Marcus Lam
Assistant Professor of Social Work
B.A., Occidental College;
M.P.P, Ph.D., UCLA
E-mail: ml3260@columbia.edu
Telephone: (212) 851-2378
Office: Room 734
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Bio:
Dr. Lam’s scholarly interests include comparative organizational behavior and effectiveness of nonprofit, for-profit, and public providers in the delivery of social, health, and human services. In particular, he is interested in the financing and revenue strategies of nonprofit organizations and how this impacts communities.
Dr. Lam takes a meso and macro level approach and utilizes multilevel and spatial analysis strategies to assess the scope, scale, and variation of nonprofit activity across communities. His dissertation examined the comparative organizational effectiveness of nonprofit, for-profit, and public providers in the HIV testing field.
Prior to joining the faculty at Columbia University,
Dr. Lam served as a senior research associate at the UCLA Center for Civil Society and has published reports on the state of the nonprofit sector in Los Angeles, the state of arts and culture funding in Los Angeles, as well as methodological chapters in the Global Civil Society Yearbook. He has also held fellowship positions with the Nonprofit Finance Fund, Los Angeles program and EMES European Research Network on social enterprises and the social economy.
Research Interests:
- Nonprofit finance
- Organizational behavior
- Human and health services delivery systems
- Social Entrepreneurship
- Multilevel modeling and spatial analysis
Current Projects:
- Variation in the Quantity and Quality of Human Service Nonprofits and its impact on Communities (Kresge Foundation)
- Public/private collaboration and partnerships, a study of local, state, and federal offices of strategic partnerships/offices of philanthropic liaisons
- Measures of nonprofit financial health
Awards:
- 2010-2011 UCLA Graduate Division Dissertation Year Fellowship
- 2009 Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Associations (ARNOVA) Doctoral Fellowship
Selected Publications:
Books & Chapters
Anheier, H.K., Lam, M., & Howard, D.B. (Forthcoming). Philanthropy and the nonprofit sector: Comparing New York and Los Angeles. In D. Halle & A. Beveridge (Eds.), New York and Los Angeles: The Uncertain Future. New York: Oxford University Press.
Anheier, H.K. & Lam, M. (2011). Foundations and the third sector in international perspective – an overview. In The Europa International Foundation Directory. London and New York: Routledge.
Anheier, H.K., Katz, H., & Lam, M. (2007). Diffusion models and global civil society. In M. Kaldor, M. Albrow, H. K. Anheier, & M. Glasius (Eds.), Global Civil Society 2007/8 (pp.245-157). London: Sage Publications.
Katz, H., Anheier, H.K., & Lam, M. (2007). Fuzzy set approaches to the study of global civil society. In M. Kaldor, M. Albrow, H. K. Anheier, & M. Glasius (Eds.), Global Civil Society 2006/7 (pp.186-197). London: Sage Publications.
Journal Articles
Grusky, O., Roberts, K.J., Swanson, A.N., Rhoades, H., & Lam, M. (2009). Staff strategies for improving HIV detection: Mobile HIV rapid resting. Behavioral Medicine, 36(1), 101-111.
Last updated January 13, 2012. |
