2014 Award Recipients, Presented in 2015

Awards were presented at the LERA 67th Annual Meeting, May 25-28, 2015, in Pittsburgh, PA at the LERA General Membership Meeting and Awards Ceremony.

Thomas A. Kochan & Stephen R. Sleigh Best Dissertation Award

• Tashlin Lahkani, Cornell University
• Rachel Aleks, Cornell University

• J. Ryan Lamare, Penn State and now of University of IL
• Adam Seth Litwin, Cornell University
• Mingwei Liu, Rutgers University

In recognition of outstanding contributions to research and practice in the field of labor relations

• Dennis Dabney, Kaiser Permanente

In recognition of outstanding research and practice emphasizing the value of bringing together the academic and practitioner communities in our field

• · Harry Katz, Cornell University

    In recognition of outstanding research and practice in the field of labor and employment relations,

Academic Fellows: 

• Greg Bamber, Monash University
• Russell Lansbury, University of Sydney
• Edward Lazear, Stanford University

Practitioner Fellows:

• Matthew Finkin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• John S. Gaal, Carpenters’ District Council of Greater St. Louis & Vicinity
• Robert Pleasure, North America’s Building Trades Unions

Chapter Merit Awardees:

• Chicago LERA
• Gateway LERA
• Central Ohio LERA
• DC-LERA
• Greater Houston LERA
• Orange County Chapter of LERA
• Boston Chapter of LERA

Startup Chapter Awardee:

• South Florida LERA

Outstanding Chapter Awardee:

• Rocky Mountain LERA

Chapter Star Awardees:

• Alabama LERA
• Oregon LERA
• TERRA