Annika Wilcox, PhD

Peer-Reviewed Publications

The publications listed below can also be found on my Google Scholar Profile.

Wilcox, Annika and Neeraj Rajasekar. 2026. “The Inauthenticity of Organizational Diversity Initiatives: Perspectives from the Tech Industry.” Forthcoming at The Sociological Quarterly. Link to version of record. Link to open access version.

Wilcox, Annika, Amanda Koontz, Jacinta M. Gau, Jana L. Jasinski, Debra R. Reinhart, and Linda J. Walters. 2026. “Advancing Equity in Academia: Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) Faculty Perceptions of Organizational Justice and Organizational Authenticity.” Journal of Diversity in Higher Education 19(1):74-88. Link to version of record. Link to green open access version.

Rajasekar, Neeraj, Evan Gunderson, and Annika Wilcox. 2025. “The Language of “Diversity” or “DEI”? Exploring Job Titles of Diversity Professionals in US Institutions of Higher Education.” Sociological Forum 40(2):194-212. Link to open access article.

Wilcox, Annika. 2025. “Conforming Critical Diversity: Voicing Diversity for Equity in an Organizational Inequality Regime.” Sociological Focus 58(1):94-115. Link.

  • An earlier version of this paper was awarded the Himes Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award by the North Carolina Sociological Association (2021).

Wilcox, Annika and Amanda Koontz. 2022. “Workplace Well-being: Shifting from an Individual to an Organizational Framework.” Sociology Compass 16(10). Link to version of record. Link to green open access version.

  • Accompanying blog post: Wilcox, Annika and Amanda Koontz. August 2022. “Well-being is a Characteristic of Companies – Not Just Individual Workers.” Sociology Lens. Link.

Wilcox, Annika, Amanda K. Damarin, and Steve McDonald. 2022. “Is Cybervetting Valuable?” Industrial and Organizational Psychology 15(3):315-333. Link to open access article.

  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric 
  • Select Media Coverage: Phys.org, Fast Company

Wilcox, Annika, Steve McDonald, Richard Benton, and Donald Tomaskovic-Devey. 2022. “Gender Inequality in Relational Position-Taking: An Analysis of Intra-Organizational Job Mobility Networks.” Social Science Research 101. Link.

Shriver, Thomas, Laura Bray, Annika Wilcox, and Adriana Szabo. 2022. “Human Rights and Dissent in Hybrid Environments: The Impact of Shifting Rights Regimes.” The Sociological Quarterly 63(3):541-561. Link to version of record. Link to open access version.

Shriver, Thomas, Annika Wilcox, and Laura Bray. 2020. “Elite Cultural Work and Discursive Obstruction of Human Rights Activism.” Social Currents 7(1):11-28. Link.

McDonald, Steve, Amanda K. Damarin, Jenelle Lawhorne, and Annika Wilcox. 2019. “Black Holes and Purple Squirrels: A Tale of Two Online Labor Markets.” Research in the Sociology of Work 33:93-120. Link.

  • Accompanying blog post: McDonald, Steve, Amanda Damarin, and Annika Wilcox. August 2019. “Segmenting the Online Job Market: Avoiding Black Holes and Recruiting Purple Squirrels.” Work in Progress. Link.