Rate My Professor Erica Coslor

Erica Coslor is an Associate Professor in the Department of Management and Marketing within the Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Melbourne. She holds the position of Doctoral Program Director and conducts research at the intersection of economic sociology and management. Her academic background includes a PhD in Sociology from the University of Chicago obtained in 2011, a Masters degree involving both coursework and research from Carnegie Mellon University, and a Bachelors degree. Coslor's research focuses on new market emergence, categories and valuation, market structure and processes, with examples from contemporary art markets and the historical case of grid computing. Her work explores evaluative frictions in opaque markets, gatekeeper roles in categorization, and the financialization of cultural assets.

Key publications by Erica Coslor include 'The Financialization of Art' co-authored with Olav Velthuis in The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Finance (2012); 'Transparency in an Opaque Market: Evaluative Frictions between Thick Valuation and Thin Price Data in the Art Market' in Accounting, Organizations and Society (2016); 'Collectors, Investors and Speculators: Gatekeeper Use of Audience Categories in the Art Market' with Brett Crawford and Andrew Leyshon in Organization Studies (2020); 'Organizational and Epistemic Change: The Growth of the Art Investment Field' with Christophe Spaenjers in Accounting, Organizations and Society (2017); and 'Compressed Lives: How Flexible are Employer-Imposed Compressed Work Schedules?' with Eric Hyatt in Personnel Review (2018). These works, along with others, have contributed to over 647 citations on Google Scholar, influencing fields such as organization theory, strategy, valuation, and economic sociology. Coslor has secured research grants from the University of Melbourne Faculty of Business and Economics, including funding for a Research Group on Market Formation in 2014. She engages in public scholarship through contributions to Pursuit by the University of Melbourne and is affiliated with the Academy of Management.