Antone Aboud

Antone Aboud received his PhD from Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations, and a BA in government from Cornell. Subsequently he served in increasingly responsible positions as a faculty member at State University of New York (SUNY) at Potsdam and SUNY Institute of Technology at Utica-Rome, and as director of the Graduate School of Industrial Relations at St. Francis College in Loretto, Pennsylvania. He also served as a labor arbitrator and mediator.

Since 1985 he has worked full-time as a consultant, developing effective risk management and investigatory policies and practices as well as management, leadership and supervisory training. He has authored training programs that have been taught in more than 40 states and Washington, D.C. Most recently he has focused considerable effort in helping organizations address issues related to organizational culture, particularly their ability to adopt changes in culture that are truly sustainable. Additionally, Aboud has specialized in working with long-term care entities in the public, private, and not-for-profit settings.

Doug Allen

Doug Allen is currently a lecturer in labor studies and employment relations. During his career, he served as the executive director of the Screen Actors Guild, AFL-CIO and as the assistant executive director of the National Football League Players Association (NFLPA) for nearly 20 years. In that capacity, Allen was executive director Gene Upshaw's deputy. He took the lead in developing the highly successful "Players Inc." collective licensing program. Prior to his position with the NFLPA, Doug worked for the AFL-CIO's Committee on Political Education.

An alumni of Penn State, Allen played for the Nittany Lion football team and was recognized as an Academic All-American. He continued his football career in the NFL as a member of the Buffalo Bills in New York state. He now works as a consultant to labor organizations and serves as an in-residence professor of practice in the labor studies and employment relations department in fall 2011.

George Apaliski

George Apaliski is an instructor of labor and employment relations for World Campus. He began his career as a teacher in the public school system of Pennsylvania for five years, spent thirty years working for the Pennsylvania State Education Association (PSEA), and five years working for the National Education Association (NEA).

Apaliski has extensive experience in contract negotiations (from both the union and management perspectives), mediation, fact-finding, grievance processing, arbitration, employee relations, management in a union environment, and fiduciary responsibilities. He has developed and delivered numerous training programs at the local, state, and national levels. He currently serves as a volunteer with the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI Penn State) and as a member of the Board of Trustees for the National Education Association's Retirement Fund.

Donald Bauman

Donald Bauman began his career as an engineer after earning a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from Penn State in 1967. He earned his JD in 1974 from the University of Maryland while working and raising a family. A course in labor law inspired him to pursue a career in the field of labor and employment law, where he spent the next 35 years of his career. He spent most of his career at Bethlehem Steel, where his duties centered on arbitration, labor negotiations, and matters of the National Labor Relations Board. After retiring from Bethlehem Steel, Bauman served as an arbitrator and is now a lecturer for the World Campus.

Charlene Binder

Charlene Binder is an accomplished leader and human resources professional whose career includes top roles at Fortune 500 and leading consumer packaged goods companies, such as Hershey, Dannon, and Unilever, where she was instrumental in implementing and driving positive change to enhance profitability, sales growth, and employee engagement on a global scale.

For the past two and a half years, Charlene was the Chief People Officer for The Hershey Company where she was responsible for global human resources, including talent and organization capability, total rewards, compliance and employee systems, values and culture, corporate communications, corporate social responsibility and flight operations. Most notable among her accomplishments was the transformation of the human resources organization where she redesigned the roles, governance, technology, and overall human resources culture on a global scale.

Sabine Bruggeman, DBA

Sabine Bruggeman lives in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE), where she conducts her research on knowledge transfer and integration between Emiratis and expatriates. As an adjunct faculty she has taught both human resources and cross-cultural management at AACSB-accredited institutes, including the American University of Sharjah, UAE, and is currently a lecturer for the Penn State World Campus.

Dr. Bruggeman earned both a master's degree and doctorate of business administration from Henley Business School, University of Reading, in the United Kingdom and continues to be associated as external faculty. Her areas of specialization and research include international HRM; boundaryless careers and self-initiated expatriation; talent management; reward strategy; organizational learning; knowledge creation; cognitive schema; and stereotyping.

She has presented papers at large, peer-reviewed international conferences worldwide and contributed to book chapters for the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) publications such as the forthcoming International Human Resource Management 3rd edition.

