Mary Alice
Haddad is an assistant professor of government and East Asian
studies at Wesleyan University in Connecticut. She is author of
Politics and Volunteering in
Japan: A Global Perspective (Cambridge University
Press, 2007). She has received fellowships and awards from the
National Endowment for the Humanities, Mellon Foundation,
Institute of International Education (Fulbright), and was a
Harvard Academy Scholar. She has also published articles in
Comparative Political Studies,
Journal of Asian Studies, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector
Quarterly and others.