SPRING RESEARCH SEMINAR SERIES 2020
Thursday, February 13, 2020 | 12:00 – 1:00 p.m.
Dr. Katrina Burgess is an Associate Professor of Political Economy at the Fletcher School at Tufts University. She is the author of Courting Migrants: How States Make Diasporas and Diasporas Make States (Oxford, 2020) and Parties and Unions in the New Global Economy (Pittsburgh, 2004) along with numerous book chapters and journal articles on labor politics, remittances, migration, and diasporas. She is also Executive Producer of Waylaid in Tijuana, a documentary about Haitian and Central American migrants whose journeys to the United States were disrupted by shifts in U.S. policy. Professor Burgess received a B.A. in political science from Swarthmore College, an M.A. in international relations from the University of Southern California, and a Ph.D. in politics from Princeton University. She has been a consultant for USAID and served as Assistant Director of the U.S.-Mexico Project at the Overseas Development Council in Washington, DC and Associate Director of the California-Mexico Project at USC in Los Angeles.