2025 Fredric M. Jablin Doctoral Dissertation Award Winner
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Dr. Steven Zhou will receive the 2025 Fredric M. Jablin Doctoral Dissertation Award on Oct. 15, 2025, in Prague at the 27th annual International Leadership Association Global Conference for his doctoral dissertation, “The Negative Effects of Shared Leadership: An Application of Agent-Based Modeling Based on Lab Experiment Data.”
His dissertation uses agent-based modeling (ABM) to examine the topic of shared leadership, a growing area of interest in leadership scholarship, with a focus on the potential negative effects of shared leadership that have been largely overlooked in decades of research.
An assistant professor of psychological science at Claremont McKenna College, Zhou’s research bridges psychometrics, leadership, organizational behavior, and advanced quantitative methods. He earned a doctorate in industrial-organizational psychology with a certificate in computational social sciences from George Mason University, where he completed an award-winning dissertation on the unintended consequences of shared leadership.
The Jablin Doctoral Dissertation Award is given annually to a scholar whose doctoral dissertation research, while on any topic and from any discipline, demonstrates substantial insights and implications for the study of leadership. The award was established to honor and celebrate the life of Jepson School professor Dr. Fredric M. Jablin (1952-2004). Recipients are honored during the ILA Global Conference and invited to give a talk on their work at the conference.