Rebecca Kolins Givan, assistant professor in the ILR School, will receive the Labor and Employment Relations Association's John T. Dunlop Outstanding Scholar Award for her "outstanding academic contributions to research" as a recent entrant to the field at the organization's annual meeting, Jan. 5-8, in Chicago.

"The committee also was impressed with her work on general issues of political economy," said Morris Kleiner, awards committee chair and the AFL-CIO chair of labor policy and professor at the University of Minnesota.

An assistant professor at ILR since 2005, Givan received her doctorate in political science from Northwestern University in 2004 and a bachelor's degree from Oberlin College in 1997.

Before joining ILR, Givan held positions at the Cardiff (UK) Business School and the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics, where she continues as a research associate.

Her areas of expertise include collective bargaining, health care and its restructuring, industrial relations systems, international and comparative workplace studies, the welfare state and unions.