Michele M. Hoyman, Associate Professor of Political Science, received her Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Michigan in 1978. After graduating, she went on to become a faculty member at the University of Illinois’ Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations, where she taught labor-related subjects and research methods from 1978 to 1981. She then went to the University of Missouri–St. Louis where she taught public sector personnel, which included public sector labor relations, graduate and undergraduate. Her research includes union democracy, civil rights compliance of labor unions, litigiousness of workers, and training, including joint labor-management training programs and economic development. She has also been a professional labor arbitrator since 1987. She has published in labor journals such as Industrial and Labor Relations Review. In 1998-1999, she joined the University of North Carolina political science faculty and the Master’s of Public Administration program as a visiting professor, and became a tenured faculty member in 2000. Her most recent research areas have included a project on gender and arbitration and a project looking at prisons as rural economic development trophies.
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