Editors

EILEEN OTIS

Eileen Otis is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Northeastern University and the Chief Editor of Work in Progress. She is the author of the award-winning book Markets and Bodies: Women, Service Work, and the Making of Inequality in China. Her research has been published in the American Sociological Review, Gender and Society, and Politics and Society, among other journals. She is currently working on a book about retail labor and merchant capitalism in China focusing on Walmart. 

Anne-Kathrin Kronberg

Commissioning Editor

Anne-Kathrin Kronberg is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Organization Science at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and a Commissioning Editor at Work in Progress. She received her Ph.D. from Emory University and completed a Post-Doc at the Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany. Her work examines how workplaces shape race and gender differences in career outcomes. This research spans policies in traditional organizations and workers (content creators) on digital platforms.

Anna Gibson

Anna D. Gibson is a Postdoctoral Associate in Comparative Media Studies/Writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Commissioning Editor at Work in Progress. She studies labor, professions, and community in the context of digital platforms. Her research has been published in Social Media + Society and Information, Communication and Society.

Gretchen Purser

Gretchen Purser is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. She is the Labor and Labor Movements Section Commissioning Editor for Work In Progress. Her research focuses on low-wage work, labor market intermediation, and urban poverty.

Jonathan Mijs

Jonathan J.B. Mijs (PhD Harvard University, 2017) is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Boston University and a Veni Fellow at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. He is the Economic Sociology Section Commissioning Editor for Work In Progress. He studies how people per­ceive, explain, and evaluate social inequal­ity. His work has been published in Social Problems, Socio-Economic Review, Sociology of Education, and the Annual Review of Sociology and has been featured in The Atlantic, The Washington Post, and the Financial Times.

    Steve Vallas

    Steven Vallas is Professor Emeritus at Northeastern University in Boston and Editor-at-Large at Work in Progress. Most of his research concerns the transformation of work, struggles over new technologies, workers’ views of managerial authority, and responses to the demands of the new economy. Lately he’s been studying gig work, in collaboration with Juliet Schor, and Amazon warehouse workers, a key site for the workers’ movement today. He lives in Central Virginia.

    Tom VanHeuvelen

    Tom VanHeuvelen is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Minnesota and a Commissioning Editor at Work in Progress. His research focuses primarily on the long-run causes and consequences of economic inequality change. His research has been published in outlets including the American Sociological Review, American Journal of Sociology, and Social Forces.

    Lindsay Cameron

    Lindsey D. Cameron is an assistant professor of management and the Dorinda and Mark Winkelman Distinguished Faculty Scholar at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and holds an appointment in the sociology department. She is a Faculty Affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, the Data and Society Research Institute in New York City, and a former fellow (member) at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. A scholar of the future of work, her research focuses on how algorithmic management and artificial intelligence is changing the modern workplace, with an emphasis on the gig economy.

    Dilan Eren

    Dilan Eren is an Assistant Professor in the Strategy group at Ivey Business School. Her studies bring attention to supply-side dynamics to address demand-side challenges. She is particularly interested in the interplay between technological change and the future of work and organizations. Her research examines this interplay in various contexts such as open-access tech skills initiatives, occupational communities built around online forums, and companies grappling with cybersecurity vulnerabilities.