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<\/span>Alexandra Kalev<\/b> is\na professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Tel-Aviv University, and\nthe former Chair of that department. She studies organizations, work, law,\ninequality and diversity across national, organizational and economic contexts.\nHer book with Frank Dobbin, Getting to Diversity: What Works and What\nDoesn\u2019t<\/i>, was published in 2022 by Harvard University Press (Belknap),\noffering an evidence-based approach to managing diversity in corporations. She now\nexamines diversity innovations in universities as well as faculty hiring,\nlayoff and retirement dynamics across routine and crises periods.  In\nother research projects, Kalev studies age inequality at work, and the\nemployment integration of Palestinians in Israel.
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Kalev\u2019s research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Edmond\nJ. Safra Foundation, the Sloan Foundation, the Israeli Science Foundation, the\nBi-National Science Foundation, and the Israeli Ministry of Science. Her work\nhas been published in the American Sociological Review, the American Journal of\nSociology, Administrative Science Quarterly, Law and Social Inquiry,\nSociological Science, Work, Employment and Society and the Harvard Business\nReview among others and was covered extensively in popular media outlets such\nas the Economist, NewYork Times, and Washington Post. Her research article on\nrestructuring and diversity, \u201cCracking the Glass Cages,\u201d won the W. Richard\nScott award of the American Sociological Association section on Organizations\nOccupations and Work. Kalev received the 2026 Landau Prize in the Sciences and\nArts in the field of sociology.
Kalev is the chair-elect of the Israeli Sociological Association (to begin in\nSeptember 2026). She is also a member of the Advisory Committee to the Israeli\nEqual Employment Opportunity Commission and since 2016 has been publishing\nannually the Israeli Diversity Index in collaboration with the Israeli EEOC and\nthe Central Bureau of Statistics. Kalev was the editor of the leading Hebrew\nlanguage journal, Israeli Sociology, between 2017 and 2022.
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Selected Recent Publications<\/h2>\n
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Marantz Erez, Alexandra Kalev, Noah Lewin-Epstein and Kathleen Gerson. (2025). The Meaning of Success: Ethno-  Gendered Reactions  to Exclusion at Work<\/a>. Social Problems<\/span> 72(4): 1492-150\n <\/p>\n

Kalev Alexandra and Frank Dobbin. (2024). Retooling Career Systems to Fight Workplace Bias: Evidence from U.S. Corporations<\/a>. Daedalus: Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences<\/span>, 153 (1): 213\u2013230. \n <\/p>\n

Axelrad Hila, Alexandra Kalev and Noah Lewin Epstein. (2023).  <\/a>\n Ambivalent Bias at Work: Managers Perceptions of Older Workers across Organizational Contexts.<\/a>Work, Employment and Society<\/span>\n <\/p>\n

Alexandra Kalev and Frank Dobbin. (2022).The Surprising Benefits of Work-Life Supports: It\u2019s a Secret Weapon for Achieving Organizational Diversity<\/a>.  Harvard Business Review<\/span>. 100(5):98-107.\n <\/p>\n

Knight Carly, Frank Dobbin and Alexandra Kalev. (2022). Under the Radar: Visibility and the Effects of Discrimination Lawsuits in Small and Large Firms<\/a>\n <\/a>.  American Sociological Review.<\/span> (87)2:175-201\n <\/p>\n

Kim Kwan Woo, Alexandra Kalev, Frank Dobbin and Deutsch Gal. (2021). Effects of the Great  Recession on the Diversity of New Faculty<\/a>. Sociological Science<\/span>. (8): 308-324 \n <\/p>\n

Dobbin Frank and Alexandra Kalev. (2021). The Civil Rights Revolution at Work: What Went Wrong<\/a>. Annual Review of Sociology. (47):281-303 \n <\/p>\n

Alexandra Kalev and Frank Dobbin. (2020).  Does Diversity Training Increase Corporate Diversity? Regulation Backlash and Regulatory Accountability<\/a>. Working Paper<\/span>\n <\/p>\n

Kalev Alexandra and Frank Dobbin . (October 20, 2020). Companies Need to Think Bigger Than Diversity Training<\/a>\n <\/a>. Harvard Business Review<\/span>\n <\/p>\n

Kalev Alexandra. (April 20, 2020). Research: U.S. Unemployment Rising Faster for Women and People of Color<\/a>. Harvard Business Review<\/span>\n <\/p>\n

Dobbin Frank and Kalev Alexandra. (May-June 2020). Why Sexual Harassment Programs Backfire<\/a>. Harvard Business Review<\/span>\n <\/p>\n <\/div>\n mOre <\/a>\n <\/div>\n <\/section>\n \n \n \n \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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