ILR Adds Seven New Faculty

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The retirements of many senior professors, leaders in their fields and people whose teaching has influenced thousands, is opening the door to the ILR School’s fourth wave of faculty hiring.

Renewing the faculty is an opportunity to hire scholars studying exciting new topics and to diversify the faculty while developing the next generation of academic leadership at the school.

Dina Bishara
Education
• Ph.D., Political Science, George Washington University, 2013

• B.A., Political Science, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 2005

Research

Bishara’s research interests include state-labor relations in authoritarian regimes, social and protest politics, the mobilization of the unemployed and the role of unions in transitions from authoritarian rule. Her book, Contesting Authoritarianism: Labor Challenges to the State in Egypt, examines challenges to Egypt’s long-standing system of state control over workers’ representation in the late-Mubarak era. Bishara’s ongoing research explores the mobilization of the unemployed in the Middle East and North Africa, protest repertoires in the Middle East and the role of trade unions in transitions from authoritarian rule.

Tristan Ivory
Education
• Ph.D., Sociology, Stanford University, 2015

• M.A., Sociology, Stanford University, 2010
• M.Ed., Graduate School of Education, UCLA, 2006

• B.A., Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, Stanford University, 2004

Research

Ivory’s research is principally concerned with various aspects of Sub-Saharan African geographic, social and economic mobility. His first research project explored these issues for Sub-Saharan African migrants in Japan. More recently, Ivory has begun a multi-year, multi-sited longitudinal interview project that will track Sub-Saharan middle-class high school and college students as they begin professional careers in order to assess whether there is a substantial correlation between international migration and better economic and social outcomes. In addition to these two projects, he is also engaged in a long-term collaborative research project with colleagues in Sweden and Japan that addresses issues of foreign-born women's labor force participation in Japan, Sweden and the United States.

Alice J. Lee
Education
• Ph.D., Management, Columbia University, 2019

• B.S., Finance, New York University, 2009

Research

Lee’s research examines key features of social influence, where one person makes an overture toward another in the hopes of achieving a particular economic or subjective outcome. In three intersecting lines of research, she explores how people approach acts of influence, who uses and conforms to selected influence strategies and when certain sources of social influence matter the most. Overall, Lee’s work reveals the importance of understanding the social meaning that targets of influence attach to influencers’ overtures and behavior to understand how and when social influence is or isn’t effective in a given situation. 

Rebecca R. Kehoe
Education
• Ph.D., Human Resource Studies, Cornell University, 2010

• M.S., Human Resource Studies, Cornell University, 2008

• B.S., Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University, 2005

Research

Kehoe’s research broadly focuses on the creation of value in organizations through employees, with particular attention devoted to employees’ roles in organizational learning and innovation. In one vein of research, she examines organizations’ roles in eliciting desired behavioral and performance outcomes from employees through the design and implementation of HR systems. In this work Kehoe has specifically considered the effectiveness of alternative HR systems, the alignment of specific HR systems with organizations’ broader strategic contexts and the role of line managers in the implementation of organizations’ formally espoused HR systems. In a second research vein, she focuses on the consequences associated with variability and change at the intersection of employees’ human capital, interpersonal exchange and the surrounding organizational context. One of Kehoe’s specific areas of focus within this stream of research has been the positive and negative spillovers of star employees on their colleagues and employing organizations. 

Tejasvi Nagaraja

(arriving Fall 2020)
Education
• Ph.D., History, New York University, 2017

• B.A., History, New York University, 2003

Research

Nagaraja is an interdisciplinary historian with specializations in post-1860 United States, foreign relations, African American and labor history. His manuscript is currently titled Soldiers of the American Dream: War Work, Jim Crow and Freedom Movements in the Shadow of U.S. Power. It examines U.S. militarization and globalism, as they were interlinked with economic and racial politics between the New Deal and the Vietnam War.  

Tae Youn Park
Education

• Ph.D., Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota, 2012

• MBA., College of Business Administration, Seoul National University, 2005

• B.A., College of Business Administration, Chung-Ang University, 2003

Research

Park’s work examines HR policies and their effect on organizations, employees and employment relations. He has explored the effects of various HR practices including pay secrecy, pay inequality, flexible work practices, maternity leave, workforce flow management and union relations.

Seth Sanders

Education
• Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1993

• M.A., University of Chicago, 1985

• B.A., University of Chicago, 1984

Research

Sanders specializes in economics and demography, recently focusing on issues of health and mortality among the elderly. He has spent his career studying the constraints and choices of marginalized populations including immigrants, teenage mothers, gays and lesbians and highly educated minority workers.