Dr. Andrea Peña-Vasquez is an Assistant Professor of International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public and International Affairs (GSPIA) with a focus on Migration Policy. Her research focuses on issues of legal status and identity documentation,​ race​ and ethnicity​, and​ migration governance in multi-level states. Dr. Peña-Vasquez received her Ph.D. in political science from the University of Notre Dame and prior to joining GSPIA, she was a postdoctoral fellow at Hamilton College and a Fulbright visiting researcher at the Carlos III- Juan March Institute of Social Sciences and the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Her current book project analyzes the design and implementation of Spain’s regularization programs for irregular immigrants.