Mary E. Odem

Mary E. Odem, Associate Professor, (B.A., Washington University, 1980; M.A., University of California Berkeley, 1984; Ph.D., 1989). Joint appointment with Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies. U.S. History with focus on women, gender, immigration, race and ethnicity. Author of Delinquent Daughters: Protecting and Policing Adolescent Female Sexuality in the United States, 1885-1920 (1995). Co-editor Confronting Rape and Sexual Assault (1998). Co-editor and author in Latino Immigration and the Transformation of the U.S. South (2009).

My areas of teaching and research include women, gender, and sexuality, and immigration and ethnicity in the modern U.S. My current research examines Mexican and Central American immigration to the U.S. South since 1980, with a focus on social and economic incorporation, transnationalism, gender and family, and changing race and class dynamics. Recent publications include:

• “Living Across Borders: Guatemala Maya Immigrants in the U.S. South,” Southern Spaces: an Interdisciplinary Journal about Regions and Cultures of the American South (Feb. 2011).  http://www.southernspaces.org/2011/living-across-borders-guatemala-maya-immigrants-us-south
• “Subaltern Immigrants: Undocumented Workers and National Belonging in the U.S.” Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies 10(3) (2008).
• “Unsettled in the Suburbs: Latino Immigration and Ethnic Diversity in Metro Atlanta,” in Twenty-First Century Gateways, eds. Audrey Singer et al (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2008).