Peggy Levitt
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American sociologist
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Peggy Levitt's Degrees
- PhD Sociology University of California, Berkeley
- Masters Sociology University of California, Berkeley
- Bachelors Sociology University of California, Berkeley
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Peggy Levitt is professor and chair of the sociology department at Wellesley College and an associate at Harvard University's Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organization where she co-directs the Transnational Studies Initiative. Peggy writes regularly about globalization, arts and culture, immigration, and religion. Her latest book, Artifacts and Allegiances: How Museums Put the Nation on Display, is published by the University of California Press.
Peggy Levitt's Published Works
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Published Works
- Conceptualizing Simultaneity: A Transnational Social Field Perspective on Society 1 (2004) (2231)
- The Transnational Villagers (2023) (1722)
- Social Remittances: Migration Driven Local-Level Forms of Cultural Diffusion 1 (1998) (1332)
- Transnational Migration Studies: Past Developments and Future Trends (2007) (1075)
- Transnational migration: taking stock and future directions (2001) (557)
- Social Remittances Revisited (2011) (476)
- Vernacularization on the ground: local uses of global women's rights in Peru, China, India and the United States (2009) (435)
- Roots and Routes: Understanding the Lives of the Second Generation Transnationally (2009) (360)
- International Perspectives on Transnational Migration: An Introduction (2003) (331)
- “You Know, Abraham Was Really the First Immigrant”: Religion and Transnational Migration (2003) (285)
- The Changing Face of Home: The Transnational Lives of the Second Generation (2006) (282)
- Strangers No More: Immigration and the Challenges of Integration in North America and Western Europe (2016) (203)
- Transnational migration and the redefinition of the state: Variations and explanations (2003) (183)
- The Transnational Studies Reader: Intersections and Innovations (2007) (145)
- Religion as a path to civic engagement (2008) (133)
- God Needs No Passport: Immigrants and the Changing American Religious Landscape (2007) (133)
- Local-level global religion : The case of U.S.-Dominican migration : Religion in global perspective (1998) (105)
- Religion on the edge : de-centering and re-centering the sociology of religion (2012) (105)
- Transnational social protection: setting the agenda (2017) (97)
- Keeping Feet in Both Worlds: Transnational Practices and Immigrant Incorporation in the United States (2003) (96)
- Transnationalism and the Children of Immigrants in Contemporary New York (2002) (94)
- Redefining the Boundaries of Belonging: The Institutional Character of Transnational Religious Life (2004) (92)
- Law From Below: Women's Human Rights and Social Movements in New York City (2010) (90)
- "It's Not Just About the Economy, Stupid" - Social Remittances Revisited (2010) (83)
- Transnational Politics as Cultural Circulation: Toward a Conceptual Understanding of Migrant Political Participation on the Move (2016) (78)
- Transnationalizing Community Development: The Case of Migration between Boston and the Dominican Republic (1997) (74)
- De‐Centering and Re‐Centering: Rethinking Concepts and Methods in the Sociological Study of Religion (2011) (69)
- Haven’t We Heard This Somewhere Before? A Substantive View of Transnational Migration Studies by Way of a Reply to Waldinger and Fitzgerald (2006) (53)
- Social remittances and the changing transnational political landscape (2016) (53)
- The Changing Face of Home (2006) (50)
- Building bridges: what migration scholarship and cultural sociology have to say to each other (2005) (49)
- Artifacts and Allegiances (2015) (48)
- What's wrong with migration scholarship? A critique and a way forward (2012) (45)
- Between God , Ethnicity , And Country : An Approach To The Study Of Transnational Religion (39)
- Religion on the Move: Mapping Global Cultural Production and Consumption (2012) (38)
- Rethinking social remittances and the migration-development nexus from the perspective of time (2013) (37)
- Community Action in the United States (1990) (34)
- Beyond Home and Return: Negotiating Religious Identity across Time and Space through the Prism of the American Experience (2011) (33)
- The Vernacularization of Women’s Human Rights (2017) (33)
- Response to symposium on Artifacts and Allegiances: How Museums Put the Nation and the World on Display (2015) (32)
