Dillon Laaker is a 2023–2024 GPEP pre-doctoral fellow and a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Political Science. 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.