Julia L. Melin

M.A., Stanford University, 2019

B.A., Swarthmore College, 2013

Graduation Year

2023

Dissertation Title

Upskilled and Reskilled: How Gender Shapes Career Transitions in the New Economy

Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College

I am a Ph.D. candidate in Sociology and a Ph.D. minor candidate in Management Science and Engineering. I am also a Graduate Research Associate for the Stanford VMware Women's Leadership Innovation Lab and a member of the Equity By Design Lab at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Broadly, I study topics related to gender, career transitions, and labor market inequality. Across three projects, my dissertation uses mixed-methods, online experiments, and digital interventions in real-world settings to examine 1) how perceptions of gender influence organizational practices (e.g., hiring and talent assessment) and 2) how organizational practices can be designed to reduce inequality and improve women’s organizational advancement.

My research has received generous support from NSF-funded Time-sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences (TESS), the Stanford VMware Women’s Leadership Innovation Lab, the Stanford Laboratory for the Study of American Values, the Stanford Lab for Social Research, the Center for American Democracy at IRiSS, and the Phi Beta Kappa Northern California Association. Prior to academia, I worked on Wall Street and for an online tech recruiting startup in New York City.

My work has appeared in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), Current Opinion in Psychology, and the New England Journal of Public Policy.