| Robin Abrahams | |
| Nationality: | American |
| Education: | University of Kansas (BA) Boston University |
| Spouse: | Marc Abrahams |
Robin Abrahams is an American author, journalist, and speaker. She writes the Boston Globe Magazine weekly ethics and etiquette column "Miss Conduct".
Abrahams grew up in Kansas, and earned a BA in theater at the University of Kansas. She worked various jobs for six years, including theater publicist, stand-up comedian, and volunteer at a battered women’s shelter, before coming to Massachusetts for a 2002 PhD in research psychology at Boston University.[1]
Abrahams works as a research associate at Harvard Business School, primarily writing case studies. She has co-written business articles that appeared in the Harvard Business Review,[2] Wall Street Journal,[3] [4] and MIT Sloan Management Review.[5]
Abrahams has been writing the "Miss Conduct" column for the Boston Globe Sunday Magazine since 2005,[6] [7] and has hosted the Social Studies etiquette segment on the WGBH radio Emily Rooney Show since 2010.[8] She has appeared on the NBC Today Show to discuss her book and give advice on unemployment etiquette.[9]
Her book, Miss Conduct’s Mind Over Manners: Master the Slippery Rules of Modern Ethics and Etiquette was published by Times Books in May 2009. It was praised by both the Richmond Times-Dispatch and the Washington Post for amusing writing and common sense advice, though the latter said the author was "a little too fond of the latest advances in pop sociology".[10] [11]
Abrahams lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts and is married to Marc Abrahams, author and publisher of the Annals of Improbable Research. She gives talks about her conversion to Judaism.[1]