Crayne Receives Inaugural Chancellor’s Horizon Award
ALBANY, N.Y. (May 15, 2025) — Massry School of Business Associate Professor Matthew Crayne has been named as one of the State University of New York’s inaugural recipients of the Chancellor’s Horizon Award for Faculty Research and Scholarship.
The awards, which support early-career faculty research and scholarly achievements across SUNY’s colleges and universities, were announced by SUNY Chancellor John B. King Jr. on April 29.
“SUNY is known for its exceptional research and scholarship, and the faculty members who earned this recognition are at the forefront of their fields,” Chancellor King said during the announcement. “Our inaugural Horizon awardees have already made a profound impact in their fields of study early in their careers, and by highlighting them we hope to inspire even more achievements in the years to come.”
Crayne is an industrial/organizational psychologist and expert in organizational behavior, with a particular focus on issues of leadership, work values and social identity. He serves as an associate professor and chair of the Department of Management at Massry.
“Professor Crayne’s research is informed by his professional experience and therefore generates knowledge that is relevant to industry,” Massry School of Business Dean Paquita Davis-Friday. “Massry students are fortunate to have Professor Crayne in the classroom and we are all grateful for his leadership as the chair of the Department of Management.”
“I am incredibly grateful to the Board of Trustees for their recognition, and to my colleagues and research collaborators who have supported my work throughout my career,” said Crayne. “I’m very proud to represent Massry and the University at Albany in receiving this award.”
Crayne is particularly interested in the role of leaders as organizational sensemakers, the concept of moral injury and its effect on both leadership and followership, and issues of ideological and values-based organizing. He looks at the application of these concepts in both traditional organizational settings and in non-normative contexts such as extremism, terrorism, and political violence, and aims to expand the reach of organizational science to national security and public policy applications.
Crayne’s work has been published in leading scientific outlets in psychology and organizational science including American Psychologist, Organizational Research Methods and the Journal of Business and Psychology.
He’s an active member of both the Society for Industrial-Organizational Psychology and the Academy of Management, at whose conference his 2023 leadership meta-analysis was named a “Best Paper” in the Organizational Behavior division.
Crayne has been awarded more than $700,000 in federal grant funding for his research, and is a member of the National Counterterrorism Innovation, Technology, and Education (NCITE) Consortium sponsored by the United States Department of Homeland Security.
He received a master’s degree and PhD in industrial-organizational psychology from Pennsylvania State University and a bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of Connecticut.
The Chancellor’s Horizon Award for Faculty Research and Scholarship honors early career tenured and tenure track faculty whose scholarly or creative activities have already achieved significant recognition and, crucially, hold strong promise for field-defining impact in the future.