Minjung Kim

• 2025 Fall
  • PST 410 Practicum in Public Policy - Pract. Gov/Non-Profit Org.
  • PAI 748 Seminar on Nonprofit Management
• 2025 Spring
  • PAI 767 Fund Development for Nonprofit Organizations
• 2024 Fall
  • PAI 748 Seminar on Nonprofit Management

Minjung Kim is an assistant professor of public administration and international affairs and a senior research associate in the Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration. She is also an inaugural research fellow of the Gradel Institute for Charity at Oxford University’s New College.

Prior to joining the Maxwell School, she was an assistant professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Social Impact and Strategy at the University of Pennsylvania.

Minjung’s research interests include public and nonprofit management, organizational theory, organization-stakeholder interaction, charitable giving, social entrepreneurship and social equity. She is particularly interested in how various organizational strategies influence marginalized populations such as racial minorities and low-income citizens in the context of public and nonprofit organizations.

Minjung received a Ph.D. in public administration from American University in 2021.

Sponsored by Gradel Institute of Charity, Oxford University.

• Journal Articles
  • Kim, M., Russell, A. and Frumkin, P., "Do Nonprofit Responses to Social Movements Influence Public Perceptions and Support? An Experimental Study." Nonprofit Policy Forum, 2025.
  • Favero, N., Jensen, C., Kim, M. and Piatak, J., "What Should Public Organizations Prioritize? Exploring Different Value Hierarchies among the Public." American Review of Public Administration, 2025.
  • Cheon, O., Kim, M. and Favero, N., "Tell Me How You Really Feel: Unpacking Sub-dimensions of Citizen Satisfaction with Hospital Services.." International Public Management Journal, 2025.
  • Lee , S., Kim, M., "Public Perceptions of Sector Bias and Cross-Sector Collaboration: An Experimental Study of Social Service Providers." Public Management Review, 2024.
  • Kim, M., "The Association Between Performance Information and the Satisfaction of Different Social Groups: Citizen Evaluation by Racial Groups." International Journal of Public Administration, 2024.
  • Kim, M., Russell, A. and Frumkin, P., "Do Nonprofit Responses to Social Movements Influence Public Perceptions and Support? An Experimental Study." Nonprofit Policy Forum.
  • Jung, J., Kim, M. and Suh, J., "The scope of “marketing” research in the nonprofit sector: Lessons from the last 20 years literature." Journal of Philanthropy and Marketing, 2022.
  • Favero , N., Kim, M., "Everything is Relative: How Citizens Form and Use Expectations in Evaluating Services." Journal of Public Administration and Research Theory, 2021.
• Encyclopedia Entry
  • Kim, S., Kim, M., "Citizen Satisfaction in the Public Sector." In Elgar Encyclopedia of Public Management. Schedler, K. (ed.) , 2022.
• Technical Report
  • Faulk, L., Kim, M., Derrick-Mills, T., Boris, E., Tomasko, L., Hakizimana, N., Chen, T., Kim, M. and Nath, L., "Nonprofit Trends and Impacts 2021: National Findings on Diversity and Representation, Donation Trends from 2015-2020, and Effects of 2020." In Independent Sector. , 2021.

de Bruins, I., Russell, A., Kim, M., Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action, "A Systematic Review of Nonprofit Ethics: Current Evidence and Future Directions Developing a Distinct Field for Nonprofit Ethics: A Research Agenda" (November, 2025 - November, 2025)

Kim, M., Faulk, L., Gradel Insitute of Charity's Visiting Researcher Talk, Gradel Insitute of Charity, University of Oxford, "Stakeholder Perceptions of Nonprofits' Decisions on Keeping or Dropping Diversity, Equity, And Inclusion (DEI) Initiatives" (November, 2025 - November, 2025)

Kim, M., Faulk, L., Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action, "Stakeholder Perceptions of Nonprofits' Decisions on Keeping or Dropping Diversity, Equity, And Inclusion (DEI) Initiatives." (November, 2025 - November, 2025)

Levine-Daniel, J., Kim, M., Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action, "Twenty Years of Overhead Scholarship: What Do We Really Know?" (November, 2025 - November, 2025)

