Bio
Dr. Angelica Leigh is an Associate Professor (pre-tenure) of Management and Organizations at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. Dr. Leigh received her Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill’s Kenan-Flagler Business School.
Dr. Leigh’s research centers on race in organizations. She employs both quantitative and qualitative methods to understand the unique experiences and perceptions of racial minority employees within diverse organizations. For example, in her first stream of research she examines how "mega-threats" (i.e., highly publicized societal events, like the death of Black civilians at the hands of police, influence employees at work. In this work, she finds that mega-threats have important downstream effects on racial minority employees; at times, leading these employees to hide their reactions’ to mega-threats and psychologically withdraw from their workplace. In her second stream of research, she examines the behaviors that racial minority employees engage in that go against typical norms of suppressing their identities at work, such as engaging in open conversations about race in the workplace and the actions that employees take to combat racism and advance equity in organizations.
Her research has been published in the Academy of Management Review, the Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes and the Journal of Applied Psychology. She has received several awards for her research including the AOM Conflict Management Division's Most Influential Published Article Award from 2017-2020 and the Academy of Management Journal's 2022 Best Published Paper award. Dr. Leigh is also an active member of the PhD project, an organization that is dedicated to diversifying faculty in business schools.
Before joining academia, Dr. Leigh worked at General Electric Healthcare as a Financial Management Program member and a Global Product Finance Manager for the MI/CT business.