School of Social and Political Science

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Professor Peggy Levitt (currently a visiting fellow at the University of Edinburgh) is Chair of the Sociology department and the Mildred Lane Kemper Professor of Sociology at Wellesley College. She will speak about her recent book Transnational Social Protection: Social Welfare Across National Borders (co-authored with Erica Dobbs, Ken Sun and Ruxandra Paul, and published recently by Oxford University Press).

Professor Levitt's previous book, Artifacts and Allegiances: How Museums Put the Nation and the World on Display (University of California Press) was published in 2015. Her earlier books include Religion on the Edge (Oxford University Press, 2012), God Needs No Passport (New Press 2007), The Transnational Studies Reader (Routledge 2007), The Changing Face of Home (Russell Sage 2002), and The Transnational Villagers (UC Press, 2001).

Professor Levitt co-directed the Transnational Studies Initiative and the Politics and Social Change Workshop at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University from 1998-2020, and has received Honorary Doctoral degrees from the University of Helsinki (2017) and from Maastricht University (2014). She has held numerous fellowships and guest professorships including, most recently, as a Fellow at the Institut Convergences Migration in Paris (2022), a Robert Schuman Fellow at the European University Institute (2017-2019) and a Distinguished Visitor at the Baptist University of Hong Kong (2019).