Milagros Peña
University of Florida-Gainesville
Gainesville, Florida

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Milagros Peña is professor of Sociology and Women’s Studies and director of the Center for Women's Studies at the University of Florida in Gainesville.  She received her doctorate in Sociology from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.  Peña is the author of Latina Activists Across Borders: Grassroots Women’s Organizing in Mexico and Texas published by Duke University Press in 2007.  The book was awarded the 2008 Distinguished Book Award by the Latino/a section of the American Sociological Association.  In the last five years, she also was involved in collaborative research projects with Edwin I. Hernández at the Institute for Latino Studies at the University of Notre Dame that led to the 2006 publication of Emerging Voices, Urgent Choices: Latino-a Leadership Development from the Pew to the Plaza with Brill Academic Publishing.  Previously, she was known for work published in several articles and in a book titled Theologies and Liberation in Peru: The Role of Ideas in Social Movements published by Temple University Press in 1995.