Shih's first book, The Price of Freedom: Moral and Political Economies of Global Human Trafficking Rescue, is based on 40 months of ethnographic participant observation on the transnational movement to combat human trafficking in China, Thailand, and the U.S. This research has received funding from the Ford Foundation, Social Science Research Council, American Sociological Association, and Fulbright Program. Her work has been published in numerous edited volumes and in journals including: The Anti-Trafficking Review, Contexts, Social Politics, and Sociological Perspectives. Shih received her PhD in Sociology from UCLA, and a BA in Asian Studies from Pomona College. She is leading the Center’s research cluster on human trafficking. Contact Prof. Shih here.