Kira Lussier

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Toronto, Mississauga

Kira Lussier is a historian of management, science, and technology. She is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute for Management & Innovation, University of Toronto, Mississauga. She earned her PhD in the history of science from the University of Toronto in 2018. Her dissertation research examined the history of corporate personality testing in the context of changing labor practices, cultural life, racial politics, and corporate structures of the knowledge economy. Her research has been supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Canadian Business History Association, and the Institute for New Economic Thinking. Her work has appeared in the Business History Review, History of Psychology, The National Post, The Conversation, and Slate.

Website:

http://kiralussier.com

Twitter: @kiralussier

Interest Group Membership

Business Historians at Business Schools

Emerging Scholars

Women in Business History

Research Interests

History of management

History of Science and Technology

Consumer Culture