Lilia Cortina

Associate Professor of Psychology and Women's Studies Ph.D. in Clinical-Community Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Contact Information:
3270 East Hall
530 Church
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1043
734.647.3956
Email: lilia@umich.edu

Website:
http://www.lsa.umich.edu/psych/lilia-cortina-lab/

Scholarly Interests: Sexual harassment and assault; workplace incivility; gender in organizations; violence against women.

Biography: Lilia Cortina studies workplace victimization, which can range from subtle social slights to general incivility to blatant harassment and violence.  Her scholarship spans the full spectrum of abuse, with a particular focus on “gendered” forms of aggression and violence, targeted at undervalued social groups (e.g., women, racial and sexual minorities).  One stream of this research addresses sexual harassment, focusing on factors that mitigate or exacerbate harassment’s effects on psychological and occupational health.  In another line of research, Cortina investigates workplace incivility, i.e., everyday rude, condescending, and ostracizing acts that violate social norms of respect.  She also examines intersections of these general and specific forms of abuse, finding that they often occur in tandem in the same organizational contexts, amplifying the harm on targeted employees.

Publications:

Cortina, L.M. (2008). Unseen injustice: Incivility as modern discrimination in organizations. Academy of Management Review, 33, 55-75. 

Cortina, L.M. & Berdahl, J.L. (2008). Sexual harassment in organizations: A decade of research in review. In C. Cooper & J. Barling (Eds.), Handbook of Organizational Behavior: Micro Perspectives (pp. 469-497). Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications. 

Cortina, L.M. & Magley, V.J. (2009). Patterns and profiles of response to incivility in organizations. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology. 

Glomb, T.M. & Cortina, L.M. (2006). The experience of victims: Using theories of traumatic and chronic stress to understand individual outcomes of workplace abuse. In E.K. Kelloway, J. Barling & J. Hurrell (Eds.), Handbook of Workplace Violence (pp. 517-534). Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications. 

Konik, J. & Cortina, L.M. (2008). Policing gender at work: Intersections of harassment based on sex and sexuality. Social Justice Research.

Lim, S., Cortina, L.M., & Magley, V.J. (2008). Personal and workgroup incivility: Impact on work and health outcomes. Journal of Applied Psychology, 93, 95-107.

Lonsway, K.A., Cortina, L.M. & Magley, V.J. (2008). Sexual harassment mythology: Definition, conceptualization, and measurement. Sex Roles, 58, 599-615.