Gregory Michael DistelhorstProfile page
Associate Professor
Faculty of Arts and Science, Centre for Industrial Relations and Human Resources
Orcid identifier0000-0002-3623-7953
- Associate ProfessorFaculty of Arts and Science, Centre for Industrial Relations and Human Resources
BIO
Gregory Michael Distelhorst is an Associate Professor at the University of Toronto, appointed at the Centre for Industrial Relations and Human Resources and the Rotman School of Management.
His research focuses on multinational business and worker rights, as well as politics and policy in contemporary China. It appears in peer-reviewed social science journals including the American Journal of Political Science, Management Science, Organization Science, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, The Journal of Politics, Perspectives on Politics, Comparative Political Studies, and the Quarterly Journal of Political Science.
He was previously a professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management and Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. He also lived in mainland China for five years, including fellowships through the U.S. Fulbright Program and the Yale-China Association. He received a BA in Cognitive Science from Yale University and a PhD in Political Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
His research focuses on multinational business and worker rights, as well as politics and policy in contemporary China. It appears in peer-reviewed social science journals including the American Journal of Political Science, Management Science, Organization Science, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, The Journal of Politics, Perspectives on Politics, Comparative Political Studies, and the Quarterly Journal of Political Science.
He was previously a professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management and Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. He also lived in mainland China for five years, including fellowships through the U.S. Fulbright Program and the Yale-China Association. He received a BA in Cognitive Science from Yale University and a PhD in Political Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
- Associate Professor with TenureUniversity of Toronto, Centre for Industrial Relations and Human Resources and Rotman School of Management, Strategic Management Area, Toronto, Canada2021 - present
- Assistant ProfessorUniversity of Toronto, Centre for Industrial Relations and Human Resources and Rotman School of Management, Strategic Management Area, Toronto, Canada2018 - 2021
- Assistant Professor of Global Economics and ManagementMassachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States2016 - 2019
- Associate Professor (tenure-track) of International BusinessUniversity of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom2015 - 2016
- Postdoctoral FellowUniversity of Toronto, Toronto, Canada2013 - 2015
DEGREES
- Ph.D., Political ScienceMassachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States2013
- B.A., Cognitive SciencYale University, New Haven, United States2003
LANGUAGES
- Chinese (Mandarin)
- English
AVAILABILITY
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