This was a year of great accomplishment for all of our faculty, staff, and doctoral students. Read on to learn more about our faculty milestones, faculty publications, list of teachers ranked excellent, doctoral student milestones, and staff milestones.
Faculty Milestones
Teresa Cardador was named a Campus Advanced Study (CAS) Scholar for Fall 2022.
Yihao Liu has been elected as RM Division Representative-at-Large for the Research Methods Division of the Academy of Management. This is a three-year term.
Tingting Zhang received a Campus Board Research Grant for her research project “Voice without Representation: Worker Voice in Networked Public Space.”
Dean Ingrid Fulmer has been named the inaugural Milton and Zelda Derber Professor.
Michael LeRoy received the King Broadrick-Allen Award from the Campus Honors Program (CHP). This honor is awarded to one faculty member in recognition of outstanding teaching to the Chancellor’s Scholars and in acknowledgment of distinguished service to their educational mission. He was recognized in person at the CHP annual Graduation Recognition Ceremony and Reception in May.
Michael LeRoy was interviewed by the NBS news, concerning a Southlake Texas School District that requires teachers to sign a non-disparagement agreement: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna26480 .
Michael LeRoy was quoted in the article “Miami’s Wong shows college sports hurtles towards free market” published in the Washington Post. He presented his research on NIL laws for college athletes to the Nevada legislature via Zoom in May.
Stephanie Fortado is the recipient of a 2022 fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS). The ACLS Fellowship program supports exceptional scholarship in the humanities and interpretive social sciences that has the potential to make significant contributions within and beyond their fields. https://news.illinois.edu/view/6367/809283684
Michael LeRoy was interviewed by the New York Times in an article written about the baseball lockout: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/04/sports/baseball/mlb-season-preview.html
Russell Weinstein was named a Research Fellow at IZA Institute of Labor Economics, a nonprofit research institute headquartered in Bonn, Germany and a leading international network in labor economics.
Teresa Cardador was selected as a UIUC Center for Advanced study Associate for 2022-23. She is also currently serving as the 2022 Program Chair for the Managerial and Organizational Cognition (MOC) Division of the Academy of Management.
Michael LeRoy’s article “College Athletic Debt Soars as Power 5 Programs Resist Scrutiny” was published in Sportico.
The LER family grew this summer as three faculty members welcomed babies. Richard Benton and his wife, Michelle, welcomed Rosemary Lore on Saturday, July 23. Russell Weinstein and his wife, Arielle, welcomed Sonya on Tuesday, July 19 and Christine Riordan and her husband, Mike, welcomed Zadie Jude on Thursday, July 28.
Michael LeRoy was interviewed by the Washington Post on the first anniversary of NIL: https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/one-year-into-nil-era-fresh-questions-about-its-future/2022/06/30/fee8ac0a-f898-11ec-81db-ac07a394a86b_story.html
Michael LeRoy submitted an amicus (friend of the court) brief to a federal appeals court in Johnson v. NCAA, demonstrating that college athletes meet the legal test of employment under the Fair Labor Standards Act (the law that sets a minimum wage and 40-hour per week overtime standard). The NCAA moved to block the brief, but the court denied its motion. The case has potential to transform college athletics from its amateur model to an employment model.
Eliza Forsythe’s proposal on “The Role of State Policy in Reducing Disparities in Unemployment Insurance Recipiency” received a $75,000 award from the Washington Center of Equitable Growth. (https://equitablegrowth.org/grants/the-role-of-state-policy-in-reducing-disparities-in-unemployment-insurance-recipiency/)
Gus Wood signed a book contract with North Carolina Press for his manuscript, ‘Class Warfare in Black Atlanta: African American Grassroots Struggles, Resistance, and Repression under Gentrification, 1966-2015.’
YoungAh Park also joined the editorial board of Industrial-Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice.
Russell Weinstein wrote an article for the NACE Journal entitled “Graduating During a Recession, On-Campus Recruiting, and University Selectivity” https://www.naceweb.org/job-market/trends-and-predictions/graduating-during-a-recession-on-campus-recruiting-and-university-selectivity/
Russell Weinstein’s research on studying universities and their impact to their local economy was featured in an article by the U of I News Bureau. https://news.illinois.edu/view/6367/1955862653 https://twitter.com/NewsAtIllinois
Alison Dickson was selected to be a 2022-2023 Job Quality Fellow by the Aspen Institute’s Economic Opportunities Program: https://www.aspeninstitute.org/team/job-quality-fellows-class-of-2022-23/
Tingting Zhang has been awarded a grant from the Campus Research Board for $28,520 for her research project Voice without Representation: Worker Voice in Networked Public Sphere.
