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    • Ji Ma, Ph.D.
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    Ji Ma, Ph.D.

    Assistant Professor in Philanthropic and Nonprofit Studies


     
     

     

     

    Education
    Ph.D., Philanthropic Studies, Indiana University
    M.A., Social Policy, Beijing Normal University
    B.Med. (M.D. equivalent), Anhui Medical University

    Research Areas
    Philanthropic and Nonprofit Studies
    Network Analysis
    Data Science and Computational Social Science

    Teaching Areas
    Finance, Management, and Leadership (including non-profits)
    Policy Process and Institutions
    Research and Empirical Methods

    Dr. Ji Ma focuses on the nonprofit sector and data science. He studies why and how social relation matters in social and economic behaviors. His research interests include: impact of social relation on social, political, and economic behaviors; education and knowledge production in nonprofit and philanthropic studies; open data in policy studies; computational social science research methods.

    Ji has a Ph.D. in Philanthropic Studies at Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, with a Ph.D. minor in Data Science at IU School of Informatics and Computing. Before joining LBJ School, he worked at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard as Research Fellow. Ji has received numerous national and international awards, including Ford Foundation China Fellowship, Emerging Scholar Award from the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action, and Penn Summer Doctoral Fellows from the University of Pennsylvania. He also has a diverse industrial experience: he was a social entrepreneur, a consultant of business management, and a journalist.

    Recent Courses

    Spring 2020 - 58670 - PA 397C - Advanced Empirical Methods for Policy Analysis - Data Management and Research Life Cycle

    Fall 2018 - 60905 - PA 388L - Advanced Topics in Management

    Assistant Professor in Philanthropic and Nonprofit Studies

    Location:
    RGK Center for Philanthropy and Community Service
    LBJ School of Public Affairs
    2315 Red River Street, SRH 3.324
    AUSTIN, Texas 78712-1536
    Mailing Address:
    RGK Center for Philanthropy and Community Service
    LBJ School of Public Affairs
    P. O. Box Y
    Austin, Texas 78713

    Email:

    maji@austin.utexas.edu

    Website:

    http://jima.me/
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