Shannon Gleeson
Shannon Gleeson is the Edmund Ezra Day Professor at the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations, and holds a joint appointment with the Brooks School of Public Policy. She earned her Ph.D. in Sociology and Demography from the University of California, Berkeley and was previously on the faculty of the Latin American & Latino Studies Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her books include Building Citizenship From Below: Precarity, Migration, and Agency (Routledge, 2017, edited with Marcel Paret), Precarious Claims: The Promise and Failure of Workplace Protections in the United States (University of California Press, 2016), The Nation and Its Peoples: Citizens, Denizens, Migrants (Routledge, 2014, edited with John Park), and Conflicting Commitments: The Politics of Enforcing Immigrant Worker Rights in San Jose and Houston (Cornell University Press, 2012). With Els de Graauw, she has also examined the implementation of the 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, and the challenges of coalition building and local governance. They are currently working on a book manuscript entitled Advancing Immigrant Rights in Houston. Gleeson is currently working on a book manuscript (with Kate Griffith, Darlène Dubuisson, and Patricia Campos-Medina), entitled Status at Work: Power, Race and the Law in the Immigrant Workplace. Additionally, she has a longstanding interest in the evolution of anti-capitalist currents within the immigrant rights movement (current research with Sofya Aptekar, Andy Battle, and Marcel Paret), and is also embarking on a project (with Kate Griffith and the National Immigration Law Center) to evaluate recent experiments to use immigration policy in the service of labor rights enforcement.