Lee, S., Kim, M., European Group of Public Administration., University of Glasgow, "A Multinational Examination of Citizen Views on Cross-Sector Collaboration in Public Service Delivery." (August, 2025 - August, 2025)

de Bruins, I., Russell, A., Kim, M., Voluntary Sector and Volunteering Research Conference, "A Systematic Review of Nonprofit Ethics: Current Evidence and Future Directions Developing a Distinct Field for Nonprofit Ethics: A Research Agenda." (August, 2025 - August, 2025)

Kim, M., Baekgaard, M., European Group of Public Administration, University of Glasgow, "Association between Administration Burdens and Racial Disparity in Coproduction: Experimental Approach." (August, 2025 - August, 2025)

de Bruin , I., Russell, A., Kim, M., Public Management Resaerch Conference, Public Management Research Association, "A Systematic Review of Nonprofit Ethics: Current Evidence and Future Directions Developing a Distinct Field for Nonprofit Ethics: A Research Agenda." (June, 2025 - June, 2025)

Kim, M., Song, M., Favero, N., Meier, K., Global Platform Governance Forum, The Graduate School of Governance, Sungkyunkwan University, "Great Expectations: Parent Aspirations, Children’s Academic Achievement and Its Effect on Citizen Satisfaction." (June, 2025 - June, 2025)

Korean Public Administration Summer Conference and Annual KAPA International Conference, "Teaching and Researching Nonprofits and the Third Sector in the U.S.: Insights for the Korean Scholarly Community." (June, 2025 - June, 2025)

Kim, M., Lee, S., BK21 Joint International Conference, Sungkyunkwan University, "The Effect of Administrative Burdens on the Public Perceptions of Government Programs: Experimental Approach in Three Countries." (June, 2025 - June, 2025)

Kim, M., Frumkin, P., The Gradel Institute of Charity's Visiting Researcher Talk, The Gradel Institute of Charity, University of Oxford, "Nonprofit Marketing Communication Tools: Effects of Messaging Strategies and Marketing Mediums." (May, 2025 - May, 2025)

Lee, S., Kim, M., International Research Society for Public Management, "A Multinational Examination of Citizen Views on Cross-Sector Collaboration in Public Service Delivery" (April, 2025 - April, 2025)

Kim, M., Lee, S., International Research Society for Public Management, "The Effect of Administrative Burdens on the Public Perceptions of Government Programs: Experimental Approach in Three Countries" (April, 2025 - April, 2025)

Choi, I., Kim, M., American Society for Public Administration, "How Does an Agency’s Equity Goal Affect Citizens’ Assessment of Agency Performance? Evidence From a Survey Experiment" (March, 2025 - March, 2025)

Chen, T., Faulk, L., Kim, M., Willems, J., Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action, "A Test of “Donor” Behavior in Simulated Experiments Using ChatGPT: Implications, promises, and threats for nonprofit scholarship" (November, 2024 - November, 2024)

de Bruin, I., Kim, M., Russell, A., Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action, "How Do Organizational Approaches to Ethics Influence Individual Decision-Making? Designing an Online Experiment to Evaluate Ethics Management" (November, 2024 - November, 2024)

Kim, M., Frumkin, P., Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action, "Nonprofit Marketing Communication Tools: Effects of Messaging Strategies and Marketing Mediums" (November, 2024 - November, 2024)

Kim, M., Yoon, N., Hager, M., Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action, "Organizational and Individual Determinants of Workplace Inclusion" (November, 2024 - November, 2024)

Kim, M., Faulk, L., Inaugural Visiting Researcher Talk, The Gradel Institute of Charity, New College, University of Oxford, "Tradeoff between Entrepreneurial Behavior and Nonprofit Mission Framing: Experimental Evidence" (October, 2024 - October, 2024)

Chen, T., Faulk, L., Kim, M., Willems, J., International Conference of the International Society for Third Sector Research, "A Test of “Donor” Behavior in Simulated Experiments Using ChatGPT: Implications, promises, and threats for nonprofit scholarship" (July, 2024 - July, 2024)

