Selected Works:
- Amateurs without Borders: The Aspirations and Limits of Global Compassion, University of California Press, (2021)
- "The Multi-method Comprehensive Review: Synthesis and Analysis when Scholarship is International, Interdisciplinary, and Immense," (with A.J. DeMattee, R.S. Robinson, J. N. Brass, and W. Longhofer.) VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, (2021)
- “International Development Buzzwords: Understanding Their Use Among NGOs, Academics, and the World Bank,” (with A. DeMattee, R.S. Robinson, and J.N. Brass), Journal of Development Studies, v. 56, 26-44 (2021)
- “Don’t Re-Invent the Wheel: Possibilities and Limits to Building Capacity of Grassroots International NGOs” (with S. Appe), Third World Quarterly, v. 40, 1832-1849 (2019)
- “NGOs and international development: A review of thirty-five years of scholarship,” (with J.N. Brass, W. Longhofer, and R.S. Robinson), World Development, v112, 136-149 (2018)
- “New American Relief and Development Organizations: Predictors at the U.S. County Level,” Social Problems, 62:2, 309-329 (2015)
Reports and Publications:
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"Perpetual Effervescence? The Life Trajectories of Citizen Aid Organizations in the U.S.," Allison Schnable; Susan Appe (State University of New York at Albany); Janet Jock (Indiana University) (Graduate), The Rise of Small-Scale Development Organisations: Citizen Aid Actors and their Role in Civil Society, Routledge Explorations in development Studies, Taylor and Francis, 2023
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“The Multi-Method Comprehensive Review: Synthesis and Analysis when Scholarship is International, Interdisciplinary, and Immense,” (withAnthony DeMattee; Rachel Sullivan Robinson; Jennifer N. Brass; Wesley Longhofer), Voluntas, (2021)
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“International Development Buzzwords: Understanding Their Adoption and Use among NGOs, Academics, and the World Bank,” (with Anthony J. DeMattee; Rachel Sullivan Robinson; Jennifer Brass), Journal of Development Studies (July 2020)
- "Don’t Re-Invent the Wheel: Possibilities and Limits to Building Capacity of Grassroots International NGOs," (with S. Appe), Third World Quarterly, 40 (10): 1832-1849, (2019)
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“What Religion Affords Grassroots NGOs: Frames, Networks, Modes of Action,” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 55(2):216–232 (2016)
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“Religion and Giving for International Aid,” Sociology of Religion (2014)
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“Singing the Gospel: Using Musical Practices to Build Religious and Racial Communities,” Poetics 40:3, 278-298 (2012)