Virginia Doellgast

Virginia Doellgast is the Anne Evans Estabrook Professor of Employment Relations and Dispute Resolution in Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations. Her research focuses on the comparative political economy of labor markets and labor unions, inequality, precarity, and democracy at work.

She is author of Exit, Voice, and Solidarity (Oxford University Press, 2022) and Disintegrating Democracy at Work (Cornell University Press, 2012); co-editor of International and Comparative Employment Relations (Sage, 2021) and Reconstructing Solidarity (Oxford University Press, 2018); and co-editor of the ILR Review.

Doellgast works with international universities and research institutes, policy organizations, and labor unions in her research, teaching, and outreach.

She is a senior research fellow at the at the WSI-Hans Böckler Stiftung in Germany and was previously a faculty member at the London School of Economics and Political Science and at King’s College London.

She was president of the Society for the Advancement of Economics in 2024-25. Doellgast received her Ph.D. from Cornell University.