Adam Schoenbachler

Graduate Student

Adam Schoenbachler is a PhD candidate working at the intersection of culture, work, and organizations. His ethnographic research, conducted in the famed honky-tonk clubs of downtown Nashville, analyzes cultural and organizational factors in frontline service work and artistic careers, finding implications for the service labor process, cultural logics of work, and intersectional inequalities. Meanwhile, his quantitative projects with Dr. Rachel Donnelly speak to the deteriorated health of low status workers (i.e., involuntary part-time workers and essential workers during the COVID-19 pandemic) by modeling the socioecological effect of state policies on workers’ mental and physical health. For his research, he has been awarded the 2023 Susan C. Eaton Scholar-Practitioner Grant by the Labor and Employment Relations Association (LERA). Adam received his BA in International Studies (concentration in French and Social and Cultural Identities) from the University of Mississippi and his MA in Sociology from Vanderbilt University.