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William Haller

Dr. William Haller is originally from Madison, Wisconsin and is currently Associate Professor of Sociology at Clemson University in South Carolina. He received his PhD from University of Pittsburgh in 1999 where he worked on deindustrialization and racial differences in socioeconomic change in the Pittsburgh region using census-tract data from 1970, 1980, and 1990. He […]

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Ronald Mize

Ronald L. Mize

Ron Mize is a Professor of Language, Culture, and Society at Oregon State University. He is interested in labor migration systems and North American governance regimes. Dr. Mize is the co-author of Consuming Mexican Labor: From the Bracero Program to NAFTA (University of Toronto Press, 2010) and most recently Latina/o Studies (Polity Press, 2019). He

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Felicia Clement

Felicia is a Ph.D. candidate in the Global Governance program at the Balsillie School of International Affairs. Her doctoral research examines how trust and mistrust effects refugees’ journeys and integration into their host communities. She hopes her work will provide essential insights into where refugees’ experiences of trust/mistrust stem from, how it influences their decision-making in

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Leah Rachelle Alvares Cabral

Leah is a PhD candidate in Global Governance at the Balsillie School of International Affairs. Her area of specialization is Global Political Economy, focused primarily on the global wine industry and trade. Prior to her doctoral candidacy, Leah completed her Masters of Arts at SOAS, University of London, in the UK, where her research was focused

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