Benjamin A. Rissing Brown University Watson Institute for International Studies 111 Thayer Street, Room 344 Providence, RI 02912 Office: (401) 863-6799 Mobile: (703) 600-9239 Email: [email protected]

Research and Teaching Interests Work and Organizations, Labor Market Inequality, Human Resource Management, Regulation

Education

2008 – 2013 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Institute for Work and Employment Research, Sloan School of Management Ph.D. in Management

2005 – 2006 Duke University, Master of Engineering Management Program Masters in Engineering Management

2000 – 2005 University of Virginia, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering / Biomedical Minor

Fellowships

2013 – 2014 Postdoctoral Research Associate, Brown University, Watson Institute for International Studies

2007 – 2008 Wertheim Fellow, Harvard Law School, Labor and Worklife Program

2006 – 2007 Research Scholar, Duke University, Master of Engineering Management Program

Honors

2012 Best Paper Proceedings Recipient, Academy of Management

2011 Award Recipient, U.S. Department of Labor Employment and Training Research Paper Program

Publications

1. Thesis 2013 “Immigration, Inequality and the State: Three Essays on the Employment of Foreign Nationals in the United States.” Committee: Emilio J. Castilla (Chair), Thomas A. Kochan, Richard M. Locke, and Susan S. Silbey.

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2. Journal Articles in Progress 2013 “Off to a Green Start? Statistical or Preference-based Inequality in the Employment of Foreign Nationals.” (Ben A. Rissing, Emilio J. Castilla). American Sociological Review – Revise and Resubmit.

2013 “To H-1B or Not to H-1B? How Government Agents Shape the Employment of Skilled Immigrant Workers” (Ben A. Rissing). Working paper.

2013 “Trust but Verify: The Paradox of Anomic Regulation” (Ben A. Rissing). Working paper.

3. Reviewed Articles and Chapters 2013 “Highly-skilled Information and Technology Migrant Workers.” (Ben A. Rissing). In the Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration, edited by I. Ness and P. Bellwood. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Blackwell.

2013 “Social Networks and Employment: Mechanisms (Part 1) and Outcomes (Part 2)” (Emilio J. Castilla, George Lan, Ben A. Rissing). Sociological Compass. Forthcoming.

2013 “Complements or Substitutes? Private Codes, State Regulation and the Improvement of Labor Standards in Global Supply Chains.” (Richard M. Locke, Ben A. Rissing, Timea Pal). British Journal of Industrial Relations 51(3): 519-52.

2010 “How Many Highly Skilled Foreign-Born are Waiting in Line for U.S. Legal Permanent Residence?” (Guillermina Jasso, Vivek Wadhwa, Gary Gereffi, Ben A. Rissing, Richard Freeman). International Migration Review 44(2): 477-498.

2008 “Getting the Numbers Right: International Engineering Education in the United States, China and India” (Gary Gereffi, Vivek Wadhwa, Ben A. Rissing, Ryan Ong). Journal of Engineering Education 97(1): 13-25.

2007 “Where the Engineers Are” (Vivek Wadhwa, Gary Gereffi, Ben A. Rissing, Ryan Ong). Issues in Science and Technology 23(3): 73-84.

2006 “Insulin and Glucose Play a Role in Foam Cell Formation and Function” (Pavel Shashkin, Nitin Jain, Yury Miller, Ben A. Rissing, Yuqing Huo, Susanna Keller, George Vandenhoff, Jerry Nadler and Thomas McIntyre). Cardiovascular Diabetology 5: 1-13.

4. Other Publications 2012 “How Government Agents Shape the Employment of Skilled Immigrants.” (Ben A. Rissing). U.S. Department of Labor Employment and Training Administration 2012 Occasional Paper Series (ETA-2012).

2012 “Off to a Green Start? How State Agents Shape the Employment Outcomes of Foreign Nationals by Citizenship.” (Ben A. Rissing, Emilio J. Castilla). Academy of Management Proceedings. Ben A. Rissing 3

2008 “The Globalization of Innovation: Pharmaceuticals” (Vivek Wadhwa, Ben A. Rissing, Gary Gereffi, John Trumpbour, Pete Engardio). Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation Research and Policy Paper Series.