Faculty Publications
YoungAh Park had two papers published, with recent LER Ph.D. graduates, Sooyeol Kim and Lucy Headrick:
- Headrick, L., & Park, Y. (2022). Faking at work, struggling to be healthy at home: A model of surface acting and its relation with unhealthy eating and physical activity. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology. Advance online publication. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/ocp0000317
- Kim, S., Cho, S., & Park, Y. (2022). Daily microbreaks in a self-regulatory resources lens: Perceived health climate as a contextual moderator via microbreak autonomy. Journal of Applied Psychology, 107, 60-77.
Tingting Zhang (with colleagues Drs. Banerjee and Amarshi) had their paper “Does Diversity and Inclusion include Immigrants? Employer and Skilled Newcomer Experiences and Perspectives from the Canadian Context” selected as the winner of the 2022 Dorothy Harlow Best Conference Paper Award, on behalf of the Gender and Diversity in Organizations (GDO) Division of AOM. They will be recognized at the GDO Celebration of Success, during the 2022 Academy of Management meetings.
Eliza Forsythe had a paper accepted at Labour Economics: “Where have all the workers gone? Recalls, retirements, and reallocation in the COVID recovery”. She discussed this particular paper in a New York Times article about labor participation and COVID.
Simon Restubog assumed the role of Senior Editor of the Journal of Vocational Behavior in January.
- Simon Restubog had several papers published:
Schilpzand, P., Restubog, S. L. D., & Chen, Y. (in press). Sick on the day of the interview? Effects of presenteeism on selection outcomes and the moderating role of raters’ perspective-taking. Journal of Organizational Behavior. - Amarnani, R., Howard, E., Restubog, S. L. D., & To, M. L. (in press). How are career adaptable and customer-oriented employees treated? Examining career-situated factors that reduce customer mistreatment. Journal of Vocational Behavior.
- Amarnani, R., Restubog, S. L. D., Shao, R., Cheng, D., & Bordia, P. (in press). “A self-verification perspective on customer mistreatment and customer-directed organizational citizenship behaviors.” Journal of Organizational Behavior.
- Ocampo, A. C., Chen, Y., Restubog, S. L. D., Wang, L., & Decoste, A. (in press). A cross-lagged investigation of the relationship between HIV stigma and job effectiveness among employees with HIV. Journal of Applied Psychology.
- Ocampo, A. C., Restubog, S. L. D., Wang, L., Garcia, P. R. J. M., & Tang, R. L. (in press). Home and away: How career adaptability and cultural intelligence facilitate international migrant workers’ adjustment. Journal of Vocational Behavior.
- Selenko, E., Bankins, S., Shoss, M., Warburton, J., & Restubog, S. L. D. (in press). Artificial intelligence and the future of work: A functional identity perspective. Current Directions in Psychological Science.
Simon Restubog, with current Ph.D. student Yaqing He, had a paper recently published in the Journal of Management. Gregg, H., Restubog, S. L. D., Dasborough, Xu, C., Deen, C., & He, Y. (in press). When disaster strikes! An interdisciplinary review of disasters and their organizational consequences.
Simon and his colleagues received the Best Paper award in the HRM/OB track at the 2022 European Academy of Management Conference. Ocampo, A. C., Restubog, S. L. D., Wang, L., Garcia, P. R. J. M., & Tang, R. L. The interaction of career adaptability and cultural intelligence and its implications for international migrant workers.
Teresa Cardador had her paper “Unpacking the Status-Leveling Burden for Women in Male-Dominated Occupations” (Cardador, Hill, & Salles) published in Administrative Science Quarterly.
Andrew Weaver had his paper “Employer Responses to Legislation Protecting Non-Regular Workers: Evidence from South Korea” published in the Journal of Social Policy.
