Lilia Cortina

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Job Title: 
IRWG Executive Committee (ex officio); Interim Chair, Women's and Gender Studies, Professor of Psychology, and Management & Organizations
Email Address: 
lilia@umich.edu
Job Title: 
IRWG Executive Committee (ex officio); Interim Chair, Women's and Gender Studies, Professor of Psychology, and Management & Organizations
Email Address: 
lilia@umich.edu

Lilia Cortina studies workplace victimization, which can range from subtle social slights to general incivility to blatant harassment and violence. Her scholarship spans the full spectrum, with a particular focus on “gendered” abuses targeted at undervalued groups in organizations (e.g., women, racial and sexual minorities). One line of inquiry addresses sexual harassment (e.g., gender, derogation, unwanted sexual pursuit, sexual assault) on the job; Cortina co-authored alandmark report on this topic in 2018, in collaboration with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. In another stream of research, Lilia Cortina investigates workplace incivility, i.e., everyday rude, condescending, and ostracizing acts that violate social norms of respect. She also studies intersections of these different forms of wrongdoing, finding that they often occur in tandem in the same organizational contexts, amplifying the harm on individuals and institutions.