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Union organizer and labor educator, Kevin Van Meter is a teaching fellow at the Dr. Charles A. Scontras Center for Labor and Community Education at the ÐÓ°É´«Ã½.  As an educator, he provides training so that union members and workers can create democratic workplaces and communities.

Kevin holds a Ph.D. in Geography, Environment and Society with a focus on labor history, working-class studies, and spatial theory from the University of Minnesota, a M.A. in Political Science from the Graduate Center, City University of New York, serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Labor and Society (formerly Working U.S.A.), and is co-editor of the labor studies and economics textbook Real World Labor (Dollars & Sense, 2024).  He studies the impact labor unions and workers’ organizations have on the changing regimes of work within the United States and examines the ways in which working-class and poor people self-organize within regimes of work, produce new forms of life at and outside of work, and construct narratives about their working lives.

Kevin is an author and editor of numerous books of labor and social movement history, is currently working on his next two books, and writes regularly on contemporary labor issues, labor history, and neighboring social issues.  

He is a proud member of Universities of Maine Professional Staff Association-MEA.