Erica S. Simmons is Professor of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Wisconsin­–Madison where she holds the Robert “Booth” Fowler Professorship. She also holds a courtesy appointment with the Department of Sociology. Simmons’s work is motivated by an interest in contentious politics, particular in Latin America. She is the author of Meaningful Resistance: Market Reforms and the Roots of Social Protest in Latin America (Cambridge University Press, 2016) which was awarded the 2017 Charles Tilly award for distinguished contribution to scholarship on collective behavior and social movements. Simmons also writes on ethnographic and qualitative methods, co-editing (with Nicholas Rush Smith) Rethinking Comparison: Innovative Methods for Qualitative Political Inquiry (Cambridge University Press, 2021), and co-authoring articles in Comparative Politics, PS: Political Science and Politics, and Qualitative and Multi-Method Research.  Her work has also appeared in World Politics, Comparative Political Studies, and Theory and Society, among others.