Professional Biography
Dr. Femida Handy is Professor of Nonprofit Studies at the School of Social Policy and Practice, University of Pennsylvania. She recently completed her six-year term as the Editor-in-chief of the Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, the leading journal in the field. Dr. Handy is currently the Director of the Ph.D. program in Social Welfare. She has won multiple awards from different journals for ‘best research paper of the year’ award. More recently her co-edited book The Palgrave Handbook of Global Philanthropy (2016) was selected for the Virginia A. Hodgkinson Research Book Prize. Recent contributions to the area of philanthropy also include a co-authored book Philanthropy in India: Promise to Practice (2016). The most recent book she co-authored is a book on Ethics for Social Impact (2018). Dr. Handy’s research is collaborative and interdisciplinary by nature with colleagues from disciplines ranging from sociology to business and medicine to engineering. She has published on a wide range of topics that focus on the nonprofit sector including philanthropy and volunteering.
