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Patricia Fernandez-Kelly is a Professor of Sociology and Acting Chair of the Effron Center for the Study of America at Princeton University. She is a social anthropologist whose research interests include international economic development, gender, class, ethnicity, and urban ethnography. Her dissertation research in the late 1970s centered around a global ethnography focusing on export-processing zones in Asia and Latin America. One of her influential works is the book 'Sold, Women in Industry: Mexico's Maquiladora Program' (1983), which was featured among the twenty-five favorite books of the decade in 'Contemporary Sociology.' She has co-produced the Emmy-award winning documentary 'The Global Assembly Line' and authored numerous publications addressing migration, economic restructuring, and the intersectionality of race and ethnicity, such as 'Art Lives: Immigrant Communities in the United States' (2010) and 'Hero’s Fight: African Americans and the Shadow State' (2016), which was a finalist for the C. Wright Mills Award from the Society for the Study of Social Problems. Her current work includes a book on the Cuban-American working class in South Florida, emphasizing the socio-economic dynamics affecting poverty in America.
GRE scores are not accepted. Ph.D. is the primary degree; students are not required to hold an M.S.E. prior to admission.