Michel Anteby is a Professor of Management & Organizations at Boston University’s Questrom School of Business and Sociology at Boston University’s College of Arts and Sciences. His research looks at how individuals relate to their work, their occupations, and the organizations they belong to. He examines more specifically the practices people engage in at work that help them sustain their chosen cultures or identities. Studied populations have included airport security officers, clinical anatomists, factory craftsmen, ghostwriters, puppeteers, subway drivers, and university professors.
Prof. Anteby’s research has appeared in journals such as Administrative Science Quarterly, American Sociological Review, Organization Science, Social Science & Medicine, and Social Forces. He also is the author of a book on field resistance The Interloper: Lessons from Resistance in the Field and two monographs: a study of illegal factory production Moral Gray Zones: Side Productions, Identity, and Regulation in an Aeronautic Plant and an ethnography of faculty socialization at Harvard Business School Manufacturing Morals: The Values of Silence in Business School Education.
Prof. Anteby earned a joint Ph.D. in management from New York University and in sociology from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS, Paris), after completing a M.A. in economics at the Sorbonne and a M.P.A. at Harvard. In addition, he served as chair of the Massachusetts Commission on LGBTQ Youth and co-chair of its Safe Schools program.