Russell, A., Kim, M., International Conference of the International Society for Third Sector Research, "How Do Organizational Approaches to Ethics Influence Individual Decision-Making? Designing an Online Experiment to Evaluate Ethics Management" (July, 2024 - July, 2024)

Baekgaard, M., Christensen, J., Kim, M., Martin, L., Moynihan, D., Public Management Research Conference, "Do Burdens Make Citizens? Cross-National Evidence of Policy Feedback Effects of Administrative Burdens" (June, 2024 - June, 2024)

Kim, M., Song, M., Favero, N., Meier, K., Korean Public Administration Summer Conference and Annual KAPA International Conference, "Great Expectations: Parent Aspirations, Children’s Academic Achievement and Its Effect on Citizen Satisfaction" (June, 2024 - June, 2024)

Lee, S., Kim, M., Public Management Research Conference, "Public Perceptions of Sector Bias and Cross-Sector Collaboration: Evidence from Cross-National Study" (June, 2024 - June, 2024)

Kim, M., Russell, A., Frumkin, P., West Coast Nonprofit Data Conference, "Nonprofit Messaging Strategy in the Context of Social Movement Advocacy" (April, 2024 - April, 2024)

Kim, M., Russell, A., Frumkin, P., Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action, "Nonprofit Messaging Strategy in the Context of Social Movement Advocacy" (November 16, 2023 - November 18, 2023)

Kim, M., Faulk, L., Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action, "Perceptions of Entrepreneurial Orientation Across the Sectors: Individuals’ Responses to Nonprofit vs. For- Profit Entrepreneurial Behavior" (November 16, 2023 - November 18, 2023)

Lee , S., Kim, M., Southeastern Conference for Public Administration, "Cross-Sector Collaboration and Perceived Legitimacy: Cross-National Study" (September 27, 2023 - September 30, 2023)

Lee , S., Kim, M., Korean Public Administration Summer Conference and Annual KAPA International Conference, "Cross-Sector Collaboration and Coproduction: Does Sectoral Composition Matter?" (2023)

Favero, N., Jensen, C., Kim, M., Piatak, J., Midwest Political Science Association, "What Should Public Organizations Prioritize? Exploring Different Value Hierarchies among the Public" (2023)

Kim, M., Faulk, L., Frumkin, P., Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action, "Signals of Entrepreneurial Orientation on Stakeholder Response: Developing a Scale of Perceived EO in the Nonprofit Sector" (November 17, 2022 - November 19, 2022)

Lee , S., Kim, M., Public Management Research Conference, "Cross-Sector Collaboration and Coproduction: Does Sectoral Composition Matter?" (2022)

Kim, M., Russell, A., Frumkin, P., Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action, "Do Nonprofit Responses to Social Movements Influence Public Perceptions and Support? An Experimental Study" (2022)

Kim, M., Faulk, L., Frumkin, P., International Conference of the International Society for Third Sector Research, "Signals of Entrepreneurial Orientation on Stakeholder Response: Developing a Scale of Perceived EO in the Nonprofit Sector" (2022)

Kim, M., Jung, J., Suh, J., Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action, "Multi-Faceted Concept of Accountability: Experimental Tests on Stakeholder Perceptions and Giving Behaviors" (2021)

Kim, M., Faulk, L., Willems, J., Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action, "Restoring Public Trust in Charitable Organizations: An experimental test of the effect of different levels of organizational crises on public trust in nonprofits" (2021)

Kim, M., Faulk, L., Willems, J., Public Management Research Conference, "The Role of Performance Signals on Early Organization Reputation Building and the Moderating Influence of Mission Valence" (2021)

Jung, J., Kim, M., Suh, J., The West Coast Nonprofit Data Conference, "The Scope of Nonprofit Marketing Research in the Last Twenty Years: Lessons from the Literature" (2021)

Honorable Mention, Gabriel G. Rudney Memorial Award for Outstanding Dissertation in Nonprofit and Voluntary Action Research, Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (2024)

Emerging Scholar Award, Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (2022)

Conference Scholarship, Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (2021)

Conference Scholarship, Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (2020)

Harrell Rodgers Graduate Student Scholarship, Midwest Political Science Association (2020)