Susan Fisk
Biography
Biography
Dr. Fisk's research focuses on how social-psychological processes contribute to the gender and racial segregation of occupations, as well as interventions to disrupt these processes. She is particularly interested in how micro-level, social-psychological processes depress women’s upward mobility in the workforce and how to leverage our sociological knowledge of career-choice processes to broaden participation in computing.
Her work has been published in Social Psychology Quarterly, PLOS ONE, and Transactions on Computing Education, and she has been awarded over a million dollars from the National Science Foundation for her research. She has served as PI or Co-PI on four NSF grants focused on implementing interventions to broaden participation in computing, including serving as the Sociology Research Lead for the STARS Computing Corps. She also currently serves as Co-PI on the ɫ ADVANCE Catalyst grant. In addition, she has worked on Google’s People Analytics Team to quantify gender and racial inequities and implement and assess change efforts.
Research and teaching interests:
- Social Psychology
- Occupational Segregation
- Gender
- Mobility
- Inequality
- Organizations and Work
- Quantitative Research Methods
Education
Expertise
Inequalities (class/gender/race/ethnicity)
Publications
- Munsch, Christin, Lindsey Trimble O’Connor, and Susan R. Fisk. 2024. “Gender and the Disparate Payoffs of Overwork.” Social Psychology Quarterly, 87(1): 22-43.
- Fisk, Susan R. and Jon Overton. 2020. “Bold or Reckless? The Impact of Workplace Risk-Taking on Attributions and Expected Outcomes.” PLOS ONE, 15(3): e0228672
- Fisk, Susan R. and Jon Overton. 2019. “Who Wants to Lead? Anticipated Gender Discrimination Reduces Women’s Leadership Ambitions.” Social Psychology Quarterly, 82(3): 319-332
- Fisk, Susan R. 2018. “Who’s on Top? Gender Differences in Risk-Taking Produce Unequal Outcomes for High-Ability Women and Men.” Social Psychology Quarterly, 81(3): 185-206.
- Fisk, Susan R. and Cecilia Ridgeway. 2018. “Framing Gender.” In The Handbook of the Sociology of Gender, edited by Barbara Risman, Carissa Froyum, and William Scarborough. Springer Press.
- Fisk, Susan R., Brennan J. Miller, and Jon Overton. 2017. “Why Social Status Matters for Understanding the Interrelationships Between Testosterone, Economic Risk‐Taking, and Gender.” Sociology Compass, 11(3): e12452.
- Fisk, Susan R. 2016. “Gender Stereotypes, Risk-Taking, and Gendered Mobility.” In Advances in Group Processes, pp. 179-210, Vol. 33, edited by S. R. Thye and E. J. Lawler. Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
- Ridgeway, Cecilia and Susan R. Fisk. 2012. “Class Rules, Status Dynamics, and ‘Gateway’ Interactions.” In Facing Social Class: The Social Psychology of Social Class, edited by S. T. Fiske and H. R. Markus. Russell Sage Foundation.
Awards/Achievements
- Co-PI. National Science Foundation (NSF) Broadening Participation in Computing (BPC). “STARS Computing Corps: Extending a National Community of Practice for Developing BPC Change Leaders.” 2024 – 2029. $5.9M ($255k to ɫ). Awarded 2024
- Co-PI. National Science Foundation (NSF) ADVANCE Catalyst. “Who is Counted and What Counts? Tracking Women’s Engagement in Low-Prestige/High-Workload Service Activities at ɫ.” 2022 – 2024. $300k ($300k to ɫ). Awarded 2022
- PI. National Science Foundation (NSF) Broadening Participation in Computing (BPC). “STARS: Catalyzing Action-Oriented Academic Communities for Broadening Participation in Computing.” 2021 – 2024. $3.6M ($307k to ɫ). Awarded 2021
- PI. National Science Foundation (NSF) Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Education and Human Resources (IUSE: HER). “Analysis of a Simple, Low-cost Intervention's Impact on Retention of Women in Computer Science.” 2020 – 2022. $300k ($125k to ɫ)
- Graduate Student Mentorship Award, given by the Sociology Graduate Students at ɫ, 2020.
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