About Me

My name is Anyi (pronounced “ahn-ee”). I am an Associate Professor of Management at Wisconsin School of Business, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Broadly, I study agency from two directions.

The first is how perceptions of agency shape women’s leadership opportunities, when traits like ambition and dominance constrain women, when they become sources of advantage, and how those penalties shift across cultural contexts.

The second is what happens when people lose a sense of personal control, how they compensate by seeking predictability, in ways that shape stereotyping and ambiguity intolerance to how managers treat the people who report to them.

My research has appeared in Journal of Applied Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and The Leadership Quarterly, as well as in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, American Psychologist, and Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. My research has been covered by The New York Times, The Atlantic, and Harvard Business Review.

I am currently studying how ambitious women are evaluated at work, how the dominance penalty unfolds in different cultures, and how feminine, counter-stereotypical men are evaluated at work. I’m always glad to hear from people working on related questions, feel free to email me at anyi.ma [at] wisc.edu.