Pat Reilly is an assistant professor in the Organizational Behaviour and Human Resources Division of University of British Columbia’s Sauder School of Business. This is the link to his most up-to-date CV.
Pat is an organizational theorist and economic sociologist who studies work, creativity, and communities of practice using qualitative methods and occasionally computational methods. His dissertation was participant-observation study of stand-up comics in Los Angeles, which covered 2010-2015. His current research investigates issues concerning the collaborative dynamics involved with creativity and patterns of preference within the film and television industries. His work has appeared in American Sociological Review, Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, and Academy of Management Discoveries. Pat has extensive teaching experience, including instruction at the undergraduate and MBA-level. He has been awarded UBC Sauder CPA Teaching Award for excellence in graduate instruction and the UCLA University Teaching Award. He holds a PhD in sociology from UCLA.
Pat was born a Florida man, but he usually tells people he is from Georgia. He plays goalkeeper for a couple local soccer teams, often against players who are many years my junior and occasionally call me “unc.” (I am not sure if it is endearing or dismissive.) He is an avid and long-suffering Jacksonville Jaguars fan. He enjoys crossword puzzles, and he obnoxiously takes great pride in his personal best times. He also collects esoteric sports cards, because a mid-life crisis for Pat involves regressing to being eight years-old. Pat is not as pensive as his photograph suggests, and he also has a moustache and officially has gray hair (per the standards of British Columbia) now.