Ji Ma

Ji Ma

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 Nonprofits)
Policy Process and Institutions
Research and Empirical Methods

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.

Dr. 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. He 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. Dr. Ji also has a diverse industrial experience: he was a social entrepreneur, a consultant of business management, and a journalist.

Recent Publications
Why do some academic articles receive more citations from policy communities?
How High Is Too High? An Experimental Analysis of Donors’ Aversion to Nonprofit Overhead
Institutional factors influencing knowledge production for practice: Evidence from nonprofit studies
Neutral, Non-Disruptive, and Native: Why Do Chinese Nonprofit Scholars Cite English Articles?
Consensus Formation in Nonprofit and Philanthropic Studies: Networks, Reputation, and Gender

Courses Taught
Spring - 60332 - PA 388K - PHILANTHROPY AND GLOBAL ENGAGEMENT: PREPARING FOR ACTION
Spring - 60630 - PA 397C - COMPUTATION SOCIAL SCIENCE METHODS
Spring - 59805 - P A 397C - COMPUTATION SOCIAL SCI METHODS
Fall - 60515 - P A 397G - ANLY METHS FOR GLOBAL POL STDS
Spring - 60500 - PA 397C - COMPUTATIONAL SOCIAL SCIENCE METHODS
Fall - 61344 - P A 397C - Data Management and Research Life Cycle
Fall - 61370 - P A 397G - ANALYTICAL METHODS/ INTRODUCTION TO EMPIRICAL METHODS
Fall - 61085 - PA 397G - ANLYTICAL METHODS FOR GLOBAL POLICY STUDIES
Spring - 60869 - PA 397C - Data for Development-WB
Spring - 60870 - PA 397C - Data Management and Research Life Cycle-WB
Fall - 61238 - PA 397G - Anly Meths for Global Pol Stds
Fall - 61239 - PA 397G - Anly Meths for Global Pol Stds
Spring - 58530 - PA 388L - Nonprofit and Civil Society in China and Beyond: Comparative and Empirical Perspectives
Spring - 58670 - PA 397C - Data Management and Research Life Cycle
Spring - 60372 - PA 397C - Data Management and Research Life Cycle
Fall - 59380 - PA 388L - Philanthropy: Historical and Contemporary Approaches
Fall - 59530 - PA 397C - Linked Open Data and Computational Social Science Methods
Fall - 60905 - PA 388L - Philanthropy: Historical & Contemporary Approaches
Contact Information
Website:
http://jima.me