Kelley D. Strawn

Short Biography

Kelley Strawn conducts research that examines the changing nature of collective action, protest, and social movements, particularly in Mexico. He is the principal investigator for the Mexico Protest Events Database (MPED) – a project to construct an on-going database of protest events that occur nationwide in Mexico. His recent research based on MPED data has examined both methodological questions related to the validity of media-derived protest data as well as substantive questions related to the role the economy plays in prompting mobilization and how much contemporary protest in Mexico is driven by resistance to neoliberal economic reforms undertaken there since the 1990s. He has authored or co-authored papers in Mobilization: An International Journal and Research in Political Sociology. He is currently Assistant Professor of Sociology at Willamette University, a rigorous liberal arts institution in northwest Oregon. He holds a PhD and MS in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, an MA in Political Science from Boston University, and a BA from Whitworth College.