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Milagros Peña
Key Research Areas
Women's Studies; Social Movements; Race and Ethnic Relations
Biography
Milagros Peña is the Director of the Center For Women’s
Studies and Gender Research and Professor of Sociology and
Women’s Studies. She is author of
/Latina Activists across Borders:
Women's Grassroots Organizing in Mexico and Texas/ published by Duke
University
Press in spring 2007, /Theologies and Liberation in Peru: The Role of
Ideas in
Social Movements//,/ published by Temple University Press in 1995, and/
Punk
Rockers’ Revolution: A Pedagogy of Race, Class, and Gender/, with Curry
Malott
published by Peter Lang Publishers in 2004. Recent publications also
include:
“Latinas, Border Realities, Empowerment, and Faith-based
Organizations,”
published in 2003 in Michele Dillon (Editor) /Handbook
for the Sociology of Religion/,
New York:
Cambridge University Press; and “Encountering Latina Mobilization:
Lessons From
Field Research on the U.S./Mexico Border,” published in James V.
Spickard, J.
Shawn Landres, and Meredith B. McGuire (Eds.) /Personal Knowledge and
Beyond
Reshaping the Ethnography of Religion New York/: New York University
Press,
2002. She has an edited book published with Brill Academic Publishing
titled /Emerging
Voices Urgent Choices: Latino-a Leadership Development from the Pew to
the
Plaza/ based on collaborative research she conducted on Hispanic/Latino
ministry in the
