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The Rutgers Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing has appointed its 2022-23 class of 34 research fellows. They are:
 

Rina Agarwala, Kendeda Fellow

  • Professor of Sociology, Krieger School of Arts & Sciences, Johns Hopkins University
  • Research: Employee ownership and empowerment in the Self-Employed Women’s Association (SAWA) cooperatives in India
     

Yifat Aran, Institute Fellow

  • Assistant Professor of Business Law, University of Haifa (Israel)
  • Research: How do start-up employees think about equity compensation?
     

Filippo Belloc, Nachson and Arieh Mimran Fellow

  • Professor of Economic Policy, University of Siena (Italy)
  • Research: Hierarchical control under profit sharing programs in the Italian Longitudinal Company Database on Labor (RIL-INAPP)
     

Tanya Smith Brice, Kendeda Fellow

  • Vice President of Education, Council on Social Work Education
  • Research: Employee share ownership programs as a tool to close the racial wealth gap
     

Adriane Clomax, Kendeda Fellow

  • Ph.D. Candidate, Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work, University of Southern California
  • Research: How are workers of color faring in ESOP jobs? How do HR social networks affect the applicant pool's diversity?
     

James de le Vingne, Executive Fellow

  • CEO, Employee Ownership Association (UK) | Board Member, Ownership at Work (UK)
  • Research: Evaluating the function and performance of employee-owned firms in the UK
     

David Finegold, Senior Fellow 

  • President, Chatham University
  • Research: Developing and evaluating a citywide initiative to promote employee ownership conversions in Pittsburgh
     

Matthew Fisher-Post, Institute Fellow

  • Ph.D. Candidate, Research Fellow, and Coordinator of the World Inequality Lab, Paris School of Economics (France)
  • Research: Do firms with a higher labor share (or employees in a more equal income distribution) perform better?
     

Fred Freundlich, Kendeda Fellow

  • Professor, Faculty of Business and Faculty of Humanities and Education, Mondragon University (Spain)
  • Research: The effects of shared ownership education on employee-owners in the employee-owned Mondragon cooperatives  
     

Mark Clayton Hand, Institute Fellow and Corey Rosen Fellow

  • Visiting Lecturer and Co-Founder of the Research Cluster on Employee Ownership and Workplace Democracy, Southern Methodist University
  • Research: Early research and data-gathering on employee ownership trusts
     

Jayasri (Joyce) Hart, Executive Fellow

  • Filmmaker
  • Research: Making the PBS film “Own It! Louis Kelso’s Macroeconomic Fix” with support from Women Make Movies and Northern California Public Media
     

Renee Hatcher, Kendeda Fellow

  • Assistant Professor of Law and Director, Community Enterprise & Solidarity Economy Clinic, UIC John Marshall Law School, University of Illinois Chicago
  • Research: Analyzing and reimagining the legal Infrastructure of worker cooperatives in the United States
     

Molly Hemstreet, Executive Fellow

  • Co-Executive Director, Industrial Commons | Founder, Opportunity Threads
  • Research: Local economic development and worker ownership
     

Denise Kasparian, Kendeda Fellow

  • Assistant Professor, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Buenos Aires (Argentina)
  • Research: Social empowerment in the economy within worker cooperatives of platform cooperativism   
     

Esteban Kelly, Executive Fellow 

  • Executive Director, United States Federation of Worker Cooperatives
  • Research: The development of worker cooperatives in the United States
     

Jungook Kim, Employee Ownership Foundation Louis O. Kelso Fellow

  • Assistant Professor, School of Arts, Science & Business, Chatham University
  • Research: Continuing monthly brief research studies for the Employee Ownership Foundation and the Institute’s website​
     

Kyoung Yong Kim, Employee Ownership Foundation Louis O. Kelso Fellow

  • Assistant Professor, Villanova School of Business
  • Research: Are high-quality employees more attracted to firms with employee ownership plans?
     

Felice Klein, J. Robert Beyster Fellow

  • Assistant Professor of Management, College of Business and Economics, Boise State University
  • Research: Gender, race, and employee equity awards
     

Fabio Landini, Nachson and Arieh Mimran Fellow

  • Professor of Applied Economics, University of Parma (Italy)
  • Research: Hierarchical control under profit sharing programs in the Italian Longitudinal Company Database on Labor (RIL-INAPP)
     

Alison Lingane, Executive Fellow 

  • Co-Founder, Project Equity
  • Research: Buyouts of retiring business owners using employee ownership  
     

Jens Lowitzsch, Faculty Fellow and Mentor of the Institute

  • Kelso Professor of Comparative Law, East European Business Law, and European Legal Policy, Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) (Germany) | Managing Director, Kelso Institute Europe at Berlin
  • Research: Analyzing the Renewable Energy Communities that represent hybrid worker-consumer cooperatives in sustainable energy across Germany and the European Union
     

Christopher Mackin, Ray Carey Fellow

  • Faculty Member, Labor and Worklife Program, Harvard Law School
  • Research: Analyzing credit enhancement and government guarantee policies to develop employee ownership of companies  
     

Campbell McDonald, Executive Fellow

  • Chief Executive Officer, Ownership at Work (UK)
  • Research: Evaluating the function and performance of employee-owned firms in the UK
     

Cian McMahon, Patrick J. McGovern Fellow

  • Postdoctoral Research Fellow, International Centre for Co-operative Management, St. Mary’s University (Canada)
  • Research: What is the role for labor unions in governing worker cooperatives?  
     

Jack Moriarty, Institute Policy Analysis Fellow

  • Founder and Executive Director, Ownership America
  • Research: Policy analysis of employee ownership legislative initiatives
     

Eve O’Connor, Institute Fellow

  • Ph.D. Candidate, American Studies, Harvard University
  • Research: Why did cooperatives thrive in the early twentieth-century United States?  
     

Simon Pek, Social Capital Partners Fellow

  • Assistant Professor of Business and Society, Gustavson School of Business, University of Victoria (Canada)
  • Research: Case studies of ESOP-like employee-owned firms in Canada
     

Sarah Reibstein, Institute Fellow

  • ​Research Scholar, Sociology, Barnard College
  • Research: A sociological case study of the Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend   
     

Andrew Robinson, Faculty Fellow and Mentor of the Institute

  • Professor of Accounting and Performance, Leeds University Business School (UK) | Academic Advisor, Ownership at Work (UK)
  • Research: Performance of employee-owned firms  
     

Adria Scharf, Employee Ownership Foundation Louis O. Kelso Fellow 

  • Director of Education and Collaboration, and Director of the Curriculum Library for Employee Ownership (CLEO), Rutgers Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing
  • Research: Case studies of ESOP firms
     

Aquilina Soriano Versoza, Executive Fellow

  • Founder and Executive Director, Pilipino Workers Center of Southern California 
  • Research: Home care worker cooperatives    
     

Valerie Whitcomb, Employee Ownership Foundation Louis O. Kelso Fellow

  • Instructor, Perdue School of Business, Salisbury University
  • Research: Case studies of ESOP companies   
     

Nancy Wiefek, Joseph Cabral Distinguished Scholar and Fellow

  • Research Director, National Center for Employee Ownership (NCEO)
  • Research: The impact of ESOPs on employees  
     

​Trevor Young-Hyman, Employee Ownership Foundation Louis O. Kelso Fellow

  • Assistant Professor of Business Administration and Sociology, Katz School of Business, University of Pittsburgh
  • Research: The decision-making process of retiring business owners in considering an ESOP or a worker coop