About
TULE is a research network by and for early-career researchers who study the role of labour and the trade union movement in addressing the ecological crisis.
TULE’s Advisory Committee is composed of senior scholars who research labour studies, labour environmentalism, trade unions, and environmental politics. The purpose of the Advisory Committee is to provide strategic direction to TULE and to support the organization in applying for grants and securing institutional resources.
Advisory Committee Members
Advisory Committee Member Bios
John Barry
Professor of Green Political Economy in the Centre for Sustainability, Equality and Climate Action at Queens University Belfast
John Barry is a father, a political activist, recovering politician, trades unionist and Professor of Green Political Economy in the Centre for Sustainability, Equality and Climate Action at Queens University Belfast. His areas of academic-activist research include post-growth and heterodox political economy; decarbonisation and decolonisation; the politics, policy and political economy of climate breakdown and climate resilience; socio-technical analyses of low carbon just energy and sustainability transitions; climate injustice-based nonviolent direct action and social mobilisation; and the overlap between conflict transformation and these sustainability and energy transformations.
Liam Campling
Professor, Queen Mary University of London
Liam Campling teaches political economy at the School of Business and Management, Queen Mary University of London, where he is Professor of International Business and Development, and a member of the interdisciplinary research group, the Centre on Labour, Sustainability and Global Production (CLaSP). He is co-author of Capitalism and the Sea (Verso, 2021) and Free Trade Agreements and Global Labour Governance (Routledge, 2021), co-editor of Labour Regimes and Global Production (Agenda, 2022) and Class Dynamics of Development (Routledge, 2017), and former editor of the journals Historical Materialism and Journal of Agrarian Change.
Mark Hudson
Professor of Sociology and Criminology and Global Political Economy at the University of Manitoba
Mark Hudson is Professor of Sociology and Criminology and Global Political Economy at the University of Manitoba. His contributions to the field of labour environmentalism range from research and publications on environmental management, union members’ perspectives on energy and climate change, climate politics and public participation, and other areas of environmental sociology and labour. He is also Research Associate at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives – Manitoba.
Emily Eaton
Professor and Department Head of the Geography and Environmental Studies Department at Regina University
Emily Eaton is a white settler doing community-based research, teaching and service devoted to addressing the climate and inequality crises at local and national scales. Central to this work is understanding the power and influence of the fossil fuel industries and mapping pathways to climate action that prioritize the needs of marginalized communities and that address the unjust colonial relationship that Canada has with Indigenous Peoples.
Dario Azzellini
Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Johannes Kepler University
Dario Azzellini, Phd in Political Science and in Sociology, Senior Researcher at the University Duisburg-Essen. His studies focus on labour, self-management, work and just transition, social transformation, and global political economy, with a special focus on Latin America and Europe. More information on his personal website: www.azzellini.net.
Ian MacDonald
Associate Professor at Université de Montréal
Ian MacDonald is associate professor in the School of Industrial Relations at Université de Montréal. His research interests include labour politics, labour organizing and bargaining strategy, comparative political economy and critical theory. He has a PhD in political science (York) and has taught labour and urban studies at various universities in North America. His current collaborative research projects include labour and the rise of populist politics, and labour and the climate crisis. His work has appeared in the British Journal of Industrial Relations, Transfer, Labor Studies Journal, Economic and Industrial Democracy, and Labour/Le travail. He is the editor of Unions and the City (Cornell ILR, 2017).
Rene Ofreneo
Professor Emeritus, School of Labor and Industrial Relations of the University of the Philippines Diliman
Dr. Rene Ofreneo is a Professor Emeritus, former Dean of the School of Labor and Industrial Relations of the University of the Philippines Diliman, currently President of Freedom from Debt Coalition and was Undersecretary for the Department of Labor and Employment. He is author of several books including “Green Jobs and Green Skills in a Brown Philippine Economy.”
Jessica Parish
Assistant Professor in the School of Public Policy and Administration at Carleton University
Jessica Parish is Assistant Professor in the School of Public Policy and Administration, where she teaches courses on local and urban governance and sustainability. Prior to this she was a Marie Curie International Fellow at the Center for Urban Research on Austerity (CURA) at De Montfort University, Leicester, England. Jessica’s research and teaching interests include environmental gentrification, housing financialization, social and environmental justice, and feminist theories of social reproduction.
