Andrew Schrank

Andrew Schrank is the Olive C. Watson Professor of Sociology and International and Public Affairs at Brown University.  His research interests include the migration, training, and protection of unskilled workers in the United States and Latin America, as well as the conceptualization, measurement, and consequences of corruption.  He is the co-author of Root-Cause Regulation: Protecting Work and Workers in the Twenty-First Century (Harvard University Press, 2018) and his journal articles have been published extensively.  Schrank has received grants and fellowships from the Ford Foundation and National Science Foundation, among others.  He has also and consulted for the World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, United Nations Development Programme, and a number of federal agencies.He previously taught political science and sociology at the University of New Mexico, the University of Miami, and Yale University. He holds a master’s degree and a PhD in sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.