People

People

School Director

Elaine Farndale
Director, School of Labor and Employment Relations
Professor, Human Resource Management
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

Full-Time Faculty

Mark Anner
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

Associate Clinical Professor of Labor and Employment Relations
Director of Labor Education
(814) 867-5697

Labor Education; Globalization; Immigrant Workers; Women and Labor

Valerie Braman
Assistant Clinical Professor of Labor and Employment Relations
Labor Education Coordinator
(215) 843-3052

Internal and External Organizing; Contract Negotiations and Administration; Unions in Education; Labor Law

Paul Clark
Professor, Labor and Employment Relations
Graduate Program Director, School of Labor and Employment Relations
(814) 865-0752

Unions, union organizing, collective bargaining, labor-management partnerships, labor-management relations in the healthcare industry, nurses' unions, labor history

Sarah Damaske
Professor of Sociology and Labor & Employment Relations
(814) 865-9090
Kathryn Dlugos
Assistant Professor, Human Resource Management
(814) 863-4992
Michael Edenhart-Pepe
Professor of Practice, Human Resource Management
Associate Director, Center for Workplace Performance
Elaine Farndale
Director, School of Labor and Employment Relations
Professor, Human Resource Management
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

Assistant Research Professor

International political economy, labor studies, collective bargaining and labor relations, social movements, food systems, international and comparative employment relations, financialization and neoliberalism, and race, gender, and capitalism

Mark Gough
Associate Professor of Labor and Employment Relations
(814) 865-1030

Employment law, employment arbitration, sexual harassment, alternative dispute resolution, labor relations

Angela Heavey
Teaching Professor, Human Resource Management
Tom Hogan
Professor of Practice, Human Resource Management
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging Officer
(814) 867-2208

Global leadership development, Global diversity and inclusion, business ethics, corporate social responsibility and sustainability

Elaine Hui
Associate Professor of Labor and Employment Relations and Asian Studies
Director, MPS Program in Labor and Global Workers’ Rights
(814) 865-0066

Labor resistance, trade unions, labor organizations, civil society, critical state theories, social movements, social welfare, Chinese overseas investment, China, and Vietnam

Dr. Natalia Lorinkova
Associate Professor of Organizational Leadership and Human Resource Management
(814) 865-5425

Organizational leadership, human resource management, workplace diversity issues (dynamic and multi-level leadership processes, accent, body image, and invisible disability issues in organizations), interpersonal dynamics in non-traditional work arrangements (virtual teams, teleworking, and working from home)

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

Arthur Theotis Matthews
Teaching Professor of Labor and Employment Relations
(814) 863-8422

Labor-management cooperation, labor education, employment dynamics, discrimination, leadership, diversity, equity and inclusion, negotiation, mediation and arbitration, organizational change

Hee Man Park
Assistant Professor of Human Resource Management
(814) 865-9116

Managerial leadership, abusive supervision, workplace commitment, social networks, compensation

Craig L. Pearce
Brova Family Endowed Professor of Leadership and Human Resources

Shared Leadership, Teams, Groups, Entrepreneurship

Jean Phillips
Professor, Human Resource Management
(814) 867-5704

Staffing, recruiting, employer branding, strategic human resource management, employee motivation, employee engagement

Rakoon Piyanontalee
Assistant Research Professor with the Center for International Human Resource Studies
Kate Ragon
Assistant Clinical Professor of Labor and Employment Relations
Labor Education Coordinator
(814) 865-8190

Collective Behavior/Social Movements, Organizations, Labor, Education, Qualitative Methods

Brian Redmond
Online Education Lead
Teaching Professor, Organizational Leadership
(814) 865-5425

Leadership; motivation; industrial and organizational psychology; online education

Manuel Rosaldo
Assistant Professor of Labor and Employment Relations
(814) 865-5723
Dorothea  Roumpi
LER Alumni Endowed Early Career Professor and Assistant Professor of Human Resource Management
(814) 865-5425

