Edward L. Queen
Director, Ethics and Servant Leadership Program

Center for Ethics
Emory University
1462 Clifton Road, Suite 302
Atlanta, GA 30322

Telephone: 404.727.1240
Fax: 404.727.7399
Email: equeen@emory.edu



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;