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Thomas Lyttelton is an assistant professor of management at the University of Kentucky Gatton College of Business and Economics. He studies how the informal dimensions of organizations shape careers, firms and inequality. He has written papers on network hiring, partisan politics in the workplace, and the intergenerational reproduction of managers and his work has been published in Administrative Science Quarterly, American Journal of Sociology and American Sociological Review.
Thomas Lyttelton and Nathan Wilmers, 2026. ‘The politicization of wage setting.’ Administrative Science Quarterly (online first).
Nicholas Martindale, Thomas Lyttelton, and Lasse Henriksen, 2026. ‘The gendered intergenerational transmission of managerial status.’ American Sociological Review, 91 (4), 674–707.
Thomas Lyttelton, Lasse Henriksen (equal contributors), and Emil Begtrup-Bright, 2025. ‘What makes a contact valuable? Hiring, organizational networks and the advantage of network closure.’ American Journal of Sociology, 131 (1), 111–148.
Thomas Lyttelton, Emma Zang, and Kelly Musick, 2022. ‘Telecommuting and gender inequalities in parents’ paid and unpaid work before and during the COVID-19 pandemic.’ Journal of Marriage and Family, 84 (1), 230–249.
