Baorong Guo
Assistant ProfessorM.A., Peking University, Ph.D., Washington University
203 Bellerive Hall
Telephone: 314-516-6618
Email: guob@umsl.edu
Homepage: http://www.umsl.edu/~guob
Baorong Guo is an Assistant Professor at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, and Faculty Associate at the Center for Social Development (CSD) at Washington University in St. Louis. She holds a Ph.D. in social work from Washington University George Warren Brown School of Social Work (2005), an M.A. from the Department of Sociology at Peking University (2000), and a B.A. from China Youth University for Political Science (1997). Her research interests include human service nonprofits, welfare reform, welfare policies and China study. She currently is teaching Research Methods and Social Issues & Social Policy Development. She is recipient of the 2004 Emerging Scholar Award by the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA). Presently, she is conducting research on the effects of the shift of funding streams on human service nonprofits and the relationships between the three sectors (the nonprofits sector, the public sector and the market). She is also conducting evaluation research on asset-based policies in the United States and China.
Special interest: human service nonprofits, welfare reform, welfare policies and China study.
Recent publications:
Guo, B. (In Press). Charity for profit? Exploring factors associated with the commercialization of human service nonprofits. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly.
Guo, B., Bricout, J. C., & Huang, J. (2005). A common open space or a digital divide? A social model perspective on the online disability community in China. Disability and Society, 20(1), 49-66.
Guo, B. (2005). Commercialization of social services: Toward an understanding of nonprofits in relation to for-profits and government. ISTR Conference Proceedings.
Huang, J. & Guo, B., (2005). Building social capital: A study of the online disability community. Disability Studies Quarterly, 25(2).