Michael Dunn
Contact Information & Background
Associate Professor;
Faculty Coordinator of MB 107
Department of Management & Business
mdunn@skidmore.edu
Phone: 518-580-5152
Office: PMH 267
Vitae
Curriculum Vitae
Education
- Ph.D., Department of Sociology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2018
- M.A., Department of Sociology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2015
- M.B.A., Paul Merage School of Business, University of California, Irvine, 2000
- B.A., Department of Sociology, University of Washington, Seattle, 1997
Courses
- MB 107 Business and Organization Management
- MB 349 Business Strategy
Selected Refereed Articles
- 2024 Munoz, Isabel, Pyeonghwa Kim, Clea O’Neil, Michael Dunn, and Steven Sawyer. “Platformization of Inequality: Gender and Race in Digital Labor
Platforms,” Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 8(CSCW1): 108, 1-22.
- 2023 Dunn, Michael, Isabel Munoz, Clea O'Neil, Steven Sawyer. "The Great Realization: Online Freelancers
and the Meaning of Flexibility," Delbridge, R., Helfen, M., Pekarek, A. and Purser,
G. (Ed.) Ethnographies of Work (Research in the Sociology of Work, Vol. 35), Emerald
Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 139-156.
- 2023 Dunn, Michael, Isabel Munoz, Mohammad Jarrahi. "Dynamics of flexible work and digital platforms:
Task and spatial flexibility in the platform economy." Digital Business 3(1): 10052
- 2022 Munoz, Isabel, Michael Dunn, Steven Sawyer, Emily Michaels. “Platform-mediated Markets, Online Freelance Workers
and Deconstructed Identities,” Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction,
6(CSCW2): 1-24.
- 2022 Munoz Isabel, Steve Sawyer, and Michael Dunn. “New futures of work or continued marginalization? The rise of online freelance
work and digital platforms,” In 2022 Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction for Work (pp.1-7).
- 2022 Munoz Isabel, Michael Dunn, and Steve Sawyer. “Flexibility, Occupation and Gender: Insights from a Panel Study
of Online Freelancers.” In: Smits, M. (eds) Information for a Better World: Shaping
the Global Future, (13192): 311-318.
- 2021 Dunn, Michael, Isabel Munoz, Steven Sawyer. “Gender Differences and Lost Flexibility in Online
Freelancing During the COVID-19 Pandemic”. Frontiers in Sociology. (6):738024.
- 2021 Mohammed, Jarrahi, Gemma Newlands, Brian Butler, Saiphe Savage, Michael Dunn, Steven Sawyer. “Flexible Work and Personal Digital Infrastructures”. Communications of the ACM 64(7): 72-79.
- 2020 Dunn, Michael. “Making Gigs Work: Digital Platforms, Career Strategies and Job Quality”. New Technology, Work and Employment 35(2): 232-249.
- 2020 Stephany, Fabian, Michael Dunn, Steve Sawyer, Vili Lehdonvirta. "Distancing bonus or downscaling loss? The changing
livelihood of US online workers in times of COVID-19." Journal of Economic and Social Geography (Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie) 111(3): 561-573.
- 2020 Sutherland, Will, Mohammed Jarrahi, Michael Dunn, S.B. Nelson. “Work Precarity, Gig Literacies, and Online Freelancing”. Work, Employment andSociety 34(3): 457-475.
- 2020 Mohammed, Jarrahi, Gemma Newlands, Brian Butler, Saiphe Savage, Michael Dunn, Steven Sawyer. “Flexible Work and Personal Digital Infrastructures”. Communications of the ACM (forthcoming).
- 2019 Dunn, Michael. “Educational Pathways and Labor Market Outcomes of Children of Immigrants.” International Education Studies 12(12):44-54.
- 2019 Dunn, Michael. “Hustle and Gig: Struggling and Surviving in the Sharing Economy (Book Review)”,
Social Forces 98(2): 1-3.
- 2017 Dunn, Michael. “Digital Work: New Opportunities or Lost Wages?” American Journal of Management 17(4): 10-27.
- 2017 Dunn, Michael and Arne L. Kalleberg. “Does College Focus Matter? Explaining Differences in Labor
Market Outcomes Among Community Colleges.” Journal of Educational Issues 3(1): 189-213.
- 2016 Dunn, Michael and Arne L. Kalleberg. “Explaining Differences in Performance Among Community Colleges
in North Carolina: A CAPSEE Working Paper.” Center for Analysis of Postsecondary Education and Employment.
- 2016 Kalleberg, Arne L. and Michael Dunn. “Good Jobs, Bad Jobs in the Gig Economy.” Perspective on Work 20(2): 10-14.
- 2015 Kalleberg, Arne L. and Michael Dunn. “Institutional Determinants of Labor Market Outcomes for Community College Students in North Carolina.” Community College Review 43(3): 224-244.