Berkley Center

Denise Brennan is professor and chair of the Department of Anthropology, and co-director of the Gender and Justice Initiative at Georgetown University. She is the author of What’s Love Got to Do with It?: Transnational Desires and Sex Tourism in the Dominican Republic (Duke 2004) and Life Interrupted: Trafficking into Forced Labor in the United States (Duke 2014). She is currently completing a book on undocumented lives in U.S. border regions and metropolitan areas beyond.

Matthew Butler is associate professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin. He is author of Popular Piety and Political Identity in Mexico’s Cristero Rebellion: Michoacán, 1927-1929 (2004) and editor of Faith and Impiety in Revolutionary Mexico (2007).

Rev. Matthew Carnes, S.J., is an associate professor in the Department of Government and in the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, and he has served as the director of the Center for Latin American Studies since July 2016. His research examines the dynamics of labor and social welfare policy. Carnes is the author of Continuity Despite Change: The Politics of Labor Regulation in Latin America (2014). 

Rev. Sean Carroll, S.J., is executive director of the Kino Border Initiative, providing counseling and services to migrants and refugees in Nogales, Arizona. His career has focused on providing ministry and social services to diverse Mexican-American and migrant communities in California and along the southwest border.

María del Socorro Castañeda-Liles is co-founder of Becoming Mujeres, a program that offers seminars and workshops to Latina teens and their female caregivers. Previously, she taught in the Department of Religious Studies at Santa Clara University. She is author of Our Lady of Everyday Life: La Virgen deGuadalupe and the Catholic Imagination of Mexican Women in America (2018).

Emilio Coral Garcia teaches history, politics, and international relations at the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City. He previously worked developing and coordinating global adult education programs for Latin America and the Caribbean at CREFAL, based in Pátzcuaro, Mexico. His scholarly work focuses on education, religion, and middle class lives in Mexico City.

Ben Fallaw is professor and director of Latin American studies at Colby College. He is author of Cárdenas Compromised: The Failure of Reform in Postrevolutionary Yucatán (2001) and Religion and State Formation in Postrevolutionary Mexico (2013).

Alyshia Gálvez is professor of food studies and anthropology at the New School. She is author of Guadalupe in New York: Devotion and the Struggle for Citizenship Rights among Mexican Migrants (2009); Patient Citizens, Immigrant Mothers: Mexican Women, Public Prenatal Care, and the Birth Weight Paradox (2011); and Eating NAFTA: Trade, Food Policies, and the Destruction of Mexico (2018).