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Dr. Burgess is Associate Professor of Political Economy and Director of the Henry J. Leir Institute at the Fletcher School at Tufts University. She is the author of Courting Migrants: How States Make Diasporas and Diasporas Make States (Oxford, 2020) and co-editor with Abraham F. Lowenthal of The California-Mexico Connection (Stanford, 1993), along with numerous articles and book chapters on labor politics, remittances, migration, and diasporas. She has been a consultant for USAID and served as Assistant Director of the U.S.-Mexico Project at the Overseas Development Council in Washington, DC and Associate Director of the California-Mexico Project at USC in Los Angeles. She received a BA in political science from Swarthmore College, an MA in international relations from the University of Southern California, and a PhD in politics from Princeton University.