Paul G. Schervish, Ph.D., is a Professor of sociology and Director of the Boston College Center on Wealth and Philanthropy, and National Research Fellow at the Indiana University Center on Philanthropy.  He is Senior Advisor to the John Templeton Foundation and to the Wealth & Giving Forum, an international round-table for wealth holders to reflect on and discuss their charitable giving in a peer environment.  He received a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, a master’s in sociology from Northwestern University, a master’s of divinity from the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley, and a bachelor’s degree in literature from the University of Detroit.

Dr. Schervish serves regularly as a speaker and consultant on how to excavate and analyze the moral biographies of wealth holders, on the motivations for charitable giving, and on the spirituality of wealth.  He also has served as a distinguished visiting Professor at the Indiana University Center on Philanthropy and was a Fulbright Professor at University Cork in Ireland.  He has been selected five times to the NonProfit Times “Power and Influence Top 50.”  He has published in the areas of philanthropy, the sociology of money, the sociology of wealth, labor markets, biographical narrative, and the sociology of religion.