Strategic human resource management, Strategic human capital, Inclusive human resource practices, High performance work systems, Turnover, Non-compete agreements

Rexford Simpson
Professor of Practice, Labor and Employment Relations
(814) 865-5425
Cody Stephens
Assistant Teaching Professor of Labor and Employment Relations
(814) 867-4773
Rebecca Tarlau
Associate Professor of Education and Labor and Employment Relations
(814) 865-2246

Teachers unions, education, labor education, social movements, popular education, Paulo Freire, political sociology

Professor of Practice, Human Resource Management
(814) 867-0368
Kim Trahan
Associate Teaching Professor of Organizational Leadership
(814) 865-1685

Staff

Carolyn  Adrien
Research and Data Coordinator for the Center for International Human Resource Studies
(814) 863-1260
Administrative Support Coordinator
(814) 863-4820
Amy DuBois
Administrative Assistant
Trisha Everhart
Assistant Director of Online Programs
(814) 865-0747
Receptionist
(814) 865-5425
Erin Hetzel
Education Program Assistant
(814) 867-4167
Administrative Support Coordinator
(814) 865-0672
Kristie Kalvin
Academic Advisor
Danielle Liddic
LER Career Coach
(814) 865-1070
Undergraduate Programs Assistant
(814) 863-7569
Administrative Support Coordinator for the Center for Global Workers' Rights
(814) 865-0506
Katelyn Perry
Academic Advisor
(814) 863-8435
Marketing Communications Specialist
(814) 865-0751

UNIVERSITY PARK ADJUNCT FACULTY

John C. Alfano
Arbitrator, Member, National Academy of Arbitrators
Rebecca Cianci
Assistant Dean, Human Resources, Smeal College of Business
(814) 863-3998
Wendy  Coduti
Associate Professor of Education (Rehabilitation and Human Services)
(814) 863-2416
Chad Gray
Lecturer, Postdoctoral Fellow
(814) 865-2499
Peter Lazes
Affiliate Faculty Member
Mark Linsenbigler
Occupational Health and Safety Manager, Penn State University
(814) 865-6391
Philip  K. Miles
Attorney, McQuaide Blasko Law Firm
(814) 865-5425
Sean Moeller
Executive Director of Human Resource, Johnson College of Business, Cornell University
(814) 863-8426
Robert Orndorff
Director, Penn State Bank of America Career Services Center
(814) 865-5225
Jonathan  Cody Steele
Statistical Communications Specialist, Minitab
Adjunct Lecturer
(814) 865-3443
Jennifer Stubbs
Assistant Director, Penn State Bank of America Career Services Center
(814) 865-4629
Arbitrator, Member, National Academy of Arbitrators
Zach Zorbist
Adjunct Faculty Member
HPI Co-Coordinator

UNIVERSITY PARK AFFILIATE FACULTY

Lonnie Golden
Professor, Labor and Employment Relations
Economics
(215) 881-7300
Alicia A. Grandey
Professor of Psychology
(814) 863-1867
Daniel Letwin
Associate Professor of History
(814) 863-0417
Sylvester Osagie
Director, Water-Energy-Food Nexus (West Africa)
(814) 574-0364
Jennifer Talwar
Associate Professor of Sociology, Lehigh Valley Campus
(610) 285-5052
Eileen Trauth
Professor, Information Sciences and Technology
(814) 865-6457

EMERITUS FACULTY

Alan Derickson
Professor Emeritus, Labor and Employment Relations
History
Ronald Filippelli
Professor Emeritus, Labor and Employment Relations
Dennis Gouran
Professor Emeritus, Labor and Employment Relations
Communication Arts and Sciences
Sumita Raghuram
Associate Professor Emeritus, Human Resource Management

HR and Technology, Virtual work, International HRM, Future of Work

James B. Stewart
Professor Emeritus, Labor and Employment Relations
Professor of Practice Emeritus

