She received her AB from Princeton University and a MS and PhD from the School of Industrial Relations, Cornell University. She was a co-recipient of the 2005 LERA Best Dissertation Award, and in 2006, became an Early Career Junior Scholar with the Peter Wall Institute of Advanced Studies. In 2008, she received a Citation of Excellence Award from Emerald Management Reviews along with her co-authors, Daniel Skarlicki and David Walker, for their paper titled "Getting even for customer mistreatment: The role of moral identity in the relationship between customer interpersonal injustice and employee sabotage." In 2010, she was nominated for a John T Dunlop young scholar award from the Labor and Employment Relation Association (LERA), the primary scholarly associaiton for Industrial Relations in North America.