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