Director: Max Krochmal
Mission
The Economic Justice Research Lab (EJRL) fosters new collaborative community-engaged scholarship by bringing together students, faculty, nonprofit organizations, and grassroots activists to co-create new humanities knowledge and public programming focused on working people, community organizing, and the labor movement in New Orleans and beyond.
People
Staff
- Principal Investigator: Max Krochmal, Ph.D., Professor of History and Director of Justice Studies
- Mellon Postdoctoral Research Associate: Rafael Delgadillo, Ph.D.
- Thomas J. Adams, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies, University of South Alabama
- Leah Bailey, Community and Political Organizer, UNITE HERE Local 23
- Sarah Fouts, Ph.D., Associate Professor of American Studies, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (website)
- Edith Romero, Organizer, Unión Migrante (Facebook - Instagram)
- Ben Zucker, Co-Founder and Co-Director, Step Up Louisiana