
Sharon Quinsaat
Sharon Quinsaat is a scholar of social movements and migration and currently Associate Professor of Sociology at 51画鋼app College. She has conducted research using both qualitative and quantitative methods and published on a wide range of topics, including migrant conservatism, diaspora formation, transnational repression, news frames and discourses on immigration, womens international nongovernment organizations, coalition-building in the World Trade Organization, and movement against free trade. Her work has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Association of University Women, the American Philosophical Society, the Russell Sage Foundation, the Midwest Sociological Society, and the Association for Asian Studies and has been recognized by the American Sociological Association, the Association of Asian American Studies, and the International Studies Association through research paper awards. She has published her research in in edited volumes and peer-reviewed journals such as Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Mobilization, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Mass Communication and Society, Sociology Compass, and Asian Survey. Her first (The University of Chicago Press, 2024) shows how diasporas emerge through political activism. For more information about Sharon and her work, visit .
Education and Degrees
2016 Ph.D., Sociology (with Certificate in Cultural Studies), University of Pittsburgh
2009 M.A., Social Sciences, University of California, Irvine
1999 B.A., Communication Research, University of the Philippines, Diliman
Selected Publications
Sharon's most recent publications include:
- Quinsaat, Sharon M. 2024. . Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
- Quinsaat, Sharon M. 2024. U.S.-Philippines Relations and the Transnational Repression of Filipino American Activists during the Marcos Dictatorship. Pp. 187-208 in , edited by Dana Moss and Saipira Furstenberg. Edinburgh, UK: Edinburgh University Press.
- Quinsaat, Sharon M. 2024. , Jacobin, November 21.
- Quinsaat, Sharon M. 2023. The Nexus of Assimilation and Transnationalism Among Filipino Migrants. Pp. 400-424 in , edited by Dada Docot, Stephen B. Acabado, and Clement C. Camposano. Quezon City, Philippines: Bughaw (an imprint of Ateneo de Manila University Press).
- Quinsaat, Sharon M. 2023. . In The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements, edited by David Snow, Donatella della Porta, Bert Klandermans, and Doug McAdam. New York: Wiley-Blackwell.
- Quinsaat, Sharon M. 2022. Katipunan ng Demokratikong Pilipino [Union of Democratic Filipinos]. Pp. 580-581 in , edited by K. Nadal, A. Tintiangco-Cubales, and E.J.R. David. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications.
- Quinsaat, Sharon Madriaga. 2019. 艶.&稼恢壊沿;Mobilization 24(2): 221-239.
- Quinsaat, Sharon Madriaga. 2019. .&稼恢壊沿;Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 45(3): 419-436.
In the News
- , WORT 89.9 FM, December 16, 2024.
- Ashley Mizuo, , Hawaii Public Radio, November 14, 2024.
- Neia Balao, , Yahoo! News, February 14, 2024.
- Cortlynn Stark and Katie Moore, , Kansas City Star, May 16, 2021.
- , We Are Iowa Local 5, January 28, 2021.