Previously, Dr. Bruggeman worked at prominent multinational corporations responsible for HRM, and in change management roles with local, regional, and global responsibilities. Her professional experience combines 20 years of both senior operational management across the breadth of the HR function and advisory experience up to board level. She has previously spent a year on sabbatical in Nairobi (Kenya) and gained further cross-cultural management experience while working in Berlin and Frankfurt (Germany); Moscow (Russia); Dubai (UAE); and Basel (Switzerland) in industries as diverse as banking (HSBC); pharmaceutical (Novartis); engineering (ABB); oilfield services (Schlumberger); hospitality (IHC); and government organizations (Dubai World, Dubai Customs).

Paul F. Clark, PhD

Paul F. Clark is the resident program department head and a professor of labor studies and employment relations. He also holds an appointment as professor in the Department of Health Policy and Administration. Dr. Clark's research interests include employment relations in the U.S. healthcare industry; the globalization of the labor market for healthcare professionals; union structure, government, and administration; and union member commitment and participation. He has worked with numerous local and national unions on research projects and regularly serves as a speaker/workshop instructor for labor education programs.

He is the author of four books, including Building More Effective Unions, published by Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR) Press in 2001. His research has also appeared in the leading scholarly journals in industrial and labor relations and applied psychology. Dr. Clark serves as the director of the MS and MPS in human resources and employment relations programs at Penn State and regularly teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on industrial relations, labor law, and labor and globalization. He holds a master's degree from the Cornell ILR School and a PhD from the University of Pittsburgh.

Renata Dash, JD

Renata Dash is an attorney who specializes in labor and employment law. She graduated with honors from DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois, earning her undergraduate degree in political science with a law and society minor, and her Juris Doctorate from the university's College of Law. Dash first practiced labor and employment law for the private sector at a nationally-recognized law firm in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, later moving to a position as the associate general counsel in-house at an international labor organization.

Dash holds licenses in Wisconsin, Illinois, and Tennessee, and also before the U.S. Court of Appeals in the Sixth and Seventh Circuits. She has experience providing counsel and advice regarding labor and employment issues to international labor organizations, their local affiliates, and union members. She has practiced before state and federal courts, state and federal administrative agencies (including the National Labor Relations Board, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and the Department of Labor), and before arbitrators and mediators. Dash also has provided training and education about labor and employment issues to various professional and nonprofessional groups throughout her career.

Amy Dietz, MS

Amy Dietz is a lecturer in the Department of Labor Studies and Employment Relations. In addition to teaching, she is the program administrator and adviser for the department's online master of professional studies (MPS) human resources and employee relations (HRER) graduate program, the department's undergraduate internship coordinator, and the faculty adviser to the Society of Labor and Employment Relations (SLER), a graduate and undergraduate student organization. A graduate of the Schreyer Honors College and the LSER department, Dietz has a bachelor of science in labor studies and employment relations and a master of science in industrial relations and human resources.

Mike Eggert, SPHR, JD

Michael L. Eggert is a lecturer in the Department of Labor Studies and Employment Relations. Eggert is a LSER alumni and earned an additional bachelor of arts in sociology degree from Penn State as well as his Juris Doctorate degree with honors from the Duquesne University School of Law. He is a certified Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR) by the HR Certification Institute, with thirty years of professional experience in the fields of labor relations, employment law, and human resources management.

Eggert began his career as a field examiner for the Pittsburgh Regional Office of the National Labor Relations Board. Subsequently, he engaged in the practice of employment and labor law as a private attorney for nearly eleven years, during which time he represented a variety of clients including employers, individual employees, and several union locals. Between 1998 and 2009, Eggert held positions as the director of human resources for the cities of Altoona, Pennsylvania and Port Orange, Florida, and for The Arc of Centre County, Inc., in Pennsylvania. His experience in both cities included serving as chief negotiator for management in collective bargaining negotiations with local unions representing police officers, firefighters, and blue and white collar employees. Currently, Eggert is working as a human resources specialist for the U.S. Census Bureau at its headquarters in Suitland, Maryland, where his work includes management of the Bureau's performance management program.

Kathleen M. Evans, MLS

Kathleen M. Evans earned her bachelor of science in English from Bloomsburg University and her master's degree in library science from Kutztown University. Evans is a fifteen-year-veteran of the Pennsylvania State Education Association (PSEA), where as a field representative she gained experience in negotiating contracts, grievance processing and arbitration, training members in advocacy, expert witness testimony in fact findings, and dealing with various employment issues for teachers and school support personnel. She has also been a classroom teacher, librarian, and local union president.

