Best Student Conference Paper Award

Award Recipients

2025

Paper Title: Attributions of LGBTQ+ Allyship: How Timing Shapes Evaluations of Organizations

Award Recipients: 

• Michael White, Columnia Business School 
• James T. Carter, Cornell Univeristy.

Runner up:

A Diary Study on Employee Inclusion through Daily Interactions with Leaders and Coworkers

• Wieke Knol, Radboud University Nijmegen
• Kai Klasmeier, University of Hamburg
• Wolter Pieters, Radboud University Nijmegen
• Joyce Elena Schleu, Radboud University Nijmegen

 Committee Chairs: Jamie Gloor, University of St. Gallen & Victor Blocker, Michigan State University.

2024
Paper Title: Occupational devaluation, but organizational revaluation: Understanding gendered pay
Award Recipient: Sophie Johanna Moser, University of Konstanz

Runner up:

Language of change: Building an inclusive culture through diversity rhetoric and narrative

• Xue Xiang, University of Toronto
• Soo Min Toh, University of Toronto

Committee 

• Chair: Jamie Gloor 
• Members: Waheeda Lillevik

2023
Paper Title: Confronters can cause harm by soliciting marginalized employees’ voice when confronting prejudice
Award Recipients

• Merrick Osbourne, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
• Andrea Villafuerte, Hypothesis Group
• Eric Anicich, University of Southern California
• Cydney Dupree, UCL School of Management

Runner Up

Race, Whiteness, and the Diversity Discourse: Lessons from UK Jewish Organizations

• Edith Pick, Queen Mary, University of London

Committee 

• Chair: Jennifer Bishop and Rachel Hahn
• Members: Lex Washington, Darryl Rice, Estelle Archibold

2022
Paper Title:Constraints, Competencies, or Choices? How Lay Theories of the Gender Gap Shape Diversity Initiative Support
Award Recipient: Elinor Flynn / Ph.D. candidate NYU Stern

Committee Member: Brent Lyons, York University

2021
Paper Title: Am I Next? The Spillover Effects of Mega-Threats on Identity Threat, Identity Labor, and Withdrawal at Work
Award Recipients: Angelica Leigh, Duke University & Shimul Melwani, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

Committee Members

• Mukta Kulkarni (Chair, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore)
• Brent Lyons, York University
• Galina Boiarintseva, Niagara University

• Adaora Ubaka, University of Illinois – Chicago
• Xinxin Lu, University of Illinois – Chicago
• Lyangela Gutierrez, UCLA

• David Dwertmann (Chair, Rutgers U.)
• Nkosana Mafico, U. of Queensland
• Kristie McAlpine, Rutgers U.
• Sanjee Perera, U. of South Australia
• Max Reinwald, U. of Konstanz
• Hans van Dijk, Tilburg U.
• Ariane Froidevaux, U. of Texas at Arlington

• Nkosana Mafico, U. of Queensland
• Anna Krzeminska, Macquarie U.
• Charmine Hartel, U. of Queensland

• David Dwertmann (Chair, Rutgers U.)
• Oscar Holmes IV, Rutgers U.
• Ravi Kudesia, Temple U.
• Brent Lyons, York U.
• Kristie McAlpine, Rutgers U.
• Sanjee Perera, U. of South Australia
• Max Reinwald, U. of
• Konstanz Hans van Dijk, Tilburg U.

• Max Reinwald, U. Konstanz

• Eddy Ng (Chair), Dalhousie U.
• Charlice Hurst, Notre Dame
• U. Becky Paluch, Cornell U.
• Chris Stamper, Western Michigan U.

• Becky Paluch
• Lisa H. Nishii
• Jasmien Khattab
• Meir Shemla

• Eddy Ng (chair)
• Robin Church
• Charlice Hurst
• Dana Kabat-Farr
• Sanjee Perera

• David Mendelsohn
• Elissa Perry

• Jennifer Berdahl (chair)
• Brent Lyons
• Keimei Sugiyama