Peggy Levitt is Chair and Associate 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 codirects the Transnational Studies Initiative

Her latest book, God Needs No Passport, is about how immigrants are changing the American religious landscape. The New Press published it in June.

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The Transnational Studies Reader: Intersections and Innovations, edited by Peggy Levitt and Sanjeev Khalgram, was published by Routledge in December, 2007. 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.

February 4, 2008. Quoted in "A Tiny Staff, Tracking People Across the Globe" in the New York Times.

December 16, 2007. Spoke at Fiftieth Anniversary Celebration of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University: “The Changing Face of U.S. Immigration.”

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