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. 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. Koji Chavez, Indiana University at Bloomington
Dr. Koji Chavez is an Associate Professor of Sociology. His work focuses on gender and racial inequalities in the labor market and in the workplace, most recently centering on the impact of gender and racial stereotypes on hiring discrimination and perceptions of worth under diversity management. His work weaves together insights from field experiments, survey experiments, in-depth interviews, and organizational case studies. Dr. Chavez has received funding from the National Science Foundation and Russel Sage Foundation, and his work has been featured in journals such as the American Sociological Review, Social Forces, Work & Occupations, and Sociology of Race and Ethnicity.
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. Jennifer Nelson, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Dr. Jennifer Nelson is an Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. As an organizational sociologist, she studies work using ethnographic and other field research methods to understand how organizational structures and practices shape worker behavior, attitudes, and social interactions. She is interested in how managers’ informal practices, spatial arrangements in workplaces, and demographic composition of organizations shape employees’ relationships with their coworkers. Her research has been published in the American Journal of Sociology, Work and Occupations, Social Science Research, Educational Administration Quarterly, and other outlets.
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.
Victoria Zhang
Coming soon.
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