- Assistant Professor
- Management
- Phone: 401.874.4390
- Email: serayergene@uri.edu
- Office Location: 208, Ballentine
Biography
Seray Ergene is an Assistant Professor of Management in the College of Business at the University of Rhode Island and a URI Coastal Senior Fellow. She studies sustainability from various angles, including strategy and decision-making, environmental justice and racism, ecological humanities, social studies of science and technology, and feminist theory. Her research appeared (or forthcoming) in the journals Organization Studies, Journal of Business Ethics, Long Range Planning, Organization & Environment, and Gender, Work, & Organization. She is on the editorial board of the journal 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.