Susan C. Pearce

Susan C. Pearce is Assistant Professor of Sociology at East Carolina University. She earned her M.A. (1992) and Ph.D. (1997) in Sociology at the New School for Social Research. She is the co-author (with Elizabeth Clifford and Reena Tandon) of Immigrating Women, to be published by New York University Press (forthcoming). Her work is concerned with the relationship between culture and politics. Specifically, she conducts research on ethnicities, landscapes, and power, through projects such as the U.S. immigration rights movement, the collective memory of the Solidarity movement in Poland, the counter-amnesia of the New York African Burial Ground, and her research with Natalie Sokoloff on immigration and intimate partner violence.