Sherry Thatcher
Sherry M.B. Thatcher is the J. Henry Fellers Professor of Business Administration at the Darla Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina. She currently serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the Academy of Management Review and the Chair of the Management Department. Her Ph.D. is in organizational behavior from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to joining UofSC she served on the faculties of the University of Louisville and the University of Arizona. She also spent a number of years developing businesses in Micronesia and working throughout Southeast Asia.
Her research interests focus on diversity, identity, and conflict, and she is one of the leading experts in the area of team faultlines. Her work appears in the top journals of our field, including the Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Annals, Journal of Applied Psychology, Organization Science, Journal of Management, Journal of Management Systems and Decision Support Systems. Sherry has received numerous awards including the prestigious Educational Foundation Award for Research from the University of South Carolina in 2016 and numerous best paper awards. She has given over 100 presentations related to her research and is often hosted by international universities as a visiting scholar. Her research has been funded by both private and public organizations, including the National Science Foundation. She has served as an Associate Editor at the Academy of Management Review and serves or has served on the editorial boards of Academy of Management Review, Journal of Management, Small Group Research, and Group and Organization Management.
You can reach Sherry at sherry.thatcher@moore.sc.edu and view her CV here.