Douglas A. Hicks
Associate Professor of Leadership Studies and Religion
Room 134 Jepson Hall Curriculum Vitae Dr. Douglas A. Hicks is associate professor of leadership studies and religion. He was the founding leader for the Bonner Center for Civic Engagement at the University of Richmond. Her served for five years as director and then executive director before returning to the classroom fulltime in 2009.
His research focuses on religion in public life and the ethical dimensions of economic issues. He is frequently quoted in the national media on topics including religion and ethics in public leadership, religion in the workplace and on poverty and inequality. He has authored several books and numerous articles on these topics. An ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), Hicks is a parish associate at Second Presbyterian Church of Richmond, Virginia. He has held visiting faculty positions at Union-PSCE in Richmond and at the Harvard Divinity School. Hicks is also president-elect of the Academy of Religious Leadership and serves as co-chair of the American Academy of Religion's section on religion and the social sciences. He is a former president of the Richmond Association of Phi Beta Kappa and is a board member of the Virginia Poverty Law Center. He teaches courses in international leadership, leadership and religious values, and community and leadership. His recent books include Money Enough: Everyday Practices for Living Faithfully in the Global Economy; With God on All Sides: Leadership in a Devout and Diverse America; Global Neighbors: Christian Faith and Moral Obligation; and Religion and the Workplace: Pluralism, Spirituality, Leadership. Hicks obtained two grants to help fund his research for With God on All Sides: a Foreign Researcher Sabbatical Grant from Spain's Ministry of Education and Science and a research grant from the Pluralism Project of Harvard.
Office: (804) 287-6891
Fax: (804) 287-6062
For more information on his books: www.douglashicks.com
Teaching:
Foundations of Leadership Studies
Leadership and Religious Values
Leadership in International Contexts
Justice and Civil Society
Ethics and Leadership
Education:
Ph.D., Harvard University
A.M., Harvard University
M.Div., Duke University
A.B., Davidson College
Selected Publications:
Money Enough: Everyday Practices for Living Faithfully in the Global Economy. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 2010.
With God on All Sides: Leadership in a Devout and Diverse America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.
Getting and Spending: Christian Reflections on Economic Life. Practices of Faith series. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2009.
Global Neighbors: Christian Faith and Moral Obligation in Today's Economy. Edited with Mark Valeri. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2008.
"Global Poverty and Bono's Celebrity Activism: An Analysis of Moral Imagination and Motivation." In Global Neighbors: Christian Faith and Moral Obligation in Today's Economy. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2008.
Entries on "Economics and Theology" and "Public Theology." In The New Westminister Dictionary of Christian Theology, eds. Dawn DeVries and B.A. Gerrish. Louisville, KY: Westminister John Knox Press, forthcoming.
"Inequalities, Agency, and Well-being: Conceptual Linkages and Measurement Challenges in Development." In Understanding Human Well-Being, ed. Mark McGillivray and Matthew Clarke. Tokyo: United Nations University Press, 2006.
"A Framework for a General Theory of Leadership Ethics." In Quest for a General Theory of Leadership, eds. George R. Goethals and Georgia Sorenson. Northhampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2006.
"Star Power: The Limits of Celebrity Activism." The Christian Century 123/6 (March 21, 2006): 23-24.
The International Library of Leadership, 3 vols. Edited with J. Thomas Wren and Terry L. Price. Northampton, MA: Elgar, 2004.
Religion and the Workplace. Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Inequality and Christian Ethics. Cambridge University Press, 2000.
