Lumumba B. Seegars

Lumumba Seegars is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration in the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School. 

Professor Seegars explores the reproduction and contestation of intergroup inequality within organizations. He specifically focuses on racial, gender, and class inequality and their intersections. Across various contexts, he has two streams of work that examine (1) how individuals contest (and reproduce) intergroup inequality within work organizations and (2) how individuals psychologically respond to organizational efforts that challenge intergroup inequality. He received the Best Conference Paper based on a Dissertation Award from the Gender and Diversity in Organizations Division of the Academy of Management.

Professor Seegars earned an A.B. in Social Studies and a Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from Harvard University. Prior to graduate school, he worked as a high school math and special education teacher, actor and singer, field organizer for a presidential campaign, and minister.

Journal Articles

• Kyle, Michael Anne, Lumumba Seegars, John M. Benson, Robert J. Blendon, Robert S. Huckman, and Sara J. Singer. "Toward a Corporate Culture of Health: Results of a National Survey." Milbank Quarterly 97, no. 4 (December 2019): 954–977. View Details

Book Chapters

• Seegars, Lumumba Babushe, and Lakshmi Ramarajan. "Blacks Leading Whites: How Mutual and Dual (Ingroup and Outgroup) Identification Affect Inequality." Chap. 19 in Race, Work, and Leadership: New Perspectives on the Black Experience, edited by Laura Morgan Roberts, Anthony J. Mayo, and David A. Thomas. Boston, MA: Harvard Business Review Press, 2019. View Details
• Seegars, Lumumba Babushe, and Patricia Faison Hewlin. "Conformity." In Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences, edited by Virgil Zeigler-Hill and Todd K. Shackelford, 831–836. Springer, 2020. View Details

Working Papers

• Seegars, Lumumba Babushe, Erin M. Reid, Lakshmi Ramarajan, and S. Lee. "What Am I Worth? Wage Security and the (In)secure Self." Working Paper, 2021. (Manuscript in preparation.) View Details
• Seegars, Lumumba Babushe, Patricia Faison Hewlin, and Sung Soo Kim. "Not Feeling Safe in a Diversity Climate? The Role of Social Dominance Orientation for Interpersonal Outcomes of Diversity Climate Perceptions." Working Paper, 2021. (Manuscript in preparation.) View Details
• Seegars, Lumumba Babushe. "Organizing in the Shadows of White Hegemony: Comparing How Black versus Asian Employees Collectively Contest Racial Marginalization in the Workplace." Working Paper, 2021. (Data analysis.) View Details
• Seegars, Lumumba Babushe. "Sanctioned Radicals: Comparing Collective Organizing Around Race and Gender Inside Organizations." Working Paper, 2021. (Manuscript in Preparation. Received the Best Paper Based on a Dissertation Award from the GDO division of AOM.) View Details

Research Summary

Overview

Lumumba Seegars explores the reproduction and contestation of intergroup inequality within organizations.

Keywords: Race; Gender; Income

Awards & Honors

Recipient of the 2021 Doctoral Programs Dean’s Award for Service to the School and Society.

Awarded Best Paper Based on a Dissertation by the Gender and Diversity in Organizations (GDO) Division of the Academy of Management for “Sanctioned Radicals: Comparing Collective Organizing Around Race and Gender Inside Organizations” in 2020.

Selected as the Harvard Business School Departmental Nominee for the Academy of Management’s Organizational Behavior Doctoral Consortium in2020.

Recipient of a Dissertation Completion Fellowship from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University in 2020.

Selected as a Showcase Symposium Organizer for the Gender and Diversity in Organizations Division of the Academy of Management in 2017.

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