Business School

(Organizational Behavior, May 2024)
Thesis Title: Workers and the Pursuit of Social Objectives in Organizations
Committee: Julie Battilana (Chair), Lakshmi Ramarajan, and Daniel Schneider
Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, Management and Organizations...

(Sociology, May 2022)
Thesis Title: From the Job's Worth to the Person's Price: Pay-Setting, Gender Inequality, and the Changing Understanding of Fair Pay
Committee: Frank Dobbin (Chair), Michèle Lamont, Jason Beckfield, Peter V. Marsden, and David Pedulla...

(Organizational Behavior, May 2026)
Thesis Title: Digitalization and Its Discontents: Resistance to Technology in the Toy Industry
Committee: Ryan Raffaelli (Chair), Tiona Zuzul, Frank Dobbin, and Mary Tripsas (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Initia...

(Sociology, May 2026)
Thesis Title: Papers on Organizational Transformation and Racial Inequality
Committee: Daniel Schneider (Chair), Nathan Wilmers (MIT Sloan School), Frank Dobbin, Ellis P. Monk, and Christopher Winship
Initial Placement: Assistant...

(Organizational Behavior, November 2019)
Thesis Title: Entrepreneurship and the Institutional Environment of Developing Markets: Three Studies about Entrepreneurship in Togo
Committee: Julie Battilana (Chair), Metin Sengul, Rembrand M. Koning, and Peter V...

(Organizational Behavior, May 2019)
Thesis Title: The Dynamics of New Venture Development: Scaling and Entrepreneurial Teams
Committee: Ranjay Gulati (Chair), Frank Dobbin, Rory McDonald, and Laura Huang
Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, University of...

(Organizational Behavior, May 2019)
Thesis Title: Butchers, Bakers, and Barcharts: Gender and Knowledge in a Grocery Chain
Committee: Kathleen L. McGinn (Chair), Michael L. Tushman, Frank Dobbin, and Peter V. Marsden
Initial Placement: Assistant Professor...

(Sociology, November 2024)
Thesis Title: Fathers’ Household Labor and the Making of Gender Inequality
Committee: Mary C. Brinton (Co-Chair), Alexandra A. Killewald (Co-Chair, University of Michigan), David S. Pedulla, and Xiang Zhou
Initial Placement: Assist...

(Organizational Behavior, November 2017)
Thesis Title: Organizing for Resilience: Mobilization by Sierra Leonean Diaspora Communities in Response to the 2014-2015 Ebola Crisis
Committee: Michèle Lamont (Co-Chair), Kathleen L. McGinn (Co-Chair), Julie...

(Organizational Behavior, May 2020)
Thesis Title: Contentious Practices and Reputational Threat
Committee: Julie Battilana (Co-Chair), Frank Dobbin (Co-Chair), Alexandra A. Killewald, and András Tilcsik (Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto)
In...