Awards & Recognition
★Father Edward F. Boyle Award, Cushing-Gavin Award of the Labor Guild, Archdiocese of Boston (2017)
★Multiple research grants from prestigious foundations (Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Russell Sage Foundation, National Science Foundation)
Notable Facts
→Former Administrator of the Wage and Hour Division, US Department of Labor under Obama (2014-2017)
→Dean and Professor at Brandeis University's Heller School for Social Policy and Management
→Author of five books including 'The Fissured Workplace' published by Harvard University Press
→Served as Peter and Deborah Wexler Professor of Management at Boston University
→Failed Senate confirmation for the same role under Biden administration in 2022
→First Senate-confirmed head of Wage and Hour Division in a decade
→Internationally recognized expert in employment and labor market policy
→Has written over 100 articles and academic papers