Dillon Laaker is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Political Science and was a 2023–2024 GPEP pre-doctoral fellow. He is starting a postdoctoral fellowship in International Political Economy at the London School of Economics in Fall 2024. Dillon specializes in international relations with an emphasis on political economy. His research focuses on questions of race and immigration, with a specific interest in domestic politics, firm behavior, and public opinion. He received his MA in Political Science from UW-Madison in 2017 and his BS in Political Science from Truman State University in 2016.