Best Student Conference Paper

Best Student Conference Paper Award

Sponsor: Emerald's Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal

This award is presented to a student author for the best conference paper on gender and diversity in organizations. It recognizes outstanding scholarly contribution by emerging researchers whose work advances knowledge in equality, diversity, and inclusion within organizational contexts.

Award Recipients

Browse recipients by year. Click a year to view the full paper title, recipients, runner-up details (when available), and committee information.

2025 Attributions of LGBTQ+ Allyship: How Timing Shapes Evaluations of Organizations

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

Award Recipients:

  • Michael White, Columbia Business School
  • James T. Carter, Cornell University

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 Occupational devaluation, but organizational revaluation: Understanding gendered pay

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 Confronters can cause harm by soliciting marginalized employees’ voice when confronting prejudice

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; Rachel Hahn. Members: Lex Washington; Darryl Rice; Estelle Archibold

2022 Constraints, Competencies, or Choices? How Lay Theories of the Gender Gap Shape Diversity Initiative Support

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 Am I Next? The Spillover Effects of Mega-Threats on Identity Threat, Identity Labor, and Withdrawal at Work

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
2020 Taking Another Look at Race and the American Leadership Prototype: A Direct Replication of Rosette, Leonardelli, and Phillips (2008)

Paper Title: Taking Another Look at Race and the American Leadership Prototype: A Direct Replication of Rosette, Leonardelli, and Phillips (2008)

Award Recipients:

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

Committee Members:

  • David Dwertmann (Chair, Rutgers University)
  • Nkosana Mafico, University of Queensland
  • Kristie McAlpine, Rutgers University
  • Sanjee Perera, University of South Australia
  • Max Reinwald, University of Konstanz
  • Hans van Dijk, Tilburg University
  • Ariane Froidevaux, University of Texas at Arlington
2019 Immigrant Social Entrepreneurs: Managing Organizational Tensions with Cross-Cultural Experience

Paper Title: Immigrant Social Entrepreneurs: Managing Organizational Tensions with Cross-Cultural Experience

Award Recipients:

  • Nkosana Mafico, University of Queensland
  • Anna Krzeminska, Macquarie University
  • Charmine Härtel, University of Queensland

Committee Members:

  • David Dwertmann (Chair, Rutgers University)
  • Oscar Holmes IV, Rutgers University
  • Ravi Kudesia, Temple University
  • Brent Lyons, York University
  • Kristie McAlpine, Rutgers University
  • Sanjee Perera, University of South Australia
  • Max Reinwald, University of Konstanz
  • Hans van Dijk, Tilburg University
2018 More Than the Average: Examining the Variability in Employee Perceptions of Diversity Climate

Paper Title: More Than the Average: Examining the Variability in Employee Perceptions of Diversity Climate

Award Recipient:

  • Max Reinwald, University of Konstanz

Committee Members:

  • Eddy Ng (Chair), Dalhousie University
  • Charlice Hurst, University of Notre Dame
  • Becky Paluch, Cornell University
  • Chris Stamper, Western Michigan University
2017 A Multi-Level Process Model for Understanding Diversity Practice Effectiveness

Paper Title: A Multi-Level Process Model for Understanding Diversity Practice Effectiveness

Award Recipients:

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

Committee Members:

  • Eddy Ng (Chair)
  • Robin Church
  • Charlice Hurst
  • Dana Kabat-Farr
  • Sanjee Perera
2016 Faculty gender diversity and university performance: The role of diversity climate

Paper Title: Faculty gender diversity and university performance: The role of diversity climate

Award Recipients:

  • David Mendelsohn
  • Elissa Perry

Committee Members:

  • Jennifer Berdahl (Chair)
  • Brent Lyons
  • Keimei Sugiyama
2015 Talk and Let Talk: Effects of Language Proficiency on Speaking Up and Expertise Recognition in Teams

Paper Title: Talk and Let Talk: Effects of Language Proficiency on Speaking Up and Expertise Recognition in Teams”

Award Recipients:

  • Huisi Jessica Li
  • Y. Connie Yuan
  • Natalya Bazarova
  • Bradford Bell

Committee Members:

  • Beth A. Livingston (Chair)
  • Sarah Walker
  • Angelica Gutierrez
  • Beena Salim
  • Alberto Ramirez Melgoza
2014 Pay as she goes: For stereotypically male jobs, women tend to be hired by the hour.

