Mary Romero

As a sociologist and Professor Emeritus, Mary Romero is the author Precarious Citizenship: The Cruelty of Immigration Policies (2027), Introducing Intersectionality (2018, 2025), The Maid’s Daughter: Living Inside and Outside the American Dream (2011), and Maid in the USA (1992, 2002). She is editor of Research Handbook on Intersectionality and co-editor of Intersectionality and Ethnic Entrepreneurship (2018), When Care Work Goes Global: Locating the Social Relations of Domestic Work (2014), Interdisciplinary and Social Justice: Revisioning Academic Accountability (2010), Blackwell Companion to Social Inequalities (2005), Latino/a Popular Culture (2002), Women’s Untold Stories: Breaking Silence, Talking Back, Voicing Complexity (1999), Challenging Fronteras: Structuring Latina and Latino Lives in the U.S. (1997), and Women and Work: Exploring Race, Ethnicity and Class (1997). She has edited several special issues in academic journals and conference proceedings, and published law review articles and peer-reviewed articles. She served as the 110th president of the American Sociological Association (ASA) and is the recipient of numerous professional association, university, and book awards, including the ASA W.E.B. Du Bois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award (2022).