2008 “Education and Tech Entrepreneurship” (Vivek Wadhwa, Richard Freeman, Ben A. Rissing). Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation Research and Policy Paper Series.

2007 “Intellectual Property, the Immigration Backlog, and a Reverse Brain-Drain: America’s New Immigrant Entrepreneurs, Part III” (Vivek Wadhwa, Guillermina Jasso, Ben A. Rissing, Gary Gereffi, Richard Freeman). Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation Immigrant Entrepreneurs Paper Series.

2007 “Education, Entrepreneurship and Immigration: America’s New Immigrant Entrepreneurs, Part II” (Vivek Wadhwa, Ben A. Rissing, Annalee Saxenian, Gary Gereffi). Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation Immigrant Entrepreneurs Paper Series.

Reprinted: “Education, Entrepreneurship and Immigration: America’s New Immigrant Entrepreneurs” (Vivek Wadhwa, Ben A. Rissing, Annalee Saxenian, Gary Gereffi). 2008, The India Economy Review 5: 244-271.

2007 “America’s New Immigrant Entrepreneurs, Part I” (Vivek Wadhwa, Ben A. Rissing, Annalee Saxenian, Gary Gereffi). Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation Immigrant Entrepreneurs Paper Series.

Reprinted (Chinese): “America’s New Immigrant Entrepreneurs” (Vivek Wadhwa, Ben A. Rissing, Annalee Saxenian, Gary Gereffi). 2007, China Entrepreneur: 91-101.

5. News Articles 2008 “Big Pharma’s R&D Booster Shot” (Pete Engardio and Ben A. Rissing). Business Week.

Presentations, Conferences, and Invited Talks

“Trust or Verify? The Paradox of Anomic Regulation”

. June 2013. Presented at the Law and Society Association 2013 International Meeting panel on “The Role of Punishment, Legitimacy, and Motivation in Compliance: Empirical and Experimental Research” in Boston, Massachusetts.

. June 2013. Presented at the Economic Working Group Seminar at the MIT Sloan School of Management in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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“Off to a Green Start? Statistical or Preference-based Inequality in the Employment of Foreign Nationals”

. June 2013. Presented at the Sociology Department Colloquia at in Stanford, California.

. October 2012. Presented at the Institute for Work and Employment Seminar at the MIT Sloan School of Management in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

. August 2012. Presented at the Academy of Management Cross Divisional Paper session on ‘Understanding and Avoiding Employment Discrimination Based on Citizenship, Religion, Criminal History, and Age’ in Boston, Massachusetts.

. July 2012. Presented at the Impact of Organizational Practices on Individual Employment Outcomes colloquium at the 28th annual European Group of Organizational Studies’ (EGOS) conference in Helsinki, Finland.

. June 2012. Presented at the 24th Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics conference panel on ‘The Social Construction of Merit’ in Boston, Massachusetts.

. December 2011. Presented at the Princeton University Center for the Study of Social Organization Workshop in Princeton, New Jersey.

. December 2011. Presented at the Wagner Colloquium at the Wagner Graduate School of Public Service in New York, New York.

. November 2011. Presented at the Harvard Migration and Immigrant Incorporation Workshop at the Harvard University Department of Sociology in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

. August 2011. Presented at the 106th American Sociological Association Annual Meeting panel on ‘Culture and Exclusion in the Organization of Work’ in Las Vegas, Nevada.

