New Directions in Organizational and Management History

About Andrea CaseySonia Coman

Dr. Sonia Coman is the Director of Digital Engagement at the Washington National Cathedral. In her previous role she led the Marketing and Communications team at the Smithsonians National Museum of Asian Art as Audience Engagement Strategist. Her other experience includes strategic planning cultural product marketing research and curatorial work. She has a B.A. from Harvard University (Magna cum laude Phi Beta Kappa) and a Ph.D. from Columbia University. Her dissertation used qualitative and quantitative methods to explore the social network underlying the production of cross-pollinating Japanese and French ceramics at the turn of the twentieth century. Dr. Coman serves on the Editorial Board of Brills Journal of Japonisme and as co-editor of the De Gruyter Series in Organizational and Management History. She is a regular contributor to Smarthistory the world's most visited digital art history resource and the author of interdisciplinary articles and chapters on style formation in the creative industries and on legacy in long-lived organizations. Andrea Casey is Associate Professor Human & Organizational Learning at George Washington University. Dr. Casey's teaching and research interests include organizational cognition in areas such as collective memory and organizational identity and learning. She is an active member of the Academy of Management (AOM) and has served as Division Chair for the Managerial and Organizational Cognition (MOC) Division and recently completed a three-year term on the Board of Governors. She has reviewed papers and proposals for multiple divisions of AOM including MOC Research Methods Organization and Management Theory and Management Consulting and also reviews for the Eastern Academy of Management the Academy of HRD and the Organizational Learning Knowledge and Capabilities International Conference. In addition she has reviewed for journals such as AOM Review Organization Science Management Learning and Human Relations. Dr. Casey is on the Editorial Board of Management and Organizational History and was a member of the editorial board for the Journal of Management. She has more than 15 years experience as an external HRD consultant to state government and private non-profit organizations throughout the USA. In her HRD work she is primarily involved in leadership development strategic planning and organizational change initiatives. She is author of Organizational identity and memory: A multidisciplinary approach published by Routledge in 2018.