Doctoral student wins LERA Best Paper Award

Posted by whitet6 on Wednesday, January 11, 2023 in Research Spotlights.

Adam Schoenbachler, a doctoral student in the Department of Sociology, has been given a Best Paper Award by the Labor and Employment Relations Association for his paper, “Tipping Regimes: Examining organizational control of tipped labor on Nashville’s Honky-Tonk Highway.” Based on his doctoral research—an ethnographic analysis of precariously employed tipped service workers in Nashville’s fabled honky-tonk bars, Adam will deliver the paper at the annual LERA conference in June, 2023 in Detroit, Michigan. LERA Best Paper Award winners are invited to publish their paper in the LERA Proceedings and can compete for journal publication in the ILR Review.