Erica Bornstein is assistant professor of anthropology at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Her research interests include philanthropy, charity, humanitarianism, non-governmental organizations, political anthropology, and the anthropology of religion. Her first book, The Spirit of Development: Protestant NGOs, Morality, and Economics in Zimbabwe (Stanford University Press 2005) focused on transnational Christian non-governmental organizations. During the 2006-07 academic year she was a Social Science Research Council Resident Scholar at the School for Advanced Research, where she was writing an ethnographic monograph titled The Orphan: A Cultural Account in New Delhi, on philanthropy, humanitarianism, and orphans in India. She has published articles in American Ethnologist, Ethnos, Political and Legal Anthropology Review (PoLAR), and the Journal of Religion in Africa. Bornstein is currently co-editing two volumes: India Giving (with Jacob Copeman), and Between Politics and Ethics: The Anthropology of Global Humanitarianism (with Peter Redfield, School for Advanced Research Press).