Daniela Campos Ugaz

I am an Assistant Professor of Sociology in the Department of Global and Sociocultural Studies at Florida International University. I earned my Ph.D. in Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

My research examines labor governance and globalization, with a focus on how institutions of work, migration, and welfare are reconfigured in response to global pressures, and how these transformations shape inequality across transnational, national, and organizational scales. This work sits at the intersection of labor and migration, law and society, economic sociology, and comparative political economy. My current project, The Politics of Skills Shortages: Labor Sourcing in the Transition to the Knowledge Economy in the United States, Germany, and Costa Rica, examines how states source skilled labor during the transition to the knowledge economy, focusing on the relationship between training and migration.

Before joining FIU, I was Assistant Director and Director of Graduate Studies of the Master’s in Development Practice at Emory University in 2025-2026, where I was also Associated Faculty in the Department of Sociology. Previously, I was Scholar-in-Residence and Lecturer in Sociology at Hamilton College during the 2024-2025 academic year. Prior to graduate school, I worked in Peru as a consultant for the International Labour Organization and the World Bank, as a research assistant at the Group for the Analysis of Development (GRADE) and at the Research Center of Universidad del Pacífico (CIUP), and as an economic analyst at the Ministry of Health.

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