FACULTY
UPDATES
14
ELIZABETH POPP BERMAN
Beth just completed her first, very eventful
semester teaching at OS, where she was
impressed both by students’ performance inside
the classroom and resilience as they unexpectedly
moved online. In the fall, she’ll be leading an
undergraduate research team studying how
students—particularly first-generation students
and those from underrepresented groups—
experience the University of Michigan.
LISA FEIN
Lisa taught two new courses this year,
“Organizational Wrongdoing” and “Prisons
and Social Control.” Wrongdoing examined
organizational characteristics that facilitate both
intentional and unintentional misconduct in and by
organizations. Prisons explored various aspects of
mass incarceration and, through a partnership with
Michigan’s Prison Creative Arts Program, provided
students with an opportunity to conduct oral
histories with former inmates that will become part
of an archive of personal accounts of incarceration
curated at the university.
ARNOLD HO
Arnold is happy to announce the forthcoming
publication of a review article, in collaboration
with Nour Kteily of Northwestern University and
Jacqueline Chen of the University of Utah. The
article, titled “Introducing the Sociopolitical
Motive x Intergroup Threat Model to Understand
How Monoracial Perceivers’ Sociopolitical Motives
Influence their Categorization of Multiracial
People,” will appear in Personality and Social
Psychology Review.
JEREMY LEVINE
Jeremy’s popular seminar, “Nonprofit
Organizations,” was packed with OS’s growing
number of students interested in the nonprofit
world. He also engaged eight students in his
newest major research project on compensation
for victims of crime as part of his “Advanced
Research Team” course.
MARK MIZRUCHI
Mark, after seven straight years of teaching OS310
“Formal Organizations and Environments” (our
core course in macro-organizational theory), taught
a new seminar, entitled “Economy and Society.”
Mark has also renewed his appointment as OS
director through June 30, 2022.
STEVE SAMFORD
Steve is proud of the work his OS490 research
team did over the course of the semester. The
course is related to research he is starting on
small growers organizations and technology
transfer that allows them to participate in global
markets. The students gave him a lot to think
about – particularly regarding how the structure
of cooperative organizations may rely on different
marketing strategies, how growers of other
commodities might embrace differentiation, and
how government agencies might encourage the
formation of suitable grower organizations.
SARA SODERSTROM
The U-M Regents recently approved that Sara
Soderstrom be promoted to associate professor,
with tenure, effective this fall! In addition, the LSA
Executive Committee selected Sara to receive
the 2020 Class of 1923 Memorial Teaching Award
for outstanding teaching of undergraduates.
Congratulations to Sara on a year full of welldeserved
recognition!
DAVID SWEETMAN
While David is missing campus, he has been
grateful for engaging conversations and learning
that we’ve been able to accomplish together in
classes virtually. He plans to spend the summer
writing on leadership and ways we can continue
to learn and grow as leaders. He looks forward to
classes this fall and will be welcoming our junior
OS cohort in OS305 and also teaching OS435
“Strategic Change Through Human Resource
Management.”