Gina Perez

Gina Pérez is a cultural anthropologist and Professor and Chair of the Department of Comparative American Studies at Oberlin College.  She is the author of two award-winning books—The Near Northwest Side Story: Gender, Migration and Puerto Rican Families (2004, University of California Press) and Citizen, Student, Soldier: Latina/o Youth, JROTC and the American Dream  (2015, New York University Press). She is also the co-editor of two anthologies: Beyond el Barrio: Everyday Life in Latina/o America  (coedited with Frank Guridy and Adrian Burgos Jr., 2011, New York University Press) and Ethnographic Refusals, Unruly Latinidades (coedited with Alex Chávez, 2022, University of New Mexico Press, School for Advanced Research Advanced Seminar Series). Her new book Sanctuary People: Faith-Based Organizing in Latina/o Communities, focuses on sanctuary movements and multiethnic faith-based organizing among Latina/o communities in Ohio from 2016-2020.