- Phone:
- (812) 855-6948
- Email:
- fulton@indiana.edu
- Website:
- http://go.iu.edu/fulton
- Room Number:
- 419
- Areas of Interest:
- Nonprofit Organizations & Management ,
- Leadership ,
- Social Movements ,
- Advocacy, Diversity, Quantitative Methods
Education
- Ph.D., Duke University
- A.M., University of Chicago
- B.S., University of California, Berkeley
Courses
- Managing Diversity (Apple Podcasts)
- Nonprofit Management and Leadership (Apple Podcasts)
- Statistics for the Social Sciences (Apple Podcasts)
- Introduction to Quantitative Analysis
- Research Methods
Biography
Brad Fulton is an expert on the social, political, and economic impact of community-based organizations. He directs the National Study of Community Organizing—a multi-level study that examines the causes and consequences of racial, socioeconomic, and religious diversity within grassroots advocacy organizations. Fulton co-leads the Observing Civic Engagement project—a field study that uses an innovative data collection technique, known as systematic social observation, to analyze the internal dynamics of organizations. He is also the co-director of the National Study of Congregations’ Economic Practices—a multimethod study that analyzes how religious congregations receive, manage, and spend their financial resources.
Fulton’s research has been published in journals including the American Sociological Review, Social Forces, Social Problems, NVSQ, Nonprofit Management & Leadership, and Voluntas. His research is regularly covered by multiple media outlets including the New York Times, Washington Post, and Huffington Post, and it has earned awards from the Academy of Management, American Sociological Association, American Political Science Association, National Communication Association, and the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action.
Fulton joined O’Neill as an assistant professor in 2015. He earned his Ph.D. in sociology from Duke University. He also holds a master’s in social science from the University of Chicago and a bachelor’s in industrial engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.
Highlights
- Aspen Institute | Inclusive America Project Fellow, 2021
- OVPR Social Sciences Research Funding Program | $40,000 (Co-PI), 2020
- Corporation for National & Community Service | $436,439 (Co-PI), 2017-19
- ARNOVA | Dugan Research Award on Philanthropic Impact, 2018
- Lilly Endowment Inc. | Research Grant $2,996,185 (Co-PI), 2018
- ARNOVA | Felice Davidson Perlmutter Best Paper Award, 2017
- Lilly Endowment Inc. | Research Grant $1,670,000 (Co-PI), 2017
- ARNOVA | Outstanding Book Award in Nonprofit Research, 2016
- American Sociological Association | Section Article Award, 2016
- ARNOVA | President’s Award for Nonprofit Research, 2013
In the News
- “As Organized Religion Shrinks” – Washington Post, Oct. 23, 2020
- “Evangelicals Downplay Religious Expression” – The Conversation, March 3, 2020
- “Nonprofit Racial Equity” – Nonprofit Quarterly, Jan. 13, 2020
- “‘President Pence’s Impact on the 2020 Race” – S.F. Chronicle, Nov. 3, 2019
- “Religious Attendance and Giving” Religion News Service, Oct. 16, 2019
- “Questions about Bezos’ $2 Billion Fund” – CNBC Tech, Sept. 16, 2018
- “Trump’s Church Politics Idea Has Wide Reach” – NY Times, Feb. 7, 2017
- “An Evangelical Examination of Conscience” – AP, Nov. 1, 2016
Selected Works
- “Engaging Differences: How Socially Diverse Organizations Can Mobilize Their Resources More Effectively,”Social Forces (2021)
- “Bridging and Bonding: Disentangling Two Mechanisms Underlying the Diversity-Performance Relationship,”Nonprofit & Voluntary Sector Quarterly (2021)
- “Organizing Together: Identifying Benefits and Drawbacks of Community-Labor Coalitions for Community Organizing Efforts,” (with M. Doussard) Social Service Review (2020)
- “Representative Group Styles: How Ally Immigrant Rights Organizations Promote Immigrant Involvement,” (with G. Yukich and R. L. Wood), Social Problems, (2019)
- “Critical Standpoint: Leaders of Color Advancing Racial Equality in Predominantly White Organizations,” (with M. Oyakawa and R. L. Wood), Nonprofit Management & Leadership, (2019)
- “Organizations and Survey Research: Implementing Response Enhancing Strategies and Conducting Nonresponse Analyses,” Sociological Methods & Research, (2018)
- “Fostering Muslim Civic Engagement through Faith-Based Community Organizing,” Journal on Muslim Philanthropy and Civil Society, 1:43-73 (2017)
- “Trends in Addressing Social Needs: A Longitudinal Study of Congregation-Based Service Provision and Political Participation,” Religions 7:51-67 (2016).
- A Shared Future: Faith-Based Organizing for Racial Equity and Ethical Democracy, (with R.L. Wood), University of Chicago Press (2015)
- “The Role of Bridging Cultural Practices in Racially and Socioeconomically Diverse Civic Organizations,” (with R. Braunstein and R.L. Wood), American Sociological Review 79:705-25 (2014)