Alicia Swords is Associate Professor at Ithaca College. She received her PhD from Cornell University in Development Sociology. She regularly teaches her department′s Social Change course (SOCI-208) as well as course on Social Movements; Gender, Environment and Global Change; Global Sociology; Research Methods; and a first-year seminar called Stories for a Change. Her research focuses on social movements in the U.S. and Latin America, and she is the co-author of Consuming Mexican Labor: From the Bracero Program to NAFTA (2010, University of Toronto Press).