Amit Kramer, along with Dr. Sunjin Pak (former LER Ph.D. student), and current students Yin Lee and Ki-Jung Kim had their paper “The Impact of Work Hours on Work-to-Family Enrichment and Conflict through Energy Processes: A Meta-Analysis” accepted for publication in the Journal of Organizational Behavior.
Ryan Lamare had his paper “The Relative Importance of Industrial Relations Ideas in Politics: A Quantitative Analysis of Political Party Manifestos Across 54 Countries” (Lamare & Budd) published in Industrial Relations. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/irel.12296
List of Teachers Ranked Excellent
Seventeen faculty/instructors and one Ph.D. student TA were named to the List of Teachers Ranked Excellent for Fall 2021 for their teaching in LER, History and Psychology; 12 were named in Spring 2022 for their teaching in LER, and Psychology; and nine faculty/instructors were named in Summer 2022 for their teaching in LER and LEP courses.
Fall 2021
Richard Benton for LER 590 SN Social Networks in HRM
Teresa Cardador for LER 591 A Employment Relations Systems
Stephanie Fortado for LER 320 Gender, Race, Class & Work and HIST 312 Immigrant America (taught in History)
Ki-Jung Kim for LER 593 Quantitative Methods Quiz Section (TA),
Amit Kramer for LER 591 Employment Relations Systems (online)
Ryan Lamare for LER 590 GT Game Theory and HR Strategy, LER 543 Workplace Dispute Resolution and LER 565 HR Management and Strategy
Michael LeRoy for LER 522 Government Regulation, LER 590 IM Immigration, Employment Law and Public Policy and LER 199 Immigration and Race: The Evolution of Legal Equality
Yihao Liu for LER 593 BE1 Quantitative Methods in HR
Mengjie Lyu for LER 561 Compensation Systems and LER 590 EB Employee Benefits
Eunmi Mun for LER 590 CER Comparative Employment Relations
Christine Riordan for LER 542 Collective Bargaining
Brian Schiller for LER 561 Compensation Systems (online)
Andrew Weaver for LER 590 WPP Workforce Policies & Partnerships
Russell Weinstein for LER 558 Faculty/Staff Workshop and
Shinjae Won for LER 565 HR Management and Strategy
Tingting Zhang for LER 567 Negotiation in HR Decisions
Dan Newman for PSYCH 598 Industrial/Organizational Proseminar (taught in Psychology)
Dan Gilbert for HIST 392 The 1960s in the US (taught in History)
Ki-Jung, Ryan, Michael, and Dan all obtained ratings of “High” (top 10%).
Spring 2022
Gentzy Franz for LER 597 Employee Motivation & Performance (online)
Jiwook Jung for LER 590 X Macro Research Methods
Amit Kramer for LER 591 Employment Relations System (online) and LER 595 Managing Diversity Globally (online)
Ryan Lamare for LER 590 GT Game Theory and HR Strategy (online)
Michael LeRoy for LER 590 E Government Regulation & Employment Law and LER 590 CB Collective Bargaining in Sports & Entertainment
Mengjie Lyu for LER 561 Compensation Systems
Brian Ogolsky for LER 593 Quantitative Methods for HR (online)
YoungAh Park for LER 590 EW Employee Stress, Well-Being & Safety and LER 590 GI Management of Workplace Gender Issues
Christine Riordan for LER 542 Collective Bargaining
Russell Weinstein for LER 558 Faculty/Staff Workshop
Tingting Zhang for LER 567 Negotiation in HR Decisions
Dan Newman for PSYCH 598 Industrial/Organizational Proseminar (taught in Psychology)
Amit, Ryan, Michael, and Dan all obtained ratings of “High” (top 10%).
Summer 2022
Alison Dickson for LER 000 Latin@ Leadership for USW
Stephanie Fortado for LER 000 USW Summer School
Dan Gilbert for LER 000 USW Summer School
Ryan Lamare for LER 543 Workplace Dispute Resolution (online)
Michael LeRoy for LER 522 Government Regulation (online)
Eric Neuman for LER 590 FMB Fundamentals of Business and Management (online)
Emily E. LB. Twarog for LER 000 USW Summer School
Michael Walsh for LER 590 WA Workforce Analytics (online)
Gus Wood for LER 590 000 USW Summer School
Stephanie, Ryan, Eric, Emily and Gus all obtained ratings of “High” (top 10%)
Ph.D. Notes/Milestones
Anoop Javalagi passed his final defense and successfully deposited his dissertation entitled ‘The agreeableness leadership advantage’. His committee was Dan Newman, Chair, Ravi Gajendran, Amit Kramer and Simon Restubog. Anoop has accepted a Postdoctoral Scholar position in the School of Communication at Northwestern University.
