Mary Odem
Associate Professor of Women's Studies and History
modem@emory.edu
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Mary Odem (Ph.D. in History, University of California, Berkeley, 1989) is an Associate Professor of History and Women’s Studies and serves as associated faculty in Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Emory University. Her areas of specialization in U.S. history are gender, sexuality, immigration, race and ethnicity. Her first book Delinquent Daughters: Protecting and Policing Adolescent Female Sexuality (1995) won the President's Book Award from the Social Science History Association and was named a Choice Outstanding Academic Book. She has co-edited a collection of scholarly essays, Confronting Rape and Sexual Assault (1998). She is co-editor of and author in Latino Immigration and the Transformation of the U.S. South (2009). Her current research examines Mexican and Central American immigration to the U.S. South since 1980, focusing on themes of incorporation, transnationalism, gender and family, race/ethnicity. Publications in this area include:

“Subaltern Immigrants: Undocumented Workers and National Belonging in the United States” Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies (forthcoming, 2009)

“Unsettled in the Suburbs: Latino Immigration and Ethnic Diversity in Metro Atlanta,” in Twenty-First Century Gateways: Immigrant Incorporation in Suburban America, eds. Audrey Singer, et al. ( Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2008): 105-36

“Inmigración trasnacional y organización maya en el sur de Estados Unidos,” Comunidades en Movimiento: la Migración Internacional en el Norte de Huehuetenango, ed. Manuela Camus (Guatemala City: Instituto Centroamericano de Dessarrollo y Estudios Sociales, INCEDES, CEDFOG, 2007)

“Our Lady of Guadalupe in the New South: Latin American Immigrants and the Politics of Integration in the Catholic Church,” Journal of American Ethnic History, 23(Fall 2004): 29-60