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Masoomeh Kalantari

Title: 
PhD Student, Organizational Behaviour
Masoomeh Kalantari
Contact Information
Phone: 
(202) 805-6120
Email address: 
masoomeh.kalantari [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Address: 

Bronfman Building [Map]
1001 rue Sherbrooke Ouest
Montreal, Quebec
Canada
H3A 1G5

Degree(s): 
  • Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior, McGill University, Expected 2026
  • M.S. in Applied Economics, University of Maryland
  • M.Arch. in Urban Design & Housing, McGill University
Area(s): 
Organizational Behaviour
Link(s): 
Personal website
LinkedIn
Biography: 

Masoomeh Kalantari is a PhD candidate in Organizational Behaviour at McGill University’s Desautels Faculty of Management. She studies how organizational structures, social networks, and demographic composition intersect to shape employment outcomes and workplace inequality. Her dissertation, “Birds of Many Feathers,” introduces a new theoretical framework and statistical test to show how joint similarities influence organizational dynamics. Her work was a finalist for the OMT Division Best Student Paper Award at AOM 2025 and for a Best Paper Award at EGOS 2024. She also received the three-year SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship. With graduate training in Applied Economics and Architecture, she brings a multidisciplinary perspective to organizational research.

Group: 
PhD Student
Research areas: 
Mechanisms of Inequality in Markets, Occupations & Organizations
Organizational Structures & Strategy
Organizational Theory
Social Network Analysis
Workplace Conflict
Awards, honours, and fellowships: 
  • 2025 — OMT Division Best Student Paper Finalist, AOM (for “Birds of Many Feathers”)
  • 2024 — Best Paper Finalist, EGOS (for “Demographically Biased Technological Change?”)
  • 2020–2024 — SSHRC Joseph-Armand Bombardier CGS-Doctoral Scholarship (Three Years)
  • 2019–2024 — McGill PhD Program Award
Conferences: 
  • 2025 — 18th Annual People and Organizations Conference, The Wharton School — Paper Presentation
  • 2025 — 85th Annual Meeting of the AOM Conference, Copenhagen — OMT & DEI Paper Presentations
  • 2024 — 84th Annual Meeting of the AOM Conference, Chicago — OMT Doctoral Student Consortium
  • 2024 — 40th European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS), Milan, Italy — Paper Presentation
  • 2023 — 17th Annual People and Organizations Conference, The Wharton School — Paper Presentation
  • 2023 — 39th European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS), Italy — Paper Presentation
  • 2023 — 15th International Network of Analytical Sociology(INAS), Princeton — Paper Presentation
  • 2023 — Diversity in Management and Organizations Conference (DMO) — Paper Presentation
  • 2023 — International Network for Social Network Analysis (Sunbelt 2023) — Paper Presentation
  • 2023 — 17th Smith Entrepreneurship Research Conference, University of Maryland — SER Doctoral Consortium
  • 2022 — 82nd Annual Meeting of the AOM Conference, Seattle — OMT Dissertation Proposal Workshop
  • 2021 — 81st Annual Meeting of the AOM Conference — OMT Paper Presentation
Current research: 

Dissertation / Job Market Paper — “Birds of Many Feathers: Uncovering Joint Similarities and Organizational Outcomes.” Develops an intersectional homophily framework and accompanying statistical test to explain how joint similarities structure informal ties and shape collaboration, conflict, and innovation.

Network signatures in teams. Maps how team-level network signatures predict cross-boundary collaboration and innovation.

Technology & inequality (with Bennett, Ferguson, Koning). Studies whether automation induces demographically biased technological change.

STEM pipeline dynamics (with Rubineau, Cech, Seron, Silbey). Analyzes the gendered employment consequences of leaving engineering majors.

Beyond social network data (with A. Broomes). Critiques dyadic approaches; longitudinal qualitative study currently at the data-analysis stage.

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