Adrienne Colella is the James W. McFarland Distinguished Chair in Business and Professor of Management in Tulane University’s Freeman School of Business. She won the 2022 the Sternberg Research Award and the Tulane University Research, Scholarship, and Artistic Achievement Award for her work on Equity, Diversity and Inclusion. Prior to joining Tulane, she was a faculty member at Texas A&M University’s Mays Business School and the Department of Management at Rutgers University. She received her PhD in industrial/organizational psychology from The Ohio State University. Professor Colella is a fellow of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, the American Psychological Association, and the Association for Psychological Science. She is a past-President of SIOP and a current member of the Board of Trustees for the SIOP Foundation. Her current research focuses on treatment issues regarding people with disabilities in the workplace. Her research appears in the Journal of Management, Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Human Resource Management Review, Journal of Applied Social Psychology, the Journal of Disability Policy, and the Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation among other places. She is the editor of two SIOP Frontiers Series books on the psychology of workplace discrimination and on neurodiversity in organizations. She is also the editor of the Oxford Handbook on Employment Discrimination, as well as a co-author of an organizational behavior textbook. She serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, Journal of Organizational Behavior, and the Journal of Management, as well as several others. Her research has been funded by a variety of sources including the Department of Labor, New Jersey Developmental Disabilities Council, the Army Research Institute, and the Navy Personnel R&D Center. Professor Colella teaches courses in organizational behavior and human resource management.
