Dorothy Carter

Dorothy R. Carter is an Associate Professor of Management in the Eli Broad College of Business at Michigan State University. Her research seeks to uncover the factors that enable teams and larger collectives to tackle complex challenges. Her research on leadership and teamwork has appeared in multiple journals within the organizational sciences, including Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, American Psychologist, and The Leadership Quarterly, as well as in interdisciplinary publication outlets. She has received over $10 million in funding as Principal Investigator or Co-Investigator from national agencies including the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Army Research Institute (ARI), and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). She has received multiple research awards including the 2017 Alvah H. Chapman Outstanding Dissertation Award from the Academy of Management's (AoM) Network of Leadership Scholars (NLS), the 2019 Rising Star in Leadership Research Award from the AoM's NLS, the 2020 Charles B. Knapp Early Career Scholar in the Social Sciences Award from the University of Georgia (UGA), and the 2023 Early Career Award from the Interdisciplinary Network for Groups Research (INGRoup).  Dr. Carter currently serves on the editorial boards of Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, Organizational Psychology Review, and Journal of Business and Psychology. She is a co-author on a forthcoming National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine report commissioned by the National Institutes of Health focused on best practices for supporting and evaluating team science. Dr. Carter earned her Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, GA and her B.S. degree in Psychology from Wright State University in Dayton, OH.