Dr. Stallworth has completed a number of diversity and multicultural training programs including “Training of Trainers” program offered by the National Multicultural Institute (1995). He currently teaches graduate level courses at the Institute of Human Resources and Employment Relations, Loyola University, in managing a diverse workforce, conflict management and alternative dispute resolution, negotiation and mediation, labor arbitration, and human resources law and employment discrimination law.
Dr. Stallworth has combined his interests in organization development, employment law, diversity, conflict management, alternative dispute resolution and the resolution of statutory based workplace dispute in his teaching, research and professional practice. Most recently Dr. Stallworth’s research has also focused on workplace bullying and mobbing (also called “psychological violence” and “statutory-blind harassment”) and the impact of offers of apology in resolving workplace disputes. He is a nationally recognized practitioner and scholar in this developing area.
Dr. Stallworth was the Frank Sanders Lecturer for the American Bar Association, Alternative Dispute Resolution Section, at the ABA’s annual meeting in August 1995 in Chicago. His presentation was entitled “Contract with the American Worker: Workplace Civil Rights and the Potential Role of ADR.” He has also been the recipient of the Distinguished Service Award from the Society of Professionals in Dispute Resolution on two occasions.
Dr. Stallworth was the Professor Jean T. McKelvey Neutral In Residence, Cornell University, NY SSILR (2004-2005). Professor Jean T. McKelvey was one of the founding faculty members of Cornell’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations and the first female president of the National Academy of Arbitrators (1971).
In March of 2008, Professor Stallworth was appointed by the U.S. Federal District Court (N.D. Ill.) to serve on a panel of ten arbitrators to decide claims arising under the Shakman decision. Shakman involves claims of denial of employment or employment opportunities stemming from impermissible political patronage.