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WSRP 25th Anniversary Conference Speakers

PEGGY LEVITT
PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MSUP/MPH, Columbia University
BA, Brandeis University

Peggy Levitt is Associate Professor and Chair of the Sociology Department at Wellesley College and a Research Fellow at the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard University. She is currently writing a book, God Needs No Passport about how migrants are transforming religious pluralism in the U.S. She is co-director of the Transnational Studies Initiative at the Hauser Center and co-principal investigator on a National Science Foundation project on how global discourses about women's rights are translated into local contexts. Her book, The Transnational Villagers, was published by the University of California Press in 2001. The Changing Face of Home: The Transnational Lives of the Second Generation (edited with Mary Waters) was published by Russell Sage in 2002. She also edited (with Josh Dewind and Steven Vertovec) a special volume of International Migration Review on transnational migration in fall 2003.