Expert Type: Grantee

Daniel J. Galvin is an associate professor of political science and a faculty fellow at the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University. His current research focuses on labor policy and politics, worker organizations, and the enforcement of labor standards. He is writing a book on the changing politics of workers’ rights and the efforts of low-wage workers to build power and strengthen their rights and protections in the workplace. He also researches and writes on presidential politics, political parties, and American political development. He is the author of Presidential Party Building: Dwight D. Eisenhower to George W. Bush, co-editor of Rethinking Political Institutions: the Art of the State, and has published numerous journal articles and book chapters. Galvin received his Ph.D. in political science from Yale University and his B.A. in politics and legal studies from Brandeis University.

Hana Shepherd is an associate professor of sociology at Rutgers University. Her work focuses on realizing employment protections for low-wage workers and employee power in low-wage workplaces. She asks how social networks, social norms and culture, and organizational practices shape behavior, and thus facilitate or impede social change. She is working on projects on how local government agencies enforce employment protections; how to create supportive online communities for retail workers; and how organizational practices shape networks in low-wage jobs, with implications for collective action. Her work appears in outlets such as the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Social Psychology Quarterly, Social Science Research, and Sociological Science. Shepherd received her Ph.D. in sociology from Princeton University and her M.A. and B.A. from Stanford University.

Jenn Round is a senior fellow with the labor standards enforcement program at the Center for Innovation in Worker Organization at Rutgers University. Prior to joining CIWO, Round helped to launch and led enforcement at the Seattle Office of Labor Standards. She has played an integral role in planning, implementing, and managing numerous rule of law programs, including developing a culturally relevant program designed to reduce domestic violence in rural Alaska and creating an undergraduate law degree program at the American University of Afghanistan. She holds a J.D. from George Washington University Law School and a LL.M. from the University of Washington School of Law.

Janice Fine is a professor in the Department of Labor Studies and Employment Relations and director of the workplace justice lab@RU within the School of Management and Labor Relations, Rutgers University. For the latter, she writes and teaches about economic justice movements and organizations including unions, worker centers, community organizing groups and other forms of collective action in the U.S and cross-nationally; historical and contemporary debates within labor movements regarding immigration; labor standards enforcement; privatization and state capacity for contract oversight. Prior to joining the faculty at Rutgers in 2005, she worked as a labor, community and political organizer and trainer for over twenty years and continues to collaborate with unions, worker centers, immigrant rights organizations and community organizing groups. She holds a B.A. in labor studies/community planning from the University of Massachusetts, Boston and a Ph.D. in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.