Minjung Kim is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Administration and International Affairs at Maxwell School of Syracuse University. Prior to joining Syracuse University, she was an assistant professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and a postdoctoral fellow in the Center for Social Impact Strategy at the University of Pennsylvania's School of Social Policy and Practice in 2021-22. She holds her Ph.D. in Public Administration from American University. 

Her research interests include public and nonprofit management, organizational theory, organization-stakeholder interaction, charitable giving, social entrepreneurship, and social equity. She is currently working on various projects on how organizational strategies can improve citizen perceptions and behaviors in the public and nonprofit organizations mainly using randomized experiments. 

Minjung Kim’s recent honors include an honorable mention for the 2024 Gabriel G. Rudney Memorial Award for Outstanding Dissertation in Nonprofit and Voluntary Action and the 2022 Emerging Scholar Award, both from the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action. She is also a nonprofit early scholar fellow of 2024-25 sponsored by Nonprofit Management and Leadership journal. Her works have been published in a variety of peer-reviewed journals such as Journal of Public Administration and Research Theory, Public Management Review, and Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly among others.

Recent Publications in Nonprofit Management

Seulki Lee and Minjung Kim. Forthcoming. “Public Perceptions of Sector Bias and Cross-Sector Collaboration: An Experimental Study of Social Service Providers.” Public Management Review. https://doi.org/10.1080/14719037.2023.2273316.

Jihye Jung, Minjung Kim, and Jiwon Suh. 2023. “The Scope of Nonprofit Marketing Research in the Last Twenty Years: Lessons from the Literature.” The Journal of Philanthropy and Marketing 28(4). https://doi.org/10.1002/nvsm.1745.

Khaldoun AbouAssi, Lewis Faulk, Long Tran, Lilli Shaffer, and Minjung Kim. 2019. “Use and Perceptions of Nonprofit and Local Government Services in Diverse Urban Settings.” Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly 48(5): 975-997. https://doi.org/10.1177/0899764019845521”