Patricia Pessar

Patricia Pessar, Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1976, is Adjunct Associate Professor of Anthropology, American Studies and African American Studies. She works in areas of the black Diaspora, especially the Caribbean. Her publications include When Borders Don’t Divide: Labor Migration and Refugee Movements in the Americas (1988); A Visa for a Dream: Dominicans in the United States (1996); Between Two Islands: Dominican International Migration (1991); the edited collection, Caribbean Circuits: New Directions in the Study of Migration (1996); and From Fanatics to Folk: Brazilian Millenarianism and Popular Culture. She teaches courses on social movements, popular culture, migration and the Diaspora.