Christine Riordan

Christine Riordan is an Assistant Professor at the School of Labor and Employment Relations (LER), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Christine has conducted research focusing on the implications of restructuring and outsourcing for work design and voice. Research in progress explores these topics in the nursing occupation; past work has focused on legal work in corporate law firms. She has co-authored multiple papers considering how outsourcing reshapes conflict, work relationships, and inequality.

She has also recently begun several collaborations on worker and employer responses to COVID-19. At LER, Christine teaches courses in collective bargaining and industrial relations theory. Christine holds a PhD in Management from the Institute for Work and Employment Research at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Education

• PhD Candidate, Management MIT Sloan School of Management (2012)
• Master of Urban Planning New York University (2006 — 2008)
• International Development and Spanish University of California, Los Angeles (1998 — 2002)

Companies

• Assistant Professor University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, School of Labor and Employment Relations (2019)
• PhD Candidate Institute for Work and Employment Research, MIT Sloan School of Management (2012)
• Policy Analyst National Employment Law Project (2008 — 2012)
• Teaching Colleague Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, NYU (2008 — 2010)
• Researcher Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, NYU (2006 — 2009)
• Deportation Defense, Immigration Paralegal Law Office of Robert B. Jobe (2005 — 2006)
• Organizer UNITE HERE Local 19 (2003 — 2004)

Skills

• Nonprofits
• Qualitative Research
• Public Policy

Other

Policy Analysis, Research