Meghan Elizabeth Kallman

Meghan Elizabeth Kallman is an organizational theorist and an expert on political, development, and environmental sociology. She earned her PhD in sociology in 2016, completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society. She is the recipient of two National Science Foundation grants, as well as grants from the Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy, the Cogut Institute for the Humanities at Brown University, and others. Kallman’s work uses organizational theory to make sense of social change efforts. Her recent book uses the case study of the US Peace Corps to understand how organizations shape the politics of their intrinsically motivated participants. Kallman also works on network theory and social movements. Her first book, The Third Sector, was published by the University of Illinois Press in 2016. Her second book, The Death of Idealism, was released in 2020 by Columbia University Press. She also a duly elected public official in Pawtucket, RI and a co-founder of Conceivable Future.