Peggy Levitt, Research Fellow
Peggy Levitt is a Professor and Chair of the Sociology Department at Wellesley College and a Research Fellow at the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University.
Her book, God Needs No Passport: How Immigration is Changing the Religious Landscape was published in 200, and available in paperback, Spring 2009. She co-directs the Transnational Studies Initiative at Harvard. She is also co-principal investigator of a National Science Foundation project about how global discourses about women’s rights are translated to local contexts and a study of spiritual capital and immigrant incorporation funded by the Metanexus Foundation.
Peggy was Willy Brandt Guest Professor, MIM, University of Malmö, Sweden, Spring 2009
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.