- Assistant Professor
- Management
- Phone: 401.874.4390
- Email: serayergene@uri.edu
- Office Location: 208, Ballentine
Biography
Seray Ergene is an Associate Professor of Management in the College of Business at the University of Rhode Island. She utilizes ethnographic methodologies to study sustainability and ecological crises from various critical angles, including feminist new materialisms and posthumanities, environmental justice and racism, and social studies of science and technology. Her research appeared in various journals including Organization Studies, Journal of Business Ethics, Gender, Work and Organization, Organization & Environment among others. She is on the editorial board of journals Organization Studies and Organization.
Research
Sustainability; Environmental Justice and Racism; Feminist New Materialism; Critical Management Studies; Science and Technology Studies.
Education
Ph.D., Management, University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA, 2018
Graduate Certificate in Advanced Feminist Studies, UMass Amherst, MA, 2017
M.B.A., Bilkent University, Turkey, 2010
B.S., Industrial Engineering, Lehigh University, PA, 2004
B.S., Statistics, Lehigh University, PA, 2004
Selected Publications
Ergene, S., Banerjee, S. B., & Ergene, E. 2024. Environmental Racism and Climate (In)Justice in the Anthropocene: Addressing the Silences and Erasures in Management and Organization Studies. Journal of Business Ethics.
Ergene, S. & Calás, M.B. 2023. Becoming Naturecultural: Rethinking Sustainability for a More-than-human World. Organization Studies, 44(12), 1961-1986.
Ergene, S., Banerjee, S. B., & Hoffman, A. J. 2021. (Un)Sustainability and Organization Studies: Towards a Radical Engagement. Organization Studies, 42(8): 1319-1335.
Ergene, S., Calás, M.B., & Smircich, L. 2018. Ecologies of Sustainable Concerns: Organization Theorizing for the Anthropocene. Gender, Work & Organization, 25(3): 222–245.