LERA 2023 Award Recipients

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Please congratulate these deserving and accomplished LERA 2023 Award Recipients!

These awards will be recognized at the general membership meeting and awards ceremony at the
LERA 75th Annual Meeting, June 1-4, 2023 in Detroit, Michigan!

Click here to nominate someone deserving for a future award!


2023 Lifetime Achievement Award

The Labor and Employment Relations Association Lifetime Achievement Award is a capstone achievement for lifelong contributors to the field of Industrial Relations and Human Resources, from all perspectives. This award was established in 2000, and awardees are recognized at the LERA Annual Meeting, in conjunction with the Presidential Luncheon.

Greg Bamber Janice Bellace Steve Sleigh
Greg Bamber
Monash University
Janice Bellace
University of Pennsylvania 
Steve Sleigh
Sleigh Strategy LLC

2023 LERA Fellow Awards (Academic and Practitioner)

The Labor and Employment Relations Association annually bestows the LERA Fellows Award. The LERA Fellows designation is meant to recognize scholars and practitioners who have made contributions of unusual distinction to the field and have been in the profession and field for longer than ten years. The selection committee for the Fellow scholar title considered contributions from all disciplines such as Industrial Relations, Labor Law, Economics, Human Resources, Business, Sociology, Political Science, and Organizational Behavior.

2023 Academic Fellows

Paul Osterman
Susan Schurman
Peter Cappelli
Paul Osterman
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Susan Schurman
Rutgers University
Peter Cappelli
University of Pennsylvania

2023 Practitioner Fellows

Bonnie McSpirit
Dennis Dabney
Ana Avendaño
Bonnie McSpiritt
Arbitrator
Dennis Dabney
Dabney Law LLC

Ana Avendaño
CUNY Law


2023 Susan C. Eaton Outstanding Scholar-Practitioner Award

The Labor and Employment Relations Association has established an award in honor of Susan C. Eaton, scholar and practitioner and LERA member who passed away in 2003. The Susan C. Eaton Outstanding Scholar-Practitioner Award is given annually to a member of the LERA for achievements of distinction as both an academic and practitioner in our field, emphasizing the value of bringing together the academic and practitioner communities.

Lance Compa

Lance Compa, Cornell University

 

2023 John T. Dunlop Outstanding Scholar Awards

The Labor and Employment Relations Association annually recognizes outstanding academic contributions to research by recent entrants to the field (recent is defined as receiving terminal degree within the last ten years) with the John T. Dunlop Outstanding Scholar Awards. One award recognizes the research contributions of international and/or comparative labor and employment research, and one award recognizes the research addressing industrial relations/employment issues of national significance.

Tamara Lee Michael Maffie Nathan Wilmers Sidney Rothstein
Tamara Lee, Rutgers University
For outstanding contributions to research that address industrial relations/employment problems of
national significance.
Michael Maffie, Cornell University
For outstanding contributions to research that address industrial relations/employment problems of national significance.
Nathan Wilmers, MIT
For outstanding contributions to research that address industrial relations/employment problems of 
national significance.
Sidney Rothstein, Williams College
For outstanding contributions to research that address industrial relations/employment problems of
international significance.

 

2023 LERA Outstanding Practitioner Award

The Labor and Employment Relations Association annually confers the LERA Outstanding Practitioner Award. This award recognizes a distinguished practitioner for unique contributions to labor and employment relations practice over her/his career, consistent with the values and the mission of the LERA.

Betty Widgeon

Betty Widgeon
Widgeon Dispute Resolution, PLC


2023 James G. Scoville Best International/ Comparative IR/HR Paper Award

The Labor and Employment Relations Association annually selects the most outstanding international and comparative employment issues paper as the winner of the James G. Scoville Best International Paper Award, which carries a cash prize. The award was established in conjunction with the Center for Human Resources and Labor Studies at the University of Minnesota to honor retiring professor and long-time member of the LERA, James G. Scoville. Eligible published papers on international and comparative employment issues are considered, including those with empirical material on employment issues from two or more countries, that examine transnational employment-relations phenomena, or that make theoretical contributions using empirical material from a single country with implicit international comparisons. 

Lamare, J. Ryan, & Budd, John W. (2022). The relative importance of industrial relations ideas in politics: A quantitative analysis of political party manifestos across 54 countries. Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, 61(1), 22-49
 Ahmed, Md. Shoaib., & Uddin, Shahzad. (2022). Workplace Bullying and Intensification of Labour Controls in the Clothing Supply Chain: Post-Rana Plaza Disaster. Work, Employment and Society, 36(3), 539-556.
Ryan Lamare

John Budd

Shoaib Ahmed

Shazad Uddin

Ryan Lamare
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

John W. Budd
University of Minnesota

Shoaib Ahmed
University of Sussex

Shahzad Uddin
University of Essex


2023 Kenneth May Media Award

The Labor and Employment Relations Association annually recognizes superior reporting regarding issues of importance to our labor-management community including academics, practitioners, industries, and dispute resolution professionals. This award carries the distinction of the recipient being invited to present at the LERA Annual Meeting on their journalistic body of work.

