Peggy Levitt sociologist, author and professor

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Levitt receives Hans-Robert Roemer Fellowship from the Oriental Institute of Beirut

January 2 2020

The Oriental Institute of Beirut, one of ten German Humanities Institutes funded by the Max Weber Foundation, awarded Levitt the Hans-Robert Roemer Fellowship to support her research on cultural and intellectual inequality. She spent the fall of 2018 in Lebanon doing research on her new book. 
 

Discussion with Peggy and others about their project submission to The Next Helsinki

December 17 2016

The transcript of a moderated conversation between Peggy Levitt, Joanna Warsza, and Hanna Snellman is now available. Recorded during Peggy’s visit to Helsinki in September for Finland’s Museum Theme Days 2016, the discussion focused on museums, nations, and migrants and can be found on The Next Helsinki blog. 

The Next Helsinki is an international competition seeking for innovative ideas to the improvement of the cultural and public space of Helsinki. Launched as an alternative to the controversial Guggenheim Helsinki project, the Next Helsinki has called upon architects, urbanists, artists, and environmentalists to imagine how Helsinki and the South Harbor site allotted to the proposed museum can be transformed for the maximum benefit of the city’s residents and visitors.
 

Religion on the Edge

October 30 2012

A volume of essays that challenge conventional approaches to the sociology of religion, Religion on the Edge, will be published on November 21, 2012.

 

Conversations Across Borders: A Workshop in Transnational Studies

October 30 2012

Date: November 26, 2012
Time: 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Location: CGIS South Building, Room S153, 1730 Cambridge Street, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
Open to the public.

Islamic Market Economies:
Nineteenth-Century Transnationalism, Migration, and Religious Diasporas
Rachel Ama-Asaa Engmann, Postdoctoral Fellow in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage, Brown University
 
‘Make a Joyful Noise unto the Lord’:
Christian Songs, Religious Publics, and Urban Space in Lagos, Nigeria
Vicky Brennan, Assistant Professor of Religion, The University of Vermont
 
Our Blessed Virgin Mary Has an Asian Face:
Marianism among the Vietnamese Catholic in the US and Cambodia
Thein-Huong Ninh, PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology, University of Southern California