Timothy Hallett was named new director of the Liberal Arts + Management Program (LAMP) earlier this year.
Professor Hallett received his Ph.D. from Northwestern University in 2003. His research is focused on the intersections of social psychology, organizations, and culture. He examines how institutions such as education are inhabited by people doing things together-at times in concert and at times in conflict-and how these interactions matter for organizational functioning. "Focusing on these interactions is essential for our understanding of how organizations work. Such research typically involves field observations of what people actually do inside of organizations, and interviews with the inhabitants," said Professor Hallett.
He has published research on institutional recoupling in organizations (American Sociological Review 2010), the inhabited nature of institutions (Theory and Society 2006 with Marc Ventresca), how people gossip at work (Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 2009 with Brent Harger and Donna Eder), how emotions blow up in organizations (The Sociological Quarterly 2003), symbolic power and organizational culture (Sociological Theory 2003), and how symbolic power is created in social interactions and used to shape organizations (Social Psychology Quarterly 2007).