Elaine Farndale, PhD

Elaine Farndale is a visiting assistant professor in labor studies and employment relations and an affiliate of the Department of Human Resource Studies at Tilburg University in the Netherlands. Farndale earned her doctorate in human resource management from Cranfield University School of Management in the United Kingdom. Her areas of specialization and research include international and comparative HRM; the power, professionalism, and roles of the HR department; HRM and firm performance; change management and HRM; eHRM and new HR delivery mechanisms; and HRM and employee engagement. She has presented numerous papers at international conferences and has published articles and chapters in both the practitioner and academic press, including the Journal of World Business, Human Resource Management Journal, and International Journal of Human Resource Management. Dr. Farndale has also worked as an HR specialist for several years.

Tara Habasevich-Brooks, PhD

Tara Habasevich-Brooks is a lecturer in the Department of Labor Studies and Employment Relations. She received a bachelor of science in labor studies, master of science in industrial relations and human resources, and a doctorate in sociology from Penn State. Her current research interests include work and family, and women's employment and child care. Previously Habasevich-Brooks worked for several years as an HR manager. In addition to teaching she currently works as a research consultant for various clients and as a financial case worker.

Thomas Hall

Thomas Hall is an adjunct instructor for Penn State and has taught courses in employment compensation for the past nine years. He has provided human resources and management engineering consulting services to the University and state government for more than thirty-five years. He has also worked as a human resources manager, lead classification analyst, and employment recruiter.

In addition, Hall has worked as a management consultant, conducting activity-based costing studies, staffing analyses, productivity assessments, survey administration, and a wide-range of human resources consulting services to academic and administrative departments. He has consulted with more than thirty non- and for-profit organizations and businesses on compensation systems design and development including job evaluation programs, pay program design, and salary labor market analysis studies.

Tom C. Hogan, SPHR, GPHR

Dr. Tom Hogan is a professor of practice in the Department of Labor Studies and Employment Relations at Penn State. His research and teaching interests include global human resources, business ethics, corporate social responsibility, sustainable business development, strategic staffing and training, and global leadership development. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses online and in-residence.

Dr. Hogan has 30 years of experience as a practitioner and has served in leadership and management positions in higher education administration, the corporate sector, and state government. Prior to joining the department, Dr. Hogan held the position of Interim Associate Provost, Office of Faculty Affairs at the University of Maryland University College (UMUC). Prior to working for UMUC, he spent 23 years with AT&T in a variety of assignments including sales, sales support, business development, marketing, and human resources. In his last assignment at AT&T, Dr. Hogan served as Director of Strategic Talent Acquisition and Retention, Workforce Diversity, and EEO/AA. Prior to AT&T, he worked for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Dr. Hogan currently serves as a member of the U.S. Technical Advisory Group of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). In this role, he is involved in developing and representing the U.S. position on global HR standards to the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). In November 2011, he was elected to represent ANSI as a member of the U.S. Delegation at the first ISO Technical Committee 260 Human Resource Management plenary meeting.

Dr. Hogan holds a doctor of management degree from the University of Maryland University College and two master's degrees from Penn State, in public administration and regional planning. Dr. Hogan is a faculty adviser for the SHRM PSU student chapter. He holds certifications from the HR Certification Institute as Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR) and Global Professional in Human Resources (GPHR).

Mark Linsenbigler, MS

Mark Linsenbigler is an adjunct lecturer for the Department of Labor Studies and Employment Relations. He is also employed as the occupational health and safety manager at Penn State. His background includes occupational safety and health experience in a variety of industries including light and heavy manufacturing, construction, and municipal environments. Mark has a bachelor’s degree in safety sciences from the Indiana University of Pennsylvania and a master’s degree in industrial health and safety from Penn State. He is also recognized as a Certified Safety Professional (CSP) by the Board of Certified Safety Professionals.

Charles Lumpkins

Charles Lumpkins is a lecturer of labor studies and employment relations at Penn State. His received his doctorate in history from Penn State, his master of arts in history from the University of Maine, and his master of library science from Simmons College. He teaches History of Work in America.

