Faculty

The UCLA Department of Labor Studies is administratively housed within the UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE) with active collaboration from the UCLA Center for Labor Research & Education (the Labor Center). Classes are taught in large part by Project Directors at the UCLA Labor Center, as well as additional in-house lecturers, visiting faculty, and affiliated faculty in other departments.

Heather Berg

Associate Professor of Gender Studies and Labor Studies

labor-gender-and-sexuality, social-movements

Jennifer Chun

Professor, Chair

labor-and-race, labor-gender-and-sexuality, social-movements

Virginia Espino

Unit 18 Faculty

heath-activism, labor-gender-and-sexuality

Loretta Gaffney

Unit 18 Faculty

storytelling-for-actvisits, working-class-literature

Trevor Griffey

Unit 18 Faculty

labor-and-higher-education, labor-and-race, social-movements

Lucero Herrera

Senior Research Analyst - UCLA Labor Center

future-of-work, labor-gender-and-sexuality

Tobias Higbie

Professor, Director of IRLE

social-movements, working-class-history

Robin D. G. Kelley

Professor

labor-and-race, social-movements

Tia Koonse

Unit 18 Faculty, Legal and Policy Research Manager at UCLA Labor Center

labor-law

Paolo Marinaro

Unit 18 Faculty

future-of-work, labor-politics, social-movements

Katherine Marino

Associate Professor of History and Labor Studies

labor-and-race, labor-gender-and-sexuality

Justin McBride

Academic Administrator, Project Director at UCLA Labor Studies

labor-politics, strategic-labor-research

Rosemarie Molina

Unit 18 Faculty

future-of-work, labor-politics

Victor Narro

Academic Administrator, Project Director at UCLA Labor Center

immigration, labor-law

Chris Newman

Unit 18 Faculty

future-of-work, labor-law

Gaspar Rivera-Salgado

Academic Administrator, Project Director at UCLA Labor Center

future-of-work, immigration, social-movements

Kendrick Roberson

Unit 18 Faculty

future-of-work, labor-politics, labor-and-race

Sarah T. Roberts

Associate Professor of Gender Studies, Labor Studies, and Information Studies

labor-politics, labor-gender-and-sexuality

Raymond Rocco

Professor Emeritus of Political Science

labor-politics, social-movements

Janna Shadduck-Hernandez

Project Director at UCLA Labor Center

education, immigration

Kristoffer (Kit) Smemo

Unit 18 Faculty

labor-politics, social-movements, working-class-history

Veronica Terriquez

Professor of Urban Planning, Chicana/o & Central American Studies, and Labor Studies

education, immigration

Abel Valenzuela

Professor, Dean of UCLA’s Division of Social Sciences

immigration, labor-politics, social-movements

Saba Waheed

Director of the UCLA Labor Center

future-of-work, labor-and-higher-education, labor-gender-and-sexuality, storytelling-for-actvisits

Kent Wong

Academic Administrator, Project Director for Labor and Community Partnerships at UCLA Labor Center

immigration, labor-and-race, social-movements

Noah D. Zatz

Professor of Law and Labor Studies

labor-law, labor-and-race, labor-gender-and-sexuality

Chris Zepeda-Millan

Professor of Public Policy, Chicana/o & Central American Studies, and Labor Studies

immigration, labor-politics, social-movements, strategic-labor-research