Author: jennbryant

Lillian Eby, professor of psychology, is one of the world’s leading industrial-organizational psychology scholars. She studies employee health and well-being, addressing workers’ relationships inside and outside the workplace. She is best known for her groundbreaking, enduring studies of workplace and other types of mentoring relationships. She contributed some of the first and most highly cited research on the dynamics of mentoring relationships and published three large-scale meta-analyses of the literature, integrating hundreds of primary studies. A leading expert on the occupational health of substance abuse treatment workers, she conducted large-scale, longitudinal and methodologically rigorous studies of occupational health among this high-stress population. She translated her empirical findings about major drivers of burnout and turnover into actionable recommendations for organizations and individual workers. She is the author of 110 peer-reviewed journal publications and 28 book chapters and the co-editor of three influential books. Her works average almost 3,000 citations per year.

Victor Thompson, professor in the Department of Anthropology, is one of the world’s most productive, cutting-edge coastal archaeologists. He explores how Native American communities managed coastal resources over thousands of years, including adapting to climate change and sea-level rise. In teams of specialists and students from diverse fields, Thompson and his colleagues use sophisticated approaches to analyze and interpret coastal settlements while building equitable, respectful relations with descendant communities. He has developed new theoretical perspectives on how humans cooperate to harvest and manage collective resources and create monuments. Native Americans built some of the earliest known large-scale monuments on the southeastern U.S. coast, piling up shellfish that had accumulated as food refuse over the centuries to create human-made islands for ritual and political purposes. More recently, he has been investigating how Native Americans harvested oysters sustainably for 5,000 years. This knowledge could help inform resource management in today’s coastal areas.