Spring Colloquium

Spring Colloquium

The Sociology and Anthropology Department cordially invites you to attend “Life as the Maid's Daughter: Interrogating the Everyday Boundaries of Race, Class, and Gender” by Dr. Mary Romero.


Thursday, April 4, 5:00 – 7:00 PM, DAC 308

Co-sponsored by the Women’s and Gender Studies Program and the Committee of Latin American and Caribbean Studies


Mary Romero is Professor of Justice Studies and Social Inquiry at Arizona State University. She is the author of The Maid’s Daughter: Living Inside and Outside of the American Dream (NYU Press, 2011), and Maid in the U.S.A. (Routledge, 1992, Tenth Anniversary Edition, 2002), and co-editor of numerous collections, including Blackwell Companion to Social Inequalities (Blackwell 2005), Latino/a Popular Culture (NYU Press 2002), Women’s Untold Stories: Breaking Silence, Talking Back, Voicing Complexity (Routledge, 1999), and Challenging Fronteras: Structuring Latina and Latina Lives in the U.S. (Routledge, 1997). She is the recipient of the 2012 Julian Samora Distinguished Career Award (ASA Latina/o Section Distinguished Career Award Committee), the Section on Race and Ethnicity Minorities 2009 Founder's Award, and the 2004 Study of Social Problems' Lee Founders Award.