Presents
Ms. Kristen Hopewell
University of Michigan
New Protagonists in Global Economic
Governance: The Rise of Brazilian Agribusiness
at the WTO
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Time: 11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Location: SIS Founders Room
Ms. Kristen Hopewell is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of
Michigan. Ms. Hopewell’s dissertation is titled “Shifting Power in Global Economic
Governance: The Rise of Brazil, India and China at the WTO.” Her research is in comparative
and global political economy and the emerging BRIICKS economies, with a strong focus on
Brazil. She has secured fellowships and grants for her research from the Center for Latin
American and Caribbean Studies (University of Michigan), Fulbright, National Science
Foundation, and a Social Science and Humanities Research Council Doctoral Fellowship. Ms.
Hopewell has published a co-authored article examining the social movement response to
neoliberalism and the economic crisis in Argentina in the Journal for the Critique of Science.
For more information contact Irina Douda, CRS Program Associate at crs@american.edu or
202-885-1760.