About the Center

Founded in 2015, the Center has provided a supportive community and productive space for scholarship on global transformations in work and employment. Our activities include research and publications along three themes, initiatives to support curriculum innovation, and public engagement through events, media work, and popular writing.

Local Affiliates

• Jacob Barnes, workplace justice lab@RU, SMLR
• Eric Blanc, LSER, SMLR 
• Doug Coffey, HRM, SMLR
• Hadi El-Farr, HRM, SMLR
• Rebecca Givan, LSER, SMLR 
• Alysa Sloan Hannon, PhD Student, SMLR
• Seonghoon Hong, PhD Student, SMLR  
• Xian Huang, Political Science 
• Henry Hailong Jia, PhD Student, SMLR 
• Yanhong Jin,  Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics
• Hazel-Anne Johnson-Marcus, HRM, SMLR
• Helen Liu, HRM, SMLR
• Jiyoon Park, PhD Student, SMLR 
• Phela Townsend, PhD Student, SMLR 
• Justin Vinton, Education and Employment Research Center, SMLR
• Sijian Wang, Department of Statistics
• Todd Wolfson, Journalism and Media Studies

Senior Fellows and Research Associates

• Tony Edwards, Dean, Loughborough University London
• Hao Gong, Honorary Research Fellow, School of Management, University College London; Founding Partner, Orchestration Capital; Co-Founder/Chairman of the Board, Hangzhou RuiLianZhiTong Healthcare Technology Co. Ltd.  
• Daniel J. Julius, Former Provost and Senior Vice President, New Jersey City University, and Visiting Fellow, School of Management at Yale University
• Jung Ook Kim, Management Faculty, Chatham University  

Visiting Fellows 

• Chaoran Ren, Associate Professor, School of Social and Public Administration, East China University of Science and Technology, 2024-
• Na Cheng, Professor, School of Marxism, Shanghai University, 2024-
• Yuan Zhao, Associate Professor, School of International Organizations, Beijing Foreign Studies University, 2024-
• Ying Meng, Lecturer, Yatai School of Business Management, Jilin University of Finance and Economics, 2024-
• Hongming Wang, Assistant Director, Zhilin Law Firm, 2023-
• Mingming Zhu, Professor of Practice, Peking University, 2023-
• Han Li, Associate Professor, School of Management, Shanghai University of Engineering Science, 2023-2024
• Shengli Guo, Professor, School of Social and Public Administration, East China University of Science and Technology, 2023-2024
• Patrick Witzak, Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Sociology, Ruhr University Bochum, October 2022  
• Songqing Tian, Associate Professor, School of Management, Capital Normal University, 2021-2022
• Yongqian Tu, Associate Professor, School of Labor and Human Resources, Renmin University, 2020-2021 
• Guoli Dong, Professor, School of Social and Public Administration, East China University of Science and Technology, 2019-2021 
• Junyan Hu, Associate Professor, School of Economics and Commerce, South China University of Technology, 2019-2020 
• Huirong Zhang, Associate Professor, School of Labor Relations, Shangdong Management University, 2019-2020 
• Yuetang Bian, Associate Professor, Business School, Nanjing Normal University, 2019-2020 
• Gang Wang, Associate Professor, School of Economics and Management, Beijing Forestry University, 2019-2020 
• Taiping Pan, Professor, School of Labor Relations, China University of Labor Relations, 2018-2020 
• Jiaojiao Qu, Assistant Professor, School of Economics and Management, Taiyuan University of Technology, 2018-2020 
• Lian Zhou, Assistant Professor, School of Management, Guangdong University of Technology, 2018-2019 
• Lihu Sun, Associate Professor, School of Business Administration, Shanxi University of Finance and Economics, 2018 
• Chunyong Tang, Professor and Chair, Department of Organization and Strategy, School of Economics and Management, Southwest Jiaotong University, 2017-2018 
• Yongguo Zhu, Professor and Chair, Department of Human Resource Management, School of Labor Economics, Capital University of Economics and Business, 2016-2017 
• Julian Garritzmann, Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Political Science, University of Konstanz, Spring 2016  
• Weiping Qin, Associate Professor, School of Business, Nanjing University of Finance and Economics, 2015-2016. 
• Wansi Chen, Associate Professor, School of Business Administration, East China University of Science and Technology, 2015-2016 

Visiting Doctoral Students  

• Yihong Wan, School of Labor and Human Resources, Renmin University of China, 2024-
• Yue Qiu, School of Labor Economics, Capital University of Economics and Business, 2023-
• Guiqing Zhang, Business School, Hohai University, 2024-
• Wenshun Li, School of Economics and Management, Tongji University, 2024
• Jiachun Liu, School of Labor and Human Resources, Renmin University of China, 2023-2024
• Quan Xiao, Business School, Nanjing Normal University, 2023-2024
• Shunyi Zhou, School of Labor and Human Resources, Renmin University of China, 2021-2022
• Meilin Liu, Antai College of Economics & Management, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 2021-2022 
• Hua Liu, School of Labor and Human Resources, Renmin University of China, 2021-2022
• Yue Zhao, School of Labor Economics, Capital University of Economics and Business, 2021-2022
• Weihao Li, School of Labor and Employment Relations, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Spring 2021  
• Jiaping Zhang, School of Economics and Management, Tongji University, 2019-2020 
• Panpan Gao, School of Labor Economics, Capital University of Economics and Business, 2019-2020 
• Patrick Witzak, Department of Sociology, University of Duisburg-Essen, Fall 2019  
• Man Cao, School of Business, Nanjing University, 2018-2019 
• Zhengxiong Yang, School of Business, Jilin University, 2018-2019 
• Xiaojie Liang, School of Business, Jilin University, 2017-2018 
• Yufang Yang, School of Business, Hunan University, 2017-2018 
• Mengxi Yang, School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University, 2017-2018 
• Yanting Zhu, Department of Sociology, Nanjing University, 2016-2017 

We welcome academic visitors and have links with many other academic partners across the world, including the following centers:

• Center for Global Workers’ Rights, Penn State University 
• Interuniversity Research Centre on Globalization and Work (CRIMT), University of Montreal
• Institute for Work, Skills and Training (IAQ), University of Duisburg-Essen
• Employment Relations Research Centre (FAOS), University of Copenhagen 

• International Consortium for Research on Employment and Work (iCREW), Monash University