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.

Virginia Espino

Lecturer

civil-rights, heath-activism

Loretta Gaffney

Lecturer

working-class-history

Trevor Griffey

Lecturer

civil-rights, social-movements

Gilda Haas

Lecturer

economic-development

Tobias Higbie

Professor

immigration, social-movements, working-class-history

Tia Koonse

Lecturer

labor-law

Rev. James Lawson

Lecturer

civil-rights

Caroline Luce

Lecturer

immigration, social-movements

Paolo Marinaro

Lecturer

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

Rosemarie Molina

Lecturer

economic-development, future-of-work, labor-politics

Victor Narro

Lecturer

immigration, labor-law

Chris Newman

Lecturer

future-of-work, labor-law

Iliana Perez

Lecturer

economic-development, immigration

Gaspar Rivera-Salgado

Lecturer

future-of-work, immigration, social-movements

Kendrick Roberson

Lecturer

civil-rights, economic-development, future-of-work

Raymond Rocco

Lecturer

economic-development, labor-politics, social-movements

Janna Shadduck-Hernandez

Lecturer

education, immigration

Brenda Suttonwills, Esq.

Lecturer

labor-law

Abel Valenzuela

Professor

immigration, labor-politics, social-movements

Saba Waheed

Lecturer

domestic-workers, future-of-work, young-workers

Kent Wong

Lecturer

civil-rights, social-movements, working-class-history

Chris Zepeda-Millan

Professor

immigration, labor-politics, social-movements