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Lewis Faulk Associate Professor Public Administration and Policy

Additional Positions at AU
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, Editor-in-Chief of Nonprofit Management and Leadership, and an editorial board member of Public Administration Review.

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.
See Also
American University Metropolitan Policy Center
Urban Institute Nonprofit Trends and Impacts Study
Nonprofit Panel Data Project
Independent Sector Nonprofit Advocacy & Civic Engagement Research
Nonprofit Management & Leadership journal
For the Media
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Teaching

Fall 2024

  • PUAD-681 Managing Non-Profit Orgs

  • PUAD-899 Doctoral Dissertation

Spring 2025

  • PUAD-685 Topics in Policy Analysis/Mgmt: Nonprofits and Public Policy

  • PUAD-899 Doctoral Dissertation