Susan C. Pearce

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 in the United States and in countries undergoing democratic transformations. Besides Immigration and Women: Understanding the American Experience, she is also the co-editor of the anthologies Reformulations: Markets, Policy, and Identities in Central and Eastern Europe (Warsaw, Poland: IFIS Publishers, 2000, with Sławomir Kapralski) and Mosaics of Change: The First Decade of Life in the New Eastern Europe (Budapest, Hungary: Civic Education Project, 2000, with Eugenia Sojka).

In 2012, through a grant from the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, she conducted research on gender-based violence and migration from Southeast Europe.

She is also completing a book manuscript on the 20th-anniversary commemorations of 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).