About SMLR

Dr. Dana Britton has recently been appointed as SMLR's Director of the Center for Women and Work. As Director, Dr. Britton will enhance the prominence and impact of the Center in New Jersey, nationally, and internationally.
 

Joan S. M. Meyers is a sociologist who studies workplace gender, ethnoracial, and class inequality, and the bureaucratic practices that can reproduce or remedy inequality. Much of her work is focused on companies that are owned and operated by their employees, and on the links between economic performance, democratic practices, and degrees and types of inequality outcomes.

Dr. Elizabeth Nisbet is a postdoctoral research associate at the Center for Women and Work (CWW). She holds a doctorate in planning and public policy from Rutgers University’s Edward J. Bloustein School, a master's degree in communication from the Annenberg School at the University of Pennsylvania, and a bachelor's degree in political science and French from Furman University.

Elaine Kovac Stroud is SMLR's Assistant Dean of Business and Administration. Elaine is a Rutgers alumna and has more than 12 years of leadership experience and proven skills in successful office management. She has held a variety of business positions at Rutgers since 2000.

Dr. Hazel-Anne M. Johnson recently joined the faculty in the Department of Human Resource Management in the School of Management and Labor Relations at Rutgers University. She received her bachelor’s degree in Psychology from the University of Florida and her master’s and doctoral degrees in Industrial-Organizational Psychology from the University of South Florida.

Renée Walker is Director of Communications for the School of Management and Labor Relations (SMLR), the leading school for the study of strategic human resource management and the social science specialties related to labor studies and employment relations.  

James M. Cooney teaches undergraduate “Employment Law” and “Immigrant Workers and Their Rights” courses, along with certificate program courses for Human Resource, Labor Relations, and Union representatives. 

Previously, Mr. Cooney worked as an attorney with Weissman & Mintz LLC, an associate with Apruzzese, McDermott, et al., and served as a trial attorney with the National Labor Relations Board, Contempt Litigation Branch.