Faculty & Staff Directory

Full-time Faculty & Staff

Carolina Bank Muñoz

Professor

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Carolina Bank Muñoz’s work focuses on immigration, labor, work, and Latin America
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Cedric de Leon

Professor

Cedric de Leon
Professor de Leon specializes in labor and party politics, both in America and abroad
Cedric de Leon
Sierra Dickey

Academic Program Manager & Events Coordinator

Sierra Dickey
As the Academic Program & Events Manager Sierra schedules courses, supports faculty and students, and organizes events
Sierra Dickey
Clare Hammonds

Professor of Practice

Clare Hammonds
Professor Hammonds specializes in gender-related work issues, and labor organizing in the U.S.
Clare Hammonds
Tom Juravich

Professor

Tom Juravich
Professor Juravich specializes in work and labor, especially from an ethnographic perspective
Tom Juravich
Jasmine Kerrissey

Labor Center Director and Professor of Sociology

Jasmine Kerrissey
Professor Kerrissey specializes in the American labor movement, work, politics, and inequality.
Jasmine Kerrissey
Nellie Taylor

Associate Director For Academic Programs

Nellie Taylor
Labor Center recruitment, outreach, social media, and general operations.
Nellie Taylor
Eve Weinbaum

Associate Professor

Eve Weinbaum
Professor Weinbaum specializes in organizing, labor and politics, and gender-related pay disparities
Eve Weinbaum

Affiliated Faculty

Dave Kamper

Labor History

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Dave Kamper has taught Labor History at the Labor Center since 2021. He has a PhD in History from the University of Illinois. He has a long career in organized labor and is currently a Policy Strategist at the Economic Policy Institute.
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Harris Freeman

Labor and Employment Law

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Harris Freeman has taught labor and employment law at the UMass Amherst Labor Center since 1999. He is Professor Emeritus at Western New England University School of Law where he taught classes in labor and employment law for more than 25 years. He is also a research associate and adjunct professor in the Government Department at Smith College. Freeman received his J.D. from Western New England University and his B.A. from the University of Florida.
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Alejandro Reuss

Labor and the U.S. Economy

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Alejandro Reuss is a historian and economist. He holds degrees from Tufts University (MA, History) and the University of Massachusetts Amherst (PhD, Economics). His interests in the social sciences include political economy, labor economics and labor history, power structure research, economic history (U.S. and world), development economics, environmental economics, and game theory. He teaches "Labor and the U.S. Economy" in the Union Leadership and Activism (ULA) program at UMass Amherst, and teaches undergraduate courses on U.S. labor history, labor and migration, unions and collective bargaining, and race, class, and gender at UMass Boston. His published writings include the book Labor and the Global Economy (2013) and essay "The Power of Capital" (2020). He is a past co-editor and editorial board member at Dollars & Sense magazine.
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Labor Center Fellows

Nate Meyers

Fellow

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Nate is an economic and organizational sociologist specializing in earnings dynamics, labor, economic transformations, and the public sector. His work identifies how the restructuring of the American economy over the past half-century has reshaped labor market outcomes and the functioning of government in the U.S. His research integrates quantitative methods and historical data analysis to explore the role of business actors in driving economic change in relation to labor and the state.
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Sara Gia Trongone

Postdoctoral Fellow 2025 - 2026

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Sara received her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is an Advanced Organizer and Trainer for EWOC, past co-President of AFT Local 3220, and a founding member of the University Labor Council. She loves talking shop about how to build a multiracial and intersectional working-class movement.
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