Joya Misra
Distinguished Professor
Education
Ph.D., Sociology, Emory University, 1994
Research Areas
Inequality, Race/Gender/Class, Work & Labor, Political Sociology, Welfare States, Research Methods
Selected Publications (former or current students noted by asterisk)
Books
Joya Misra and Kyla Walters*. 2022. Walking Mannequins: How Race and Gender Inequalities Shape Retail Clothing Work. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. Honorable Mention for the Book Awards from the Race, Gender, and Class, and Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility Sections of the American Sociological Association.
Thomas Janoski, Cedric de Leon, Joya Misra, and Isaac Martin. 2020. The New Handbook of Political Sociology. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.
Joya Misra, Mahala Dyer Stewart*, Marni Alyson Brown. 2017. Gendered Lives, Sexual Beings. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Dan Clawson, Robert Zussman, Joya Misra, Naomi Gerstel, Randall Stokes, and Doug Anderton (Eds.). 2007. Public Sociology: Fifteen Eminent Sociologists Debate Politics and the Profession in the 21st Century. Berkely, CA: University of California Press.
Articles
Joya Misra, Ember Kanelee*, Ethel Mickey, and Laurel Smith Doerr. “‘I don't believe that I have been wanted’: Processes of Overinclusion and Exclusion in Racialized and Gendered Organizations.” Social Problems. Online First.
Joya Misra, Ethel Mickey, Ember Kanelee*, Laurel Smith-Doerr. 2024 “Creating Inclusive Department Climates in STEM Fields.” Journal of Diversity in Higher Education. 17(2), 176–189.
Joya Misra. 2023. “Revolution or Incursion? Academic Sociologists and Gender in the 21st Century.” American Journal of Sociology. 129(3): 955-964.
Joya Misra. 2023. “The Challenges and Joys of Publicly Engaged Sociology.” Sociological Forum. 38(S1): 1124-1143.
Kyla Walters* & Joya Misra. 2023. “Stop Discounting Retail Workers.” Work & Occupations. 50(3): 368–375
Kyla Walters* & Joya Misra. 2023. “Cool Clothes and Fun Times? Consumer Identity in Retail Clothing Work.” In Amy Wharton’s Working in America: Continuity, Conflict, and Change in a New Economic Era. New York: Routledge.
Ethel Mickey, Joya Misra, and Dessie Clark. 2023. “The Persistence of Neoliberal Logics in Faculty Evaluations amidst Covid-19: Recalibrating Towards Equity.” Gender, Work, & Organizations. 30(2): 638– 656.
Dessie Clark, Ethel Mickey, and Joya Misra. 2022. “Growing the Roots of Equity: The TREE Model of Institutional Response to COVID-19” Journal of Diversity in Higher Education. Online First.
Ember Skye Kanelee,* Joya Misra, and Ethel Mickey. Forthcoming, “Fostering Inclusion for Black Faculty.” Understanding and Dismantling Privilege. 12(1): 54-63.
Joya Misra, KerryAnn O’Meara, Alexandra Kuvaeva, Dawn Kiyoe Culpepper, and Audrey Jaeger. 2021. “Gendered and Racialized Perceptions of Faculty Workload.” Gender & Society. 35(3): 358-394.
Joya Misra, Celeste Vaughan Curington, *and Venus Mary Green.* 2021 “Methods of Intersectional Research.” Sociological Spectrum. 41(1)9-28.
Joya Misra, Ethel Mickey, and Dessie Clark. “Addressing and Documenting Pandemic Impacts.” ADVANCE Journal. 2(2). https://doi.org/10.5399/osu/ADVJRNL.2.2.1
Joya Misra. 2020. “Women, Politics, and Gender Inequality.” Western New England Law Review. 42(3):397-417.
KerryAnn O’Meara , Elizabeth Beise , Dawn Culpepper , Joya Misra & Audrey Jaeger. 2020.“Faculty Work Activity Dashboards: A Strategy to Increase Transparency.” Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 52:(3)34-42.
Joya Misra and Mary Bernstein. 2020. "Sexuality, Gender, and Social Policy. In Thomas Janoski, Cedric de Leon, Joya Misra, and Isaac Martin's The New Handbook of Political Sociology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Thomas Janoski, Cedric de Leon, Joya Misra, and Isaac Martin. 2020. “Introduction.” In Thomas Janoski, Cedric de Leon, Joya Misra, and Isaac Martin’s TThe New Handbook of Political Sociology.. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Dawn Culpepper, Sarah Kilmer, KerryAnn O’Meara, Joya Misra, and Audrey J. Jaeger. 2020. “Terrapin Time Initiative: A Workshop to Enhance Alignment between Faculty Work Priorities and Time Use.” Innovative Higher Education. 45: 165-79.
KerryAnn O'Meara. Courtney Lennarz, Alexandra Kuvaeva, Audrey Jaeger, and Joya Misra. 2019. "Department Conditions and Practices Associated with Faculty Workload Satisfaction and Perceptions of Equity." Journal of Higher Education. 90(5): 744-772.
