The Organizations, Occupations and Work Section of the American Sociological Association is led by a group of elected officers and council members. The current elected officers are featured below.
Chair: Dr. Michel Anteby, Boston University
Dr. Michel Anteby is a Professor of Management & Organizations at Boston University’s Questrom School of Business and Sociology at Boston University’s College of Arts and Sciences. He also co-leads Boston University’s Precarity Lab. His research looks at how individuals relate to their work, their occupations, and the organizations they belong to. Studied populations have included airport security officers, clinical anatomists, factory craftsmen, ghostwriters, puppeteers, subway drivers, and professors. His work has appeared in journals such as Administrative Science Quarterly, American Sociological Review, Organization Science, and Social Forces. His most recent book is about field resistance and is titled The Interloper: Lessons from Resistance in the Field (Princeton University Press).
Secretary-Treasurer: Dr. Jill Yavorsky (2024-2027), University of North Carolina – Charlotte
Dr. Jill Yavorsky is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Organizational Science at University of North Carolina Charlotte. She received her PhD from The Ohio State University in Sociology. Her research focuses on U.S. labor market patterns by gender, race, and class; workplace inequality, bias and discrimination; and divisions of labor among parents. Her research has been published in leading social science journals including American Sociological Review, Social Forces, and American Journal of Sociology and supported by national funding institutes such as the National Science Foundation. Additionally, her work has garnered widespread media attention from leading media outlets such as the NPR Marketplace, New York Times, TIME, Fortune, Forbes, among others. She has served on multiple editorial boards for interdisciplinary and sociology journals and is currently serving as a board member for Gender & Society.
Chair-Elect: Dr. Laurel Smith-Doerr, University of Massachusetts – Amherst
Dr. Laurel Smith-Doerr is Professor of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is currently co-Editor in Chief of the flagship journal of the American Sociological Association, American Sociological Review. Her scholarship investigates the organization of science and technology in order to understand persistent inequalities by gender and race—and how to disrupt them. Her work has focused on equity in knowledge production and has included study of industry scientists in biotechnology, government employees in science agencies, and faculty in higher education. She’s currently collaborating on an interdisciplinary project on the future of work in long haul trucking and learning a lot about how truck drivers envision, resist, and use automation in their work. Her curiosity about organizations has resulted in Smith-Doerr serving in various leadership roles including as an NSF Program Officer and a previous Chair of the Science, Knowledge, and Technology section (2019-2021).
Past Chair: Dr. Sarah Thébaud (2024-2025), University of California – Santa Barbara
Dr. Sarah Thébaud is Professor of Sociology, Faculty Affiliate of the Technology Management Program, and Director of the Families, Gender and Work area at the Broom Center for Demography at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research identifies social psychological and institutional processes that contribute to gender inequalities in work, families, higher education, and entrepreneurship. Her work has appeared in academic outlets such as American Sociological Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, Gender & Society, Social Forces, and the Annual Review of Sociology, as well as leading media publications like The New York Times, NPR, The Atlantic and The Wall Street Journal. She earned a Ph.D. in Sociology from Cornell University and was previously a postdoctoral researcher at Princeton University. She is a past Council Member of the OOW Section (2019-2022) and the Social Psychology Section (2021-2024).
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