Dimitris Stevis
Professor at Colorado State University
Dimitris Stevis is a professor in the Department of Political Science and founder and codirector of the Centre for Environmental Justice at Colorado State University, USA. He has a long-standing interest in the international political economy of environment and work with particular attention to just transitions. He co-convened the Just Transition Research Collaborative (2018-2022) and is currently a joint coordinator of the Just Transition and Care Network and the Planetary Justice Taskforce and a member of the Transformative Just Transitions Working Group (coordinated by the Global Labour University).
Mathieu Dupuis
Associate professor at the Department of Industrial Relations at the Université Laval
Mathieu Dupuis is Associate Professor in Industrial Relations at Laval University and co-researcher at the Interuniversity research centre on globalization and work (CRIMT), Observatoire international sur les impacts sociétaux de l’IA et du numérique (OBVIA), and at the Automotive Research Policy Centre (APRC). His work examines unions, technological change, and restructuring in manufacturing—particularly the automotive sector. He is also part of the SSHRC-financed multiyear research project What can unions do about climate change? Union strategies for a just transition.
Mijin Cha
Assistant Professor, University of California, Santa Cruz
J. Mijin Cha is an assistant professor of environmental studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is also a fellow at Cornell University’s Climate Jobs Institute, a faculty advisory board member for the UCSC Center for Labor and Community, and a fellow at the Climate and Community Institute. Her book, “A Just Transition for All: Workers and Communities for a Carbon-Free Future,” was published by MIT Press in Dec. 2024. Dr. Cha is on the board of Greenpeace Fund and a member of the California Bar.
John Peters
Associate Professor at Memorial University
John Peters is an associate professor in the Faculty of Business Administration and the Department of Sociology at Memorial University. He is the Director of the Master of Employment Relations program. His research interests include trade unions, inequality and comparative public policy, as well as decarbonization and environmental labour studies. He is an Associated Professor and Research Fellow at the Inter-University Research Centre on Globalization and Work (CRIMT) Université de Montréal.
Kelly Struthers-Montford
Associate Professor, Department of Criminology, Toronto Metropolitan University
I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Criminology, at Toronto Metropolitan University. My research interests lie at the nexus of captivity, power, labour, and political ontology as manifest in carceral locations such as prisons and animal agriculture. I have previously worked as the Senior Advisor to the Independent Expert on Human Rights and Corrections for the Province of Ontario.
Matthew T. Huber
Department of Geography and the Environment, Syracuse University
Matthew T. Huber is a Professor in the Department of Geography and the Environment at Syracuse University. He is the author of Lifeblood: Oil, Freedom and the Forces of Capital (University of Minnesota Press, 2013) and Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Climate (Verso Books, 2022).
Todd E. Vachon
Assistant Professor, Rutgers University
Todd E. Vachon is Assistant Professor of Labor Studies and Employment Relations at Rutgers University, Director of the Labor Education Action Research Network (LEARN), and author of Clean Air and Good Jobs: U.S. Labor and the Struggle for Climate Justice which focuses on the American labor-climate movement.
Rasigan Maharajh
Chief Director at Tshwane University of Technology
Rasigan Maharajh critiques the political economy of science, technology, and innovation and works at Tshwane University of Technology. He is a member of the National Education Health and Allied Workers Union, the Academy of Science of South Africa, and an alumnus of the University of Natal, Harvard, and Lund.
Thea Riofrancos
Associate Professor of Political Science at Providence College, a Strategic Co-Director of the Climate and Community Institute
Thea Riofrancos is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Providence College, a Strategic Co-Director of the Climate and Community Institute, and a fellow at the Transnational Institute. Her research focuses on resource extraction, renewable energy, climate change, the global lithium sector, green technologies, social movements, and the Latin American left. She is the author of Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism (W.W. Norton, 2025) and Resource Radicals: From Petro-Nationalism to Post-Extractivism in Ecuador (Duke University Press, 2020), and the coauthor of A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal (Verso Books, 2019). Her publications have appeared in scholarly journals such as Global Environmental Politics, World Politics, and Perspectives on Politics, as well as in media outlets including The New York Times, Financial Times, Foreign Policy, n+1, Dissent, and more.
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