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Sociology's Veronica Montes Named a Public Religion Research Institute Fellow

October 21, 2022

Associate Professor of Sociology Veronica Montes has been named a .

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Selected via a nationwide open call, the diverse cohort of fellows works alongside PRRI researchers and staff to generate public scholarship focused on contemporary issues at the intersection of religion, culture, and politics.

In the spring of 2023, Montes will also be a residential fellow at the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies at the University of California San Diego.

From the PRRI website:

As a feminist ethnographer, Montes’ research falls in two areas: on immigration from Mexico and Central America to the United States, and on the intersection between gender, belonging and migration. In the Spring of 2023, she will be a residential fellow at the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies at the University of California San Diego, where she will continue her research on the activist nature of transnational motherhood by looking at the family separation due to the U.S. deportation regime and the collective mobilization of deported mothers in Tijuana, Mexico. Her other ongoing research projects revolve around the examination of the precariousness of the social services provided to the Mexican migrant community in Philadelphia in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as examining the intersection between social inclusion, citizenship, culture production, and Latino immigrants in South Philadelphia.

In addition to her appointment in the Sociology Department, Montes is also the Co-Director of Latin American, Iberian, and Latina/o Studies at Â鶹ÊÓƵ.