Devalina Nag, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Management and Marketing
Program Area: Management 

Professional Preparation

• PhD, University of Memphis, Business Administration, emphasis in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
• MBA, University of Houston-Downtown

Profile

Devalina Nag, PhD joined TWU in Fall 2025. She previously served as an assistant professor of management at the University of San Diego, where she taught graduate and undergraduate courses in OBHR. Dr. Nag’s research examines how developing leaders and strengthening psychological safety create high-performing workplaces, with a focus on emerging technologies and timely issues affecting women’s careers. Her scholarship appears in leading journals including Journal of Business Venturing Insights, Human Resource Management Journal, and Gender in Management and has been consistently presented at international and national conferences, including the Academy of Management, the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, and the Southern Management Association. In 2023, Dr. Nag was awarded a $148,020 NSF grant to design leadership interventions to foster psychologically safe work environments. This builds on her applied work during her graduate studies as a Department of Education and Social Security Administration Fellow (2015–2017), where she developed financial literacy tools to empower women from trauma-affected backgrounds and was twice invited to present her work at the Administration’s annual Washington, D.C. forum. Through her research, teaching, and service, Dr. Nag equips leaders, organizations, scholars, and practitioners with evidence-based strategies that empower employees and drive organizational effectiveness.

Representative Publications

Nag, D., Jones, K. P., Lindsey, A. P., Robinson, A. N., & Arena, D. F. (2022). A theoretical model of selective cyber incivility: Exploring the roles of perceived informality and perceived distance. Human Resource Management Journal. 1– 16. https://doi.org/10.1111/1748-8583.12477

Nag, D., Arena, D. F., & Jones, K. P. How Promotion Loss Shapes Expectations of Discrimination: An Intersectional Approach. (2022). Gender in Management: An International Journal. 37. 441-456. https://doi.org/10.1108/GM-02-2021-0048.

Nag, D., & Arena, D. (2022). Leadership in Times of Crisis: Successes and Failures for Masculine, Feminine, and Androgynous Leadership Styles. Volume 3 of Research on Social Issues in Management: The Future of Diversity & Inclusion (E. King, Q. Roberson, & M. Hebl, Eds.). 

Nag, D.*, Gabriel, A. S.*, & Jones, K. P.* (2022). Women’s Health at Work: A Call to Focus on Hidden Experiences of Womanhood. Volume 40 of Research in Personnel and Human Resources Management (A. Gabriel & M. Buckley, Eds.). 

* Denotes equal authorship

Nag, D. (2021). Enhancing Work Engagement in Diverse Employees Via Autonomy. Volume 2 of Work from Home: Multi-level Perspectives on the New Normal. (P. Kumar, A. Agarwal, & P. Budwar, Eds.). 131-146. Emerald Publishing Limited, Bingley. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-80071-661-220210008.

GRANTS/SPONSORED RESEARCH                                                                              

National Science Foundation - Science of Organizations Grant. Uncovering and Enhancing Pathways to Psychological Safety at Work for Racial Minority Women ($148,020). Funded August 2023 - 2025.

PSI Center for Workplace Diversity and Inclusion (CWDI) Research Enterprise Grant. An Intersectional Examination of Workplace Mistreatment and Empowerment Experiences ($49,950). Funded Spring 2020.

2020 Summer Research Grant. Oh Baby or No Baby? Examining the Role of Infertility in Women’s Working Lives ($7,340). Funded Summer 2020.