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Lewis Faulk Associate Professor Department of Public Administration and Policy

Additional Positions at AU
Affiliate Faculty, Management Department, Kogod School of Business
Associated Faculty, AU Center for Innovation
Faculty Fellow, Metropolitan Policy Center
Degrees
PhD, Joint Degree, Public Policy, Georgia State University and the Georgia Institute of Technology

Bio
Lewis Faulk is an Associate Professor of Public Administration and Policy in the School of Public Affairs at American University. Dr. Faulk is a Fellow of the Metropolitan Policy Center at American University, Affiliate Faculty of the Management Department at Kogod School of Business, Affiliated Faculty of American University’s Center for Innovation, Editor in Chief of Nonprofit Management and Leadership, editorial board member of Public Administration Review, and Research Fellow of the Center for Organizational Research and Design at Arizona State University.

Dr. Faulk's research focuses on nonprofit management, nonprofit finance, and the intersection of nonprofit organizations and public policy. His current projects include the Public Engagement Nonprofit Survey (PENS), a collaboration funded by Independent Sector with researchers at George Mason University and the University of Massachusetts Boston, as well as the National Survey of Nonprofit Trends and Impacts and the Nonprofit Panel Data Project, which are large, data-intensive collaborations between American University, George Mason University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Urban Institute, and Independent Sector with funding from the Generosity Commission and the National Science Foundation.

Dr. Faulk has a Ph.D. in Public Policy with a concentration in Nonprofit and Public Management from the joint Ph.D. program in Public Policy at Georgia State University and the Georgia Institute of Technology. He received the 2012 Gabriel G. Rudney Memorial Award for Outstanding Dissertation in Nonprofit and Voluntary Action by the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action. His research has been published in the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Public Administration Review, Public Management Review, Journal of Behavioral Public Administration, International Public Management Journal, Public Performance & Management Review, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Nonprofit Management and Leadership, VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, Foundation Review, and Nonprofit Policy Forum.

Teaching

Spring 2024

  • PUAD-681 Managing Non-Profit Orgs

  • PUAD-899 Doctoral Dissertation

Fall 2024

  • PUAD-685 Topics in Policy Analysis/Mgmt: Program Performance Eval/Mgmt