Hello! I am a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at Florida State University and an incoming Postdoctoral Fellow at The Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance (NCGG) at Princeton University.

My research centers on how globalization and international cooperation shape labor-market outcomes and broader patterns of inequality across diverse economic, political, and institutional contexts, with particular attention to the more than two billion workers in the informal economy. Substantively, my work examines the impact of human rights treaties on women’s economic development, the effects of labor provisions in trade agreements between developed and developing countries, and the consequences of robust labor-rights enforcement on formal and informal employment.

In addition to my primary research agenda, a second strand of my work examines the rise of populist opposition to trade and its implications for the embedded liberalism compromise and the future of trade agreements.

My research is forthcoming in the American Journal of Political Science (AJPS) and has been published in Politics and Governance.

Please feel free to email me directly at cgahagan[at]fsu.edu.