Laura Hansen

Office: Wheatley, 4th floor, Rm 19
Telephone: 617-287-6261
Email: laura.hansen@umb.edu

Research

Comparisons of inter-organizational insider trading networks during the 1980s and the intra-organizational network ties in Enron.

Corporate governance, including structural incoherence, interlocking directorates, and insider trading in the biotech industry (Collaboration with Theodora Welch, College of Management).
Diffusion of technological innovation within networks of ophthalmologists in the Northeast and Southeast.

Representative Publications

“Women Disadvantaged in the Workplace: The Second Shift, Emotional Labor, and The ‘Good Old Boy’ Network.” March 2006 release date. Women in Ophthalmology, edited by John Pinto & Elizabeth Davis, MD. Published by The American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery.

“Girl ‘Crew’ Members Doing Gender, Boy ‘Crew’ Members Doing Violence: An Ethnographic and Network Analysis of Maria Hinojosa’s New York Gangs.” 2005. Western Criminology Review. Vol 6, No 1:134-44.

“Gangs of New York.” 2005. Forrester Magazine. Forrester Research Inc. 2:72.

Areas of Teaching

Introduction to Sociology
Corrections
White-collar Crime
Social Network Analysis