Christine Quinn Trank is a professor of the practice of organizational leadership at the Peabody College of Education and Human Development of Vanderbilt University. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Iowa in Business in 2001. Chris studies the institutional environment of organizations and occupations, including educational and academic contexts. The shaping of knowledge as it moves across academic, policy, market, and practice boundaries is of particular interest. Most recently, she has studied the role of rhetorical history in identity work in organizations and occupations. Her work has been published in Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Learning and Education, Journal of Leadership and Organizational Studies, Journal of Business and Psychology, and Advances in Strategic Management. Chris has served as Editor-in-Chief of Academy of Management Learning and Education, Associate Editor of Academy of Management Review, and co-Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Management Inquiry. She currently serves on several editorial boards. She previously served as representative-at-large on the Board of Governors and currently serves on the Academy of Management’s Ethics Education Committee. Chris teaches in the areas of organizational theory and leadership, fields in which she has been recognized with both teaching and service awards. At Vanderbilt, she helped establish an interdisciplinary professional doctorate in Leadership and Learning in Organizations. The program successfully combines faculty from multiple academic fields and students from across functions and sectors, celebrating the connection between scholarship and practice.