Huber Fellows Profiles

The 2012-2013 Michael W. Huber Fellows

Joan Meyers, the Michael W. Huber Fellow, is exploring how organizational structure and culture in worker cooperatives can minimize social inequalities in the workplace using a study of two large worker cooperatives.  She is a Postdoctoral Associate at the Rutgers University School of Management and Labor Relations Department of Labor Studies and Employment Relations with a PhD. from the University of California-Davis in sociology.

The 2011-2012 Michael W. Huber Fellows

Mark Kaswan, a Michael W. Huber Fellow, is looking at the interrelationship between the dynamics of democracy and the implementation of democratic practices within employee-owned firms. He has a doctorate in political science from the University of California at Los Angeles. Mark is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Texas at Brownsville specializing in political theory.

Fidan Ana Kurtulus, a Michael W. Huber Fellow, is studying ESOPs and employment stability and survival using the U.S. Department of Labor and Standard & Poor’s data. She is an assistant professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst with a doctorate in economics from Cornell University