The Heller School for Social Policy and Management

Janet Boguslaw

Senior Scientist and Senior Lecturer

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Contact

Email: boguslaw@brandeis.edu
Office: Heller-Brown Building 361
Phone: 781-736-3738
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Expertise

Economic Equity, Family Economic Security, Gender and Racial inequality with a focus on low-wealth populations. Areas of expertise include;
* Workforce Development, Quality Work, Employment and Career Opportunity / Advancement,
* Shared Capital Structures/Employee Ownership, Stakeholder Engagement/Alignment;
* Life Course Approach; Qualitative Methods and Analysis; Case Studies; Program Implementation and Evaluation.

Courses

  • HS 216f - Policy Perspectives on Women, Work, and Inequality
  • HS 292f - Critical Thinking and Advanced Professional Writing

Degrees

  • Boston College
    Ph.D.
  • Washington University
    M.Ed.
  • Washington University
    B.A.

Janet Boguslaw

Senior Scientist and Senior Lecturer

Profile

Dr. Janet Boguslaw is a Senior Scientist at the Heller School and Institute for Economic and Racial Equity. She is also a non-resident Research Fellow at the Rutgers School of Labor and Management Relations. Her research focuses on creating multi-sector innovations and partnerships to advance equitable economic opportunity and stability through institutional and public policy-driven initiatives focusing on workforce and economic development, job quality, family financial stability, new structures of work, and gender and asset based inequalities. Participant engagement in research, analysis, and recommendation development is key to all the work. Dr. Boguslaw has worked with corporate managers to research, direct and advance their community development initiatives, with state and not for profit agencies in the areas of workforce training, employment stabilization, family and child well-being, and on funded research exploring issues of regional development, disparities, and wealth building. Most recently at Brandeis she directed a federally funded university/community project examining career advancement and job quality in healthcare. Through Rutgers analyzed primary data on the asset building, life course, and family impacts of employee ownership for low and moderate-income workers, with a focus on its role in reducing gender and racial wealth inequality. She engages as a member of the Closing the Women’s Wealth Gap national initiative; on the Workforce Development Steering Committee on Racial Equity Insight Center for Community Economic Development (Oakland, CA); as Humanities Advisor, The Kitchenistas film project, The Beyster Foundation (La Jolla, CA); and as Board Member and Clerk, Family Nurturing Centers (Boston MA).

Awards and Honors

  • Louis O. Kelso Fellowship, Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing, Rutgers University (2019 - 2020)
  • WAWA Fellowship,Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing, Rutgers University (2019 - 2020)
  • Kellogg Fellow, Rutgers School of Labor and Industrial Relations, Rutgers University (2016 - 2018)
  • 2013-2014 Davis Teaching and Learning Fellowship (2013 - 2014)
  • 2009 Heller Mentoring Award (2009)

