Laura Adler

Laura Adler's research examines the relationship between organizations and their legal and market environments. One set of projects explores valuation processes and how organizations refer to information about the external labor market to set pay for employees. Other papers address the future of work, with a focus on changing technologies, new employment relationships, and evolving expectations for diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace. Her work uses multiple methods including interviews, historical archives, and experiments. She specializes in mixed methods design, using fieldwork to develop novel hypotheses and testing these in experimental contexts.

Laura has a PhD in sociology from Harvard University, a Masters in City Planning from UC Berkeley, and a BA in the Humanities from Yale University.

Expertise

• Careers
• Diversity And Inclusion
• Human Resources
• Organizational Behavior
• Women in Leadership
• Work and Occupations

Awards

• Cheryl Allyn Miller Award for Best Student Paper, Sociologists for Women in Society, 2021
• Best Student Paper Award, ASA Sociology of Law Section, 2021
• Best Student Paper Award, ASA Labor and Labor Movements Section, 2021
• Candace Rogers Student Paper Award, Eastern Sociological Society, Honorable Mention, 2021
• Burt Award for Best Student Paper, ASA Economic Sociology Section, Honorable Mention, 2020
• Best Graduate Student Paper, ASA Altruism, Morality, and Social Solidarity Section, Co-Winner, 2020
• Jeanne Humphrey Block Dissertation Award, Harvard University, 2020
• Rose Laub Coser Dissertation Proposal Award, Eastern Sociological Society, 2020
• Certificate of Distinction, Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, Harvard University, 2017 and 2020
• Early Career Workshop Award, Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics, 2019