Katrina Burgess is an American political scientist specializing in comparative politics, international political economy, and Latin American studies. She earned an A.B. in Social Studies from Harvard College in 1988, an M.A. in Political Science from Yale University in 1993, and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Yale University in 1997, with her doctoral research focusing on party-labor relations in Mexico during its transition to democracy. Prior to joining Tufts University's Fletcher School in 2014 as Associate Professor of Political Economy, she held academic positions including as an assistant professor at Brown University and research roles at institutions such as the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. She is an expert on migration, labor, and political economy in Latin America and Spain. Burgess is the author of 'Parties and Unions in the New Global Economy' (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2004), which examines how globalization affects labor movements and party systems in developing countries, and has published extensively on topics including migration policy, electoral politics, and economic reforms in Latin America. Her work has appeared in journals such as Comparative Politics, Latin American Politics and Society, and World Politics.