Kathryn Babineau is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Virginia. She studies the political economy of globalization, labor rights, temporary migration, and public and private regulation. She is particularly interested in the changing structure of global agro-food supply chains, and the corresponding impact on workers and producers, including issues of workplace safety, input prices, and pay. Her dissertation work on the H-2A visa program traced the changing regulatory landscape of temporary labor migration programs in American agriculture. Kathryn’s work has been funded by the National Science Foundation and the Jefferson Scholars Foundation, who selected her to receive their prestigious Groundbreakers Fellowship during her dissertation work. In addition to scholarly articles, her research has been published by the Social Science Research Council, The Brookings Institution, Harvard Business Review, NPR, and Open Democracy. Before returning to academia, she worked as a labor monitor in US agriculture and as a foreign policy researcher, specializing in Latin American Affairs. Kathryn holds a PhD and a Master of Public Policy from the University of Virginia, during which she was inducted into the Raven academic honor society, and a MPhil from the University of Oxford.