Meet Our New Tenure-Track Faculty

Camille Johnson

Camille Johnson received her Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Ohio State University in 2005. Her primary research focuses broadly on the relationship between social comparisons, motivations and behavior. In addition to her primary interests in social comparison, she has a number of active collaborations and affiliations with researchers involved in a wide variety of research topics like exploring issues surrounding responses to uncertainty and self-doubt and the public policy implications of different perceptions of racial inequality. Her work has been published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and the European Journal of Social Psychology. Prior to receiving her PhD, she studied abroad in China and the Netherlands and was a member of the Teach For America Teacher Corps.

 

 


Xiaohong (Iris) Quan

Xiaohong (Iris) Quan holds a PhD from the University of California at Berkeley. She was a SPRIE Fellow at Stanford University (Stanford Project on Regions of Innovation and Entrepreneurship) before joining San Jose State University as an Assistant Professor. Dr. Quan's research interests are in the fields of technology and innovation management, entrepreneurship, international business, and regional economic development. Her recent research involves topics on, for example, Chinese and Indian immigrant entrepreneurs and professionals in Silicon Valley, multinational corporations' research and development activities in China, and business models and intellectual property protection in the semiconductor industry.

 

 


Shu Zhou

Shu Zhou received her Ph.D. in Operations Management in 2007 from Cornell University, the S. C. Johnson Graduate School of Management. Born in Yueyang, Hunan Province, China, she got her bachelor's degree in Management Information Systems from Tsinghua University, China, and a master's degree in Management from Cornell University. Zhou's research interests include supply chain management, inventory control, forecasting, and operations management-marketing interface. She is a member of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), the Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Society (MSOM), and the Decision Sciences Institute (DSI).

 

 

 

 

 

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Lauren Ramsay

Lauren Ramsay joined the department of Organization and Management as an Assistant Professor in January 2008. Her research work is guided by her commitment to improving social justice, and addresses issues of selection, diversity, and fairness in the global workplace. More specifically, her interests are in valid and reliable selection processes that are useful predictors of performance in different contexts; the appropriateness of workplace measures for use across race, gender, and cultural groups; and reactions to work-related policies that have important consequences for individuals, organizations, and society. She is lead author on an article published in Psychology Science and a forthcoming book chapter. Lauren has also contributed to research published in the Journal of Applied Psychology, International Journal of Selection and Assessment, and Organizational Research Methods. She is an experienced workplace trainer and had over seven years of full-time experience in industry before pursuing her Ph.D. in industrial/organizational psychology at Michigan State University, which she anticipates completing in 2008. Lauren has lived and worked in South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States.