Peggy Levitt is a Professor in the Department of Sociology at Wellesley College. She is also a Research Fellow at the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University, where she codirects the Transnational Studies Initiative. For the Spring '09 semester, she is the Willy Brandt Guest Professor at the University of Malmö in Sweden.

Her latest book, God Needs No Passport, is about how immigrants are changing the American religious landscape. The New Press has just put it out in paperback.

The Transnational Studies Reader: Intersections and Innovations, edited by Peggy Levitt and Sanjeev Khalgram, was published by Routledge. It lays the foundation for the new field of transnational studies and includes seminal readings from anthropology, sociology, political science, history, economics, and cultural studies.