Kelly Ann Krawczyk

Education

PhD, Wayne State University

MPA, Wayne State University

About Me

Kelly Ann Krawczyk is a professor in the Department of Political Science at Auburn University. Her research investigates the potential role of civil society in promoting democracy and development. She examines how civil society can foster sustainable development in local communities, and the role of civil society in strengthening democracy and increasing civic engagement.

Her research is published in journals of public administration and civil society, including Nonprofit & Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, and the Journal of Civil Society. Her co-edited volume, The Role of Women in Social, Economic, and Political Development in Africa: Ordinary Women, Extraordinary Lives, is available from Palgrave Macmillan. She has also authored book chapters, as well as governmental and professional publications for USAID, the Governance Commission of Liberia, and the World Bank. She is a Founding Committee Member of the Strengthening Research on Civil Society in West Africa project, an initiative of the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA), funded by the Ford Foundation.

Kelly is also the co-founder of the Global Development Solutions (GDS) Lab at Auburn University. The mission of the GDS Lab is to advance global research, teaching, and engaged scholarship that promotes sustainable community development, protects civic space, and leverages the synergies between the disciplines of nonprofit studies, philanthropy, and political science.

Global Development Solutions Lab

Research Interests

West African civil society, international NGOs, the relationship between civil society and democracy, civil society capacity building, civic engagement and participation, nonprofit funding, international development, nonprofit management education

Publications

Peter Weber, Kelly Ann Krawczyk, Lucky Chambers Umezulike, Brittany Branyon, Brian Ezeonu, Elena Roversi, Sindhu Weber, and Benedict Quato. Forthcoming. “Professionalization and Institutionalization of Nonprofit Capacity Building: Insights from Liberia.” Nonprofit Management & Leadership. DOI: 10.1002/nml.70005.

Pallas, Christopher, Jennifer Wade-Berg, Kelly Krawczyk, and Helen Lui. 2024. “The Future of Doctoral Training in Nonprofit Studies: New Students and New Challenges.” Public Administration Quarterly, 49(1), 34-42. https://doi.org/10.1177/07349149241281955.

Morris, John, Kelly Krawczyk, Sindhu Weber, and Luisa Diaz-Kope. 2024. “Commitment to Place as Motivation for Citizen-based Watershed Collaboration: The ‘BIMBY’ Effect.” Journal of Public & Nonprofit Affairs. Volume 10, Issue 2. https://doi.org/10.20899/jpna.qvhqm939.

Krawczyk, Kelly and Bridgett King. 2023. “Public Administration, Civil Society & Democracy: Comparative Perspectives Through International Service Learning.” Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis. 25(2): 1-12. DOI:10.1080/13876988.2023.2253163.

Krawczyk, Kelly, Franklin Oduro, and Sandy Zook. 2023. “Exploring Service-providing NGOs’ perceptions of shifting civic space in Ghana: Impacts of government and international actors.” Public Administration & Development. 43(5): 343-354.

Weber, Peter, Kelly Krawczyk, Brian Ezeonu and Felicia Tuggle. 2023. “How to Leverage Action Research to Develop Context-Specific Capacity Building for Civil Society.” Nonprofit Policy Forum. https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/npf-2022-0041/html.

Krawczyk, Kelly, Dabesaki Mac-Ikemenjima, and Brian Ezeonu. 2022. “An Exploratory Analysis of Cross-National Variations in Pro-Social Behaviors.” Voluntas: The International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations. 34: 1068–1080. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11266-022-00525-z.

Obadare, Ebenezer and Kelly Krawczyk. 2022. Co-editors, Symposium Issue on Civil Society and Philanthropy in West Africa. Symposium introduction: “Civil Society and Philanthropy in Africa: Parallels, Paradoxes and Promise.” Nonprofit & Voluntary Sector Quarterly. 51(1): 76-102. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/08997640211057453.

Krawczyk, Kelly, Olivia Cook, and Jiaxin Liu. 2022. “US INGOs Working in International Development in Sub-Saharan Africa: Organizational Factors That Impact Their Ability to Attract Private Donations.” Journal of Nonprofit & Public Sector Marketing. 34(2): 247-269. https://doi.org/10.1080/10495142.2020.1865230.

Krawczyk, Kelly. 2021. “Strengthening Democracy and Increasing Political Participation in Liberia: Does Civil Society Density Matter?” Journal of Civil Society.17:2, 136-154. DOI:10.1080/17448689.2021.1923905.