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Edward L. Queen, directs the D. Abbott Turner Program
in Ethics and Servant Leadership at Emory University’s Center
for Ethics. He received his B.A. from Birmingham-Southern College,
his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the Divinity School of the University
of Chicago, and his J.D. from the Indiana University School of Law-Indianapolis.
Prior to joining the Center for Ethics, Queen served as Faculty
and Curriculum Development Advisor to the Faculty of Law of South
East European University, Macedonia where he taught courses on the
transition to democracy. Among the human rights organizations with
which he has worked are the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights
of the Republic of Macedonia and the Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring
Group. Queen also served as administrator of the International Human
Rights Internship Program at the I. U. School of Law—Indianapolis.
The founding director of both the Religion and Philanthropy Project
at the Indiana University Center on Philanthropy and of the Islamic
Society of North America's Fellowship Program in Nonprofit Management
and Governance and a former program officer at Lilly Endowment,
Inc., Queen has consulted with numerous nonprofit, governmental,
and educational organizations, including the, the Pew Charitable
Trusts, Independent Sector, USAID, and the Corporation for National
and Community Service.
A specialist in issues related to religion and culture as well as
democratization, human rights, and civil society, Queen has written,
coauthored, or edited numerous books, including Serving Those In
Need: A Handbook for Managing Faith-Based Human Services Organizations
(2000), Philanthropy in the World's Traditions (1998), and The Encyclopedia
of American Religious History (1992, rev. ed. 2002).

Research interests: democratization, civil society,
religion and human rights, intervention, and documentation
Human
rights courses: Political
Science 585/GH 526/LAW 819 – Interdisciplinary Perspectives
in Human Rights: offered annually, fall semester;
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