTR 9th International Conference, Istanbul, Turkey. American philanthropic foundations and the Weimar Republic. First hesitant steps toward a global civil society? 2010 ISTR 9th International Conference, Istanbul, Turkey. The Turnverein in Indianapolis and the Impact of the Great War: German-Americans Toward Integration in American Society. 2010 SGAS Symposium, New Harmony, Indiana, United States. The Deutsche Hochschule für Politik and American Philanthropic Foundations: The Weimar Republic between Fragmentation and Unity. 2010 SGAS Symposium, New Harmony, Indiana, United States. Terrorism and Philanthropy. Counter Terrorism Financing Regimes, International Civil Society, and Religious Fundamentalism. 2008 ISTR 8th International Conference, Barcelona, Spain. TEACHING EXPERIENCE At Murray State University: (Graduate/in-person & online) Nonprofit Organization Development, Management, and Leadership (Fall 2015; Fall 2016) (Graduate/in-person & online) The Nonprofit Sector and Civil Society (Fall 2015; Spring 2016; Fall 2016) (Undergraduate) Grant-making and Philanthropic Foundations (Spring 2016) (Undergraduate) Philanthropy, NGOs and International Development (Spring 2016) (Undergraduate) Special Problems in Nonprofit Organizations (Summer 2015; Fall 2015; Summer 2016) (Undergraduate) Strategic Philanthropy (Spring 2015) (Undergraduate) Introduction to the Role of Service and the Nonprofit Sector (Spring 2015) (Undergraduate) Program Development in Nonprofit Organizations (Spring 2015) (Undergraduate) Introduction to Philanthropy and the Nonprofit Sector (Fall 2016) At Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis: (Graduate) Civil Society and Public Policy (Fall 2010; Fall 2011; Fall 2012) (Graduate) Civil Society in Comparative Perspective (Spring 2011; Spring 2012) (Graduate/Online) Civil Society and Philanthropy (Spring 2014) (Undergraduate) Introduction to Philanthropic Studies (Spring 2014)
Weber - 6 SERVICE Service to Murray State University: Member, Advisory Board Peace Corps Prep, Murray State University 2016 present Member, Department Curriculum Committee Department of Community Leadership and Human Services 2015 present Member, Search Committee for Department Chair Spring 2015 Department of Community Leadership and Human Services Member, CoEHS Study Abroad Scholarship Committee Spring 2015 College of Education and Human Services Service to the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy: Co-director of Workshop in Multidisciplinary Philanthropic Studies (WIMPS) 2010 2014 Undergraduate Faculty Learning Community 2010 2014 Service to the Community: Member, 2015 Kentucky Nonprofit Network (KNN) Awards Committee Summer/Fall 2015 Member, Search Committee for Director of United Way of Murray-Calloway County Spring 2015 Service to the Profession: Member, 2015 ARNOVA Emerging Scholars Award Committee 2015 Member, ISTR Best Paper Award (in Voluntas) Committee 2015 2016 Member, 2015 ARNOVA Book Awards Committee 2015 Member, 2014 ARNOVA Book Awards Committee 2014 ARNOVA Values, Religion, Altruism, and Drawbacks Section (VRADS) 2013 2014 VRADS 2014 Pre-Conference Planning Committee Ad hoc reviewer: Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly; Media, War, & Conflict; Journal of Public Affairs Education.
Weber - 7 MEMBERSHIP Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action International Society for Third Sector Research 2011 present 2008 present RELATED EXPERIENCE United Way of Murray-Calloway County 2016-2019 Board Member CFRE (Certified Fund Raising Executive) International 2014 Project-based consultancy Friedrich-Meinecke-Institute, Free University, Berlin, Germany 2013 Visiting Researcher European Union-United States Atlantis Program 2007 2008 Researcher for the Benchmarking NonProfit Organizations and Philanthropy Educational Programs (BENPHE) Project University of Bologna, Italy 2007 2008 Research fellow at the Master in International Studies in Philanthropy and Social Innovation ZEIT-Stiftung, Hamburg, Germany Fall 2006 Intern LANGUAGES English speak fluently and read/write with high proficiency Italian speak fluently and read/write with high proficiency German Native speaker Last update: February 29, 2016