Scholarship

  • Boguslaw Janet., Santos J., Tellez T.. "Culturally Effective Organizations: Revisiting the Role of Employers in Workforce Development." Pathways to Careers in Health Care. Ed. CT King & PYP Hong (Eds.). Kalamazoo: W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2020
  • Davis, M.T, M.Erickson Warfield, J.Boguslaw, D. Roundtree-Swain,G. Kellogg.. "Parenting a 6-year-old is not what I planned in retirement: Trauma and Stress Among Grandparents due to the Opioid Crisis,." Journal of Gerontological Social DOI: 10.1080/01634372.2020.1752872. (2020).
  • Boguslaw, Janet and L. Shur. "Building the Assets of Low and Moderate Income Workers and their Families: The Role of Employee Ownership". New Brunswick, NJ. Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing, School of Management and Labor Relations, Rutgers University: 2019.
  • Boguslaw, Janet/ Lisa Shur. "A Path to Shared Prosperity.." The New Economy. Cooperative Business Journal. National Cooperative Business Association/CLSU International December 9,2019.
  • Boguslaw, Janet, S. Souri. "Structuring Firms to Benefit Low-Income Workers." Employee Ownership and Employee Involvement at Work: Case Studies. vol. 18 Ed. Daphne Berry and T. Kato. UK: Emerald Group Publishing, 2018. 153-158.
  • Boguslaw, Janet. "How Workforce Investments Leverage and Create Employee Value." Investing in America’s Workforce: Improving Outcomes for Workers and Employers. vol. 2 Ed. Anderson, S. ,T.Greene, H.Prince, C.Van Horn. Kalamazoo, MI: W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2018. Part 2 Chapter 11 pg 163-182.
  • Boguslaw, Janet. "Valuing Workers through Shared Capital Investments." Investing in America’s Workforce: Improving Outcomes for Workers and Employers. vol. 2. Part 2 Chapter 7 (103-114) Ed. Anderson, S., T.Greene, H.Prince, C.Van Horn. Kalamazoo, MI: W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2018. 103-114.
  • Boguslaw, Janet, J. Hoffer Gitell. "Relational Coproduction and Relational Welfare - An Asset Based Approach to Achieving Social Well-Being." KOGNITION & PÆDAGOGIK no 100 Vol. 26, no 2 / KP162. (2016).
  • Boguslaw, Janet, M.Cronin, M. Guananja. "Chelsea's Connect: Building Economic Resiliency through Multi-Service Cross-Sector Collaborations." Innovations in Public and Nonprofit Sectors: A Public Solutions Handbook. Ed. Julnes, Patria., Ed. Gibson.. Taylor and Francis, 2016
  • Boguslaw, J., A.B. Kaufman.. "Gaining Traction: Socially Responsible Investments, Targeted Markets, Sustainable Impacts." Inequality, Uncertainty, and Opportunity The Varied and Growing Role of Finance in Labor Relations. vol. LERA Research Volume Ed. Weller, C. Ed. Ithica: ILR Press, 2015
  • Boguslaw, J., Behe, K., Taylor, J.. Strategic Philanthropy: Integrating Investments in Asset Building- A Framework for Action. San Francisco, CA Asset Funders Network: 2015.
  • Gaiser, M. D., L. Nsiah Jefferson, J. Santos, S. Venner, J. Boguslaw, T. Tellez.. "Culturally Effective Organizations: A Framework for Success". Waltham, MA: Institute on Assets and Social Policy, Brandeis University.: 2015.
  • Loya, B., J. Boguslaw, M. Erickson-Warfield.. "Empowering Prosperity: Strengthening Human Services Impacts through Asset Integration. A Guidebook for Discussion and Action". Waltham, MA. Institute on Assets and Social Policy and the National Assembly for Human Services: 2015.
  • Loya, R., Mann, A., Boguslaw, J, T. Shapiro. "Tipping the Scale: How Assets Shape Economic Wellbeing for Women and Families". Waltham, MA Institute on Assets and Social Policy: 2015.
  • Santos, J., Boguslaw, J., Venner, S.. "Strengthening New Hampshire's Health Care Workforce: Strategies for Employers and Workforce Development Leaders". Waltham, MA Institute on Assets and Social Policy, Brandeis University: 2015.
  • Santos, J., J. Boguslaw.. "The Networked Workforce: Maximizing Potential in Health Careers.". Waltham, MA. Institute on Assets and Social Policy: 2015.
  • Boguslaw, Janet, M. Cronin, E. Paulhus. "State Asset Building Coalitions: Perspectives from the Field" Institute on Assets and Social Policy, Waltham, MA.. 2014.