Weihao Li has passed his final defense and successfully deposited his dissertation titled ‘The workplace and non-mainstream political ideas: the interplay between employee voice, unions, discrimination, and political radicalism and populism’. His committee was Ryan Lamare, Chair, Bob Bruno, Christine Riordan and Tobias Schulze-Cleven. Weihao has accepted a Research Economist position with the Strategic Resources Department, International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAMAW).
Yin Lee has joined the People & Organisations (P&O) Department at NEOMA Business School (Reims campus) as a tenure-track Assistant Professor this fall.
Grisel Lopez-Alvarez received the Diversifying Higher Education Faculty in Illinois (DFI) Fellowship for the 2022-23 academic year.
Yaqing He passed her preliminary exam. Her committee was Simon Restubog, chair, Amit Kramer, YoungAh Park, and Ann O’Leary-Kelly.
Monica Liu (current MHRIR student) was awarded the AAUW career development grant for 2021-22.
Anoop Javalagi passed his preliminary defense exam. His committee was Dan Newman, chair, Ravi Gajendran, Amit Kramer, Simon Restubog and James Rounds.
Grisel Lopez-Alvarez has successfully passed her second-year paper requirement. Her advisor/reader was Teresa Cardador and 2nd reader was Simon Restubog.
Sohee Kim passed her second-year paper requirement. Her advisor/reader was YoungAh Park and 2nd reader was Yihao Liu.
Yon Jin Suh passed her second-year paper requirement. Her advisor/reader was Simon Restubog and 2nd reader was Amit Kramer.
Yijue Liang was married in May to Wenda Zhang. They met in 2016 while he was in his PhD program in the Grainger College of Engineering.
Yaqing He has been selected as the Pola and Harry Triandis Scholar for summer 2022. This scholarship, established by alum Dharm Bhawuk in honor of his advisor Harry Triandis, provides summer support to Ph.D. students.
Yaqing He’s research project on work-related intimate partner aggression has been selected to receive a 2022 Robert P. Larsen Grant for Research in Career Development.
Yin Lee passed his final exam and has officially deposited his dissertation entitled ‘Political contingency of performance management practices: the role of stakeholder groups.’ His committee was Amit Kramer, Jiwook Jung (co-chairs), Matthew Kraatz, and Ryan Lamare.
Yijue Liang passed her final exam and has officially deposited her dissertation entitled ‘Development and validation of a multidimensional scale for sexual harassment bystander intervention in the workplace.’ Her committee was YoungAh Park (chair), Fritz Drasgow, Simon Restubog, and Yihao Liu. She accepted a position in the Department of Psychology at George Mason University as a tenure-track assistant professor, effective Fall 2022.
Chen Tang was selected for the Tim Judge Fellowship for summer 2022.
Yaqing He successfully passed her Area of Specialization exam. Her committee members were Simon Restubog (chair), Amit Kramer, and YoungAh Park.
Chen Tang successfully passed his Preliminary Exam. His committee was Dan Newman (chair), Fritz Drasgow, James Rounds and Q. Chelsea Song.
Staff Milestones
Eden Haycraft is serving as the Co-Chair of the Online Student Services Watercooler group for campus-wide online program staff.
Becky Barker has been selected to join the Graduate College Administrative Advisory Group (AAG) for a three-year term 2021-2024. The AAG is a group of departmental administrators whose work focuses primarily on the operational aspects of Graduate College policies and procedures.
Eden Haycraft served as the President of the Midwest Association of Colleges and Employers (MWACE) for the 2021 – 2022 academic year and is now the Past President. MWACE is a regional association that brings together career focused academic professionals with employers seeking college talent.
Wyatt Martin has accepted the role of Co-Chair of the Business Manager’s Group on campus. He will be Co-Chair for 2021-22 and will then take over as Chair in August 2022.
Cory Hatfield was promoted to Director of Development and Alumni Relations.
Brian Neighbors has worked with a colleague to create a Career Coaching Certificate Program that is offered to career professionals in education.