Assistant Professor
Department of Sociology
EXPERTISE
Inequality, work and organizations, employment discrimination, law and society, quantitative research methods
CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS
Professor Hirsh's research is in the areas of inequality, organizations, and the law. More specifically, she studies how alternative organizational and legal environments contribute to variation in gender and race inequality in the employment. Her current research focuses on employment discrimination and the consequences of federal anti-discrimination law for organizational dynamics and workplace inequality.
RELATED LINKS
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
"Settling for Less? The Organizational Determinants of Discrimination-Charge Outcomes." Law and Society Review 42(2), 2008. Pp. 239-274.
(With Sabino Kornrich) "The Context of Discrimination: Workplace Conditions, Institutional Environments, and Sex and Race Discrimination Charges." American Journal of Sociology , 113(5), 2008. Pp. 1394-1432
(With T. Griffith and M. A. Neale) "The Phenomenology of Conflict in Distributed Work Teams." In P. Hinds a S. Kiesler, eds. Distributed Work. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2002. Pp. 213-32.
(With P. Burstein) "Interest Organizations, Information, and Policy Innovation in the U.S. Congress." Sociological Forum 22(2), 2007. Pp. 174-199.
(With Y. Cha.) "Understanding Employment Discrimination: A Multilevel Approach" Sociological Compass. Forthcoming.
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