Melanie Prengler

Education:  B.A., Texas A&M University; M.A., Sam Houston State University; Ph.D., Mays School of Business, Texas A&M University

Melanie Prengler is an Assistant Professor at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business. Her research focuses on the future of work, specifically alternative work arrangements and diversity, equity, and inclusion. She has studied this research using a qualitative approach in the context of Black police officers, digital nomads, and mothers returning to work. Her research has been published in journals like Administrative Science Quarterly, Journal of Applied Psychology, and Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and received numerous awards, including a 2023 Responsible Research in Business and Management Award, 2021 AOM MOC Division's Best Student-Led Paper award, a 2021 SIOP Anti-Racism grant, a Mays Innovation Research Center grant, and her dissertation was recognized as a finalist in the 2021 INFORMS Dissertation Proposal Competition. 

At Darden, Professor Prengler teaches Talent Trailblazers, Leading Teams, and Leadership and Organizations.

Prior to joining Darden, Prengler received her Ph.D. in Management from the Mays School of Business at Texas A&M University. Before academia, she co-founded a non-profit to support families in low-income areas.