About The Author
Susan C. Pearce is Assistant Professor of Sociology at East Carolina University. She conducts research on the cultural contexts of politics, particularly concerning ethnicity, migration, gender, and social movements. She is the co-author of Immigration and Women: Understanding the American Experience (New York University Press, 2011, with Elizabeth J. Clifford and Reena Tandon), and the co-editor of the anthologies Reformulations: Markets, Policy, and Identities in Central and Eastern Europe and Mosaics of Change: The First Decade of Life in the New Eastern Europe. Currently, she is researching gender-based violence and migration from Southeast Europe (with a grant from the Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars), immigration and intimate partner violence, immigrant women in North Carolina, and the collective memory the 1989 revolutions in East-Central Europe. She received her PhD in Sociology from the New School for Social Research, and has served on the sociology faculties of Gettysburg College, West Virginia University, University of Gdańsk (Poland), and Central European University (Poland).
Susan C. Pearce is Assistant Professor of Sociology at East Carolina University. She conducts research on the cultural contexts of politics, particularly concerning ethnicity, migration, gender, and social movements. She is the co-author of Immigration and Women: Understanding the American Experience (New York University Press, 2011, with Elizabeth J. Clifford and Reena Tandon), and the co-editor of the anthologies Reformulations: Markets, Policy, and Identities in Central and Eastern Europe and Mosaics of Change: The First Decade of Life in the New Eastern Europe. Currently, she is researching gender-based violence and migration from Southeast Europe (with a grant from the Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars), immigration and intimate partner violence, immigrant women in North Carolina, and the collective memory the 1989 revolutions in East-Central Europe. She received her PhD in Sociology from the New School for Social Research, and has served on the sociology faculties of Gettysburg College, West Virginia University, University of Gdańsk (Poland), and Central European University (Poland).