Christina Clamp (“Chris”) is a professor of sociology and the director of the Center for Cooperatives and Community Economic Development at Southern New Hampshire University.
Christina serves on the board of the Food Co-op Initiative, an organization dedicated to developing new food cooperatives in the USA; the board of the ICA Group, a developer and technical assistance provider to employee owned and worker co-operative businesses and LEAF, a community development finance institution which provides financing for housing and food consumer cooperatives and worker cooperative.
Christina earned her bachelor's degree from Friends World College where she first studied co-operatives in the American South, India and Central America. She went on to complete her MA and Ph.D. in sociology at Boston College where she studied worker co-operatives and employee ownership including her research on the Mondragon Cooperatives in the Basque region of Spain. That research entailed 50 interviews with managers and the founders of the cooperatives. Follow up research was conducted with the same cohort of managers in 1998. Case study research was conducted in 2003 about the retail cooperative, Eroski. In addition she has led study tours to the cooperatives in 2002 and 2011.
Her recent research has focused on worker cooperative entrepreneurship and the development of an inventory of cooperative educators and co-op educational resources. She has also been actively involved in promoting undergraduate community based research with community partners in NH. Her latest research is examining the use of shared services co-operatives in the USA.
