As a leading educator and researcher for cooperatives for over 40 years, there are few sectors in the cooperative movement left untouched by Dr. Christina Clamp. Chris began her tenure as a professor at Southern New Hampshire University in 1981 where she and her colleagues created a master’s program in community economic development designed to serve mid-career professionals and a certificate in cooperative development. 

Best known for her research on Mondragón (the world’s largest worker cooperative group), Chris increased the understanding of how the network has addressed globalization and informed worker cooperative human resource strategies. But worker cooperatives haven’t been her only focus. A business school case study she researched about CCA Global Partners led Chris to co-author a book on shared-services cooperatives, pioneering research on the use of purchasing, marketing, processing, and distribution in the business, finance, health, and public sectors of the U.S. economy titled, Shared Service Cooperatives, A Qualitative Analysis with Eklou Amendah and Carol Coren (Cork: Oak Tree Press, 2019. 

Christina Clamp retired after 42 years at Southern New Hampshire University as professor of sociology and director of the Center for Co-operatives and Community Economic Development in 2023 but remains active in research. She recently co-edited a collection of 30 essays highlighting the story of Mondragon and its ongoing influence in the United States: Humanity @ Work & Life: Global Diffusion of the Mondragon Cooperative Ecosystem Experience (Cork: Oak Tree Press, 2023).  Chris is board chair of the LEAF Fund, a certified community development financial institution; and serves on the board of the ICA Group, a developer of worker-owned cooperatives and its affiliated loan fund, the Fund for Jobs Worth Owning.

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