Announcing Fellows for 2022-2023

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

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