Carolina Bank Muñoz
Professor, Department of Sociology, Brooklyn College
Carolina Bank Muñoz is a professor of sociology at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center. Her work focuses on immigration, globalization, labor, work, and Latin America. Her first book, Transnational Tortillas: Race, Gender and Shop Floor Politics in Mexico and the United States, is the winner of the Terry Book Award. She has recently published Building Power From Below: Chilean Workers Take on Walmart, also with Cornell. In May 2018, her edited volume with Bridget Kenny and Antonio Stecher, Walmart in the Global South, was published with the University of Texas Press. Before joining the academy, she worked as a union organizer and then as a project director at the UCLA Labor Center.