Eunjung Jee*, Joya Misra, and Marta Murray-Close. 2019. "Motherhood Penalties in the U.S., 1986-2014." Journal of Marriage and Family. 81(2) 434-449.
Diego F. Leal,* Ragini Saira Malhotra*, and Joya Misra. 2019. "Visualizing Feminized International Migration Flows." Socius. 5:1-3.
KerryAnn O'Meara, Audrey Jaeger, Joya Misra, and Courtney Lennarz. 2018. "Undoing Disparities in Faculty Workloads: a Randomized Trial Experiment." PlosOne 13(12): e0207316.
Joya Misra. 2018. “Categories, Structures, and Intersectional Theory.” In James W. Messerschmidt, Patricia Yancey Martin, Michael A. Messner and Raewyn Connell’s (Eds.) Gender Reckonings: New Social Theory and Research. New York: NYU Press.
Selected Presentations
“Sociological Solutions: Building Communities of Hope, Justice, and Joy.” Presidential Address, American Sociological Association, Montreal 2024.
“Forget Matthew: Cumulative Advantage Models of Collaboration without Intersectionality Obscure the Maya Effect" (with Ethel L. Mickey, Ember Skye Kanelee, and Laurel Smith-Doerr). American Sociological Association, Montreal, 2024.
“Faculty Work in Pandemic Times: Gendered/Racialized Experiences of Collaboration, Inclusion, and Governance during COVID" (with Shuyin Liu, Laurel Smith-Doerr, and Dessie Clark). American Sociological Association, Philadelphia, 2023.
“COVID-19 Impacts on Faculty: Research & Practice” (with Shuyin Liu, Laurel Smith-Doerr, and Dessie Clark). Equity in STEM Community Convening, Durham, 2023.
“Intersections between Gender Regime, Social Policies, and Mother’s Employment” (with Chen-Shuo Hong). Research Committee 19, International Sociological Association. Vilnius, Lithuania & Online, 2022.
“Intersectional Experiences among STEM Faculty” (with Ember Skye Kanelee, Ethel L. Mickey, and Laurel Smith-Doerr). American Sociological Association, Los Angeles, 2022.
“‘We Know There Are Problems, But…’: Navigating Resistance to Faculty Workload Reform” (with Dawn Kiyoe Culpepper, Kerryann O’Meara and Audrey Jaeger). Equity in STEM Community Convening, Washington DC, 2022.
“Racialized and Gendered Research Collaboration Experiences of STEM Faculty” (with Ethel Mickey, Ember Skye Kanelee, and Lauren Smith-Doerr). Equity in STEM Community Convening, Washington DC., 2022.
“Growing Roots of Equity: The TREE Model of Faculty Evaluation in COVID-19” (with Dessie Clark and Ethel Mickey). Equity in STEM Community Convening, Washington DC, 2022.
“Intersectional Experiences of Inclusion among STEM Faculty of Color” (with Ember Skye Kanelee, Ethel L. Mickey, and Laurel Smith-Doerr). Eastern Sociological Society, 2022.
“Cultural Attitudes, Social Policies and Mother’s Employment” (with Chen-Shuo Hong). Research Committee 19, International Sociological Association, Fribough, Swizerland & Online, 2021.
“Creating Inclusive Department Climates in STEM Fields” (with Ember Kanelee, Ethel Mickey, Laurel Smith-Doerr). American Sociological Association (Virtual), 2021.
“Gender, Labor Migration, and Global Inequalities” (with Diego Leal and Ragini Malhotra). Thematic panel, Society for the Study of Social Problems (Virtual), 2021.
Methods of Intersectional Research (with Celeste Vaughan Curington and Venus Mary Green). American Sociological Association, New York, NY, 2019.
Thematic Session: Race, Gender, and Retail Occupations: Emotions and the Changing Workforce. Branding, Beauty, and the Changing Face of Retail Work (with Kyla Walters). American Sociological Association, Philadelphia, PA, 2018.
The Motherhood Wage Penalty over Time: Changing Returns to Education and Experience (with Eunjung Jee and Marta Murray-Close). Population Association of America, Denver, CO, 2018.
Funded Projects
National Science Foundation. Creating Pathways for STEM Higher Education Leadership. Education and Human Resources Core (EHR-CORE). (2023-2026)
ARC Network: A STEM Equity Brain Trust. Gender, Race, Workload, and Leadership in STEM. (2020-2021)
National Science Foundation. Collaboration and Equity: The Resources, Relationships, and Recognition (R3) Model for Advancing Women and Underrepresented Faculty in Science and Engineering. ADVANCE IT. (2018-2023)
Washington Center for Equitable Growth. Parenthood and the Gender Wage Gap. (2016-2017)
National Science Foundation. Faculty Workload and Rewards, ADVANCE Plan-IHE. KerryAnn O’Meara, PI. (2015-2020)