Research

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My research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the PD Soros Fellowship for New Americans, the American Association for University Women, P.E.O. International, the Tamer Center for Social Enterprise at Columbia Business School, the Hispanic Scholarship Fund, and the Center for Organizational Innovation.

Publications

Portocarrero, Sandra and James T. Carter. 2022. “But the Fellows Are Simply Diversity Hires!” How Organizational Contexts Influence Status Beliefs.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 8 (7): 172-191. [Read here]

• Nominated for Best Paper on Environmental and Social Practices, Organizations and Management Theory Division at the Academy of Management, 2022.

Portocarrero, Sandra and James T. Carter. 2022. “Diversity Initiatives in the US Workplace: A Brief History, Their Intended and Unintended Consequences.” Sociology Compass, 16 (7): e13001. [Read here]

Papers under review

Portocarrero, Sandra. “Racialized Expertise: The Consequences of Perceiving and Presenting Workers’ Ethnoracial Background as a Type of Expertise.” (Second Revise and Resubmit at the Administrative Science Quarterly)

• Runner up, Louis Pondy Best Dissertation Paper Award, OMT Division at the Academy of Management, 2023.  

• Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings (top 10% of annual conference submissions), 2023.

Portocarrero, Sandra, Gerardo Okhuysen, and Andrea Wessendorf.“Diverse but not Inclusive: How Organizational Status Maintenance Leads to Conditional Inclusion.” (Second Revise and Resubmit at the Academy of Management Journal)

• Winner of the 2021 The Society for the Studies of Social Problems Best Graduate Student Paper Award.
• Nominated for Best Paper on Environmental and Social Practices, Organizations and Management Theory Division at the Academy of Management, 2023.  

Works in progress

Portocarrero, Sandra. “The Split Minority Worker Identity: How Organizational Expectations to Embrace a Racialized Professional Identity Affects Workers of Color.” (Writing phase)

Portocarrero, Sandra and Dan Wang. “Migration Status as Boundary Condition: The Experiences of Undocumented Entrepreneurs in the U.S.” (Data Analysis)

Portocarrero, Sandra.  “Who are the Experts on Diversity? Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Work in Racialized Organizations.” (Writing phase)

Portocarrero, Sandra*, Daphné Baldassari, * Hannah Riley Bowles*, and Valerie Purdieu-Greenaway. “An Integrative Framework for Negotiating Organizational Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Roles.” (Writing phase)

Portocarrero, Florencio, Daniela Perleche-Ugás, Sandra Portocarrero, and James Weber. “Can A Scalable Alternative to Mentoring Private Scholarship Recipients Promote Social Inclusion? Evidence from a Quasi-Experimental Longitudinal Case in Latin America.”  (Data Collection)

*Denotes equal authorship

Other publications

Portocarrero, Sandra. 2012. “A Case Study of the Effects of Participation in an Organization in the Lives of Women: Post-Conflict Ayacucho, Peru.” Berkeley Undergraduate Journal, 25(2): 96-121. [Read here]

Portocarrero, Sandra. 2019. “What Do We Talk About When We Talk about Diversity and Inclusion?” American Sociological Association Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility Newsletter, 5 (1): 8-9

Portocarrero, Sandra and Francisco Lara-Garcia. 2017. “U.S. Universities: A New Site for Immigrant Struggles?” Global Dialogue, 7 (2): 35-36

Portocarrero, Sandra. 2015. “Copper, Water, and Land: Mining in Piedra Alta, Peru.” Global Dialogue, 3(4): 35-36