Jennifer L Nelson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3686149 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jennifer L Nelson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jennifer L |
| FAMILY NAME | Nelson |
| SIGNATURE | NELSON J L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0920-3907 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Racial Homophily in Context: Tie Types and Organizational Composition in Teacher Networks
Purpose: Racial homophily—the tendency to form ties with same-race colleagues—is common in workplace networks, including schools. But we know less about how it varies across relationship types and organizational racial composition. We examine racial homophily in teachers’ instructional advice, disciplinary advice, and friendship networks, comparing Black and White teachers in majority-White and majority-Black schools. Research Methods/Approach: U…
Is my manager feeling threatened by me? Racial differences in content and activation of threat metastereotypes
Metastereotypes—an individual's or group's projection of what members of outgroups think about that individual or group (e.g., “I think they think I'm ignorant”)—are an important factor in intergroup interactions, particularly interracial interactions. Metastereotype content varies by race of the perceiver, yet research has not yet explained the mechanisms of this variation, nor has research determined how context might shape metastereotype activ…
Fair Across the Board? Relating Teacher Commitment to Teachers’ Perceptions of Principal Versus Assistant Principal Leadership
Purpose: Little is known about how teachers view the leadership of assistant principals in comparison to that of principals, especially in relationship to teachers’ work outcomes. We examine whether a gap exists between teachers’ perceptions of fairness from principals and assistant principals, and whether this gap is associated with teachers’ commitment to their school. Research Methods: We employ mixed methods with a converging evidence model t…
How White Workers Navigate Racial Difference in the Workplace: Social-Emotional Processes and the Role of Workplace Racial Composition
Research on racialized emotions and racialized organizations has begun to inform how we understand social interactions in the workplace and their implications for racial inequality. However, most research to date focuses on the experiences and coping strategies of racial minority workers, especially when confronted with instances of racial prejudice and discrimination. We extend research on racialized emotions in the workplace by mapping the stag…
An 'Irresistible Concept' Without Proof of Concept: The Case of Food Deserts and Food Desert Activism
Unequal pay for equal work? Unpacking the gender gap in principal compensation
Performance, Process, and Interpersonal Relationships: Explaining Principals’ Perceptions of Principal Evaluation
Purpose: Multiple-measure principal evaluation systems have become commonplace in the past decade, but we do not know how principals perceive their evaluations under these regimes. This study analyzes how principals perceive evaluation in a state that was an early adopter of such a system. It describes how attitudes are explained by individual and contextual factors, performance ratings, and elements of the evaluation process. Research Methods: U…
Race and inequality at work: An occupational perspective
Recent research on racial inequality at work offers fruitful insights on the organizational conditions that reproduce racial segregation, racial disparities in wages, and racial hierarchies in the labor market and the workplace. Much less is known, however, about the specifically occupational influences that impinge on equitable work outcomes by race. In this paper, we explore three processes at the occupational level that relate to racial segreg…
The Geek Instinct: Theorizing Cultural Alignment in Disadvantaged Contexts
Trust and Respect at Work: Justice Antecedents and the Role of Coworker Dynamics
The authors address three overlooked issues regarding the well-established organizational justice and trust relationship: how an authority's enactment of fair outcomes, procedures, and interactions 'trickles down' to the development of coworker trust; how trust and respect represent distinct interpersonal outcomes; and whether coworker dynamics mediate these relationships. Using original survey data collected at two time points from 354 high scho…
How Organizational Minorities Form and Use Social Ties: Evidence from Teachers in Majority-White and Majority-Black Schools
This article draws on 11 months of multisite ethnographic fieldwork and 103 interviews to investigate how teachers in school faculty of varying racial compositions form and use their social ties to secure professional, political, and emotional resources at work. Findings show that, in general, white teachers in the numerical minority in their schools secured all resource types through their same-race ties, while black teachers in the numerical mi…
