Education:
Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996
MSUP/MPH Columbia University, 1985
BA Brandeis Univerisity 1980
Research and Teaching Areas:
Transnationalism, migration, religion, sociology of culture, race and ethnicity, Latin American Studies
Current Projects
In addition to her associate professorship at Wellesley, Peggy Levitt is a Research Fellow at the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard University. She is currently writing a book on the nexus between transnational migration and religion in five immigrant communities in Boston. She is co-director, with Sanjeev Khagram, of the Emerging
Transnational Dynamics Initiative which explores, from a variety of theoretical and methodological, perspectives, the forms and consequences of different kinds of transnationalism, how these relate to one another, and how they define and redefine social relations and institutions. She is co-principal investigator, with Sally Merry, on a study of how global discourses about women’s rights get adapted to local contexts. Finally, she is a steering committee member of the Social Science Research Council Working Group on Globalization and Religion.
Selected Recent Publications:
Books:
- The Transnational Villagers University of California Press, 2001. Awarded Honorable Mention from the International Migration Section of the American Sociological Association and Honorable Mention for the Best Book Award, New England Council on Latin American Studies.
- The Changing Face of Home: The Transnational Lives of the Second Generation, Russell Sage Publications, 2002. Co-edited with Mary Waters.
- Special Volume of International Migration Review on Transnational Migration,Fall 2003,
Co-edited with Josh DeWind and Steven Vertovec.
Articles and Book Chapters:
“Conceptualizing Simultaneity: A Transnational Social Field Perspective on Society” International
Migration Review, (with Nina Glick Schiller) forthcoming, 2004
"Salsa and Ketchup: Transnational Migrants Keep Feet in Two Worlds" Contexts
Vol 3(2) Spring 2004:20-26.
“Redefining the Boundaries of Belonging: The Institutional Character of Transnational Religious Life.” Sociology
of Religion: Spring 2004 Vol 35 (1): 174-196.
"You know, Abraham was Really the First Immigrant:Religion and Transnational Migration" International
Migration Review Fall 2003. 37(143): 847-874.
"Transnational Ties and Incorporation: The Case of Dominicans in the United States." Columbia
Encylopedia of Latinos in the United States. 2003. New York:Columbia University
Press.
“Transnational Migration and the Redefinition of the State: Variations and Explanations.” (with
Rafael de la Dehesa) Ethnic and Racial Studies, 2002. Vol 26(4) 587-611.
“Keeping Feet in Both Worlds: Transnational Practices and Immigrant Incorporation.” In
eds. Christian Joppke and Ewa Morawska. Integrating Immigrants in Liberal
Nation-States: From Post-national to Transnational. London: Palgrave/Macmillan,
2002.
“Variations in Transnational Belonging: Lessons from Brazil and the Dominican Republic.” In
eds. Patrick Weil and Randall Hansen. Reinventing Citizenship: Dual Citizenship,
Social Rights, and Federal Citizenship in Europe and the U.S. England: Berghann
Press, 2002
Two Nations Under God?: Latino Religious Life in the U.S.” In
eds. Marcelo Suarez-Orosco and Mariela Paez. Latinos! Remaking America. Berkeley,
CA and Cambridge, MA: University of California Press and David Rockefeller
Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University, 2002.
“Transnational Migration: Taking Stock and Future Directions.” Global
Networks 2001 1(3):195-216.
Recent Grants and Fellowships:
Rockefeller Foundation Research Grant 2003-2005
Ford Foundation Research Grant, Governance and Civil Society Program, 2003-2004
Mellon Foundation Grant for Research on Forced Migration, 2002
Senior Fellowship - Center for the Study of World Religions, Divinity School, Harvard University, 2001-2002
Post- Doctoral Fellowship - Institute for the Advanced Study of Religion, Yale University 2001- 2002
Ford Foundation Research Grant, Education, Sexuality and Religion Program, 1998-2003
Other Links:
http://www.peggylevitt.org/
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