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     Margaret Peters


Title: Assistant Professor
Website: http://users.polisci.wisc.edu/mepeters/
Office: 201A
Office Hours: Tuesdays 1:30-3:30
E-Mail: mepeters3 at wisc (dot) edu
Keywords: Globalization, Industrial Relations, International Agreements, International Migration, International Trade, Treaties
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Margaret Peters (Ph.D. Stanford University 2011)  is an Assistant Professor and the Trice Faculty Scholar.  Peters is broadly interested in international political economy, especially the politics of migration and the effects of globalization on economic policies.  Her book project explores the effect of trade and capital liberalization on business preferences over immigration and immigration policy.  Her dissertation, which the book is based on, won APSA’s 2012 Helen Dwight Reid Award for the Best Dissertation in International Relations, Law and Politics.  Her other current projects examine the role of remittances in local politics in India, the role of international law in controlling immigration and the effects of the economic downturn on public opinion on immigration.
 
 

Current Courses taught for Spring 2012-2013

401 - Select Topics: Politics of Immigration & Emigration

Instructors: Margaret Peters      Field: International Relations
Section Number: 001

960 - Seminar: Political Economics of Migration

Instructors: Margaret Peters      Field: International Relations
Section Number: 001