Dr. Morganne Blais-McPherson is an anthropologist whose work bridges political anthropology, industrial relations, and the environmental humanities, with a focus on supply chain governance and the politics of fashion in Italy and Europe.
She is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow in Worker-Led Global Supply Chain Governance at SFU, collaborating with Genevieve Lebaron (Principal Investigator), Ali Bhagat (Co-Investigator), and Kam Phung (Co-Investigator) on a SSHRC Insight Grant project ‘The Effectiveness of Worker-Driven Alternatives to Corporate Social Responsibility in Governing Global Supply Chains.’
Morganne’s research has been supported by the Fonds de recherche du Québec – Société et culture and the Society for the Anthropology of Work, and has appeared in Dialectical Anthropology (), Exertions (), and the Journal of Modern Italian Studies (). She has also contributed to public platforms including Labor Notes, Jacobin, and Democratic Left. She recently completed her PhD in Anthropology from the University of California, Davis.
Dr. Emilie van Haute is a political scientist working on political participation, elections, political parties, and democracy, with a focus on old liberal democracies.
She is Full Professor at the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB). She conducts her research at the Centre d’étude de la vie politique () and she leads ULB's . She is currently Visiting Scholar at SFU’s School of Public Policy with the support of the Fondation Francqui.
Her work has appeared in Electoral Studies, European Journal of Political Research, European Journal of Social Psychology, JEPOP, Representation, or West European Politics. Her current research projects include the and projects. She is the co-editor of the European Journal of Political Research.