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Melissa Manzanares


Areas of Interest:

International Migration; Latinx Studies/Sociology; Work; Family; Race, Class, and Gender

Bio

Melissa A. Manzanares is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow. Her dissertation explores the factors, processes, and actors that make farmworkers vulnerable to human trafficking and labor abuses. Additionally, she explores how these workers understand and respond to their work conditions. Drawing on data from 47 in-depth interviews, hundreds of hours of ethnographic fieldwork, and existing surveys of Latin American migrants and their children in North Carolina, her dissertation and prior research contributes to the fields of Sociology and Latinx Studies.

Education

2014, B.A. Political Science, Whittier College, summa cum laude

2020, M.A. Sociology, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

Expected Spring 2024, Ph.D. Sociology, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

 

Contact

230 Hamilton Hall (soon to be Pauli Murray Hall)
Manzanares@unc.edu | MelissaManzanares.com

Address

The Department of Sociology
University of North Carolina
155 Hamilton (soon to be Pauli Murray*)Hall
CB #3210
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210

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Contact

Email: sociology@unc.edu                                    Phone: (919) 962-1007
Fax: (919) 962-7568

*Though the Sociology Department uses the name Pauli Murray Hall for our building, on official maps you will find it as Hamilton Hall. In July 2020, all of the departments housed in the building agreed to adopt the name Pauli Murray Hall because of Professor Hamilton’s role in shaping history for the benefit of white supremacy and Murray’s legacy of advocacy for the rights of all members of society. An official request with the Chancellor is pending. For more information, please see here.