- New Perspectives on Immigrant Contexts of Reception (2012) (28)
- Transnational migration: International perspectives (2003) (25)
- Travelling faiths and migrant religions: the case of circulating models of da'wa among the Tablighi Jamaat and Foguangshan in Malaysia (2014) (22)
- Chapter 4. Making Women’s Human Rights in the Vernacular: Navigating the Culture/Rights Divide (2011) (22)
- Mexican New York (2008) (20)
- Redefining the Boundaries of Belonging: The Transnationalization of Religious Life (2007) (18)
- A Transnational Gaze (2011) (18)
- Mobility and health sector development in China and India. (2015) (17)
- Rethinking “transnational migration and the re-definition of the state” or what to do about (semi-) permanent impermanence (2017) (15)
- The City as Context : Culture and Scale in New Immigrant Destinations (2010) (15)
- Religious Dimensions of Contexts of Reception: Comparing Two New England Cities (2013) (15)
- Towards a Field of Transnational Studies and a Sociological Transnationalism Research Program (2004) (14)
- Global Social Protection: Setting the Agenda (2015) (13)
- Social Retmittances: Culture as a Development Tool (2005) (13)
- Workforce Diversity and Inequality : Power , Status , and Numbers (2008) (12)
- The missing link? The role of sub-national governance in transnational social protections (2017) (11)
- Refugee Rights and Wrongs: Global Cultural Diffusion among the Congolese in South Africa (2003) (10)
- Moving toward reform? Mobility, health, and development in the context of neoliberalism (2013) (10)
- Introduction Religion on the Edge: De-centering and Re-centering (2012) (10)
- Welcome to the Club?: A response to The Cross -Border Connection by Roger Waldinger (2015) (9)
- The Migration–Development Nexus and Organizational Time 1 (2013) (9)
- Salsa and Ketchup: Transnational Migrants Straddle Two Worlds (2004) (9)
- Constructing Gender Across Borders: A Transnational Approach (2011) (9)
- Social welfare grey zones: how and why subnational actors provide when nations do not? (2019) (7)
- Doing vernacularization: The encounter between global and local ideas about women's rights in Peru (2013) (7)
- Explaining variations in scale shifting: The role of spatiality, topography and infrastructure in global literary fields (2020) (7)
- The transnationalization of civil and political change : the effect of migration on institutional ties between the U.S. and the Dominican Republic (1995) (6)
- [Special issue] Links to the diasporic homeland: second-generation and ancestral 'return' mobilities (2011) (6)
- Social remittances: how migrating people drive migrating culture (2015) (5)
- Professional Dissonance: Reconciling Occupational Culture and Authoritarianism in Qatar's Universities and Museums (2017) (5)
- Cultural policies in cities of the ‘global South’: a multi-scalar approach (2020) (5)
- Becoming a ‘Cultural Destination of Choice’: lessons on vernacularization from Beirut and Buenos Aires (2020) (5)
- Remaking Women’s Human Rights in the Vernacular: The Resonance Dilemma (2019) (5)
- Travelling faiths and migrant religions: the case of circulating models of da'wa, the Tablighi Jamaat, Foguangshan and religious organization (2014) (4)
- Books, bodies, and bronzes: comparing sites of global citizenship creation (2014) (4)
- Deconstructing and Reconstructing. Embracing Alternative Ways of Producing, Classifying and Disseminating Knowledge (2018) (4)
- Working Paper Series From Economic to Social remittances : an International Overview (2015) (3)
- The Bog and the Beast (2015) (3)
- Taking Culture Seriously: The Unexplored Nexus between Migration, Incorporation and Development (2010) (3)
- Not Just Made in the U.S.A: Seeing National Culture Transnationally (2010) (3)
- Who’s on the Syllabus? (2020) (3)
- Global Culture in Motion (2017) (3)
- Links to the Diasporic Homeland: Second-Generation and Ancestral Return (2011) (3)
- Transnational Migration: Conceptual and Policy Challenges (2016) (3)
- Getting from Buenos Aires to Mexico City Without Passing Through Madrid: Latin American Publishing Topographies (2022) (3)
- Understanding Immigration through Icons, Images, and Institutions: The Politics and Poetics of Putting the Globe on Display (2016) (3)
- :Transborder Lives: Indigenous Oaxacans in Mexico, California, and Oregon (2008) (3)
- Beyond the West: Barriers to Globalizing Art History (2019) (2)
- Vernacularization in Action: Using Global Women's Human Rights Locally (2009) (2)
- Redefining the Boundaries of Belonging: Thoughts on Transnational Religious and Political Life (2002) (2)
- Conclusion: Working the Edges (2012) (2)
- The Changing Contours of the Immigrant Religious Life (2007) (2)
