Contributors
- Contributors
J. Trent Alexander is a statistician at the US Census Bureau, where he serves as chief of data analysis and user education in the American Community Survey Office. His main research interests are migration, historical demography, and the creation and dissemination of demographic data resources. His publications include articles in the American Sociological Review, Demography, and the International Migration Review.
Enobong Hannah Branch is assistant professor of sociology at the University of Massachusetts–Amherst. Her areas of specialty are race, racism, and inequality; intersectional theory (race, gender, and class); work and occupations; and historical demography. She is author of Opportunity Denied: Limiting Black Women to Devalued Work (2011).
Katharine M. Donato is professor and chair of the Department of Sociology at Vanderbilt University and editor of the American Sociological Review. Her research interests include international migration between Mexico and the United States, social determinants of health, immigrants in the US economy, and ethnic and gender stratification. She has written extensively on gender and international migration and edited, with Donna Gabaccia, Jennifer Holdaway, Martin Manalansan IV, and Patricia R. Pessar, a special issue of the International Migration Review (2006). With Gabaccia, she is writing a book on patterns and shifts in the gender composition of immigrant populations worldwide.
Donna Gabaccia is Rudolph J. Vecoli Chair of Immigration History and director of the Immigration History Research Center at the University of Minnesota. Her many studies of gender and international migration include From the Other Side: Gender and Immigrant Life in the U.S. (1994); Women, Gender, and Transnational Life: Italian Workers of the World, edited with Franca Iacovetta (2002); and a special issue of the International Migration Review, edited with Katharine M. Donato, Jennifer Holdaway, Martin Manalansan IV, and Patricia R. Pessar (2006). [End Page 275]
Jason Jindrich, formerly a research associate at the S-4 Initiative of Brown University, is a geographer with the US Census Bureau and is researching a book on squatters in American cities.
Johanna Leinonen holds a PhD in history from the University of Minnesota. During 2012–14 she is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Advanced Studies of the University of Turku, Finland. Her current research focuses on public discussions surrounding international marriages, migration, and national identity in Finland from the 1980s to the present. Her publications include articles in the International Migration Review and the Journal of American Ethnic History.
José C. Moya is professor of history at Barnard College and director of the Barnard Forum on Migration. His book Cousins and Strangers: Spanish Immigrants in Buenos Aires, 1850–1930 (1998) received five awards, including the Sharlin Memorial Award from the Social Science History Association, and the journal Historical Methods devoted a forum to its theoretical and methodological contributions to migration studies (2001). He has written extensively on global migration, gender, and labor. He edited The Oxford Handbook of Latin American History (2011) and is currently working on the sociocultural history of anarchism in belle epoque Buenos Aires and the Atlantic world.
Annemarie Steidl is assistant professor in the Department of Economic and Social History at the University of Vienna. Her main research interests are migration studies, the social and economic history of urban environments in central Europe, gender history, and quantitative methods. She edited European Mobility: Internal, International, and Transatlantic Moves in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries (2009) and has published articles in the Economic History Yearbook and Social Science History.
Melissa E. Wooten is assistant professor of sociology at the University of Massachusetts–Amherst. Her research lies at the intersection of institutional and social movement theories. Her work appears in the journals Mobilization and Strategic Organization as well as in The Sage Handbook of Organizational Institutionalism (2008). [End Page 276]
Elizabeth Zanoni is assistant professor in the Department of History at Old Dominion University. She is working on a book tentatively titled Gendering Nations of Consumers: Migration and Commerce between Italy, the U.S., and Argentina, 1880 to 1940. She has participated in the project Gender Ratios and International Migration, funded in part by the Russell Sage Foundation and both the Minnesota Population Center and the Immigration History Research Center at the University of Minnesota. [End Page 277]
