Erika Busse is a professor of sociology at Macalester College, focusing on international migration to cities, racialization, family, and reproductive justice, and urban ethnography. Her research examines how immigration influences family, gender, identity, work, and culture. While a graduate student, she received a Public Sociology Award as a member of the Graduate Student Board of Contexts, the American Sociological Association’s quarterly general interest publication. In addition to her dissertation research, she has served as principal investigator or co-principal investigator on numerous research projects, including the following: Performing Peruvian-ess in the US Midwest, an ongoing project that examines how people with heritage or other connections to Peru represent their identity, particularly in folk dance; and a collaborative article with a colleague who studies Chinese dance in relation to ethnic identities published in Sociology of Race and Ethnicity; and Global Controversy and Local Politics: The Case of Abortion Liberalization, a collaborative cross-national project that examined the conditions under which countries changed restrictions on legal abortion.