Erin M. Kamler
kamler [at] usc [dot] edu
Erin Kamler is an award-winning composer, musician and playwright whose research focuses on using the arts as a tool for political communication in the developing world. Her dissertation project engages a study of the trafficking of women in Thailand and critiques the State Department-driven anti-trafficking movement through the lens of culture and feminist international relations. Conversationally fluent in the Thai language, Erin has conducted qualitative fieldwork with anti-trafficking NGOs, government actors, female migrants and trafficking survivors, and she is currently writing a musical based on her research. Erin holds a BA in music composition from Sarah Lawrence College and a masters in public diplomacy from USC's Annenberg School. Her research has been published in several international journals. For more information about her work, please visit
www.erinkamler.net.