Paper Title: Pay as she goes: For stereotypically male jobs, women tend to be hired by the hour.

Award Recipients:

  • Raphael Silberzahn
  • Eric Luis Uhlmann
  • Lei Zhu

Committee Members:

  • Corinne Post (Chair)
  • Apoorva Ghosh
  • Angelica Gutierrez
  • Oscar Holmes IV
  • Tiffany Johnson
  • Eden King
  • Arlise McKinney
  • Tiffany Trzebiatowski
  • Sabrina DeeAnn Volpone
2013 Out of the Box: Identity Expansion and the Building of Positive Manager-Subordinate Relationships.

Paper Title: Out of the Box: Identity Expansion and the Building of Positive Manager-Subordinate Relationships.

Award Recipients:

  • Stephanie Creary
  • Brianna Barker Caza
  • Laura Morgan Roberts

Committee Members:

  • C. Douglas Johnson (Chair)
  • Raymond Trau
  • Apoorva Ghosh
  • Angelica Gutierrez
  • Arlise McKinney
  • Tiffany Johnson
2012 The Psychological Stigma of Unemployment: When Joblessness Leads to Being Jobless.

Paper Title: The Psychological Stigma of Unemployment: When Joblessness Leads to Being Jobless.

Award Recipients:

  • Geoffrey C. Ho
  • Margaret Shih
  • Daniel J. Walters
  • Todd Lowell Pittinsky

Committee Members:

  • C. Douglas Johnson (Chair)
  • Raymond Trau
  • Apoorva Ghosh
  • Angelica Gutierrez
  • Arlise McKinney
  • Tiffany Johnson
2011 Passing as Superman: The Ideal Worker and Men’s Professional Identities.

Paper Title: Passing as Superman: The Ideal Worker and Men’s Professional Identities.

Award Recipients:

  • Erin Reid

Committee Members:

  • C. Douglas Johnson (Chair)
  • Carolyn Block
  • Deretta Cole
  • Linda Hite
  • Corrine Post
2010 Constructing a Collective Identity in Diverse Teams.

Paper Title: Constructing a Collective Identity in Diverse Teams.

Award Recipients:

  • Sebastian Doering
  • Melanie Schreiner
  • Hendrik Huettermann

Committee Members:

  • Mustafa Ozbilgin (Chair)
  • Alexandra Beauregard
  • Deborah Blackman
  • Yuka Fujimoto
  • Mine Karatas-Ozkan
  • Iris Koa
  • Linley Lord
  • Isabel Metz
  • Layne Paddock
  • Jawad Syed
  • Susan Vinnicombe
2009 The Impact of Gender Diversity on Performance in Services and Manufacturing Organizations.

Paper Title: The Impact of Gender Diversity on Performance in Services and Manufacturing Organizations.

Award Recipients:

  • Muhammad Ali
  • Carol Kulik
  • Isabel Metz

Committee Members:

  • Ashleigh Shelby Rosette (Chair)
  • Mary Graham
  • Kathy Duncan
  • Judith Clair
  • Lori Snyder
2008 The Impact of Work Group Diversity on Performance.

Paper Title: The Impact of Work Group Diversity on Performance.

Award Recipients:

  • Alexandra Niessen
  • Stefan Ruenzi
  • Michaela Baer

Committee Members: (not listed)

2007 Where Perception Meets Reality: Effects of Different Types of Faultline Perceptions and Realities.

Paper Title: Where Perception Meets Reality: Effects of Different Types of Faultline Perceptions and Realities.

Award Recipients:

  • Lindred Greer
  • Karen Jehn

Committee Members:

  • Ashleigh Shelby Rosette (Chair)
  • Alexandra Beauregard
  • Donna Chrobot-Mason
  • Amy Randel
  • Mustafa Ozbilgin
  • Bev Sauer

Back to top