Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo

Professor Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, Florence Everline Professor of Sociology in USC Dornsife, will be the inaugural Dornsife-EHESS professeure invitée at the EHESS. She will be in residence in Paris in May 2022. Hondagneu-Sotelo is a qualitative sociologist who relies on interviews and ethnography, Los Angeles and Southern California have provided a rich social setting for developing a research trajectory spanning four areas: Gender and migration; informal sector work in the immigrant city; religion and immigrant integration; and Latina/o sociology. She has published ten books and over fifty journal articles and book chapters on these topics. Her most recent book, co-authored with Manuel Pastor, Distinguished Professor of Sociology and American Studies & Ethnicity at USC, is South Central Dreams: Finding Home and Building Community in South L.A. (2021).

Header image: “Le Plus Grand Reseau du Monde,” Lucien Boucher,
Air France, 1964, David Rumsey Map Center