People
- School Director
- Full-Time Faculty
- Staff
- University Park Adjunct Faculty
- University Park Affiliate Faculty
- Labor Educators
- Post-Doctoral Scholars
- Visiting Faculty
- HRER Graduate Students
- Emeritus Faculty
- LGWR Graduate Students
School Director
Unions, union organizing, collective bargaining, labor-management partnerships, labor-management relations in the healthcare industry, nurses' unions, labor history
Full-Time Faculty
Mark Anner
- Associate Professor, Labor and Employment Relations
- Center Director, Center for Global Workers’ Rights
(814) 865-0745
Workers' rights, apparel global supply chains, corporate social responsibility, international labor solidarity
Mary Bellman
- Associate Teaching Professor of Labor and Employment Relations
- Director of Labor Education
(814) 867-5697
Labor Education; Globalization; Immigrant Workers; Women and Labor
Internal and External Organizing; Contract Negotiations and Administration; Unions in Education
Unions, union organizing, collective bargaining, labor-management partnerships, labor-management relations in the healthcare industry, nurses' unions, labor history
Sarah Damaske
- Associate Professor of Labor and Employment Relations
- Sociology, and Women's Studies
(814) 865-9090
Michael Edenhart-Pepe
- Professor of Practice, Human Resource Management
- Co-Director, Academy for Human Capital Development
Elaine Farndale
- Associate Professor, Human Resource Management
- Graduate Program Director, School of Labor & Employment Relations
- Center Director, Center for International Human Resource Studies
(814) 867-3320
International/cross-cultural human resource management, Global talent management, Strategic human resource management (HRM) and firm performance, High performance work systems, HRM and employee well-being/engagement, HR as a department and as a profession
Employment law, employment arbitration, sexual harassment, alternative dispute resolution, labor relations
Global leadership development, Global diversity and inclusion, business ethics, corporate social responsibility and sustainability
China, migrant workers, labor NGOs, civil society, trade unions, strikes, the state, and hegemony
Katherine Eva Maich
- Assistant Professor of Labor and Employment Relations, and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
(814) 867-5698
Labor informality, domestic work, gender and feminist theory, law, social movements, ethnography, Latin America, the Global South
Managerial leadership, abusive supervision, workplace commitment, social networks, compensation
Staffing, recruiting, employer branding, strategic human resource management, employee motivation, employee engagement
Brian Redmond
- Teaching Professor of Labor and Employment Relations
- Lead Faculty: Organizational Leadership
(814) 867-0375
Leadership; motivation; industrial and organizational psychology; online education
Strategic human resource management, Strategic human capital, Inclusive human resource practices, High performance work systems, Turnover, Non-compete agreements
Teachers unions, education, labor education, social movements, popular education, Paulo Freire, political sociology
Niki Dickerson von Lockette
- Associate Professor of Labor and Employment Relations and African American Studies
(814) 867-4773
Race, gender, employment, wage disparities, discrimination, segregation, immigrant workers, diversity
Staff
Labor Educators
Mark Anner
- Associate Professor, Labor and Employment Relations
- Center Director, Center for Global Workers’ Rights
(814) 865-0745
Workers' rights, apparel global supply chains, corporate social responsibility, international labor solidarity
Mary Bellman
- Associate Teaching Professor of Labor and Employment Relations
- Director of Labor Education
(814) 867-5697
Labor Education; Globalization; Immigrant Workers; Women and Labor
Internal and External Organizing; Contract Negotiations and Administration; Unions in Education
Unions, union organizing, collective bargaining, labor-management partnerships, labor-management relations in the healthcare industry, nurses' unions, labor history
Post-Doctoral Scholars
Bora Kwon
- Assistant Teaching Professor of Human Resource Management
- Post-Doctoral Scholar, Center for International Human Resource Studies
(814) 867-4168
Visiting Faculty
Jaap Paauwe
- Visiting Scholar, School of Labor and Employment Relations
- Professor of Organization and Human Resource Management at Tilburg University
Strategic HRM, performance and well-being, HRM and institutional theory, HR functional excellence and delivery, Organizational change, Talent management, HR-Analytics
HRER Graduate Students
Miguel Aleman
- Integrated Labor and Employment Relations B.S. and Human Resources and Employment Relations M.S.
