LERA Fellows

DEADLINE: MARCH 15

Honoring Scholars and Practitioners
The LERA Awards Committee has announced a call for nominations for the Award designation "LERA Fellow". The LERA Fellows Award is to recognize scholars and practitioners who have made contributions of unusual distinction to the field and have been in the profession and field for longer than 10 years.

The selection committee for the Fellow scholar title considers contributions from all disciplines such as Industrial Relations, Labor Law, Economics, Human Resources, Business, Sociology, Political Science, and Organizational Behavior. For practitioner Fellow nominations, the committee considers professionals from a labor, management, neutrals or other perspective for election.

LERA Fellows Awardees were first inducted in 2009 and five scholars and five practitioners were named inaugural fellows. The LERA Awards Committtee continues to name as many as three scholars and three practitioners each year as LERA Fellows. Awards are given during the LERA General Membership Meeting and Awards Ceremony each year at the LERA Annual Meeting.

NOMINATIONS:
Nominations should be submitted for the LERA Fellows Awards by March 15.
SUBMIT NOMINATION

WINNERS:

2024 Academic Fellows
Michigan State University	American University	Penn State University	University of Wisconsin-Madison/COWs
2024 Practitioner Fellows
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	Alliance of Healthcare Unions	Arbitrator/Mediator	Arbitrator/Mediator

2023 Academic Fellows
Paul Osterman Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Susan Schurman Rutgers University	Peter Cappelli University of Pennsylvania

2023 Practitioner Fellows
Bonnie McSpirit Arbitrator		Dennis Dabney Dabney Law LLC	Ana Avendaño CUNY Law

2022 Academic Fellows
Sarosh Kuruvilla Cornell University	Chris Tilly UCLA	Françoise Carré University of Massachusetts-Boston	Doug Kruse Rutgers University

2022 Practitioner Fellows
Meeta Bass Arbitrator/Mediator		Erin Johansson Jobs With Justice	Mickey Brock Arbitrator/Mediator	Sheila Mayberry Arbitrator/Mediator

 

2021 Academic Fellows: Colvin, Bernhardt, and Fiorito
Alex Colvin Cornell University	Annette Bernhardt University of California, Berkeley	Jack Fiorito Florida State University
2021 Practitioner Fellows: Stahl, Kelly, and Fincher
Fred Stahl Fred Stahl, LLC	Jennifer Kelly UAW	Richard Fincher Workplace Resolutions LLC

2020 Academic Fellows: LaFevor, Weil, Abraham, and Mitchell
Kim LaFevor Athens State University	David Weil Brandeis University	Katharine Abraham University of Maryland	Daniel JB Mitchell University of California-LA
2020 Practitioner Fellows: White and Cohen
Burton White Arbitrator		Jonathan Cohen Plosia Cohen LLC

2019 Academic Fellows: Budd, Cutcher-Gershenfeld, Appelbaum, and Lewin
John Budd Univ. of Minnesota	Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld Brandeis University	Eileen Appelbaum CEPR	David Lewin UCLA
2019 Practitioner Fellows: Pruitt, Herrnstadt, Benson, and Summers
Jim Pruitt Kaiser Permanente	Owen Herrnstadt IAMAW	Frances Benson ILR Press at Cornell	Bonnie Summers Blue Cross Blue Shield. NLO

2018 Academic Fellows: Bain, Bruno, Olson & Voos
Trevor Bain University of Alabama		Bob Bruno University of Illinois	Craig Olson University of Illinois	Paula Voos Rutgers University

2018 Practitioner Fellows: Furseth, Marschall, and Wheeler
Cynthia Furseth PGE	Daniel Marschall AFL-CIO	Jeffrey Wheeler Georgetown University

2017 Academic Fellows: Holley, Reich, and Eaton
William H. Holley, Jr. Auburn University	Michael Reich University of California Berkeley	Adrienne Eaton Rutgers University
2017 Practitioner Fellows: Cousens, Dirksen, and Shea
Mark Cousens Attorney	Bill Dirksen Ford Motor Company	Mary Ellen Shea Mediator / Arbitrator

*We changed how our awards are dated - they will now be dated the year in which the award is presented. This change makes it look as though no awards were given in 2016

2015 Practitioner Fellows:
Marcia L. Greenbaum Arbitrator/Mediator	Marlene Heyser Workplace Law Strategies	Eric Mooshegian International Union of Operating Engineers

2015 Academic Fellows:
Roy Adams McMaster University	Lisa Blomgren Amsler Indiana University Bloomington	Teresa Ghilarducci The New School	Morris Kleiner University of Minnesota

2014 Practitioner Fellows:

• Erich J. (Pete) Stafford, The Center for Construction Research and Training
• Robert Pleasure, North America's Building Trades Unions
• John S. Gaal, Carpenters' District Council of Greater St. Louis & Vicinity

2014 Academic Fellows:

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

2013 Practitioner Fellows:

• Marty Mulloy, Ford Motor Co. (ret.)
• Robert Taylor, Journalist and Researcher
• Elizabeth Shuler, AFL-CIO

2013 Academic Fellows:

• David Card, University of California, Berkeley
• Janice Bellace, University of Pennsylvania
• Daniel B. Cornfield, Vanderbilt University

2012 Practitioner Fellows:

• Robert L Chiaravalli, Strategic Labor and Human Resources, LLC
• John Stepp, Restructuring Associates, Inc.
• Rachel Hendrickson, NEA (ret.)

2012 Academic Fellows:

• Ronald G Ehrenberg, Cornell University
• Lisa Lynch, Brandeis University
• David Metcalf, London School of Economics

2011 Practitioner Fellows:

• Scot Beckenbaugh, FMCS
• Sarah Fox, AFL-CIO
• F. Donal O'Brien, Arbitrator

2011 Academic Fellows:

• Morley Gunderson, University of Toronto
• Rosemary Batt, Cornell University
• Harry Katz, Cornell University

2010 Academic Fellows:

• Orley C. Ashenfelter, Princeton University
• Marianne A. Ferber, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Hoyt N. Wheeler, University of South Carolina

2010 Practitioner Fellows:

• Stephen R. Sleigh, The Yucaipa Companies
• Wilma B. Liebman, National Labor Relations Board

2009 Academic Fellows:

• Sanford M. Jacoby, UCLA Anderson School of Management
• David B. Lipsky, Cornell University Scheinman Institute on Conflict Resolution
• Henry S. Farber, Princeton University Industrial Relations Center

2009 Practitioner Fellows:

• Nancy Peace, Arbitrator/Mediator
• Gladys Gershenfeld, Arbitrator
• Anthony T. Oliver, Parker Milliken Clark O'Hara and Samuelian

2008 Inaugural Scholar Fellows:

• Francine Blau, Cornell University
• Richard Freeman, Harvard University
• Arne Kalleberg, University of North Carolina
• Bruce Kaufman, Georgia State University
• Thomas A. Kochan, MIT

2008 Inaugural Practitioner Fellows:

• Sara Adler, Mediator/Arbitrator
• Bonnie Castrey, Mediator/Arbitrator
• Sheldon Friedman, AFL-CIO
• Eileen Hoffman, FMCS
• Arnold Zack, Arbitrator