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Angela C. Stuesse currently holds
a Weatherhead Fellowship at the School for Advanced
Research in Santa Fe, where she is completing her doctoral
dissertation in anthropology at the University of Texas
in Austin. Her academic areas of interest include politically
engaged research, neoliberal globalization, transnational
migration, race and labor, and her geographic regions
of focus include the U.S. South and Southwest and Latin
America.
Her dissertation, Globalization
“Southern Style”: Transnational Migration,
the Poultry Industry, and Implications for Organizing
Workers across Difference, is based on research
carried out in rural Mississippi between 2002 and 2007.
As an activist anthropologist, she has collaborated
closely with the community-based workers’ center
MPOWER (Mississippi Poultry Workers for Equality and
Respect), which “empowers poultry workers in Mississippi
to improve their quality of life at work and in their
communities.”
Her research has been supported by
the Ford Foundation, the School for Advanced Research,
the Social Science Research Council, the Woodrow Wilson
Foundation, and the University of Texas, among others.
Her publications include articles in Estudios Migratorios
Latinoamericanos and Text, Practice, Performance,
as well as a chapter in the forthcoming volume,
Heading North to the South: Mexican Immigrants in Today's
South, and a handful of more popular articles.
Stuesse will receive her Ph.D. in May 2008.
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