. March 2011. Presented at the Economic Sociology Working Group Seminar at the MIT Sloan School of Management in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

. December 2010. Presented at the Institute for Work and Employment Seminar at the MIT Sloan School of Management in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

“To H-1B or not to H-1B? How Government Agents Shape the Employment of Skilled Immigrant Workers”

. September 2012. Plenary session presentation at the People and Organizations Conference at the Wharton School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

. May 2012. Presented at the “What’s the Evidence? Division of Research and Evaluation Paper Briefing” at the U.S. Department of Labor Employment and Training Administration in Washington D.C. Ben A. Rissing 5

. November 2011. Presented at the Institute for Work and Employment Workshop at the MIT Sloan School of Management in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

“Complements or Substitutes? Private Codes, State Regulation and the Improvement of Labor Standards in Global Supply Chains.” December 2011. Presented at the 2011 British Journal of Industrial Relations 50th Anniversary Conference panel on ‘Labour Standards and CSR’ at the London School of Economics and Political Science in London, England

“Skilled Foreign Nationals and the Transition to Employment-Based Permanent Residency.” March 2010. Presented at the 2010 Annual Eastern Sociological Society Conference panel on ‘Immigrants and Socioeconomic Incorporation’ in Boston, Massachusetts.

“America’s New Immigrant Entrepreneurs.” July 2008. Entrepreneurship and the Environment Panel Presentation at Venice International University in Venice, Italy.

“Globalization and Engineering.” March 2007. Presented (with Vivek Wadhwa) at the Science- Based Business Initiatives Seminar Series at the Harvard Business School in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

“Framing the Engineering Outsourcing Debate.” February 2007. Presented at the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.

Teaching Experience

Summer 2013 Instructor for “Sloan Fellows Math Tutorial,” MIT Sloan, Sloan fellows

Spring 2013, Spring 2012 Teaching Assistant (TA) for “Strategic Human Resource Management,” MIT Sloan, MBA students

Fall 2012, Fall 2011 TA for “Doctoral Seminar in Research Methods II,” MIT Sloan, doctoral students. Taught two sessions on data analysis in STATA

Summer 2011 TA for “Global Markets,” MIT Sloan, MBA students

Spring 2011 TA for “Managerial Psychology,” MIT Sloan, undergraduate students

2008 – 2012 Instructor for “Foil and Saber Fencing,” Harvard University Fencing Club, undergraduate and graduate students

Fall 2007 TA for “Global Engineering Education Research Practicum,” Duke University, graduate students

Spring 2007 TA for “Technology Entrepreneurship and Commercialization Research Practicum,” Duke University, graduate students

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Professional Memberships

. American Sociological Association . Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics . Academy of Management . Labor and Employment Relations Association . Law and Society Association . Employment Policy and Research Network . Eastern Sociological Society

Select Media and Policy Coverage of Academic Work

Obama, Barack. 2011. “Remarks by the President on Comprehensive Immigration Reform.” Speech at the Chamizal National Memorial, El Paso, Texas, May 10. – President Barack Obama referenced my co-authored research on immigrant contributions to U.S. jobs and high-tech startups. He noted that future policy reforms are necessary to attract and retain skilled legal immigrants to the United States.

William (Bill) H., Gates. 2008. Congressional Testimony. Committee on Science and Technology, United States House of Representatives. Washington D.C., March 12, p. 14. – Microsoft Chairman William (Bill) H. Gates highlighted my co-authored research on U.S. immigrant job creation and entrepreneurship.

Holden, Constance. 2006. “Engineered Numbers?” Science Magazine. January 6, vol. 311, p. 21. – My co-authored research on engineering degree production was featured in Science Magazine’s “Random Samples” section.

Davidson, Adam. 2006. “Figures on Chinese Engineers Fail to Add Up.” National Public Radio. June 14. – Interviewed regarding the production of engineering graduates in the United States, China, and India.

Samuelson, Robert J. 2006. “A Phony Science Gap?” The Washington Post, February 22, p. A15. – Featured my co-authored research on engineering degree production.

References

Emilio J. Castilla, Associate Professor of Management, MIT Sloan School Phone: (617) 253-0286; Email: [email protected]

Thomas A. Kochan, Professor of Management, MIT Sloan School Phone: (617) 253-6689; Email: [email protected]

Richard M. Locke, Director of the Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University Phone: (401) 863-3596; Email: [email protected]

Susan S. Silbey, Head of Anthropology and Professor of Behavioral and Policy Sciences, MIT Phone: (617) 253-6952; Email: [email protected]