The School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York has announced the appointment of four scholars to its faculty.
“The new faculty will reinforce ILR’s research strength and enable the school to continue offering a broad and innovative curriculum, including expanding our course offerings into new topics in the world of work,” said Alexander Colvin, professor of conflict resolution at the ILR School.
Three of the new faculty members are women.
Claire E. Daviss has joined the department of organizational behavior as an assistant professor of human resource studies. Her research focuses on hiring inequities and how the structural elements of the hiring process moderate the influence of gender, race, and other biases in hiring decisions. Dr. Daviss is a graduate of Yale University, where she majored in ethics, politics, and economics. She holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in sociology from Stanford University.
Justine Modica is a new assistant professor in the department of global labor and work. Dr. Modica has spent the past three years as a Klarman Postdoctoral Fellow in History at Cornell’s College of Arts & Sciences. She is writing a book on the history of childcare labor in America. Dr. Modica is a graduate of Darmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in history. She holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in history from Stanford University.
Dionne Pohler was appointed the David and Alexandra Lipsky Professor of Dispute Resolution in the department of global labor and work. She also serves as the associate director of the Scheinman Institute on Conflict Resolution. She was an associate professor and head of the human resources and organizational behavior department at the University of Saskatchewan Edwards School of Business. Earlier, she taught at the University of Toronto. She is co-editor of Building Inclusive Communities in Rural Canada (University of Alberta Press, 2023). Dr. Pohler holds a a bachelor’s degree in commerce from Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia and a Ph.D. in human resources and industrial relations from the University of Alberta.