Dr. Lumpkins' research focuses on the history of working-class African Americans. He is the recipient of several honors, including the Illinois State Historical Society Certificate of Merit for Scholarly Publication for his article "American Pogrom: The East St. Louis Race Riot and Black Politics." He has also written about the civil rights movement in Maine, notably in a piece reprinted in Maine's Visible Black History: The First Chronicle of Its People (2006), edited by H.H. Price and Gerald E. Talbot. Dr. Lumpkins has contributed entries to the Dictionary of American History's online version as well as encyclopedias on African American history issued by the Oxford University Press and others.

Jane Moyer

Jane Moyer is the global head of HR, Operations, for Maersk Line in Copenhagen, Denmark. Maersk Line is the largest shipping and transport company in the world, and one of the largest employers in Scandinavia. In this role Jane is responsible for all HR activities worldwide related to Maersk Line’s ports, vessels, supply chain, and sustainability and reliability teams.

Prior to Maersk, Jane worked at Starbucks in Seattle, Washington, and Canada, including roles in organizational development, strategic HR planning for more than 20,000 employees and the administration of savings, stock and pension plans. She was also the vice president, HR and Shared Services, of Kendall-Jackson Wine Estates and Jackson Family Farms in California and was responsible for all their HR functions. She has experience in organization design and compensation from her time at iQuantic in San Francisco, California, and has also worked in HR roles for Xerox Business Services. She completed her graduate work at Hewlett-Packard, helping to design organizational structures and systems to enable effective change management.

Jane has degrees from Penn State (including studies at the University of Cologne, Germany) and Cornell and has presented and lectured nationally on issues of compensation, equity and stock, turnover and retention, organizational agility, and justice in the workplace. She has been a featured executive in numerous publications including The Advocate, Fast Company, and the Chronicle of Higher Education. Jane is a member of the International Guild of Sommeliers and serves on several non-profit boards. She lives in Copenhagen.

Robert Ostrov

Robert Ostrov is currently the senior vice president of human resources for Central Parking System, Inc. Mr. Ostrov has previously served as senior vice president, chief human resources officer at the former ArvinMeritor, Inc.; vice president, human resources and labor relations of FedEx Corporation; senior vice president, human resources of True Value Company; and senior vice president of human resources at GE. Ostrov most recently served in a senior HR role with the United States Coast Guard/Department of Homeland Security. He has a bachelor of science in labor and industrial relations from Cornell University, New York; an MBA in finance and strategic planning from Roosevelt University, Chicago, Illinois; and a JD from Chicago-Kent College of Law in Illinois.

Mark Price, PhD

Mark Price earned his doctorate in economics from the University of Utah. His dissertation, "State Prevailing Wage Laws and Construction Labor Markets," was recognized in January 2006 with an honorable mention in the Thomas A. Kochan and Stephen R. Sleigh Best Dissertation Awards Competition sponsored by the Labor and Employment Relations Association (LERA).

Dr. Price's research interests include income inequality, trends in employment and compensation, the construction industry, and low-wage labor markets. He is also a labor economist at the Keystone Research Center (KRC) in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. His work at KRC has included reports profiling the state of women in the Pennsylvania workforce, and a nationally-recognized report tracking the educational qualifications of the early childhood workforce in the United States.

Sumita Raghuram, PhD

Sumita Raghuram received her doctorate in human resource management from the University of Minnesota and went on to join the faculty in the business school at Fordham University, New York from 1993 to 2005. Her research interests focus on virtual organizations and international human resource management. Her international HR research has been published as book chapters and in the International Journal of Human Resource Management and she has been quoted in the New York Times, Economic Times, and the book Work Naked: Eight Essential Principles for Peak Performance in the Virtual Workplace. Her research on virtual work, published in journals such as Journal of Management and Organization Science, examines outcomes such as productivity, organizational commitment, and identity. Dr. Raghuram is currently engaged in two research projects: one examining the impact of human resource practices on globally dispersed virtual organizations and the other project examining the impact of call center work on the identification of call agents. She occasionally provides HR consulting to IT companies in India. Dr. Raghuram is also the area editor for OB/HRM in the Journal of Asia Business Studies.

Julie Sadler, PhD

Julie Sadler is assistant professor in the Department of Labor Studies and Employment Relations. She received both her master's degree and doctorate in industrial and labor relations from Cornell University. Prior to joining the LSER faculty, she was a faculty member in the Leadership Program in the School of Urban Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Delaware from 2006 to 2008. Her current research interests focus on the dynamic linkages between perceptions of union leadership, union attitudes (e.g. union commitment, union satisfaction, and union instrumentality), workplace characteristics (e.g. job satisfaction), and members' voluntary participation in union activities. Specific areas of emphasis include research on industrial relations and leadership development in the health care and education arenas. More broadly, her teaching and research interests include leadership and leadership development in volunteer-based, social justice-oriented contexts including labor unions, community-based organizations, and other non-profit entities.

