Current Students

Kerrington Curl
Kerrington Curl
E-mail: curlkerr@msu.edu

Research Areas of Interest: The intersections of Labor Relations and Political Philosophy, focusing on concepts such as Social Belonging, Employee Voice, and Self-Determination. With a profound enthusiasm for diagnosing and addressing the impacts of macro-level challenges in the human capital market, my dedication is unwavering in unraveling the intricacies of industrial dynamics and human potential through a systemic approach.

 

Xinming Deng
Xinming Deng
E-mail: dengxin4@msu.edu

Research Areas of Interest: Interdisciplinary research, solidarity norm, union participation, strike propensity, labor law regulation, and social media.

 

Ran Huang
Ran Huang
E-mail: huangra5@msu.edu

Research Areas of Interest: Interdisciplinary studies, individual differences, territoriality and ownership, and research methods.

 

Dasom Jang
Dasom Jang
E-mail: jangdaso@msu.edu

Research Areas of Interest: The structural influence on employee well-being; cross-cultural comparisons; gendered culture in the workplace. Specifically, paid parental leave and gender role orientation in work-family conflict; influence of technological change under industry 4.0 are my current research projects.

 

Carla Lima Aranzaes
Carla Lima Aranzaes
E-mail: limaaran@msu.edu

Research Areas of Interest: My research focuses on the different stages of the unionization process that workers must go through in order to improve their working conditions, as well as the influence of a worker's social network on their decision to unionize. I'm analyzing Twitter data and I have also been involved in deep qualitative research. Most recently, I have spent two months in Bessemer, Alabama, conducting research for a nationwide research project on Amazon's anti-union practices from the perspective of critical race theory.

 

Junior Mazara
Junior Mazara
E-mail: mazarake@msu.edu

Research Areas of Interest: My research interest center around organizational change. Specifically, I'm into accountability, pre-employment testing, M&A's, HR stats & legal issues, succession planning, & executive coaching.

 

Gia Ruscitto
Gia Ruscitto
E-mail: ruscitt1@msu.edu

Research Areas of Interest: My interests range from diminishing discrimination and increasing inclusivity specifically through the employee selection, the hiring process, management skills, and teamwork.

 

Uriel Saldivar
Uriel Saldivar
E-mail: saldiv17@msu.edu

Research Areas of Interest: I am interested in researching leadership and teams within different contexts (e.g. cultural, situational, approach driven). I am particularly interested in researching servant leadership where a leader prioritizes the needs of followers while still considering organizational goals and needs. I am also interested in studying workplace discrimination in hiring practices.

 

Salil Sapre
Salil Sapre
E-mail: sapresal@msu.edu

Research Areas of Interest: The focus areas of my research are labor relations in global supply chains; intersectionality; informal work; and social movements. My current research looks at local level labor contestation and gendered power dynamics in the Indian garment industry.

 

Huijie (Jasmine) Shi
Huijie (Jasmine) Shi
E-mail: shihuiji@msu.edu

Research Areas of Interest: Leadership, organizational justice, stress at work, cross-culture management, and research methods.