WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Ellen Ernst Kossek, Basil S. Turner Distinguished Professor Emerita of Management at Purdue University’s Mitch Daniels School of Business, has been named to the 2025-26 fellows class for the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University. An award-winning social scientist and thought leader on work-family and employment issues, Kossek is one of 33 scholars to receive the designation this year.
Kossek served on the Purdue faculty from 2013 until her retirement in 2024. She was the first elected president of the Work-Family Researchers Network and is a fellow of the Academy of Management, the American Psychological Association and the Society of Industrial Organizational Psychology. From 2020-24, she was ranked each year among the top 2% scientists globally in business and management in the Stanford/Elsevier survey. She remains active as a researcher, serving as a Distinguished Family Scholar for Purdue’s Center for Families.
Kossek is the only faculty member in this year’s fellows class whose affiliation is listed as business. She is the second faculty member to be co-funded by Stanford’s VMWare Women’s Leadership Innovation Lab.
Her CASBS residential fellowship begins in September, when she will be joined by scholars and practitioners representing 18 U.S. institutions and 12 international institutions and programs. Participants represent several disciplines, including agriculture, anthropology, business, communication, economics, history, law, philosophy, political science, psychology, public health and nutrition, and sociology.
