Samantha “Sammi” Dodson is an Assistant Professor at the Haskayne School of Business at the University of Calgary. Prior to this appointment, she was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Montalbano Centre for Responsible Leadership Development in the Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia. She received her Ph.D. in Management at the Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah. Her research program focuses on when and why women experiencing roadblocks and adversity are evaluated as deserving of opportunities and support at work. Specifically, her current research explores a) the causes and consequences of interpersonal distress (e.g., discrimination, sexual harassment) experienced by women and other stigmatized identities at work, b) the social effects of abstraction related to gender stereotypes, and c) understanding and alleviating suffering at work. To investigate her focal research questions, she employs experimental paradigms, experience sampling, archival text analysis, survey-based field research, and qualitative content analysis.
Her research has been published in several leading journals, including the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (JPSP), Organization Science, Journal of Organizational Behavior, and Psychology of Women’s Quarterly.
Prior to pursuing her graduate studies, Samantha graduated cum laude from Brigham Young University (BYU) with a Bachelor’s degree in Management, Organizational Behavior and Human Resources emphasis. She then went on to consult with over 40 organizations around the world. In this role, she worked with practitioners to collect experiential data from more than 50,000 employees, which informed change strategies to improve the employee experience.
