Amy Crook

Biography

Dr. Amy Crook serves as Vice President for Transformative Innovation, Character and Purpose, working closely with the President while collaborating with other Senior Leaders, college Deans and faculty/staff. In this position, she focuses on internal relationship building and transformative interdisciplinary collaborations while fostering an entrepreneurial mindset across the campus to integrate student learning, scholarship and opportunities for social innovation. Responsibilities include facilitating curricular and co-curricular efforts to enhance students’ sense of purpose and character formation and removing barriers that tend to stifle worthy but nontraditional projects/partnerships within academic institutions. Additionally, she continues to teach one course per year to stay connected to the faculty and student experiences in the classroom.

Crook, who completed a term as president of Belmont’s Faculty Senate in May 2021, has been a faculty member in the Massey College of Business since 2012 teaching courses in Management and Organization Behavior as well as in Study Abroad programs. She is believed to be the first Asian American to join Belmont’s Senior Leadership team. She is a frequent author, speaker and consultant on organizational culture and behavior, team dynamics and student learning.

The faculty advisor for the campus’ Asian American Association, HOPE Council and Korean Music Business Society, Crook is highly regarded among peers and students, receiving the Most Inspirational Professor Award three times (Massey Graduate School of Business) and Student Organization Advisor of the Year award in 2021 as well as being a finalist for the 2021 Presidential Faculty Achievement Award. After receiving her A.B. in Psychology at Duke University, Crook obtained both her Master’s and Ph.D. in Psychology from Rice University.

EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS

• Ph.D. - Rice University, Industrial/Organizational Psychology
• M.A. - Rice University, Industrial/Organizational Psychology
• A.B. - Duke University, Psychology

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Assistant Professor of Management, Belmont University
• Instructor, Rice University
• Independent Consultant for non-profit and government organizations

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

• Motowidlo, S. J., Martin, M. P., & Crook, A. E. (2013).  Relations between personality, knowledge, and behavior in service encounters.   Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 43, 1851-1861.   
• Crook, A. E., Beier, M. E., Cox, C. B., Kell, H. K., Hanks, A. R., & Motowidlo, S. J. (2011). Measuring relationships between personality, knowledge, and performance using single-response situational judgment tests. International Journal of Selection and Assessment, 19, 363-373.
• Crook, A. E., & Beier, M. E. (2010). When training with a partner is inferior to training alone: The importance of dyad type and interaction quality. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 16, 335-348.
• Kell, H. J., Rittmayer, A. D., Crook, A. E., & Motowidlo, S. J. (2010). Situational content moderates the association between the Big Five personality traits and behavioral effectiveness. Human Performance, 23, 213-228. 

SELECTED AWARDS & HONORS

• APA New Investigator Award (2011)
• SHRM Foundation Dissertation grant (2011)
• Lodieska Stockbridge Vaughn Fellowship (2011 – 2012) – For exceptional scholarship, Rice University
• Kenneth Laughery Award (2008) – Best Master’s thesis in psychology, Rice University