#  Luisa L. Heredia 

 

 



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 (Sociology, June 2008)  
*Thesis Title:* Faith in Action: The Catholic Church and the Immigrant Rights Movement, 1980-2007  
*Committee*: Mary C. Waters (chair), William Julius Wilson, and Jennifer Hochschild  
*Initial Placement:* Post Doctoral Fellow, University of California Riverside; Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow of Latino Studies, Department of Social and Cultural Analysis, New York University  
*Current Position:* [The Joanne Woodward Chair in Public Policy, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, New York](https://www.sarahlawrence.edu/faculty/heredia-luisa-laura.html)

 BA, University of Notre Dame. MA, PhD, Harvard University. Research interests include Latino and immigration politics, with special interests in migration control regimes, social movements, inequalities in citizenship, and religion in the United States and Spain. Current work compares the development of US and Spain enforcement regimes, their constructions of racialized “illegal” bodies, and their radical movements to dismantle the state’s migration control practices. Her first book project, *Illegal Redemption*, investigates the crucial yet contradictory role that the Catholic Church has played in challenging a growing and restrictive regime of immigration control in the United States in the contemporary period. Author of “From Prayer to Protest: The Immigrant Rights Movement and the Catholic Church,” a chapter in the edited volume, *Rallying for Immigrant Rights,* by Irene Bloemraad and Kim Voss.



 

 

 





 

 

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