I am an Assistant Professor of Management at the University of Missouri. My primary research interests focus on topics of human resources staffing. In particular, my projects address questions related to how organizations make hiring decisions, including the methods organizations use to evaluate job applicants, the types of employees organizations recruit, and how organizational decisions affect who applies to jobs in the first place. I also have a secondary stream of research that explores how stressors such as critical media coverage, emotional demands at work, and negative work events influence employee well-being, resilience, and job performance. My research has been published in the Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, Journal of Management, and the Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior. It also has been featured in the Harvard Business Review and won the Best Paper award for the Human Resources Division at the 2018 Academy of Management. My research stems directly from my work experiences. Following a Master of Divinity at Asbury Seminary, I consulted with non-profit organizations and discovered a passion for understanding the challenges that managers and employees encounter. During my MBA program at the University of Georgia, I designed and began testing an employee selection tool to provide non-profits greater confidence and clarity in the hiring process. Through this work, I discovered that I love advancing knowledge by developing and testing ideas, and I saw a tremendous opportunity to make a difference in the area of staffing.If you have a staffing project in your workplace that you think may benefit from applied research, reach out to me! I would love to talk with you about it!