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.
Tobias Higbie
Professor, Director of the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment
immigration, social-movements, working-class-history
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.
Unit 18 Faculty, 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, working-class-history
