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
Lucero Herrera
Senior Research Analyst - UCLA Labor Center
future-of-work, labor-gender-and-sexuality
Justin McBride
Academic Administrator, Project Director at UCLA Labor Studies
labor-politics, strategic-labor-research
Gaspar Rivera-Salgado
Academic Administrator, Project Director at UCLA Labor Center
future-of-work, immigration, social-movements
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
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
