University of Southern California

David Suárez

Assistant Professor

Ralph and Goldy Lewis Hall 201D
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0626
Email: dsuarez@usc.edu
Phone: (213) 740-6841
Fax: (213) 740-0001
Ph.D.
Stanford University

Expertise
Nonprofit organizations, management and leadership, civic engagement, comparative education, human rights.

Biographical Sketch
David Suárez, Ph.D., is an assistant professor at the University of Southern California's School of Policy, Planning and Development. He teaches courses on public management, organizational behavior, and leadership in the nonprofit sector. David's dissertation research investigated the role of professional advocacy and nongovernmental organizations in the spread of human rights education. His current work continues to address the diffusion of ideas, and his research on nonprofit management seeks to understand a) why and how business practices emerge in the nonprofit sector and b) the consequences of sector-blending and business practices in the nonprofit sector. His work has been published in Comparative Education Review, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Comparative Education, and a variety of edited volumes.

Publications
David Suárez, "Nonprofit Advocacy and Civic Engagement on the Internet"; Administration & Society; Forthcoming

David Suárez, Francisco O. Ramirez, and Jeong-Woo Koo, "UNESCO and the Associated Schools Project: Symbolic Affirmation of World Community, International Understanding, and Human Rights"; Sociology of Education; Forthcoming

David Suárez., "Rewriting Citizenship? Civic Education in Costa Rica and Argentina."; Comparative Education, , 44, 4: 485-503; 2008

David Suárez and Hokyu Hwang., "Civic Engagement and Nonprofit Lobbying in California."; Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 37, 1: 92-112; 2008

David Suárez., "Human Rights and Curricular Policy in Latin America and the Caribbean."; Comparative Education Review, 51, 3: 329-352; 2007

David Suárez, "Education Professionals and the Construction of Human Rights Education."; Comparative Education Review, 51, 1: 48-70.; 2007

David Suárez, and Francisco O. Ramirez., "Human Rights and Citizenship: The Emergence of Human Rights Education,"; Carlos A. Torres, ed., Critique and Utopia: New Developments in the Sociology of Education (pp. 43-64). Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield.; 2007

Francisco O. Ramirez, David F Suárez, and John W. Meyer., "The Worldwide Rise of Human Rights Education, 1950-2005"; Aaron Benavot and Cecilia Braslavsky, eds., The Changing Contents of Primary and Secondary Education: Comparative Studies of the School Curriculum (pp. 35-52). Hong Kong: CERC.; 2006

David Suárez, "The Institutionalization of Human Rights Education"; David Baker and Alex Wiseman, eds., The Impact of Comparative Education Research on Neoinstitutional Theory (pp. 95-120). Oxford: Elsevier Science.; 2006

Hokyu Hwang, and David Suárez., "Lost and Found in the Translation of Strategic Plans and Websites"; Barbara Czarniawska and Guje Sevon, eds., Global Ideas: How Ideas, Objects and Practices Travel in the Global Economy (pp. 71-93). Herndon: Copenhagen Business School Press.; 2005

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