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Member of the steering committeeDr. Akasemi Newsome is Associate Director of the Instituteof European Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.&#160; She has aPhD in Political Science from UC Berkeley (2015), an MA in Political Sciencefrom UNC-Chapel Hill (2004) and a BA in History from Columbia University(2001). Her research on the politics of labor, immigration and comparativeracialization addresses topics at the forefront of international andcomparative political economy, including rights and global governance, institutions,capitalist development and social movements. In addition to 2 co-edited specialissues and published articles inthe Journal of European Integration,Comparative Labor Law and Policy Journal, Perspectives on Europe andPS: Political Science and Politics, her book manuscript, The Color ofSolidarity examines the conditions for labor union support of immigrantclaims-making in Europe. She is also co-editor (with Marianne Riddervold andJarle Trondahl) of the Handbook on EU Crisis (under contract with Palgrave) andco-organizer (also with M. Riddervold) of a recently launched research projecton the governance of the global commons. Her research has been awarded fundingfrom several organizations including the U.S. Fulbright Commission, the Ford Foundation,the Mellon Foundation, and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). In2017, she received an Honorable Mention of the Thomas A. Kochan &#38; StephenR. Sleigh Best Dissertation Award of the Labor and Employment RelationsAssociation (LERA). 