Background

Dr. Haddad served as professor of technology studies and women’s studies at Eastern Michigan University for 23 years.  A highly-regarded educator, she received a Teaching Excellence Award in 2001 from EMU’s Alumni Association.   The university granted her Professor Emerita status upon her retirement in 2015 for her distinguished research,  teaching, and service.   Prior to her arrival at EMU, she was a labor educator and tenured faculty member at Michigan State University’s School of Labor and Industrial Relations, a visiting Research Fellow at Wayne State University’s College of Urban, Labor, and Metropolitan Affairs, and held senior positions with the American Society for Training and Development in Alexandria, Virginia and also with the Industrial Technology Institute in Ann Arbor, Michigan.    Throughout her career she has published numerous scholarly articles, spoken at national and international conferences, obtained and managed project grants, and collaborated with colleagues in Canada, Germany, Japan, Italy, and England.   She has also served as paid consultant to a variety of organizations.

Dr. Haddad’s book on the management of technological change, published by Sage, broke new ground in that field by demonstrating the benefits of strategic and participative approaches to technology adoption.  Her most recent book on women’s mastery of non-traditional technologies was released in 2019 by Routledge.  She was inducted into the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi in 2013, and is a member of the Society for the Social Studies of Science and the Canadian Federation of University Women, St. John’s club. Her papers on labor education are held at the Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan.   

She earned a Ph.D. in Higher and Adult Continuing Education from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, with a dissertation entitled: Technology and Skill: Educational Considerations in the Implementation and Use of Advanced Manufacturing Technology. She also earned an M.S. in Labor Studies from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, with a semester abroad at the University of Warwick’s M.A. Program in Industrial Relations, School of Industrial and Business Studies, Coventry, England.