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Thomas A. Kochan & Stephen R. Sleigh
Best
Dissertation Award
DEADLINE:
July 1
PURPOSE:
The Labor and Employment Relations Association has established an annual
competition for post-doctoral students in the field of industrial relations*
or related fields such as history, political science, economics, sociology,
etc., as long as they are broadly related to employment relations as
reflected in the publications and membership of the LERA. The purpose
is twofold: (1) to stimulate greater awareness and interest among doctoral
students at colleges and universities of the field of industrial relations,
and (2) to provide a vehicle by which an outstanding thesis by a doctoral
student can be made more widely known to scholars in the field.
ELIGIBILITY: The Thomas A. Kochan and Stephen R. Sleigh Best Dissertation Award competition is open to doctoral students who completed their thesis at an accredited college or university between the dates of January 1, 2009 and June 30, 2010. Dissertations and correspondence must be in the English language.
AWARDS: The competition
prize to be awarded annually shall be $1,000 (one-thousand-dollars).
The winner shall be announced at the Association's Annual Meeting and
the prize paid within thirty (30) days after the conclusion of the meeting
in January. A one (1) year complimentary LERA membership will also be
granted to the winning author.
JUDGING: Entries
will be judged on the basis of originality, quality of analysis, quality
of research, style and organization, practicality and timeliness of
subject. The entries will be judged by members of a special Academic
Awards Committee.
ENTRY PROCEDURE:
Students who wish to enter the competition need to:
1) complete an entry
form and
2) submit it with a copy of the thesis, their vita/resume, and
a letter from a member of the student's Ph.D. Committee stating why
the thesis is especially meritorious.
- The thesis must be submitted by email to LERAoffice@illinois.edu (not faxed or mailed), and our preference is to receive all materials electronically, but if the student needs to fax or mail some of the items, they may do so.
- A member of the dissertation committee may directly send us a letter of support for the entry, or the student may forward it to us with the rest of the entry materials.
- The entry form (.pdf) must be completed and returned with
the other entry materials.
- The entry form, thesis, vita/resume, and letter from the student's
committee should be sent to:
LERAoffice@illinois.edu
Paula Wells, Executive
Director
Labor and Employment Relations Association
121 School of LER
504 East Armory Avenue
Champaign, IL 61820
Fax: 217-265-5130
ENTRY DEADLINE:
All portions of the entry (entry form, thesis, vita/resume, and letter of support) must be submitted to the LERA headquarters
in Champaign, Illinois on or before July 1. The winners
will be notified by mail of their selection by mid-November.
For further information,
contact the LERA Office at (217) 333-0072 or email LERAoffice@illinois.edu.
* Industrial
Relations is defined as all aspects of the field of labor and employment
including employer and employee organizations, labor relations, labor
markets, labor economics, human resources, and the workplace.
| Past
Winners |
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| 2009 |
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Mingwei Liu, Rutgers University
Pictured: Liu and Bruce Kaufman, Award Committee Chair. |
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Marco Hauptmeier, Cardiff University
PIctured: Bruce Kaufman, Award Committee Chair, and Hauptmeier. |
| Honorable Mention Awards: |
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J. Ryan Lamare, Cornell University
Adam Seth Litwin, John Hopkins University |
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| 2008 |
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David Madland, Georgetown University
Pictured: Steve Sleigh, Award Committee Chair, and Madland. |
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Ariel Avgar, Cornell University
Pictured: Steve Sleigh, Award Committee Chair, and Avgar. |
| Honorable Mention Awards: |
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Rocio Bonet, University of Pennsylvania
Rupa Banerjee, University of Toronto
Kyoung-Hee Yu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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| 2007 |
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Bethany Moreton, Yale University |
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Amanda Tattersall, University of Sydney
Laura Ariovich, Northwestern University |
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| 2006 |
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Virginia Doellgast, King's College London |
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Andrew Charlwood, Leeds University |
| Honorable Mention Awards: |
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Mark Price, University of Utah
Konstantinos Tzioumis, London School of Economics and Political Science |
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| 2005 |
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Daniyal Zuberi, University of British Columbia |
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Danielle D. van Jaarsveld , University of British Columbia |
Honorable Mention Awards: |
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Mark Anner, Pennsylvania State University
Brenda C. Sun, The London School of Economics and Political Science |
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| 2004 |
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Eric
Verhoogen, Columbia University |
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Chris
Riddell, University of British Columbia |
Honorable
Mention Awards: |
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Isabel
Fernandez-Mateo, MIT
Forrest
Briscoe, MIT |
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| 2003 |
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Anthony
Zumbolo, New York State Public Employment Relations Board, Mediator |
Honorable
Mention Awards: |
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Haejin
Kim, Assistant Professor, Department of Management, School
of Business and Public Administration, California State University
– Dominguez Hills
Elizabeth
Craig, Assistant Professor, Organizational Behavior Department,
School of Management, Boston University
Lydia Fraile,
Research Assistant to the LARA Project, Massachusetts Institute
of Technology, Political Science |
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| 2002 |
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Elizabeth
Hoffmann, Purdue University, Assistant Professor, Department
of Sociology and Anthropology |
Honorable
Mention Awards: |
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Corinne
Bendersky, Assistant Professor, Anderson Graduate School of
Management, UCLA, Human Resources and Organizational Behavior
Aparna
Joshi, Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations
George
Benson, University of Southern California, Marshall Business
School |
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| 2001 |
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Eunjong
Shin, Bureau of Planning and Management, Ministry of Labor, “Unions, Government, and the Politics of Industrial Relations
in Korea: Union Bargaining Power and Labor Control Policy from Democratization
to IMB Intervention” |
Honorable
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Wendy Boswell,
Texas A&M University
Alexander
Turk, Internal Revenue Service |
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| 2000 |
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Alex
Colvin, Pennsylvania State University |
Honorable
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Clinton
Chadwick, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Rafael Gomez, London School of Economics
Susan Moeser, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Karaleah Reichart, California State University, Fullerton
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