Marta Calas

Education

PhD, Organization Studies, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 1987 MBA, Organizational Behavior, University of California at Berkeley, Graduate School of Business Administration, 1970 BBA, University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras, College of Business Administration , 1966

Academic Appointments

Professor (University of Massachusetts-Amherst), 1986-Present Professor (University of Puerto Rico), 1972-1985 Assistant Dean for External Program Development (University of Puerto Rico), 1977-1979 Acting Dean, College of Business Administration (University of Puerto Rico), 1984-1985 Visiting Research Professor, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, March 2012 Fulbright Scholar, Åbo Akademi University, Åbo, Finland, Spring 2000 Visiting Associate Professor, School of Business, University of Michigan – Ann Arbor, Summer 1992

Research Interests

• Gender and Feminist Theorizing in Organization Studies
• Critical Perspectives on Globalization, Entrepreneurship and Sustainability
• Contemporary Social Theory and Cultural Studies

Teaching Interests

Undergraduate

• Behavior in the Global Economy
• International Management

Masters

• Organization Behavior and Theory
• International Management

PhD

• Conceptual foundations of Organization Studies
• Research and Theory in International Organization Studies
• Gender, Race, Class, and Organization

Recent Honors & Awards

Dean's Research Excellence Award, Isenberg School of Management University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2010 Sage Award for Distinguished Scholarly Contribution, for academic leadership and impact of scholarship in the area of gender and diversity. GDO Division of the Academy of Management, 2006 Public Service Endowment Grant, Office of Industry Liaison, University of Massachusetts, Amherst for the project “Extending Capabilities in an Emerging Cycling Service Industry", 2004 Fulbright Scholar – Åbo Akademi University – Institute for Women’s Studies, Spring 2000

Selected Publications

Calás, M.B. & Smircich, L. (2014). “Engendering the Organizational: Organization Studies and Feminist Theorizing.” In P. S. Adler, P. du Gay, G. Morgan & M. Reed (Eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Sociology, Social Theory and Organization Studies: Contemporary Currents, pp. 605-659. London: Oxford University Press:

Calás, M.B., Smircich, L., & Holvino, E. (2014). “Theorizing Gender-and-Organization: Changing Times. …Changing Theories?” In S. Kumra, R. Simpson & R. Burke (Eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Gender in Organizations, pp 17-52. London: Oxford University Press:

Calás, M.B, Ou, H. , and Smircich, L., (2013) “ ‘Woman’ on the Move: Mobile Subjectivities after Intersectionality”, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, 32 (8): 708-731.

Bourne, K. and Calás, M.B. (2013) Becoming ‘real’ entrepreneurs: Women and the gendered normalization of ‘work’. Gender, Work & Organization, 20 (4): 425-438.

Calás, M.B. and Smircich, L. (2013) Organization@21 The journal of disconcerting organization theory and action. Organization, 20(1): 13-23.

Calás, M.B. and Smircich, L. (2011). In the back and forth of transmigration: Rethinking organization studies in a transnational key. In D. Knights, P.Y. Martin and E. Jeannes (Eds.) Handbook of Gender, Work & Organization, pp. 411-428. London: Wiley-Blackwell.