Latina Teachers: Creating Careers and Guarding Culture
Pathways to Green(er) Pastures: Reward Bundles, Human Capital, and Turnover Decisions in a Semi-Profession
Signing the Body Poetic: Essays on American Sign Language Literature
Validity of Maternal and Perinatal Risk Factors Reported on Fetal Death Certificates
We sought to estimate the accuracy, relative to maternal medical records, of perinatal risk factors recorded on fetal death certificates. We conducted a validation study of fetal death certificates among women who experienced fetal deaths between 1996 and 2001. The number of previous births, established diabetes, chronic hypertension, maternal fever, performance of autopsy, anencephaly, and Down syndrome had very high accuracy, while placental co…
Silent Poetry: Deafness, Sign, and Visual Culture in Modern France (review)
How Organizational Minorities Form and Use Social Ties: Evidence from Teachers in Majority-White and Majority-Black Schools
This article draws on 11 months of multisite ethnographic fieldwork and 103 interviews to investigate how teachers in school faculty of varying racial compositions form and use their social ties to secure professional, political, and emotional resources at work. Findings show that, in general, white teachers in the numerical minority in their schools secured all resource types through their same-race ties, while black teachers in the numerical mi…
Latina Teachers: Creating Careers and Guarding Culture
Validity of Maternal and Perinatal Risk Factors Reported on Fetal Death Certificates
We sought to estimate the accuracy, relative to maternal medical records, of perinatal risk factors recorded on fetal death certificates. We conducted a validation study of fetal death certificates among women who experienced fetal deaths between 1996 and 2001. The number of previous births, established diabetes, chronic hypertension, maternal fever, performance of autopsy, anencephaly, and Down syndrome had very high accuracy, while placental co…
Race and inequality at work: An occupational perspective
Recent research on racial inequality at work offers fruitful insights on the organizational conditions that reproduce racial segregation, racial disparities in wages, and racial hierarchies in the labor market and the workplace. Much less is known, however, about the specifically occupational influences that impinge on equitable work outcomes by race. In this paper, we explore three processes at the occupational level that relate to racial segreg…
How White Workers Navigate Racial Difference in the Workplace: Social-Emotional Processes and the Role of Workplace Racial Composition
Research on racialized emotions and racialized organizations has begun to inform how we understand social interactions in the workplace and their implications for racial inequality. However, most research to date focuses on the experiences and coping strategies of racial minority workers, especially when confronted with instances of racial prejudice and discrimination. We extend research on racialized emotions in the workplace by mapping the stag…
Trust and Respect at Work: Justice Antecedents and the Role of Coworker Dynamics
The authors address three overlooked issues regarding the well-established organizational justice and trust relationship: how an authority's enactment of fair outcomes, procedures, and interactions 'trickles down' to the development of coworker trust; how trust and respect represent distinct interpersonal outcomes; and whether coworker dynamics mediate these relationships. Using original survey data collected at two time points from 354 high scho…
The Geek Instinct: Theorizing Cultural Alignment in Disadvantaged Contexts
Pathways to Green(er) Pastures: Reward Bundles, Human Capital, and Turnover Decisions in a Semi-Profession
Silent Poetry: Deafness, Sign, and Visual Culture in Modern France (review)
Validity of Maternal and Perinatal Risk Factors Reported on Fetal Death Certificates
We sought to estimate the accuracy, relative to maternal medical records, of perinatal risk factors recorded on fetal death certificates. We conducted a validation study of fetal death certificates among women who experienced fetal deaths between 1996 and 2001. The number of previous births, established diabetes, chronic hypertension, maternal fever, performance of autopsy, anencephaly, and Down syndrome had very high accuracy, while placental co…
Signing the Body Poetic: Essays on American Sign Language Literature
Pathways to Green(er) Pastures: Reward Bundles, Human Capital, and Turnover Decisions in a Semi-Profession
Latina Teachers: Creating Careers and Guarding Culture
The Geek Instinct: Theorizing Cultural Alignment in Disadvantaged Contexts
