Julia L. Melin is an Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College.
As an organizational theorist and economic sociologist, Melin’s expertise is in the areas of gender, career transitions, and labor market inequality. Her work uses mixed-methods, online experiments, and large-scale digital interventions in real-world settings (including Fortune 500 companies and online career training platforms) to examine (1) how perceptions about gender influence organizational practices, including hiring and talent assessment and (2) how organizational practices can be designed to reduce gender inequality and improve women’s career advancement opportunities.
Her research has been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Current Opinion in Psychology, and Social Psychology Quarterly, and has received awards from the American Sociological Association, the Academy of Management, Phi Beta Kappa of Northern California, and NSF-funded Time-sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences (TESS).
Prior to pursuing her Ph.D. at Stanford, Melin worked as an analyst at Goldman Sachs and for Hired, an online tech recruiting startup in New York City. She has also conducted policy research for the U.S. Military as an adjunct researcher at the RAND Corporation. She received her B.A. from Swarthmore College.