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2015 ROSABETH MOSS KANTER AWARD WINNER ANNOUNCED

Chestnut Hill, MA   (October 1, 2015) 

As we begin the celebration of National Work and Family Month, we are very pleased to announce the recipient of this year's Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award for Excellence in Work-Family Research. Congratulations to Erin L. Kelly, Phyllis Moen, J. Michael Oakes, Wen Fan, Cassandra Okechukwu, Kelly D. Davis, Leslie B. Hammer, Ellen Ernst Kossek, Rosalind Berkowitz King, Ginger C. Hanson, Frank Mierzwa, and Lynne M. Casper. Their American Sociological Review article, "Changing Work and Work-Family Conflict Evidence from the Work, Family, and Health Network," was selected as the recipient of the 2015 Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award!

Professor Erin Kelly of MIT's Sloan School of Management will be honored with the award at the Boston College Center for Work & Family's 25th Anniversary Gala in Boston on November 5, 2015. Shelley MacDermid Wadsworth of the Center for Families at Purdue University and Brad Harrington of the Boston College Center for Work & Family will present the award.  This special year represents the 15th Anniversary of the Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award. Congratulations to all of this year's finalists!
 
Named in honor of Rosabeth Moss Kanter, who has been identified as the most influential contributor to modern literature on work and family, the Kanter Award is given for the best research paper published during the year. No applications or nominations are accepted. The finalist articles were selected through a rigorous process involving nomination and review by a committee of over 55 leading scholars. This year, five finalists were selected from over 2500 articles published in 2014 in 77 leading English-language journals from around the world.  

The Center for Families at Purdue University and the Boston College Center for Work & Family developed the Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award to raise the awareness of high quality work-family research among the scholar, consultant and practitioner communities.  Through the generous sponsorship of the Corporate Partners of the Boston College Center for Work & Family, the standards of quality for work-family research will continue to rise, and actionable findings from the best studies will become more commonplace in business communities to inform policy and best people practices. 
About the Center for Families at Purdue University 

With research, education, and outreach, the Center for Families at Purdue University strengthens services to families provided by employers, legislators, and others. www.purdue.edu/kanteraward 
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About the Boston College Center for Work & Family
Founded in 1990, the Boston College Center for Work & Family is a global leader in helping organizations create effective workplaces that support and develop healthy and productive employees. Find us on the web at www.bc.edu/cwf and on Twitter @BCCWF


For additional information contact:
Boston College Center for Work & Family
617-552-2862