The Organizations, Occupations and Work Section of the American Sociological Association is led by a group of elected officers and council members. The current council members are featured below.
Dr. Laura B. Doering, University of Toronto
Dr. Laura B. Doering is an Associate Professor of Strategic Management and is cross-appointed in the Department of Sociology. As an economic sociologist, she examines how interactions and social psychological processes shape outcomes for households, organizations, and markets. Her research has been published in the American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, Sociological Science, and other outlets. Professor Doering’s research and writing has appeared in The New York Times, BBC News, The Globe and Mail, and Salon.
Dr. Eunmi Mun, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Dr. Eunmi Mun is an Associate Professor at the School of Labor and Employment Relations at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She pursues research in the areas of gender, work, and organizations. Her research examines how organizations respond to social demands for gender equality and which organizational practices help address gender equality. She also explores organizational mechanisms of gender inequality across countries and different institutional contexts, through her membership in the Comparative Organizational Inequality Network (COIN), a global collaboration network of an interdisciplinary group of inequality scholars from 15 countries. Her research has appeared in the American Sociological Review, Social Forces, Administrative Science Quarterly, Socio-Economic Review, Gender & Society, and other outlets.
Dr. Anne-Kathrin Kronberg, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Dr. Anne-Kathrin Kronberg is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Organizational Science at the University of North Carolina—Charlotte. Her research examines how organizations shape careers and career outcomes. Projects include examining HR policies in traditional organizations and the effect of digital platform features on inequality among content creators. Her research has been published in Social Forces, Work and Occupations, Socio-Economic Review, and Social Science Research. She received funding from the German Research Foundation and the Russell Sage Foundation Pipeline Grant.
Dr. Aliya Hamid Rao, London School of Economics
Dr. Aliya Hamid Rao is an Associate Professor at the London School of Economics. Her research focuses on how individuals and families experience unemployment and insecure employment (short-term contracts, gig work etc). She is interested in how these pivotal labor market experiences potentially re-shape gendered ways of organising personal and professional lives. She is the author of Crunch Time: How Married Couples Confront Unemployment (UC Press, 2020). Her peer-reviewed articles have appeared in journals including American Sociological Review, Gender & Society, Journal of Marriage and Family, and Work, Employment and Society.
Dr. Kate Weisshaar, Northwestern University
Dr. Kate Weisshaar is an Associate Professor of Sociology and a Faculty Fellow at the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University. Her research focuses on the causes and consequences of gender, racial, and economic inequality in the United States. Specifically, she studies the inequality-generating implications of gendered work-family arrangements; gendered evaluations in work organizations; and gendered and racialized labor market outcomes. Her research has been published in journals such as American Sociological Review, Social Forces, Work and Occupations, and Demography, and has been funded by the National Science Foundation and Russell Sage Foundation.
Dr. Youngjoo Cha, Indiana University at Bloomington
Dr. Youngjoo Cha is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Indiana University Bloomington. Her research investigates how the trend toward long work hours and the normative forces behind them reinforce gender inequality, and whether organizational policies—particularly flexible work policies—can help reduce these impacts. She also examines how remote work influences perceptions of individuals as workers and parents in post-pandemic South Korea, Germany, and the United States. Her other work explores the relationship between parenthood and the gender wage gap, the sources of occupational variation in gender pay disparities, and the role of stereotypes in shaping labor market outcomes for individuals of Asian origin in the U.S.
Ewa Protasiuk, Temple University
Ewa Protasiuk is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Sociology at Temple University. She is a scholar of work and organizations, labor, and social inequalities whose research focuses on low-wage and non-standard work. Her dissertation examines stability and change in the labor practices of urban restaurants in the wake of disruptions tied to the COVID-19 pandemic. Her scholarship appears in Work and Occupations, Current Sociology, and Violence Against Women, and she also coauthored the book Barista in the City: Subcultural Lives, Paid Employment, and the Urban Context. Her research has been supported by the Russell Sage Foundation and the American Sociological Association.
Organizations, Occupations and Work 