Caroline D'Abate

Biography

Caroline D’Abate started teaching at Skidmore in 1999 and joined the department full-time in Fall 2003 after earning a Ph.D. in Organizational Studies from the State University of New York. She spent several years in consulting and applied research and brings the same theory-to-practice approach to her classrooms. At Skidmore, her teaching and scholarship focus on employee behavior and development, the social psychology of teams, and job/career attitudes. Rooting these topics in applied psychology, the sociology of work, and pop culture lenses, she offers courses in Organizational Behavior (MB 224), Human Resource Management (MB 358), and Media and the Meaning of Work (MB351), as well as in Business and Organization Management (MB 107) and Skidmore’s First-Year Experience program (SSP 100).

Professor D’Abate remains active in research relating to these topics. Her research has been published in the Journal of Educational and Developmental Psychology, Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, Human Resource Development Quarterly, Personnel Review, the Journal of Leadership and Organizational Studies, Academy of Management Learning & Education, Human Resource Development Review, Human Relations, Mentoring & Tutoring, Journal of the First-Year Experience & Students in Transition, and the Handbook of Career Studies.

She regularly attends and presents research at numerous conferences including the Lilly Series on higher education pedagogy, Academy of Management, Popular Culture Association, the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, the Eastern Academy of Management, the Southern Management Association, Case Association, and the Society for the Advancement of Management. Her work has been recognized by Leader-to-Leader (an award-winning journal co-published by The Frances Hesselbein Leadership Institute and Jossey-Bass/Wiley), the Academy of Human Resource Development (twice winning the annual Richard A. Swanson Research Excellence Award), and by several best paper/poster awards at professional conferences.

She serves as an editorial board member for Sage Open, as article editor, and as a reviewer for a variety of journals and conferences, but she is most passionate about helping to provide a quality undergraduate business education in Skidmore’s liberal arts environment. Serving on Skidmore’s Athletic Council, the Institutional Review Board, coordinating the Management and Business Department’s MB107 program, leading the Department’s curricular restructuring effort, and serving as Department Chair have been some of Professor D’Abate’s most memorable forms of service on campus. Enriching the student experience and delivering a top-rate major and minor for Skidmore students, while engaging in meaningful scholarship, is what Professor D’Abate is currently focused on.

When not working on these things, Caroline loves being a mom to two strong, bright young women, laughing with her husband Matt, going on adventures with friends and family, cuddling with her two old dogs, and being creative. She claims to make a mean apple pie, loves to cook for friends who will eat it, restores antiques to give them new life, grows plants, and sews whenever a project calls for it. Oh, and when not reading scholarly articles and books, Caroline’s not ashamed to say she loves a good beach read and most anything you can stream these days.