Biography - Glenn H Stephens

I grew up in working class family in a rust-belt town - Lock Haven - in Central Pennsylvania.

After graduating from Millersville State University of Pennsylvania with a BA in Political Science, I set my sights on earning both a Ph.D. and a law degree. After studying Political Science at the Duke Graduate School for a year, I transferred to UCLA where I earned M.A., C.Phil., and Ph.D. degrees in Political Science. My Ph.D. dissertation applied game theoretical and rational choice models to historical cases of large scale worker collective action. While a graduate student at UCLA, I taught Political Science courses at the California State University Northridge.

After graduate school, I was a visiting professor in the Politics Department at Pomona College for a year and a visiting instructor with the Political Science at UCLA for three years. I also taught a course at Scripps College.

From 1997 to 2000, I attended the University of California’s Boalt Hall School of Law, earning a J.D. After graduating from law school, I moved to Washington DC and worked for private law firms in pensions and benefits and labor law. In 2002, I went to work in government, serving as a counsel to former NLRB Chair Wilma Liebman.

Since leaving the NLRB in 2008, I have taught labor law, employment law, and workplace dispute resolution with Penn State’s Labor Studies and Employment Relations Department. In 2011, I began teaching American Government I and Research Methods in Social Science with APUS.