Douglas A. Hicks
Douglas A. Hicks is author of books: Inequality and Christian Ethics (2000), Religion and the Workplace (2003), With God on All Sides: Leadership in a Devout and Diverse America (2009), and Money Enough: Everyday Practices for Living Faithfully in the Global Economy (2010). Hicks will become the 19th president of Davidson College August 1, 2022. https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/article260863537.html He is currently Dean of Oxford College of Emory University and the Charles R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Religion at Emory. Previously, he was Professor of Religion and Senior Advisor for Academic Initiatives at Colgate University in Hamilton NY. (see http://www.colgate.edu/douglas-hicks  ). He served as Colgate's Provost and Dean of the Faculty from 2012 through 2015. From 1998 through 2012, Hicks was Professor of Leadership Studies and Religion at the Jepson School of Leadership Studies at the University of Richmond. He was the founding leader for the Bonner Center for Civic Engagement at the University of Richmond. He served for five years as director and then executive director before returning to the classroom full-time in 2009. Hicks was also president of the Academy of Religious Leadership and served as co-chair of the American Academy of Religion's section on  religion and the social sciences. He is a former president of the Richmond Association of Phi Beta Kappa and was a board member of the Virginia Poverty Law Center. In 2012 he received the State Council of Higher Education of Virginia's Outstanding Faculty Award. An ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), Hicks holds an A.B. degree with honors in economics from Davidson College, an M.Div. degree, summa cum laude, from Duke University, and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in religion, ethics and economics from Harvard University. During the spring of 2003, he served as visiting assistant professor of religion  and society at Harvard Divinity School. His articles have appeared in "The Leadership Quarterly", "The Journal of Religious Ethics", "World Development" and "The Journal of Ecumenical Studies".