Dominique Buchholz
- Integrated Labor and Employment Relations B.S. and Human Resources and Employment Relations M.S.
Jizhao Cai
- Graduate Student in Human Resources and Employment Relations
- Expected Graduation Date: May 2019
Menglan Cai
- Graduate Student in Human Resources and Employment Relations
- Expected Graduation Date: May 2021
Megan Callahan
- Integrated Labor and Employment Relations B.S. and Human Resources and Employment Relations M.S. IUG Program
- Expected Graduation Date: May 2020
Yuanyuan Chen
- Graduate Student in Human Resources and Employment Relations
- Expected Graduation Date: May 2019
Andrew Clark
- Graduate Student in Human Resources and Employment Relations
- Expected Graduation Date: May 2021
Casey Decarlo
- Integrated Labor and Employment Relations B.S. and Human Resources and Employment Relations M.S.
Brianne DeGore
- Integrated Psychology B.S. and Human Resources and Employment Relations M.S. IUG Program
- Expected Graduation Date: May 2020
Ashley Falzone
- Integrated Psychology B.S. and Human Resources and Employment Relations M.S. IUG Program
- Expected Graduation Date: May 2020
Jessica He
- Integrated Psychology B.S. and Human Resources and Employment Relations M.S. IUG Program
Lilly Horbal
- Integrated Psychology B.S. and Human Resources and Employment Relations M.S. IUG Program
Zachary Johns
- Graduate Student in Human Resources and Employment Relations
- Expected Graduation Date: May 2021
Joseph Kelly
- Integrated Labor and Employment Relations B.S. and Human Resources and Employment Relations M.S.
- Expected Graduation Date: May 2020
Danielle Kokuzian
- Graduate Student in Human Resources and Employment Relations
- Expected Graduation Date: May 2020
Amber Kovacik
- Integrated Psychology B.S. and Human Resources and Employment Relations M.S. IUG Program
- Expected Graduation Date: May 2020
Jordan Lawson
- Graduate Student in Human Resources and Employment Relations
- Expected Graduation Date: May 2020
Jaeyoon Lee
- Graduate Student in Human Resources and Employment Relations
- Expected Graduation Date: May 2019
Bradley LeHan
- Graduate Student in Human Resources and Employment Relations
- Expected Graduation Date: May 2020
Marguerite Lehman
- Graduate Student in Human Resources and Employment Relations
- Expected Graduation Date: May 2021
Tianchi Li
- Integrated Labor and Employment Relations B.S. and Human Resources and Employment Relations M.S.
Kristen Liburdi
- Integrated Labor and Employment Relations B.S. and Human Resources and Employment Relations M.S.
- Expected Graduation Date: December 2019
Ka Ying Liu
- Graduate Student in Human Resources and Employment Relations
- Expected Graduation Date: May 2021
Michael Marino
- Integrated Labor Employment Relations BS and HRER MS.
- Expected Graduation December 2019
- Internship: National Grid Plc Rate Finance, Summer 2018
Medora McCarthy
- Integrated Labor Employment Relations B.S. and Human Resources and Employment Relations M.S. IUG Program
- Expected Graduation Date: May 2020
Meghan Miller
- Integrated Labor and Employment Relations B.S. and Human Resources and Employment Relations M.S. IUG Program
- Expected Graduation Date: May 2020
Kathryn Mullin
- Integrated Labor and Employment Relations B.S. and Human Resources and Employment Relations M.S. IUG Program
- Expected Graduation Date: May 2020
Abimbola Oladeji
- Graduate Student in Human Resources and Employment Relations
- Expected Graduation Date: May 2021
Jessica Presto
- Integrated Labor and Employment Relations B.S. and Human Resources and Employment Relations M.S.
