Faculty
The Labor Studies program 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, sexuality, social-movements
Robin D. G. Kelley
Professor
black-intellectuals, music-and-visual-culture, social-movements-history-u-s-african-diaspora
Justin McBride
Academic Administrator, Project Director at UCLA Labor Studies
labor-politics, sectoral-analysis, strategic-campaigning
Gaspar Rivera-Salgado
Academic Administrator, Project Director at UCLA Labor Center
future-of-work, immigration, social-movements
Raymond Rocco
Professor Emeritus of Political Science
economic-development, labor-politics, social-movements
Janna Shadduck-Hernandez
Academic Administrator, Project Director at UCLA Labor Center
education, immigration
Brenda Suttonwills, Esq.
Assistant Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Initiatives at UCLA School of Law
labor-law
Abel Valenzuela
Professor, Interim Dean of UCLA’s Division of Social Sciences
immigration, labor-politics, social-movements
Saba Waheed
Academic Administrator, Director of the UCLA Labor Center
domestic-workers, future-of-work, young-workers
Kent Wong
Academic Administrator, Project Director for Labor and Community Partnerships at UCLA Labor Center
civil-rights, social-movements
