Hello! I am a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at Florida State University and an incoming 2026-2027 Postdoctoral Fellow at the Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance at Princeton University.

My primary research addresses how globalization and international cooperation affect employment outcomes, with particular attention paid 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, and the consequences of 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 has been published in the American Journal of Political Science (AJPS) and Politics and Governance.

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