Jean Bartunek, RSCJ, was installed October 3 as Robert A. and Evelyn J. Ferris Chair at Boston College, where she is professor of organization studies. Sister Bartunek is director of the doctoral program in organization studies and a past president of the international Academy of Management. She earned a bachelor's degree at Maryville College of the Sacred Heart in St. Louis (now Maryville University), where she presently serves as a member of the board. She earned a doctorate in social and organizational psychology from the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Sister Bartunek is an associate editor of the Journal of Applied Behavioral Science and is on the editorial boards of several journals, including the Academy of Management Journal, for which she is chair of the advisory committee, Administrative Science Quarterly, and Organization Studies. She has written three books and co-edited another, and has published over 80 journal articles and book chapters.

Her research interests center around intersections of organizational change, social cognition, and conflict. Her methodological interests focus on ways academics and practitioners can collaborate in conducting research.