About

Thomas Kelemen is an associate professor of management at Texas Tech University in the Rawls College of Business. He received his PhD in management from the University of Oklahoma in 2020 and his BA in economics from Brigham Young University in 2014. His work has been published in journals such as Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Annals, Journal of Management, and The Leadership Quarterly. He has also written for outlets such as Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, Cal Management Review, LSE Business Review, Psychology Today, and Fast Company.

Prior to joining Texas Tech, Thomas was on faculty at Kansas State University. In 2024, Thomas was a visiting Fulbright Scholar at Deakin University in Australia. Before academia, he was a corps member with Teach For America, teaching secondary school mathematics in Oklahoma City. He also worked in Washington DC at a political think tank focused on housing policy.