Steven Rathgeb Smith

Steven Rathgeb Smith
Nancy Bell Evans Professor of Public Affairs
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1988

Contact Information:
Parrington Hall, Room 203
smithsr@u.washington.edu
206.616.1674

Areas of Specialization:
Nonprofit and Public Management, Community Development, and the Changing Roles of Nonprofit Organizations and Government in Civil Society

Steven Rathgeb Smith joined the Evans School faculty in 1996. His teaching and research interests include: nonprofit organizations, nonprofit and public management, public policy, comparative social policy, and social services.

Smith also serves as the director of the Nancy Bell Evans Center on Nonprofits & Philanthropy and the Electronic Hallway at the Evans School. He served as an associate dean at the Evans School from 2005-2007.

Smith previously served on the faculty at Duke University from 1988-96, and Washington University at St. Louis from 1987-88.

He is co-author of Nonprofits for Hire: The Welfare State in the Age of Contracting and Adjusting the Balance: Federal Policy and Victim Services, and co-editor of Public Policy for Democracy.

His recent publications examine government financing of nonprofit organizations, the role of faith-related service agencies in social welfare policy, and the government-nonprofit relationship in the US and abroad.

Smith also serves as president of the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA). He served as the editor of ARNOVA's journal from 1999-04.

Smith holds a Ph.D. in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Techonology, and Master of Social Work from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. He also holds a BA from Brown University.

Curriculum Vitae (34KB PDF)

Publications & Links

Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA)