Dr. Lee Cunningham is an Assistant Professor of Management and Organizations at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business. She is a National Geographic Fellow for the Making the Case for Nature program, and a Non-resident Fellow at Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard University. Prior to joining Ross, she was a 2014-2015 Lab Fellow in Institutional Corruption at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, and 2013-2014 Research Fellow in Women and Public Policy Program at Harvard University. 

Dr. Lee Cunnignham studies the psychology of narratives, lay theories, and behavioral ethics. Her research has been published in a number of top scientific journals including the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Psychological Science, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and Journal of Applied Psychology.