Julia Bear has been appointed interim dean of the Stony Brook University College of Business, with her term beginning on January 19. The announcement was made by Provost Carl Lejuez in a message to the campus community.
Bear is currently a full professor of organizational behavior and serves as associate dean for research at the College of Business. In this role, she has overseen several initiatives, including revising the college’s promotion and tenure guidelines. She also holds a national leadership position as president of the International Association of Conflict Management.
Bear’s academic work focuses on gender and negotiation, particularly examining factors behind gender gaps in organizations. Her research has appeared in leading management and psychology journals such as Academy of Management Review, Psychological Science, Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Psychology of Women Quarterly, Social Psychological and Personality Science, Academy of Management Discoveries, and Group Decision and Negotiation. She co-authored “The Caregiving Ambition: What It Is and Why It Matters At Home and Work” with T. Pittinsky, published by Oxford University Press.
Her achievements include multiple best paper awards from both the Academy of Management and the International Association of Conflict Management. Bear is also a recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship and a Marie Curie Fellowship. She earned her PhD in organizational behavior from Carnegie Mellon University’s Tepper School of Business.
“I look forward to working with Dr. Bear and thank her for taking on this role,” Lejuez said. “I am also grateful to the College of Business faculty and staff for their input and feedback.”
Lejuez noted that plans are underway to form a search committee to begin looking for a new permanent dean for the college in the coming weeks.
