New Faculty Members Join ILR
August 18 2005
Ithaca, NY -- August 18, 2005 -- As preparations begin for the new academic year, ILR welcomes one of its largest cohorts of new hires. The four professors joining the faculty bring the total research and teaching staff to 51 and enhance the breadth and depth of ILR's workplace expertise.
Two new colleagues are joining the Human Resource Studies department, ILR's largest academic unit. Kevin Hallock comes to ILR from the University of Illinois as an associate professor and will teach primarily in the areas of compensation and managerial finance. His research applies a labor economics perspective to HR topics, such as compensation in corporate and nonprofit organizations and the economics of human capital and employment discrimination. John Hausknecht, most recently an assistant professor of psychology at DePaul University, studies staffing, organizational justice, and work attitudes. Initially, he will teach an introductory HR management course for graduate students, as well as a staffing course at the undergraduate level.
The newest member of the Collective Bargaining, Labor Law, and Labor History department also pursues interdisciplinary research. Rebecca Givan will make her home in the CB department as an assistant professor and maintain affiliations with the Human Resource Studies and Organizational Behavior departments. Her research centers on public sector labor relations, with a particular focus on the National Health Service in the United Kingdom. Prof. Givan's first teaching assignment at ILR will be introductory collective bargaining.
Michelle Williams will arrive at ILR in January as an assistant professor of Organizational Behavior. Prof. Williams specializes in social networks and interpersonal processes, trust and cooperation, and team-based relationships. She is currently an assistant professor at MIT, where she has been teaching courses on negotiations.
