Emily Barman

Emily Barman holds a joint appointment in the Department of Sociology and in the Management Department in the Quinlan School of Business at Loyola University Chicago. She received her PhD in Sociology from the University of Chicago. Her scholarship focuses on the social organization of altruism and philanthropy in the nonprofit sector and in the market. Rather than take it for granted that socially-oriented activity is the simple and straightforward outcome of individuals’ benevolence, my research probes how social organization can impede or facilitate such activity, structure the direction and patterns of socially-oriented behavior, and shape the very goals that social purpose organizations, such as nonprofits, social enterprises, and socially responsible companies, can pursue.