Joe Santamaria, MS

Joe Santamaria is a lecturer in the Department of Psychology and a doctoral candidate in cognitive psychology. His received his bachelor of arts in psychology from the Indiana University of Pennsylvania and a master of science in psychology from Penn State. In addition to World Campus, Santamaria also instructs for the Center for Talented Youth at The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.

Mark Adam Schnurman, JD

Director of Human Resources (Managing Director), GFI Capital Resources

Jennifer Solbakken, MS

Jennifer Solbakken earned both her bachelor's and master's degrees from Penn State in the labor studies and employment relations department. She worked in various human resources roles outside of the University before returning to Penn State in 2002 to work in the employee relations division in the Office of Human Resources, where she interpreted policies affecting academic, staff, and technical-service employees, provided advice to management in the handling of human resources issues, interpreted and administered the University/union agreement, and participated in contract negotiations with unions representing University employees.

Solbakken is now the human resources coordinator for The Penn State Dickinson School of Law's University Park and Carlisle campuses. Her current career responsibilities include recruiting, hiring, policy interpretation, employee relations, benefits, and job reviews.

Glenn Stephens, PhD, JD

Lecturer, Labor Studies and Employment Relations

Paul Whitehead, JD

Paul Whitehead is a professor of practice specializing in labor and employment law and teaches the law of employee benefits. He earned both his bachelor of science in labor studies and master of science in industrial relations from the University of Wisconsin. He is also an honors graduate of Harvard Law School. Whitehead practiced labor, bankruptcy, and benefits law for more than thirty years for the United Steelworkers in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, serving as general counsel from 2001 to 2009. His career has included, in addition to years of collective bargaining, the representation of workers and retirees affected by corporate restructurings, foreign trade disputes, and the design of benefit programs. He joined the Penn State faculty in early 2009 and offers courses in both the School of Labor Studies and Employment Relations as well as The Dickinson School of Law.

Whitehead serves as one of five trustees to the AFL-CIO Mutual Benefit Fund, which offers a variety of insurance and other services to the fourteen million members of unions affiliated with the AFL-CIO. He frequently speaks on the subjects of employee and retiree benefit programs.

Jennifer Wilkes

Jennifer Wilkes is the director of human resources for auxiliary and business services; she has been with Penn State for ten years. Prior to coming to auxiliary and business services she was a manager of employee relations. Jennifer earned her bachelor's degree in hotel, restaurant and institutional management and a master's degree in labor studies and industrial relations, both from Penn State. Prior to joining Penn State she worked with the Walt Disney World Company and The Shaner Hotel Group. She teaches human resource classes with the labor studies and employment relations department, located in the College of the Liberal Arts.

Billie Willits, PhD

Dr. Billie S. Willits is the associate vice president for human resources at Penn State and holds faculty appointments in the Department of Labor Studies and Employment Relations and in the Smeal College of Business. She is responsible for management of all aspects of human resources, including training and development, employment and compensation, benefits, wellness, workers' compensation, occupational medicine, and labor relations at all Penn State campuses. She has developed and conducted seminars in strategic planning, leadership, and numerous other human resources areas.

She has served as director of affirmative action and as the director of the Academic Collective Bargaining Information Service, Project on Educational Employment Relations, Washington, D.C., and as special fact finder and hearing officer at the University of the District of Columbia.

Prior to her arrival at Penn State, Dr. Willits served as associate and assistant vice president for human resources at the University of Massachusetts, and director, Office of Employee and Labor Relations at the University of Cincinnati.

Dr. Willits holds both a master's degree and a doctorate from the University of Iowa.

Justin Zartman, JD 

Justin Zartman is an instructor in the Department of Labor Studies and Employment Relations. He is a Penn State graduate with degrees in labor and employment relations and political science, received his Juris Doctor from the Texas Wesleyan School of Law, and has been admitted to the Connecticut bar. In addition to being a World Campus instructor, Zartman also works for the Connecticut Education Association (CEA) negotiating teachers' contracts and representing teachers at arbitration and state labor board hearings. Prior to joining CEA, Zartman worked for the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) in their Fort Worth, Texas office.