Pushkala Prasad is the Arthur Zankel Chair Professor of Management and Liberal Arts at Skidmore College where she teaches in the Management & Business Department and the International Affairs Program. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in Management with a specialization in Organization Studies. Prior to coming to Skidmore College, she held an endowed Chair Professorship at Lund University in Sweden and was an associate professor at the University of Calgary in Canada.
Her research interests center around workplace diversity tensions and global capitalism. She has published widely in a number of scholarly journals including the Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, Research in the Sociology of Organizations and Human Relations. She is the author of Crafting Qualitative Research: Beyond Positivist Traditions (Routledge, 2018) which has been translated into Japanese, and the co-editor of the Routledge Companion to Critical Management Studies. Professor Prasad’s research has been supported by grants from the Social Science and Humanities Council of Canada(SSHRC), the Bank of Sweden’s Tercentenary Foundation (Riksbanken Jubileumsfund), and the Alberta Energy Corporation of Canada. She is also a member of the Nominating Committee for the Nobel Prize in Economics in Sweden. She is currently working on a book on global racial capitalism which is scheduled for publication with the University of Bristol Press in 2025.