Participant Info
- First Name
- Kira
- Last Name
- Lussier
- Country
- Canada
- State
- kira.lussier@utoronto.ca
- Affiliation
- University of Toronto
- Website URL
- kiralussier.com
- Keywords
- History of Psychology, History of Science, History of Technology, Business History, History of Capitalism, U.S. History
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
Dr. Kira Lussier’s research interests lie in the histories of psychology, science, business, capitalism, and the self in 20th/21st-century North America. Her work has appeared in Slate, The Conversation, and The National Post.
She is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Management & Innovation, University of Toronto, Mississauga. She earned her PhD in history of science from the University of Toronto in 2018. Her dissertation research examined the history of personality testing in late 20th-century American corporate management practices.
- Recent Publications
Kira Lussier, “Temperamental Workers: Psychology, Business, and the Humm-Wadsworth Temperament Scale in Interwar America. History of Psychology 21, no. 2 (2018): 79-99.
Kira Lussier, “Managing Intuition.” In roundtable, “Management Theory after Organization Man.” Business History Review 90, no. 4 (Winter 2016): 708-718.
- Media Coverage
- https://slate.com/technology/2018/04/how-corporations-convinced-us-that-personality-tests-are-fun.html
- Social Media
- kiralussier
- Country Focus
- United States
- Expertise by Geography
- United States
- Expertise by Chronology
- Modern, 20th century, 21st century
- Expertise by Topic
- Capitalism, Medicine, Politics, Race, Science, Technology, Women
