A sociologist who studies migrant worker rights and immigration policy has been named the Edmund Ezra Day Professor.

ILR School Professor Shannon Gleeson is particularly interested in how worker rights policies are implemented on the ground and how workers, unions, worker centers and other NGOs navigate legal quandaries that impact precarious workers, especially the eight million U.S. workers who are undocumented.

“Shannon Gleeson has been at the forefront of research on migrant workers’ rights and efforts to make Cornell a leading institution for the study of migration,” said Alexander Colvin, Ph.D. '99, ILR’s Kenneth F. Kahn '69 Dean and the Martin F. Scheinman '75, MS '76, Professor of Conflict Resolution.

Co-director with Eric Tagliacozzo of Cornell’s Migrations Initiative, Gleeson has helped oversee a grant from the Mellon Foundation’s Just Future’s Initiative to advance research that ties together racism, dispossession and migration.

Read the full story on the ILR website.
Mary Catt is the director of communications at the ILR School.