Dan Mitchell
Stuart Basefsky David Moberg

Daniel J.B. Mitchell
University of California, Los Angeles

Stuart Basefsky
Cornell University

David Moberg 
In These Times (posthumous)

 

2023 Thomas A. Kochan & Stephen R. Sleigh Best Dissertation Award

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. Each year, the Thomas A. Kochan & Stephen R. Sleigh Best Dissertation Award committee reads thousands of pages of dissertations and determines which papers are the most significant contributions to the body of research in the field.

Kourtney Koebel

Kourtney Koebel
“Three Essays on the Social Determinants of Labour Supply”

 

2023 Susan C. Eaton Research Grant Award

This award is granted bi-annually to the most promising and relevant proposal for research or research-in-action consistent with the values and principles of the work of Susan C. Eaton and that best honors her legacy as an outstanding scholar-practitioner.

Carla Cecilia Lima Aranzaes Adam Schoenbachler
Carla Cecilia Lima Aranzaes
Michigan State University

Adam Schoenbachler
Vanderbilt University

 

2023 LERA Chapter Awards

The Labor and Employment Relations Association annually recognizes the accomplishments and contributions of local LERA chapters with three levels of LERA Chapter Awards including Chapter Merit Awards, Outstanding Chapter Awards, and Chapter Star Awards.

2023 LERA Chapter Star Awards

  • Houston LERA is awarded the Chapter Star Award in 2023 for its significant contributions in the areas of Outstanding Programming, Community Involvement, Consistent Chapter Excellence, Chapter Communications, Chapters Helping Chapters, Chapter to National Relations.

  • Detroit LERA is awarded the Chapter Star Award in 2023 for its significant contributions in the areas of Outstanding Programming, Community Involvement, Consistent Chapter Excellence, Chapter Communications, Chapters Helping Chapters, Chapter to National Relations.

2023 LERA Outstanding Chapter Awards

  • COLERA is awarded the Outstanding Chapter Award in 2023 for its significant contributions in the areas of, Outstanding Programming, Consistent Chapter Excellence, Chapter to National Relations, Member Innovation.

  • RI LERA is awarded the Outstanding Chapter Award in 2023 for its significant contributions in the areas of Consistent Chapter Excellence, Outstanding Programming, Chapter Communications (2020), Chapter to National Relations (2020).

  • DC LERA is awarded the Outstanding Chapter Award in 2023 for its significant contributions in the areas of Outstanding Programming, Community Involvement, Chapter to National Relations, Chapters Helping Chapters.

  • Oregon LERA is awarded the Outstanding Chapter Award in 2023 for its significant contributions in the areas of Consistent Chapter Excellence, Outstanding Programming, Community Involvement, Chapter to National Relations.

  • NW LERA is awarded the Outstanding Chapter Award in 2023 for its significant contributions in the areas of Outstanding Programming, Community Involvement, Consistent Chapter Excellence, Chapter to National Relations.

2023 LERA Chapter Merit Awards

  • Maine LERA received Merit Awards for Outstanding Programming, Community Involvement, Consistent Chapter Excellence.

  • VLERA received Merit Awards for Chapters Helping Chapters, Outstanding Programming.

  • Northeast Ohio LERA received Merit Awards for Outstanding Programming, Consistent Chapter Excellence, Chapter to National Relations. 

  • NJ LERA received Merit Awards for Consistent Chapter Excellence, Outstanding Programming.

  • NYC LERA received Merit Awards for Consistent Chapter Excellence, Outstanding Programming.

  • CT Valley LERA received Merit Awards for Consistent Chapter Excellence, Outstanding Programming.

  • Chicago LERA received Merit Awards for Outstanding Programming, Consistent Chapter Excellence, Chapter to National Relations.

  • Virginia LERA received Merit Awards for Chapter to National Relations, Outstanding Programming. 


You are invited to personally nominate someone deserving to receive a LERA Award at the
LERA 76th Annual Meeting, in New York, NY, on June 26-30, 2024.

Please visit the LERA Deadlines page for complete information about each award, lists of past award recipients,
and nomination forms, which are due by January 15, 2024, or download the "Calls for Awards" below:

Call for Practitioner Award Nominations: https://lera.memberclicks.net/assets/docs/awardscall-practitioners2024.pdf
Call for Scholar Award Nominations: https://lera.memberclicks.net/assets/docs/awardscall-scholars2024.pdf
Call for Student Award Nominations: https://lera.memberclicks.net/assets/docs/awardscall-students2024.pdf