Lilia Cortina, PhD (Associate Professor, Psychology & Women's Studies)

As a researcher of antisocial work experiences, Lilia investigates the many ways in which people are subordinated, violated, and relegated to the margins of organizational life. These interpersonal abuses can range from subtle social slights to general incivility to blatant harassment and violence. Her scholarship spans the full spectrum, with a particular focus on “gendered” forms of mistreatment as well as mistreatment that, at first glance, appears inconsequential. One line of her work addresses harassment based on sex, sexuality, and gender - focusing on the contours and consequences of harassing experiences in both women and men. In another stream of research, Lilia investigates workplace incivility, i.e., everyday discourtesies that violate social norms of respect and undermine worker wellbeing.

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Melanie Henderson

Melanie's research centers around power and status in organizations. Given that power decisions have the potential to yield both positive and negative outcomes, she is especially interested in identifying factors that contribute to such outcomes, specifically those that serve to exacerbate or mitigate the corruptive effects of power. She has investigated perspective taking, identity management strategies, and attachment style as factors fueling power decisions and communication strategies. Melanie also studies implications of various power strategies for subordinate outcomes, supervisor-subordinate relations, and overall organizational dynamics.

Kathryn (Katy) Holland

Katy is investigating the impact of sex-based harassment on emotional and professional wellbeing, and ways that individual and contextual factors affect these relationships. She examines how identifying as "feminist" and engaging in activism increases women's risk for harassment, but also buffers their negative outcomes.  In addition, Katy is studying the role of relative power between the perpetrator and target, as well as factors that promote resiliency and coping in targets. More broadly, Katy is interested in women’s health and wellbeing.    

Dana Kabat-Farr

Dana is interested in workplace social experiences - both negative (incivility, harassment) and positive (citizenship) - and ways in which those experiences affect employee and organizational wellbeing.  For this lab, she is investigating (1) relationships between workgroup "tokenism" and gender harassment; (2) workplace incivility as covert discrimination against women and people of color, and (3) positive and negative social experiences that influence employees' ability to thrive at work.

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Emily Leskinen

Emily's research seeks to expand our understanding of gender and social injustice using multiple levels of analysis.  For this lab, she explores how individual and contextual factors relate to the harassment experiences of women and marginalized groups (e.g., racial minorities; lesbian, bisexual, and queer-identified women).  Her dissertation focuses on how conformity to gender norms and job-gender context relate to gender harassment -- a form of sexual harassment that involves no sexual advances.

Elma Lorenzo-Blanco

Elma is interested in Latino/a mental health and substance use.  She is currently investigating the associations of acculturation with Latino/a depression and cigarette smoking.  More specifically, her research focuses on the lived experiences that accompany acculturation.  In this lab, Elma has developed and tested integrative socio-cultural models of acculturation, smoking, and depression.  Given that Latina women are more negatively influenced by acculturation, Elma examines the moderating role of gender in the links between acculturation, depression, and smoking.

Lisa Marchiondo

Lisa's research interests fall into two broad categories: (1) workplace incivility, and (2) gender and leadership. She is currently investigating associations between customer incivility and employee wellbeing. In addition, she is developing and testing a theoretical model of mechanisms that intervene in the incivility-outcome relationship, with a particular focus on cognitive appraisal (as a mediator) and attributions of control and intent (as moderators).  In another stream of research, Lisa is adapting a model of leader identity development to apply to women in organizations.

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Samantha (Sam) Montgomery

Samantha's interests include the psychology of feminism and activism, factors contributing to the endorsement of sexist and heterosexist ideologies, and queer identification and subversion. She is particularly interested in the intersections of gender and sexuality in different social contexts.

Veronica Caridad Rabelo

Veronica is interested in the contextual factors surrounding microaggressions in the workplace.  She studies how conflict pertaining to gender, sexuality, race, and ethnicity can influence superordinate-subordinate relations, workplace productivity, and employee satisfaction.  She is also interested in workplace organization and success when there is a strong presence of LGBTQ, feminist, female, and non-White individuals among the highest levels of leadership.

Rita Seabrook

Rita is interested in the effects of ‘everyday’ sexism and gender-based incivilities in the workplace, and how these incidents affect women’s success in leadership positions and STEM careers. Additional research interests include feminism and empowerment, and ways in which a feminist identity can help women and men recognize and reject gender stereotypes and sexism.

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