Angela Stuesse
Postdoctoral Researcher
astuesse@gmail.com or stuesse.1@osu.edu
Angela holds a Postdoctoral Research fellowship at the Kirwan Institute. She has studied issues of migration, identity, rights, and power in the U.S. South and Southwest, Mexico, Central America, and Central West Africa. While at the Kirwan she is working on projects related to the Institute’s African American-Immigrant Alliances initiative. She is also writing a book, Globalization “Southern Style”, based on her research on Latino migration to rural Mississippi, the poultry industry, and cross-racial worker organizing there. Her work has been supported by the Ford Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, and the School for Advanced Research (SAR), among others. Her publications include articles in Human Organization, Latino Studies, and Estudios Migratorios Latinoamericanos, a chapter in the 2009 edited volume, Latino Immigrants and the Transformation of the U.S. South, and a handful of more popular articles. Prior to coming to the Kirwan, Angela was a Postdoctoral Fellow at UCLA’s Institute for Research on Labor and Employment. She was also a co-founder of MPOWER, a workers’ center in Mississippi. She received her PhD in anthropology and her MA in Latin American Studies from the University of Texas at Austin, and her BA in anthropology from the University of Florida.
Research Interests: activist research, neoliberal globalization, transnational migration, race, labor, and human rights