Daniel Proano
- Graduate Student in Human Resources and Employment Relations
- Expected Graduation Date: May 2021
Trystanne Rawlings
- Graduate Student in Human Resources and Employment Relations
- Expected Graduation Date: May 2021
Timothy Reams
- Integrated Labor Studies and Employment
- Relations B.S. and Human Resources and
- Employment Relations M.S IUG. Program
- Minors: Health Policy Administration, Deafness Hearing Studies
- Student Works at Penn State President
- OnwardState.com Lead Strategic HR Partner
- Expected Graduation Date: December 2019
Noah Reiss
- Integrated Labor and Employment Relations B.S. and Human Resources and Employment Relations M.S.
Andrew (Leavey) Roberts Van Alstyne
- Graduate Student in Human Resources and Employment Relations
- Expected Graduation Date: May 2020
Tatiana Rotger
- Integrated Labor and Employment Relations B.S. and Human Resources and Employment Relations M.S. IUG Program
- Expected Graduation Date: May 2020
Olivia Schaub
- Integrated Labor and Employment Relations B.S. and Human Resources and Employment Relations M.S. IUG Program
- Expected Graduation Date: May 2020
Benjamin Schiavone
- Graduate Student in Human Resources and Employment Relations
- Expected Graduation Date: May 2021
Amir Sheikh
- Graduate Student in Human Resources and Employment Relations
- Expected Graduation Date: May 2021
William Sherrod
- Integrated Psychology B.S. and Human Resources and Employment Relations M.S. IUG Program
- Expected Graduation Date: May 2020
Cody Shetter
- Integrated Psychology B.S. and Human Resources and Employment Relations M.S. IUG Program
Ashley Smith
- Graduate Student in Human Resources and Employment Relations
- Expected Graduation Date: May 2020
Tylar Smith
- Integrated Labor and Employment Relations B.S. and Human Resources and
- Employment Relations M.S. IUG program
- Expected Graduation Date: May 2020
Kristina Soriano
- Integrated Labor and Employment
- Relations B.S. and Human Resources and
- Employment Relations M.S IUG. program
- Expected Graduation Date: May 2020
- Internship: Lord and Taylor, Summer 2018
Spencer Starr
- Integrated Labor and Employment Relations B.S. and Human Resources and Employment Relations M.S.
Cory Steinle
- Integrated Labor and Employment Relations B.S. and Human Resources and Employment Relations M.S IUG. program
- Penn State Schreyer’s Honors College
Yue Sun
- Graduate Student in Human Resources and Employment Relations
- Expected Graduation Date: May 2021
Britanni Tompkins
- Integrated Labor and Employment Relations B.S. and Human Resources and Employment Relations M.S.
- Expected Graduation Date: May 2020
Derek Van Horn
- Integrated Labor and Employment Relations B.S. and Human Resources and Employment Relations M.S.
Elisabeth Wilson
- Integrated Labor and Employment Relations B.S. and Human Resources and Employment Relations M.S.
Ke Wu
- Graduate Student in Human Resources and Employment Relations
- Expected Graduation Date: May 2020
Lecheng Zhang
- Graduate Student in Human Resources and Employment Relations
- Expected Graduation Date: May 2021
Peiwen Zhang
- Graduate Student in Human Resources and Employment Relations
- Expected Graduation Date: May 2021
Jiahe Zhou
- Integrated Labor and Employment Relations B.S. and Human Resources and Employment Relations M.S.
Emeritus Faculty
Leadership Development, Strategic Planning, Collective Bargaining, Unions in Sports, U.S. Labor Unions
Alan Derickson
- Professor Emeritus, Labor and Employment Relations
- History
Dennis Gouran
- Professor Emeritus, Labor and Employment Relations
- Communication Arts and Sciences
(814) 863-8966
HR and Technology, Virtual work, International HRM, Future of Work