In her role as administrative services coordinator for the IU-Bloomington Labor Studies Program, Sarah serves as recorder for the Minor, Certificate, Associate and Bachelor of Science in Labor Studies degree programs.  Additional duties include being the scheduling officer for the credit program and manage registration for students on the Bloomington and Southeast campuses; provide administrative support to the faculty; and manage the office.

Dr. Katharine Byers earned her B.A. in biblical history at Wellesley College and her M.S.W. at the Heller School, Brandeis University. She earned her Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from Indiana University. Her practice experience includes casework with public welfare in Kentucky, intake work with Planned Parenthood, and 10 years social work and program administration practice with a short-term residential facility for children with severe disabilities. After teaching in BSW programs in Missouri and Ohio, she joined the IU School of Social Work as the Bloomington Program Director in 1992. In addition to her administrative responsibilities, Dr. Byers teaches courses in social policy, community organization, and organizational practice. Her research interests include welfare reform, the Indiana township trustee system, policy practice, and student involvement in advocacy efforts.

Lynn Duggan has interests in comparative social policy and labor movements; European family policies and women's labor force inclusion; pre- and post-unification East and West Germany; working conditions in retail employment; women in building trades; immigration policy; and gender and development in the global South. She has published in Comparative Economic Studies, Feminist Economics, and the National Women's Studies Association Journal, and in several anthologies and is a co-editor of The Women, Gender, and Development Reader. Her teaching includes Race, Class, Gender and Work; Labor and the Economy; Gender and Development; and Comparative Labor Relations. She has been employed as staff researcher for the Service Employees International Union, District 1199 ( West Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio) and for the United Food and Commercial Workers, Local 951. 

Dr. Carol Hostetter joined the faculty in 2001, after teaching part-time for many years. Her clinical experience dates back to 1977 at which time she earned her MSW. She teaches undergraduate research, practice, groups, and a child welfare seminar. Her research interests are in the education and training needs of child welfare workers and empowerment beliefs of social work students. Dr. Hostetter is also involved in the scholarship of teaching and learning, especially concerning online education.

In addition to teaching, Bruce McCallister does student outreach both on campus and at high schools. McCallister received his BA in sociology from Indiana University and MSW from Western Michigan University. His professional experience has included working with a state department of social services, non-profit (Big Brothers Big Sisters) and community organizing.

Carlene A. Quinn received her B.S. in Social Work and a Minor in Psychology, with an emphasis in French from University of Wisconsin-La Crosse in 1992. She received her MSW from Indiana University in 1995. Quinn's clinical experience has been working with families and children with serious mental health and substance abuse challenges on an inpatient and outpatient basis. She has been teaching courses in groups and introduction to the profession since 1999. Prior to coming to the school full-time during the fall of 2004, Quinn was a student outreach coordinator for Twenty-first Century Scholars, advising families and adolescents experiencing low-wealth on how to prepare for college. She continues her clinical work at the local hospital in the psychiatric services department.

Joseph Varga is a former Teamster shop steward and long time labor activist, having worked for the IBEW and the New York State Working Families Party. He worked numerous jobs before entering academics, including truck driving, forklift operating, and service work. He received his doctorate in Sociology and Historical Studies in 2008 from the New School for Social Research, and taught in the Department of History at Brooklyn College before arriving at IU in 2009. His research interests include labor geography and spatial analysis as applied to working-class communities, and the phenomenology of working-class experience. He is currently working on a project detailing the spatial history of de-industrialization in Southern Indiana.  Joe is also active in Jobs with Justice, and numerous other activist causes.

Sabrina Williamson received her Ph.D. in Social Work from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the spring of 2003 and joined the IU faculty in the fall of 2003. She teaches practice, policy and theory classes in the BSW program on the Bloomington campus. Her research interests include program development and evaluation of faith-based social services, anti-poverty initiatives, and welfare reform.