Researcher of the Year Award
2006-2007 Recipient
The SBA Research Committee is pleased to award the annual Faculty Researcher of the Year to Professor George Kaufman, John Smith Professor of Finance and Banking. The award recipient is chosen on the basis of both the quality and quantity of research output within the past five years as enumerated and reported in the most recent Faculty Research Inventory Report.
Professor George Kaufman is globally recognized as one of the most distinguished scholars in the finance area. His areas of specializations are Bank Regulation and Management, Federal Reserve Policy, and Financial Markets. Over his long and distinguished career, he has published in the American Economic Review, Journal of Finance, Journal of Political Economics, Journal of Money Credit and Banking, Review of Economics and Statistics, among others. He has also published over 20 books and numerous monographs. He is very active in professional activities and in public service. He serves as the editor of the Journal of Financial Stability; on the editorial boards of prestigious journals; is serving as the Co-chair of the Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee; and has given numerous Congressional testimonies. In 2002, Professor Kaufman received the Adam Smith Award from the National Association for Business Economics for his life time contribution in the field of economics and finance.
2005-2006 Recipients
The SBA Research Committee is pleased to award the annual Faculty Researcher of the Year to Dr. Suzy Fox and Dr. Patricia Simpson.
This year the award is presented jointly to Professor Suzy Fox and Professor Patricia Simpson, both Associate Professors in the Human Resources and Employee Relations department. The award recipients were chosen on the basis of both the quality and quantity of research output within the past five years as enumerated and reported in the most recent Faculty Research Inventory Report.
Suzy Fox
Professor Fox's research areas are counterproductive work behavior, with her colleague and mentor Paul Spector; racial/ethnic workplace bullying, with Lamont E. Stallworth; and the Successful Women Worldwide international research group. She has presented research at conferences in Peru, Hungary, Poland, Canada and the U.S., and taught in executive and continuing education classes in Austria and Puerto Rico. She has published in the Journal of Vocational Behavior, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Organizational Dynamics, Human Resource Management Review, Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, and the Employee Rights and Employment Policy Journal of Kent Law School.
Dr. Fox has further coauthored a book with Paul Spector, Counterproductive Work Behavior: Investigations of Actors and Targets. Her new book, From Polar Winds to Tropical Breezes: Successful Professional Women of the Americas, coauthored with the Successful Women Worldwide research team, will be published in September 2006. She has been awarded a 2006 Summer Stipend for a new study of stress, burnout and productivity of academic faculty.
Patricia Simpson
A working paper which Professor Simpson coauthored on changing patterns of occupational segregation is currently available from the National Bureau of Economic Research. She also has published articles on occupational segregation by gender in Feminist Economics and on occupational segregation by race in Social Science Research. She has conducted survey research on the division of emotional labor by gender in the workplace, resulting in a publication in the Journal of Applied Psychology. A second stream of research focuses on the training needs and activities of older workers. Her work in this area has appeared in Human Resource Management Review, Feminist Economics, and the Journal of Vocational Behavior.
A forthcoming textbook on older workers will also contain a chapter that she authored on the topic of older workers and training. An analysis of the implications of social security reform for older women is scheduled for publication in Challenge. Dr. Simpson is also interested in standards and norms of organizational justice and how these norms influence responses to wage structures, national income distribution patterns and union organizing campaigns. Articles from this stream of research have appeared in Employee Rights and Responsibilities and in the Journal of Labor Research. She has also published articles on contract administration and union steward power in Industrial Relations Research Review and Labor Studies Journal.
Past Recipients
Former recipients of the Researcher of the Year award include:
- Nenad Jukic, Information Systems and Operations Management (2004-2005)
- Arup Varma, Institute of Human Resources and Industrial Relations (2003-2004)
- David Merriman, Economics (2002-2003)
- Mark Van Oyen (2001-2002)
