Milagros Peña

Professor, Sociology and Director of Women Studies Department
Ph.D. Sociology, State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1990

Areas of Interest: Women's Studies, Social Movements, Race and Ethnic Relations

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E-mail: mpena@soc.ufl.edu
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Milagros Peña 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 U.S. with Edwin I. Hernández and Fr. Ken Davis. Peña.