  • Thomas, H., J. Boguslaw, S. Chaganti, T. Shapiro.. "Keeping dreams alive: the lane-changer costs of financial disruptions" Leveraging Mobility Series #3. Institute on Assets and Social Policy, Waltham, MA: April: 2014.
  • Thomas, H.,T. Meschede, A. Mann, J. Boguslaw, T. Shapiro. "The Web of Wealth: Resiliency and Opportunity or Driver of Inequality?" Leveraging Mobility Series #4. Institute on Assets and Social Policy, Waltham, MA: July. 2014.
  • Boguslaw, Janet and Elizabeth Paulhus. "Strategic Philanthropy: Creating Opportunity, Building Wealth, and Driving Community Change". San Francisco Asset Funders Network: 2013.
  • Boguslaw, Janet, S. Venner, J. Santos, L. Nsiah-Jefferson. "Perspectives and Practices of NHHealth Care Employers: Improving Quality, Reducing Costs, and Planning for the Future by Building Culturally Effective Health Care Organizations". Institute on Assets and Social Policy, Waltham, MA.: 2013.
  • Boguslaw, Janet. H. Thomas, L. Sullivan, T. Meschede, S.Chaganti, T. Shapiro.. "Hard Choices: Navigating the Economic Shock of Unemployment". Washington, D.C. The Pew Charitable Trusts: 2013.
  • Thomas, H., J. Boguslaw, S. Chaganti, A. Atkinson, T. Shapiro. "Employment Capital: How Work Builds and Protects Family Wealth and Security" Leveraging Mobility Series #2. Institute on Assets and Social Policy, Waltham: MA December. 2013.
  • Thomas, Hannah , Janet Boguslaw, Alexis Mann, Thomas Shapiro. "Leveraging Mobility: Building Wealth, Security and Opportunity for Family Well-Being" Leveraging Mobility Series #1. Institute on Assets and Social Policy. Waltham, MA: October. 2013.
  • Boguslaw, Janet and Mary Ellen Boyle. "Investments at the Base of the Pyramid: Reducing Poverty Through Sustainable Asset Development." Sustainability Challenges and Solutions at the Base of the Pyramid: Business, Technology, and the Poor. Ed. Kandachar, Prabhu and M. Halme. Sheffield: UK: Greenleaf Publishing, 2008. 261-281.
  • Boguslaw, J., Boyle, M.E.. "Business, Poverty, and Corporate Citizenship: Naming the Issues and Framing Solutions." Journal of Corporate Citizenship 26 (2007): 101-120.
  • Boguslaw, J., Brown, J.L.. "Non-Income Poverty." Encyclopedia of World Poverty. New York: Sage, 2006
  • Boguslaw, J., Brown, J.L.. "Social Insecurity." Encyclopedia of World Poverty. New York: Sage, 2006
  • Boyle, M.E. , Boguslaw, J.. Asset Policy as an Anti-Poverty Strategy: A Symposium on Corporate Involvement. Proc. of Annual Conference of the International Association of Business and Society. Santa Rosa, CA: 2005.
  • Boyle, M.E. , Boguslaw, J.. "Job Training as Business and Community Development: Reframing Theory and Practice." The Sociology of Job Training: Research In The Sociology Of Work. Ed. Bills, D.. New York: JAI Press, 2003
  • Boguslaw, J.. "Have We Arrived? Only when the integration of stakeholder interests becomes 'business as usual'." Accountability Quarterly 19 (2002): 52-58.
  • Boguslaw, J.. Social Partnerships and Social Relations: New Strategies in Workforce and Economic Development. New York: Routledge, 2001.
  • Rochlin, S., Boguslaw, J.. "Integrating Business and Community Development: Winning Management Practices. In Innovation, Learning and Performance." Accountability Quarterly 16 (2001).
  • Rochlin, S., Boguslaw, J.. Business and Community Development: Aligning Corporate Performance with Community Economic Development to Achieve Win-Win Impacts. The Center for Corporate Citizenship at Boston College, The Wallace B. Carroll School of Management. Newton, MA: 2001.
  • Rochlin, S., Boguslaw, J.. Case Studies:- "J.P Morgan Chase: Driving Business and Community Development Across the Organization."- Advanced Micro Devices: Creating Strong Communities and Business Through Regional Workforce Development Partnerships.- Safeco's Urban Marketing Initia. The Center for Corporate Citizenship at Boston College, The Wallace B. Carroll School of Management. Boston, MA: 2001.
  • Siegel, B, , Kwass, P., Boguslaw, J. , et al.,. "Jobs and the Urban Poor: Publicly Initiated Sectoral Strategies" Final Report, Vol I. and Case Studies, Vol.II.. Final research report to the Ford and Mott Foundations, Mt. Auburn Associates. Cambridge, MA: 1995.