Labor Educators

Mark Anner
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

Associate Clinical Professor of Labor and Employment Relations
Director of Labor Education
(814) 867-5697

Labor Education; Globalization; Immigrant Workers; Women and Labor

Valerie Braman
Assistant Clinical Professor of Labor and Employment Relations
Labor Education Coordinator
(215) 843-3052

Internal and External Organizing; Contract Negotiations and Administration; Unions in Education; Labor Law

Paul Clark
Professor, Labor and Employment Relations
Graduate Program Director, School of Labor and Employment Relations
(814) 865-0752

Unions, union organizing, collective bargaining, labor-management partnerships, labor-management relations in the healthcare industry, nurses' unions, labor history

Post-Doctoral Scholars

There are no Post-Doctoral Scholars, currently

HRER Graduate Students

Integrated Psychology B.S. and Human Resources and Employment Relations M.S.
Graduate Student in Human Resources and Employment Relations
Emily Bleehash
Integrated Labor and Employment Relations B.S. and Human Resources and Employment Relations M.S.
Integrated Labor and Human Resources B.S. and Human Resources and Employment Relations M.S.
Integrated Labor and Human Resources B.S. and Human Resources and Employment Relations M.S.
Graduate Student in Human Resources and Employment Relations
Integrated Psychology B.S. and Human Resources and Employment Relations M.S.
Integrated Labor and Human Resources B.S. and Human Resources and Employment Relations M.S.
Integrated Psychology B.S. and Human Resources and Employment Relations M.S.
Integrated Psychology B.S. and Human Resources and Employment Relations M.S.
Integrated Psychology B.S. and Human Resources and Employment Relations M.S.
Graduate Student in Human Resources and Employment Relations
Integrated Labor and Human Resources B.S. and Human Resources and Employment Relations M.S.
Integrated Labor and Human Resources B.S. and Human Resources and Employment Relations M.S.
Integrated Psychology B.S. and Human Resources and Employment Relations M.S.
Integrated Communications Arts and Sciences B.S. and Human Resources and Employment Relations M.S.
Graduate Student in Human Resources and Employment Relations
Integrated Psychology B.S. and Human Resources and Employment Relations M.S.
Graduate Student in Human Resources and Employment Relations
Integrated Labor and Human Resources B.S. and Human Resources and Employment Relations M.S.
Integrated Psychology B.S. and Human Resources and Employment Relations M.S.
Graduate Student in Human Resources and Employment Relations
Integrated Labor and Human Resources B.S. and Human Resources and Employment Relations M.S.
Integrated Spanish B.S. and Human Resources and Employment Relations M.S.
Integrated Psychology B.S. and Human Resources and Employment Relations M.S.
Integrated Psychology B.S. and Human Resources and Employment Relations M.S.
Integrated Psychology B.S. and Human Resources and Employment Relations M.S.
Integrated Labor and Human Resources B.S. and Human Resources and Employment Relations M.S.
Integrated Psychology B.S. and Human Resources and Employment Relations M.S.
Integrated Labor and Human Resources B.S. and Human Resources and Employment Relations M.S.
Kathleen  Sheridan
Integrated Labor and Employment Relations B.S. and Human Resources and Employment Relations M.S.
Graduate Student in Human Resources and Employment Relations
Integrated Labor and Human Resources B.S. and Human Resources and Employment Relations M.S.
Integrated Psychology B.S. and Human Resources and Employment Relations M.S.

LGWR GRADUATE STUDENTS

Graduate Student in Labor and Global Workers' Rights
Graduate Student in Labor and Global Workers' Rights
Graduate Student in Labor and Global Workers' Rights
Graduate Student in Labor and Global Workers' Rights
Graduate Student in Labor and Global Workers' Rights
Graduate Student in Labor and Global Workers' Rights
Graduate Student in Labor and Global Workers' Rights
Graduate Student in Labor and Global Workers' Rights

VISITING SCHOLARS

Visiting Scholar with the Center for Global Workers’ Rights