Current Staff

Meredith Staples, Project Director

Meredith E. Staples is a Ph.D. candidate in the Political Science Department at Rutgers University. She earned her BA in Political Science and History from Fordham University. She currently works for the Rutgers Chapter of the AAUP-AFT as a union organizer. Staples is also active in the Political Science Graduate Student Association in her role as Treasurer and is a University Senator. Her dissertation examines unions in Latin America specifically how labor unions’ response to globalization is shaped by the varied institutional structures through which they engage with the state and other economic and social actors.