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

Virginia Espino

Unit 18 Faculty

heath-activism, motherhood, public-history

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

Gilda Haas

Unit 18 Faculty

economic-development, worker-cooperatives

Lucero Herrera

Senior Research Analyst - UCLA Labor Center

Tobias Higbie

Professor, Director of IRLE

public-history, social-movements, working-class-history

Tia Koonse

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

labor-law

Caroline Luce

Academic Administrator

immigration, social-movements

Paolo Marinaro

Unit 18 Faculty

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

Justin McBride

Academic Administrator, Project Director at UCLA Labor Studies

labor-politics, sectoral-analysis, strategic-campaigning

Rosemarie Molina

Unit 18 Faculty

economic-development, 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

Iliana Perez

Unt 18 Faculty

economic-development, immigration

Gaspar Rivera-Salgado

Academic Administrator, Project Director at UCLA Labor Center

future-of-work, immigration, social-movements

Kendrick Roberson

Unit 18 Faculty

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

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

Kristoffer (Kit) Smemo

Unit 18 Faculty

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

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

Chris Zepeda-Millan

Professor, Chair

immigration, labor-politics, social-movements