I am an Assistant Professor of International Relations at Lehigh University. Prior to joining the faculty at Lehigh, I was an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the City University of New York, Queens College. In 2013-2014, I was a Jean Monnet Postdoctoral Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. I received my PhD in Political Science from the University of Washington in 2013.
Most broadly, my research concerns the impacts of global and regional economic integration on people’s day to day lives. Trade, foreign direct investment, and global supply chains create both winners and losers, and I am motivated by understanding how the gains and losses from the global economy cut across social categories, particularly class and gender. My work advances the global political economy literature on the domestic politics of economic globalization, and it sheds light on how different forms of globalization may have more or less equitable effects on individuals. My current book project investigates the rise of corporate lobbying power at the expense of labor power in the US and European Union and how it is related to shifting trade patterns (specifically, the rise of intra-industry trade among developed economies). Another project explores the effects of economic integration on female labor force participation in developed versus developing countries. Recently, I have begun two research projects on regional integration in Latin America. I am interested in Latin America because it provides insights into where we might locate sites of global resistance to industrialized country insistence on trade discipline above human rights, development and environmental concerns. My work has appeared in International Studies Quarterly, Review of International Political Economy, Asia-Pacific Journal of EU Studies, Research and Politics as well as edited volumes. My first book, Globalization, Institutions and Governance, co-authored with James Caporaso, was published by SAGE in 2011. |
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