Dr. Maite Tapia

Biography

Maite Tapia is an Associate Professor and Doctoral Program Chair in the School of Human Resources and Labor Relations at Michigan State University. Her research focuses on worker voice and workplace organizing, addressing issues of systemic inequality related to social identities of workers. She received her PhD from the Department of Comparative and International Labor at the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University in 2013. Tapia has published extensively in leading scholarly journals, including ILR Review and British Journal of Industrial Relations, and has co-edited significant academic works, such as 'Mobilizing Inequality: Unions, Immigrant Workers, Crisis Capitalism' and the 2022 LERA Research Volume 'Racial Reckoning in Industrial Relations: Storytelling Revolution.' Her research has received funding from the Hans Boeckler Foundation. Tapia has been recognized with the John T. Dunlop Award from the Labor Employment Relations Association in 2019 and the Luis Aparicio Prize for academic excellence by ILERA in 2021. She is an active member of the Executive Board Program Committee at LERA.

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