Collaborative Research
Caroline D’Abate, Associate Professor of Management and Business, and four students
– Maeve Foley ’19, Hadley Benneyan, ’19, Jennifer Cerutti ’19, and Noa Maltzman '18
presented their collaborative research at the 2019 Popular Culture/American Culture
national conference in Washington, DC.
At Skidmore, faculty-student collaborative research is the norm. Some examples of this are:
- Caroline D’Abate, Associate Professor of Management and Business, and four students – Maeve Foley ’19, Hadley Benneyan, ’19, Jennifer Cerutti ’19, and Noa Maltzman ’18 – presented their collaborative research at the 2019 Popular Culture/American Culture national conference in Washington, DC. The paper titled Misdiagnosed: When popular culture television depicts fictionalized realities of the medical profession combined survey research from medical professionals with content analysis results on key work experience variables in top medical dramas over three decades.
- What do you want to be when you grow up? A study of popular culture and careers. Submitted for presentation at Southern Management Association (Careers Track), Charlotte, NC. (Professor D’Abate and May-Lin McEvoy ‘16)
- Coaches on the field and on the screen: How popular culture media depicts team leadership. Submitted for presentation at Southern Management Association (Organizational Behavior Track), Charlotte, NC. (Professor D’Abate and Elena Bakar ‘16, Meg Caccavale ‘16, Kate Shepard ‘16, and Meghan Wojtkiewicz ‘16)
- The Meaning of Work and Prostitution. (Professor D’Abate and Ella Kaplan ’16 (Anthropology/MB major), Rebecca Shepard ’16 (Political Science major), and Madie Centenari ’16 (Anthropology major))
- Love and hate Relationship with social media: The case of small restaurants (Professor Lepkowska-White & Sarah Rinaolo ’17)
- Faith in the Workplace: Religion and Secularism in the Employment Sectors of France, Denmark, Sweden, India, and the U.S. (Professor Prasad & Jennifer Shonborn ’14)
- Invention, Creativity, Code, and Big Data: Understanding Innovation in the Consumer Protection Context (Professor Mulligan & Isaac Chansky ’13)
- Meanings of Food: Conversations of American Women on Food Blogs (Professor Lepkowska-White & Emily Kurtright ’15)
- From Companies to Classrooms: Do Team-building and Feedback Methods Transfer (Professor D’Abate, Raiza Nazareth ’12, & Cinyuki Chung ’13)
- Storytelling in Mentoring: An Exploratory, Qualitative Study of Facilitating Learning in Work-related Mentoring Interactions (Professor D’Abate & Hali Alpert ’10)
- Tradition and Transformation at the Spanish Riding School of Vienna (Professor Kennelley & Liza Nagode ’14)
- Surveillance Studies: Teaching Experimental Privacy Law and Ethics (Professor Mulligan & Makeda Diggs ’17)