IRLE 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.

2017-2018

Susanne Pernicka

Susanne Pernicka

Sociology Professor from Austria, Johannes Kepler University of Linz
Craig Zabala

Craig Zabala

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

2016-2017

Zeynep Sisli

Zeynep Sisli

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

Paolo Marinaro

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

Jorge Carrillo Viveros

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

2015-2016

Roberto Véras de Oliveira

Roberto Véras de Oliveira

Associate Professor, Federal University of Paraíba, Brazil
Ju Kong

Ju Kong

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

2014-2015

Rebecca Oliver

Rebecca Oliver

Lecturer, University of Southern California
Xingguo Li

Xingguo Li

Associate Professor, China Institute of Industrial Relations
Huaying Wei

Huaying Wei

Senior Lecturer, Capital University of Economics and Business
Laysha Ostrow

Laysha Ostrow

Postdoctoral Fellow, John Hopkins School of Public Health and University of California, San Francisco
Minor Mora-Salas

Minor Mora-Salas

Professor, Sociological Studies Center, Nanjing El Collegio, Mexico
Helge Schwiertz

Helge Schwiertz

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

2013-2014

Xiaohui Ban

Xiaohui Ban

Ph.D. Candidate, School of Law, Wuhan University, China
Jennifer Pabelonia Nazareno

Jennifer Pabelonia Nazareno

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

Ni Tang

Ph.D. Candidate, Institute of Vocational and Adult Education, East China Normal University
Rolando Javier Salinas Garcia

Rolando Javier Salinas Garcia

Coordinator & Professor, Multidisciplinary Unit for Labor Studies, Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro, México
Erik Mygind du Plessis

Erik Mygind du Plessis

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

Inés Durán

PhD Student, University of Sydney, Australia
Jenny Jungehülsing

Jenny Jungehülsing

PhD Doctoral Fellow, University of Kassel, Germany
Tomoyuki Shimanuki

Tomoyuki Shimanuki

Associate Professor, Hitotsubashi University, Japan
Pelle Korsbæk Sørensen

Pelle Korsbæk Sørensen

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

2012-2013

Rodolfo García Zamora

Rodolfo García Zamora

Professor, Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas, Mexico
Idrees Khawaja

Idrees Khawaja

Associate Professor, Pakistan Institute of Development Economics
Sascha Krannich

Sascha Krannich

PhD Student, University of Münster, Germany
Young Sun Ra

Young Sun Ra

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

Francesca Sperotti

PhD Student, University of Bergamo, Italy

2011-2012

Eduardo López Ahumada

Eduardo López Ahumada

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

Yujie Chen

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

Michel Lallement

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

Inés Montarcé

PhD Candidate, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Iztapalapa, Mexico
Todd Sorensen

Todd Sorensen

Assistant Professor of Economics, University of California, Riverside
Teresa Vásquez

Teresa Vásquez

Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez

2010-2011

Erik Bengtsson

Erik Bengtsson

PhD Candidate, Economic History, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Noemí Serrano Argüello

Noemí Serrano Argüello

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

Xueying Zhang

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

2009-2010

Jin Nam Choi

Jin Nam Choi

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

Barry Eidlin

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

Guillaume Mesmin

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

Suresh Naidu

Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University

2008-2009

Kirsty Newsome

Kirsty Newsome

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