Elizabeth A.M. Searing

Dr. Elizabeth Searing is an Associate Professor of Public and Nonprofit Management at the University of Texas at Dallas and the Fellow to the Venise Stuart Professor in Nonprofit Management and Leadership. Dr. Searing’s primary research focus is the financial management of nonprofit and social enterprise organizations, but she also conducts work on resilience, charity data, and comparative social economy more broadly. She is an Associate Editor and editorial board member of Nonprofit Management & Leadership, and an editorial advisory board member at VOLUNTAS, the Journal of Civil Society, and the Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting and Financial Management (JPBAFM). Her articles have been published in peer-reviewed journals such as the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Nonprofit Management & Leadership, and Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly. Dr. Searing also serves as an Adjunct Research Professor at Carleton University, Canada.

Dr. Searing and Dr. Dennis Young wrote Resilience and the Management of Nonprofit Organizations: A New Paradigm (2022) and serve as the editors for the companion volume, Case Studies on Nonprofit Resilience Management (2025). Prof. Searing is also an editor of Practicing Professional Ethics in Economics and Public Policy (with D. Searing) and The Social Enterprise Zoo: A Guide to Perplexed Entrepreneurs, Philanthropists, Investors and Policymakers (with D. Young and C. Brewer). She has taught classes on the nonprofit sector (undergraduate and graduate), financial management (graduate), program evaluation (graduate), and microeconomics (undergraduate), in addition to having work experience in all three sectors. Immediately prior to her time in Texas, she was an Assistant Professor of Public Administration and Policy at the Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy, University at Albany (SUNY); she is also the former Director of the Institute of Nonprofit Leadership and Community Development at the University at Albany.

In her spare moments, she enjoys spending time with her family, reading horror literature, enjoying the outdoors, and writing (occasionally on what she is supposed to be writing about.)