- Scale Shifting: New Insights into Global Literary Circulation (2020) (2)
- Remapping and rescaling the religious world from below: The Case of Santo Toribio and Santa Ana de Guadalupe in Mexico (2018) (2)
- The Imagined Globe: Remapping the World Through Public Diplomacy at the Asia Society (2020) (1)
- Producing Korean literature (KLit) for export (2022) (1)
- Second-Generation Transnationalism and Roots Migration: Cross-Border Lives (2015) (1)
- 3. Bringing culture back in: Opportunities and challenges for the migration- development nexus (2013) (1)
- What’s wrong with migration scholarship? A critique and a way forward (2020) (1)
- Using the Local to Tell a Global Story: How the Peabody Essex Museum Became a World Class Museum (2017) (1)
- Hybrid transnational social protection: The role of religious institutions and networks (2022) (1)
- Transnationalism: living in two worlds (2008) (1)
- Georges Woke Up Laughing: Long‐Distance Nationalism and the Search for Home. By Nina Glick Schiller and Georges Eugene Fouron. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2001. Pp. xii+326. $69.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). (2002) (1)
- Arabia and the East (2015) (1)
- Managing cultural diversity and (re)defining the national in ‘global South’ cities (2021) (1)
- Hiding in plain sight: the Coptic Museum in the Egyptian cultural landscape (2017) (1)
- Social welfare versus transnational social protection regimes: the changing roles of church and state (2020) (1)
- RELIGIONS IN A GLOBAL SOCIETY. By Peter Beyer (2007) (1)
- Bringing Culture Back In (2013) (1)
- Social Remittances and More: Reflections on 25 Years of Migration Studies (2016) (1)
- A New Social Contract: Social Welfare in an Era of Transnational Migration (2013) (1)
- Reform Through Return? Migration, Health, and Development in Gujarat, India (2012) (0)
- 6. "God Is Everywhere": Religious Life across Borders (2001) (0)
- Book Review Essay: New Faces in New Places: The Changing Geography of American Immigration (2008) (0)
- Cultures of Cultural Globalization: How National Repertoires and Political Ideologies Affect Literary and Artistic Circulation (2023) (0)
- Reimagining the Nation, Migration and Citizenship: The Role of Cultural Institutions and New Institutional Responses (2018) (0)
- Chinese Christians in America.By Fenggang Yang. Penn State Press, 2000. 229 pp. Cloth, $90.00; paper, $18.95 (2001) (0)
- The Limits to Institutional Change: Organisational Roles and Roots (2014) (0)
- Seeking Community in a Global City: Guatemalans and Salvadorans in Los Angeles (2002) (0)
- The City as Context: How Religion Influences Reception in New Immigrant Destinations (2009) (0)
- Cultural Policy in Singapore: Cosmopolitan Competencies Asian Style (2016) (0)
- Producing Korean literature (KLit) for export (2022) (0)
- 1. THE BOG AND THE BEAST: The View of the Nation and the World from Stockholm, Copenhagen, and Gothenburg (2019) (0)
- Move over, Mona Lisa. Move over, Jane Eyre (2018) (0)
- 5. When Domestic Politics Becomes Transnational (2001) (0)
- 4. Making Values from Two Worlds Fit (2001) (0)
- Chinese Christians in America (review) (2001) (0)
- Social remittances and the changing transnational political landscape (2016) (0)
- Changing Face of Home, The (2006) (0)
- Book Notes (2002) (0)
- Transnational Social Protection: Framing the Agenda (2018) (0)
- Global Religious Movements Across Borders: Sacred Service (2015) (0)
- -Methodological Implications of a Transnational Optic -The Nature of Embeddedness and the Spatial Arenas in Which It Takes ‘Place’ -The Good, the Bad and the Global: Variable Consequences of Transnationalism Conclusion: Transnational Migration Scholarship and the Longue Duree (2008) (0)
- 2. Social Remittances: How Global Culture Is Created Locally (2001) (0)
- 3. ARABIA AND THE EAST: How Singapore and Doha Display the Nation and the World (2019) (0)
- Creating successful, diverse cities (2018) (0)
- A Response to Alice Bloch (2019) (0)
- 2. THE LEGISLATOR AND THE PRIEST: Cosmopolitan Nationalism in Boston and New York (2019) (0)
- The Role of Sub-National Governance in Global Social Protection: A Comparative Case Study of Spain and USA in Health Care (2016) (0)
- The Legislator and the Priest (2015) (0)
- Museums, Nations and Migrations: A Conversation with Joanna Warsza, Peggy Levitt and Hanna Snellman (2016) (0)
- Decolonizing Decoloniality: Decentering Art History and Comparative Literature Classrooms Outside Europe and the United States (2023) (0)
- Flip-flop: a journey through globalisation's backroads (2015) (0)
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