New LERA Fellows Award Honors Scholars and Practitioners
2009 Inaugural Scholar Fellows shown here L to R: Bruce Kaufman, Francine Blau, and Thomas A. Kochan. (Not shown: Richard Freeman and Arne Kalleberg
The LERA Awards Committee named five scholars and five practitioners as the inaugural LERA Fellows in San Francisoc last January at the 61st Annual Meeting. LERA Fellows is a new series of awards established by the LERA Executive Board 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 10 years.
The committee for the LERA Fellows scholar title will consider those who making contributions from all disciplines such as Industrial Relations, Labor Law, Economics, Human Resources, Business, Sociology, Political Science, and Organizational Behavior. Inaugural Scholar Fellows were Francine Blau, Cornell University; Richard Freeman, Harvard University and Arne Kalleberg, University of North Carolina; Bruce Kaufman, Georgia State University; and Thomas A. Kochan, MIT.
Inaugural Practitioner Fellows shown here L to R: Friedman, Zack, Adler, Castrey, and Hoffman)
For 2010 and future years, the LERA Awards Committee will name as many as three scholars and three practitioners for LERA Fellows designations. The awards will be made during the LERA General Membership Meeting and Awards Ceremony each year at the LERA Annual Meeting. Any LERA member may nominate a LERA Scholar by sending an email or letter of nomination to LERAoffice@illinois.edu.
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