Sharon Quinsaat

Sharon Quinsaat is a scholar of social movements and migration and currently Associate Professor of Sociology at Grinnell College. She has conducted research using both qualitative and quantitative methods and published on a wide range of topics, including migrant conservatism, diaspora formation, transnational repression, news frames and discourses on immigration, women’s international nongovernment organizations, coalition-building in the World Trade Organization, and movement against free trade. Her work has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Association of University Women, the American Philosophical Society, the Russell Sage Foundation, the Midwest Sociological Society, and the Association for Asian Studies and has been recognized by the American Sociological Association, the Association of Asian American Studies, and the International Studies Association through research paper awards. She has published her research in in edited volumes and peer-reviewed journals such as Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Mobilization, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Mass Communication and Society, Sociology Compass, and Asian Survey. Her first Insurgent Communities: How Protests Create a Filipino Diaspora (The University of Chicago Press, 2024) shows how diasporas emerge through political activism. For more information about Sharon and her work, visit http://www.sharonquinsaat.com.