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  • Heather Berg profile picture

    Heather Berg

    Associate Professor of Gender Studies and Labor Studies

    Areas of Expertise:

    Informal Resistance, Marxist Feminist Theory, Precarious Labor

  • Jennifer Jihye Chun

    Professor of Asian American Studies and Labor Studies

    Areas of Expertise:

    Work and Labor, Protest and Social Movements, Gender and Care, Race and Ethnicity, Migration and Diaspora, Global Capitalism, Korean Studies, Ethnography, Community-engaged research

  • Virginia Espino

    Continuing Lecturer

    Areas of Expertise:

    Chicana/o Studies, Gender and Work, Oral History

  • Loretta Gaffney profile picture

    Loretta Gaffney

    Continuing Lecturer

    Areas of Expertise:

    Creative Writing, Literature, Storytelling

  • Trevor Griffey profile picture

    Trevor Griffey

    Unit 18 Faculty

    Areas of Expertise:

    Higher Education Workers, Oral History, US History

  • Lucero Herrera profile picture

    Lucero Herrera

    Academic Administrator, Research Director at the UCLA Labor Center

    Areas of Expertise:

    Community-Engaged Research, Low-Wage Work, Research Justice

  • Tobias Higbie

    Full Professor of History and Labor Studies, IRLE Director

    Areas of Expertise:

    Immigration History, Labor History

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    Tia Koonse

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

    Areas of Expertise:

    Labor Law

  • Caroline Luce

    Academic Administrator

    Areas of Expertise:

    American Labor History, Digital Humanities, Jewish Studies

  • Paolo Marinaro profile picture

    Paolo Marinaro

    Unit 18 Lecturer

    Areas of Expertise:

    Free Trade Agreements and International Labor Rights Enforcement Mechanisms, Global Worker's Rights, Platform Worker Organizing

  • Justin McBride profile picture

    Justin McBride

    Academic Administrator

    Areas of Expertise:

    Public Finance, Union Organizing, Wage Theft

  • Rosemarie Molina profile picture

    Rosemarie Molina

    Continuing Lecturer

    Areas of Expertise:

    Labor Unions, Social Justice, Worker Organizing

  • Victor Narro profile picture

    Victor Narro

    Academic Administrator

    Areas of Expertise:

    Immigrant Rights, Labor Movement, Spirituality and Mindfulness

  • Chris Newman profile picture

    Chris Newman

    Continuing Lecturer

    Areas of Expertise:

    Immigrant Worker Rights

  • Gaspar Rivera-Salgado

    Academic Administrator, Project Director at UCLA Labor Center

    Areas of Expertise:

    Farmworkers, Race and Class, Social Movements

  • Kendrick Roberson profile picture

    Kendrick Roberson

    Unit 18 Faculty

    Areas of Expertise:

    Future of Work, Labor Politics, Labor and Race

  • Raymond Rocco profile picture

    Raymond Rocco

    Full Professor

    Areas of Expertise:

    Social Movements, Theories of Community Organizing

  • Kristoffer (Kit) Smemo profile picture

    Kristoffer (Kit) Smemo

    Academic Coordinator

    Areas of Expertise:

    Labor and Conservatism, Politics and Public Policy, Working-Class History and Culture

  • Saba Waheed profile picture

    Saba Waheed

    Academic Administrator, Director at UCLA Labor Center

    Areas of Expertise:

    Low-Wage Work, Research Justice, Women's Labor, Young Workers

  • Noah D. Zatz profile picture

    Noah D. Zatz

    Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies, Full Professor of Law and Labor Studies

    Areas of Expertise:

    Labor & Employment Law, Work and The Welfare State, Worker Classification and Misclassification

  • Chris Zepeda-Millan

    Chair and Associate Professor of Public Policy, Chicana/o & Central American Studies, and Labor Studies

    Areas of Expertise:

    Immigrant Workers, Labor Politics, Social Movements

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