"My close friend and co-author, David Crow, has
just arrived in the Twin Cities from Mexico for a one-year sabbatical
with the University of Minnesota’s Human Rights Program and Global
Studies unit. David and his wife, Georgina Rojas, are
both on prestigious, highly competitive Mexican government fellowships
for their sabbatical research.
David is an
Associate Professor of International Studies at CIDE - Mexico’s leading
venue for social science and economic research, and is an expert on
Mexican politics and survey research. He is past director of CIDE's
long-standing survey project, The Americas and the World, and my co-author on many writing projects, including our forthcoming book.
Georgina
is Professor of Sociology at CIESAS, Mexico’s leading training ground
for anthropologists and sociologists. She is an expert on Mexican
migrants, families, and gender, among other things. She will be spending
her sabbatical with our department of Chicano and Latino studies. She intends to spend this year studying
Hispanic labor organizing in the US.
David
trained at UT Austin, and has supervised extensive, face-to-face
surveys with my team in Colombia, India, Mexico, Morocco, and Nigeria.
He is an impressive combination of gregarious, “get comfortable anywhere
with anyone" field researcher, quantitative analyst, and survey
virtuoso. He is also a terrific public speaker, and can give
interesting, empirically-based talks on survey methods and experiments;
Mexican politics and democratization; and international relations
(especially cross national attitudes towards human rights and the US)."