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• Dr. Susan Pearce is a sociologist of culture, social movements, human rights, gender, immigration, and race, and bases her research in qualitative methods, including interviews and participant observation. She earned her doctorate in Sociology from the New School for Social Research in New York City, and has served on the sociology faculties of Gettysburg College, University of Gdask and Central European University in Poland, and West Virginia University before joining East Carolina University in 2008.