Students on the Market

Samantha G. Deane is a Ph.D. Candidate in Human Resources Management at the School of Management and Labor Relations, Rutgers University, with a secondary concentration in Organizational Behavior. Her research examines how identity-based stigma and biases manifest in organizations, impact workplace outcomes, and cause disparate employee experiences. Her research explores a variety of identities, including political affiliation, race, and disability status. Her dissertation was awarded a Rutgers Democracy Lab Summer Fellowship. Her research on corporate diversity statements was recognized as one of the Human Resources Division's Best Papers at the Academy of Management Annual Meeting in 2025, and published in the Academy of Management Proceedings. She is a graduate of the Academy of Management Review's Bridge Reviewer program and currently serves as the HR Doctoral Student Representative for her Ph.D. program at Rutgers.

Lauren Gilbert is a Ph.D. candidate at Rutgers University’s School of Management and Labor Relations (SMLR). Her research focuses on the careers and long-term job outcomes of people with disabilities (PWDs). She seeks to understand what sorts of management practices, environments, and other circumstances can maximize both the employment opportunities for PWDs and their long-term objective and subjective career success.

To do this, she uses a mixed-methods methodology that involves both quantitative and qualitative methods. On the quantitative side, Lauren has used panel data methods, such as fixed and random effects, and latent profile analysis. Her quantitative research uses thematic and content analysis to understand data drawn from interviews and documents. One subset of her research focuses on vocational rehabilitation (VR) agencies and both aspects of policy that influence their effectiveness and particular techniques that VR staff use to help PWDs find employment.

Before she joined Rutgers University, she received her Masters in Public Policy from Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy and worked at Business for Impact on a contract with the Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP), where she did research on demand-side disability employment efforts and managed the McDonough School of Business’s Disability Inclusion Forum, an opportunity for disability service providers, businesses and university students and faculty to learn from each other. She has also worked with a nonprofit called RespectAbility (now Disability Belongs) on efforts to engage with businesses and government on increasing disability employment.

Alondrea Hubbard is a PhD student in the School of Management and Labor Relations at Rutgers University. She joined the PhD program in 2021. She earned her Bachelor's degree in Psychology from Samford University, her Master's degree in Psychology from Auburn University in Montgomery, and her Master's degree in Industrial Relations and Human Resources from Rutgers University. Her research interests focus on interpersonal workplace relationships, the features and outcomes of emotions in the workplace, and the impact of Human Resource Practices on employee social identities. Her research has been presented at the Academy of Management Conference, the Southern Management Association, and the East Coast Doctoral Conference and has been published in Group and Organization Management. She has served on committees for the New Doctoral Student Consortium and currently serves as a Doctoral Student Representative for the Human Resources Division of the Academy of Management (AOM) and on committees for the PhD Project. 

Hannah Park is a Ph.D. Candidate in Human Resources Management at the School of Management and Labor Relations (SMLR), Rutgers University. Her research focuses on why and how employees take action to support vulnerable populations and how organizations implement initiatives to promote workplace inclusion. Further, Hannah is interested in whether the intended goals of such actions and initiatives are effectively achieved or if unintended consequences follow.

Her research has been accepted at the Research in Social Issues in Management and has been presented at the Academy of Management (AOM), the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP), and the Southern Management Association (SMA). Her excellence in research, teaching, and service has been recognized: Hannah received the Best Paper Award at the SMA and the SMLR Doctoral Student Teaching Excellence Award, and she was selected as the Best Reviewer at the AOM.

Jiyoon Park is a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Management and Labor Relations at Rutgers University. Her research explores labor organizing, inequality, and identity in the tech and creative industries. Her dissertation examines how workers and their allies in the U.S. and South Korea mobilize collective action and navigate precarious, post-bureaucratic work environments. Drawing on critical labor studies, the sociology of work, and management scholarship, her work analyzes how intersecting forces shape worker precarity and how workers organize to build collective voice. Through this, she aims to deepen the understanding of contemporary employment relations in an era marked by flexibilization, high-skill pressures, and declining institutional protections.

TJ Raineri is a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Management and Labor Relations at Rutgers University. He joined the PhD program in 2022. He earned his MBA from University of Florida and his bachelor’s degree in finance from Rutgers University. His research interests focus on strategic human capital, collective turnover: specifically shock-induced collective turnover and trajectories of turnover, and multilevel quantitative methods.
 
Prior to starting the PhD Program, he worked as a Financial Project Manager at Walgreens Boots Alliance, and a Finance Manager at L’Oreal prior to that.

June Shin is a Ph.D. student in the School of Management and Labor Relations at Rutgers University, who joined the Ph.D. program in Fall 2022. She earned her master’s degree in Management from Yonsei University, and bachelor’s degree in business administration from Ewha Womans University. Her research interests focus on social network dynamics and team diversity. In particular, she seeks to understand how interpersonal workplace relationships can relate to individual and team performance.