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Melissa Thomas-Hunt is currently in her eighth year on the faculty of the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University. Prior to joining Cornell’s faculty, she taught at the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University, Washington University’s Olin School of Business, and Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. Melissa’s teaching and research activities focus on conflict management, negotiation, and inclusive leadership within teams and organizations. Her current research activities focus specifically on the effects of status on the evaluation and integration of expertise within diverse groups. Her publications have appeared in Research on Organizational Behavior, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Management Science, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin and Research on Managing Groups and Teams.

Melissa received her master’s and doctoral degrees from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University and her undergraduate degree in chemical engineering from Princeton University. Prior to pursuing an academic career she worked for a number of years at IBM.

Melissa lives in Ithaca with her husband and three young children.