Trust and Respect at Work: Justice Antecedents and the Role of Coworker Dynamics
The authors address three overlooked issues regarding the well-established organizational justice and trust relationship: how an authority's enactment of fair outcomes, procedures, and interactions 'trickles down' to the development of coworker trust; how trust and respect represent distinct interpersonal outcomes; and whether coworker dynamics mediate these relationships. Using original survey data collected at two time points from 354 high scho…
How Organizational Minorities Form and Use Social Ties: Evidence from Teachers in Majority-White and Majority-Black Schools
This article draws on 11 months of multisite ethnographic fieldwork and 103 interviews to investigate how teachers in school faculty of varying racial compositions form and use their social ties to secure professional, political, and emotional resources at work. Findings show that, in general, white teachers in the numerical minority in their schools secured all resource types through their same-race ties, while black teachers in the numerical mi…
Unequal pay for equal work? Unpacking the gender gap in principal compensation
Performance, Process, and Interpersonal Relationships: Explaining Principals’ Perceptions of Principal Evaluation
Purpose: Multiple-measure principal evaluation systems have become commonplace in the past decade, but we do not know how principals perceive their evaluations under these regimes. This study analyzes how principals perceive evaluation in a state that was an early adopter of such a system. It describes how attitudes are explained by individual and contextual factors, performance ratings, and elements of the evaluation process. Research Methods: U…
Race and inequality at work: An occupational perspective
Recent research on racial inequality at work offers fruitful insights on the organizational conditions that reproduce racial segregation, racial disparities in wages, and racial hierarchies in the labor market and the workplace. Much less is known, however, about the specifically occupational influences that impinge on equitable work outcomes by race. In this paper, we explore three processes at the occupational level that relate to racial segreg…
An 'Irresistible Concept' Without Proof of Concept: The Case of Food Deserts and Food Desert Activism
How White Workers Navigate Racial Difference in the Workplace: Social-Emotional Processes and the Role of Workplace Racial Composition
Research on racialized emotions and racialized organizations has begun to inform how we understand social interactions in the workplace and their implications for racial inequality. However, most research to date focuses on the experiences and coping strategies of racial minority workers, especially when confronted with instances of racial prejudice and discrimination. We extend research on racialized emotions in the workplace by mapping the stag…
Fair Across the Board? Relating Teacher Commitment to Teachers’ Perceptions of Principal Versus Assistant Principal Leadership
Purpose: Little is known about how teachers view the leadership of assistant principals in comparison to that of principals, especially in relationship to teachers’ work outcomes. We examine whether a gap exists between teachers’ perceptions of fairness from principals and assistant principals, and whether this gap is associated with teachers’ commitment to their school. Research Methods: We employ mixed methods with a converging evidence model t…
Racial Homophily in Context: Tie Types and Organizational Composition in Teacher Networks
Purpose: Racial homophily—the tendency to form ties with same-race colleagues—is common in workplace networks, including schools. But we know less about how it varies across relationship types and organizational racial composition. We examine racial homophily in teachers’ instructional advice, disciplinary advice, and friendship networks, comparing Black and White teachers in majority-White and majority-Black schools. Research Methods/Approach: U…
Is my manager feeling threatened by me? Racial differences in content and activation of threat metastereotypes
Metastereotypes—an individual's or group's projection of what members of outgroups think about that individual or group (e.g., “I think they think I'm ignorant”)—are an important factor in intergroup interactions, particularly interracial interactions. Metastereotype content varies by race of the perceiver, yet research has not yet explained the mechanisms of this variation, nor has research determined how context might shape metastereotype activ…
Psychology (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Teacher Education and Leadership Studies (6 works) · Gender Diversity and Inequality (4 works) · Pedagogy (4 works) · Critical Race Theory in Education (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works)