Visiting Scholars

IRLE Visiting Scholars spend from a month to a year in residence at IRLE working on a research project and interacting with UCLA scholars and students.

Our research network is global!

For more information on UCLA’s visiting scholar program please see the UCLA Graduate Division.

Former IRLE Visiting Scholars

Research Affiliates

IRLE Research Affiliates form a community of scholars conducting research and dialogue on issues of work and employment. Though most are based at UCLA, the IRLE network extends nationally and globally.

Susanne Pernicka

Sociology Professor from Austria, Johannes Kepler University of Linz

Craig Zabala

Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of The Concorde Group, Inc.

Zeynep Sisli

Associate professor in Faculty of Law at Izmir University of Economics, Turkey

Paolo Marinaro

PhD candidate at the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences at the National Autonomous University of Mexico

Jorge Carrillo Viveros

Researcher at El Colegio de la Frontera Norte in Tijuana, Mexico

Roberto Véras de Oliveira

Associate Professor, Federal University of Paraíba, Brazil

Ju Kong

PhD Candidate, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, South Korea

Rebecca Oliver

Lecturer, University of Southern California

Xingguo Li

Associate Professor, China Institute of Industrial Relations

Huaying Wei

Senior Lecturer, Capital University of Economics and Business

Laysha Ostrow

Postdoctoral Fellow, John Hopkins School of Public Health and University of California, San Francisco

Minor Mora-Salas

Professor, Sociological Studies Center, Nanjing El Collegio, Mexico

Helge Schwiertz

Ph.D. Candidate, Political Science, University of Kassel, Germany

Xiaohui Ban

Ph.D. Candidate, School of Law, Wuhan University, China

Jennifer Pabelonia Nazareno

Ph.D. Candidate, Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of California, San Franscisco

Ni Tang

Ph.D. Candidate, Institute of Vocational and Adult Education, East China Normal University

Rolando Javier Salinas Garcia

Coordinator & Professor, Multidisciplinary Unit for Labor Studies, Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro, México

Erik Mygind du Plessis

PhD Fellow, Institute for Society and Globalisation, Roskilde University, Denmark

Inés Durán

PhD Student, University of Sydney, Australia

Jenny Jungehülsing

PhD Doctoral Fellow, University of Kassel, Germany

Tomoyuki Shimanuki

Associate Professor, Hitotsubashi University, Japan

Pelle Korsbæk Sørensen

PhD Fellow, Institute for Society and Globalisation, Roskilde University, Denmark

Rodolfo García Zamora

Professor, Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas, Mexico

Idrees Khawaja

Associate Professor, Pakistan Institute of Development Economics

Sascha Krannich

PhD Student, University of Münster, Germany

Young Sun Ra

Senior Research Fellow, Korea Research Institute for Vocational Education & Training (KRIVET)

Francesca Sperotti

PhD Student, University of Bergamo, Italy

Eduardo López Ahumada

Professor of Labor and Social Security Law, University of Alcalá, Spain

Yujie Chen

PhD Candidate, Labor Economics, School of Labor and Human Resources, Renmin University of China

Michel Lallement

Professor and chair of the Sociology of Labor, Employment and Organizations, CNAM

Inés Montarcé

PhD Candidate, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Iztapalapa, Mexico

Todd Sorensen

Assistant Professor of Economics, University of California, Riverside

Teresa Vásquez

Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez

Erik Bengtsson

PhD Candidate, Economic History, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

Noemí Serrano Argüello

Professor of Labor Law and Social Security, University of Valladolid, Spain

Xueying Zhang

Professor, College of Economics and Management, Tianjin University of Technology and Education, Tianjin, People’s Republic of China

Jin Nam Choi

Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea

Barry Eidlin

PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley

Guillaume Mesmin

Department of Sociology and the Laboratory for the Analysis of Social Problems and Collective Action (LAPSAC), Université Victor Segalen, Bordeaux, France

Suresh Naidu

Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University

Kirsty Newsome

Kirsty Newsome Senior Lecturer, Department of Human Resource Management at University of Strathclyde (United Kingdom)

IRLE Visiting Scholars