Visiting Fellows
Each year ILR welcomes scholars from around the world to further their research and/or create new collaborative research partnerships in industrial and labor relations.
Positions are unpaid and offer no administrative support but do provide access to all of Cornell University's libraries. Visiting fellows are also invited to participate in ILR seminars and to present their research.
Graduate students currently enrolled at other institutions are not eligible for the Visiting Fellows Program.
A PhD is one of the requirements.
Cornell University cannot accommodate graduate students from other institutions who want to come to the ILR School for research or internships.
(If the individual proposes a period as a visiting graduate student, they should apply through the graduate school procedures for visiting students. Inquiries about visiting graduate student appointments should be directed to ILR’s graduate office.)
Becoming a Fellow
Becoming a Visiting Fellow in the ILR School is through nomination by an ILR faculty member. Visiting Fellow candidates must have pre-established, current academic and professional connections with faculty and research partners. We have a limited number of Visiting Fellow slots each year so appointments are selective.
Visiting Fellows are expected to contribute to the intellectual life of the school. This contribution may take the form of presentations of your research in faculty seminars within the school and the Cornell community. In keeping with U.S. visa eligibility rules, visitors must remain in residence at ILR for the term of the appointment.
Please email International Programs office for more details and questions.
Fees
To support the costs associated with a Visiting Fellow, the faculty sponsor (or in some cases, the Visiting Fellow) will be required to contribute from one of their accounts: $1,000 for a visit of one semester or less; or $2,000 for a visit of longer than a semester.
Note: The majority of international visiting fellows need a visa to enter the U.S. ILR International Programs partners with the Office of Global Learning to ensure this process is current and accurate. The entire U.S. visa process excluding the ILR and Cornell onboarding processes can take 2-6 months. Consequently, requests to review nominations should be made at least six months in advance of the requested visit period.
Current Fellows
Kelly Pike
Canada
Kelly Pike earned her PhD from the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University.
Samira Rafaela
Belgium
Samira Rafaela has been a Member of the European Parliament from 2019 to 2024.
Kelly Fay Rodriguez
- April 2025-March, 2026
- USA
Dedicated and strategic advocate with 15 years of experience advancing groundbreaking policies for inclusive economic justice and worker rights in government and labor institutions while fostering
Suneetha Saggurthi
- March 2025-June 2025
- India
Suneetha is an Assistant Professor at the Indian Institute of Management, Raipur in the area of OB & HR.
Dario Azzellini
- August 2024-May 2025
Dario Azzellini is a political scientist (Ph.D.
Past Fellows
Atak Ayaz
Türkiye
Atak Ayaz’ doctoral dissertation titled "Wine Complexities: Post-Industrial Production and Sentiments in Turkey" narrates the different phases of creation and various aspects of the valuation of qu
Verena Bader
Germany
Verena Bader is currently a postdoctoral research associate for the Chair for Human Resource Management and Organization Theory, Bundeswehr University Munich.
Adelle Blackett
Canada
Adelle Blackett, F.R.S.C., Ad. E., is Professor of Law and the Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Transnational Labour Law at the Faculty of Law, McGill University.
Tobias Blay
Germany
Tobias Blay is currently a research associate for the Chair of Human Resource Management and Asian Business (University of Goettingen, Germany).
Monica Bolelli
Italy
Monica Bolelli is a PhD Candidate at the IMPRS School, the graduate school of the Max Planck Institute of the Study of Society and the Universities of Duisburg-Essen and Köln.
Mathieu Dupuis
Canada
Mathieu Dupuis is a professor of labour relations in the Department of Industrial Relations at the University of Laval in Quebec City, Canada.
Mario Fernando
Australia
Dr. Mario Fernando is a Professor of Management at the Faculty of Business and Law, and the Director of the Centre for Cross-Cultural Management at the University of Wollongong in Australia.
Pauline Jerrentrup
Germany
Pauline Jerrentrup is a PhD scholar in the Department of International Development at the London School of Economics.
Gerald Kernerman
Canada
Gerald Kernerman is an Associate Professor of Political Science at York University, where he is a Faculty Scholar at the Centre for Refugee Studies and a member of the Graduate Programs in Politica
Vincenzo Maccarrone
Italy
Vincenzo Maccarrone is a Marie Sklodowska Curie Fellow at the Scuola Normale Superiore (Florence, Italy). Throughout his fellowship, he will investigate different forms of global labor governance.
Kamila Moulai
Belgium
Kamila Moulai is the Marie Sklodowska Curie postdoctoral fellow at the Rotterdam School of Management and a Fellow at the Howard Brain Science Foundation. Kamila earned her Ph.D.
Junyue Qian
China
Junyue Qian's research interests are domestic work, labor market intermediaries, and the informal employment of domestic workers in contemporary China. She joined ILR as a visiting fellow.
Tilde Siglev
Denmark
Tilde Siglev is a visiting fellow at the ILR School from the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at the Central European University.
Jelena Starcevic
Canada
Jelena's research at McMaster University, School of Labour Studies, focuses on the effects of digitalisation on the labour market institutions and participants; specifically, her dissertation explo
Sanbai Sun
China
Sanbai Sun is an associate professor in the School of Applied Economics, Renmin University of China.
Dipti Tamang
India
Dipti Tamang holds a Ph.D. in International Relations from Jawaharlal Nehru University, India.
Leah Vosko
Canada
Leah F. Vosko, FRSC, is a Professor and a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in the Political Economy of Gender & Work at York University.
Xiaoxian Wang
China
Xiaoxian Wang’s research interests focus on the topic of labor relations of Chinese multinational enterprises in the Belt and Road Initiative countries.
Xiji Zhu
China
Xiji Zhu is an associate professor in Business School, Central University of Finance and Economics. He received his Ph.D. in management at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Yichen Liu
Canada
Yichen Liu is a PhD candidate from the Centre for Industrial Relations and Human Resources at the University of Toronto.