Areas of expertise: politics, law, social movements, ethnicity, globalization, and culture

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Areas of expertise: international migration, nationalism, transnationalism, comparative immigration and nationality law

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Ana Minvielle provides administrative support for the Director, administers Visiting Research Fellows and Guest Scholars program, coordinates logistics for conferences, seminars, and the Mexican Migration Field Research Program. Responsible for fiscal accounting and grants management, including salary administration for staff, Visiting Fellows, Guest Scholars, and Graduate Student Researchers.

Leah Muse-Orlinoff is a graduate student in the Sociology Ph.D. program at the University of California – San Diego. She is also a Senior Graduate Student Researcher at the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies where she helps direct the Mexican Migration Field Research and Training Program. Muse-Orlinoff has received funding from the University of California Institute for Mexico and the United States (UC-MEXUS), UCSD’s Dean of Social Sciences, and the Department of Sociology at UCSD to conduct research on binational migrant networks in the United States and Spain, and is currently co-authoring three chapters in a book comparing the outcomes of immigration policy, labor markets, and social networks in the Spanish and US migration contexts. She participated in the Harvard-Manchester Summer School on Immigration and Social Change in Manchester, England in 2008, and has presented at conferences in Spain, Canada, and the United States. Muse-Orlinoff holds a B.A. in International Relations from the American University in Washington, DC.

David Keyes

David Keyes is a graduate student researcher at CCIS and a Ph.D. student in the department of anthropology at UCSD. In addition to working on the Mexican Migration Field Research Project, his own research focuses on Mexican immigrants in Ohio as an example of the larger demographic of migrant settlement in so-called “new destinations.” Keyes holds a B.A. in Human Development and Social Relations from Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana, an M.Ed. in Early Childhood Education from the Ohio State University and an M.A. in anthropology from UCSD. For more information about Keyes, see www.davidkeyes.org.

Gary Lee

Gary Lee is a graduate student researcher at CCIS and a Ph.D. student in the department of sociology at UCSD. Before joining UCSD, he was a research assistant for a project on international marriages in Singapore and Malaysia at the National University of Singapore’s Asia Research Institute (ARI). He has also conducted field research on the labor and healthcare issues faced by low-wage Chinese immigrant workers in Los Angeles. Lee is interested in the comparative analysis of immigration policy-making and migrant incorporation in Asia and the United States.

Geoffrey Fojtasek

Geoffrey is a fourth year graduate student working on his Ph.D in the department of Sociology at UCSD. He earned a B.A in Sociology from UC Berkeley. His research interests are in issues of culture and economic policy, particularly the transmission of economic information within social networks.

Angela García is a PhD candidate in Sociology at UC San Diego and a graduate student researcher at the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies. She also holds a Masters in Latin American Studies from UC San Diego. Angela conducts research on subnational immigration-orientated policies in the United States and Spain with a focus on their outcomes in immigrant communities. The Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, the Institute on International, Comparative and Area Studies, the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, and the Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies have awarded her research funding. Angela recently published two book articles on Mexican immigration.

Sabrina Strings

Sabrina Strings is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Sociology and a graduate student researcher at CCIS. She is currently completing her dissertation on the historical roots of fat stigmatization in the U.S. and its role in the anti-immigration campaigns of the 19^th-20^th centuries.

Sabrina has a B.A. with High Honors in Psychology from UC Berkeley, and an M.A. in Sociology from UCSD. She has recently received awards for her work from the African and African American Studies Research Center, as well as the Ujima Network. She has served as a UC President’s Dissertation Year fellow, and is currently a member of the Bouchet Graduate Honor Society.