Books
Transnational Social Protection: Social Welfare Across National Borders (with Erika Dobbs, Ken Sun, and Ruxandra Paul)
New York and London: Oxford University Press. 2023.
Artifacts and Allegiances: How Museums Put the Nation and the World on Display.
Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 2015.
Religion on the Edge: De-Centering and Re-Centering the Sociology of Religion
New York and London: University of Oxford Press. 2012.
The Transnational Studies Reader: Intersections & Innovations
London: Routledge. 2007.
God Needs No Passport: How Immigrants are Changing the American Religious Landscape.
New York: The New Press. 2007.
The Changing Face of Home: The Transnational Lives of the Second Generation.
New York: Russell Sage Publications. 2006.
The Transnational Villagers.
Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 2001.
Translated and republished as De Baní a Boston: Construyendo Comunidad a través de Fronteras. Instituto Nacional de Migración de la República Dominicana (2021).
Recent Edited Collections
2020
Scale Shifting: New Insights into Global Literary Circulation (With Wiebke Sievers). Editor of special volume of Journal of World Literature.
Cultural Policies in Global South Cities (with Jérémie Molho, Anna Triandafyllidou, and Nicholas Dines.). Editor of special volume of International Journal of Cultural Policy.
Recent Articles & Podcasts
2024
Maggie Perzyna (Toronto Metropolitan University) moderating a conversation with Peggy Levitt, Wellesley Collge; Sharon Stein, University of British Columbia; and Amin Moghadam, Toronto Metropolitan University. “How do I decentre that?,” Borders & Belonging podcast. 1/28/24. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-do-i-decentre-that/id1650221450?i=1000686175147
Levitt, Peggy, Markella Rutherford, and Ezequiel Saferstein. “Epistemic Decentering: Toward a More Equitable Pedagogy.” History of Humanities 9, no. 1 (March 2024): 163–78. https://doi.org/10.1086/729081.
Rutherford, Markella B., Peggy Levitt, and Erika Zhang. “Whence the 3 Percent?: How Far Have We Come toward Decentering America’s Literary Preference?” Global Perspectives 5, no. 1 (January 31, 2024). https://doi.org/10.1525/gp.2024.93034.
2023
Levitt, Peggy. “Decentering Migration Studies: Toward a Southern Attitude.” Sociological Forum 38, no. 3 (2023): 856–64. https://doi.org/10.1111/socf.12913.
Levitt, Peggy, Ezequiel Saferstein, Rania Jaber, and Doyeon Shin. “Decolonizing Decoloniality: Decentering Art History and Comparative Literature Classrooms Outside Europe and the United States.” Comparative Education Review 67, no. 2 (May 2023): 277–97. https://doi.org/10.1086/724062.
Peggy Levitt, and Andreja Siliunas. “Cultures of Cultural Globalization: How National Repertoires and Political Ideologies Affect Literary and Artistic Circulation.” Accessed June 19, 2024. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/17499755221147653.
2022
Levitt, Peggy, and Bo-Seon Shim. “Producing Korean Literature (KLit) for Export.” The Journal of Chinese Sociology 9, no. 1 (July 9, 2022): 10. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40711-022-00164-3.
Saferstein, Ezequiel, and Peggy Levitt. “¿Cuán ‘Global’ Es La Formación En Literatura? El Caso de Argentina | Latin American Research Review | Cambridge Core.” Cambridge University Press. Accessed June 19, 2024. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/latin-american-research-review/article/cuan-global-es-la-formacion-en-literatura-el-caso-de-argentina/30122D215E12942C41582D21A357B06C.
Levitt, Peggy, and Ezequiel Saferstein. “Getting from Buenos Aires to Mexico City Without Passing Through Madrid: Latin American Publishing Topographies.” Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies 31, no. 2 (November 24, 2022): 275–94. https://doi.org/10.1080/13569325.2022.2103102.
2021
Levitt, Peggy. “Becoming a ‘Cultural Destination of Choice’: Lessons on Vernacularization from Beirut and Buenos Aires.” International Journal of Cultural Policy 26, no. 6 (September 18, 2020): 756–70. https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2020.1811251.
2020
Molho, Jérémie, Peggy Levitt, Nick Dines, and Anna Triandafyllidou. “Cultural Policies in Cities of the ‘Global South’: A Multi-Scalar Approach.” International Journal of Cultural Policy 26, no. 6 (September 18, 2020): 711–21. https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2020.1811256.
Sievers, Wiebke, and Peggy Levitt. “Scale Shifting: New Insights into Global Literary Circulation,” November 4, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1163/24056480-00504001.
Rutherford, Markella, and Peggy Levitt. “Who’s on the Syllabus? World Literature According to the US Pedagogical Canon,” November 4, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1163/24056480-00504009.
Smith, Sarah E.K., Peggy Levitt, and Rebecca Selch. “The Imagined Globe: Remapping the World Through Public Diplomacy at the Asia Society.” International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society 34, no. 4 (December 1, 2021): 419–35. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10767-020-09387-z.
Gray, Breda, and Peggy Levitt. “Social Welfare versus Transnational Social Protection Regimes: The Changing Roles of Church and State.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 48, no. 11 (August 18, 2022): 2721–39. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2020.1733946.
Levitt, Peggy. “Explaining Variations in Scale Shifting: The Role of Spatiality, Topography and Infrastructure in Global Literary Fields.” Poetics 79 (April 1, 2020). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.poetic.2019.101397.
2019
Levitt, Peggy and Markella B. Rutherford. “Beyond the West: Barriers to Globalizing Art History.” Art History and Pedagogy & Practice 4, no. 1 (October 27, 2019). https://academicworks.cuny.edu/ahpp/vol4/iss1/2.
Selected Book Chapters
2020
“Should Museums in Boston, Beirut, and Bangkok All Look Alike?” Reflections on the Global Museum Assemblage, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea.
2019
“Words that Make Worlds.” In Ruth Erickson and Eva Respini (Eds.), When Home Won’t Let You Stay: Migration Through Contemporary Art, Boston, Mass: Institute of Contemporary Art/Yale University Press, pp. 212-219.
2018
“Creating National and Global Citizens: What Role Can Museums Play?” In Pieter Bevelander and Christina Johansson (Eds.), Museums in Times of Migration and Mobilities, Lund, Sweden: Nordic Academic Press.
“Creating Successful Diverse Cities: What Role Can Cultural Institutions Play.” In Tiziana Caponio, Peter Scholten, and Ricard Zapta Barrero (Eds.), Cities of Migration, New York and London: Routledge Press.
Videos
Protección Social Transnacional: El Bienestar Social Através de Fronteras
May 22, 2024
Decentrando Los Estudios Transnacionales Conference (Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City) – Keynote Address
Transnational Social Protection: Changing Social Welfare in a World on the Move
May 17, 2024
UC San Diego Center for Comparative Immigration Studies and the UCLA Center for the Study of International Migration – Seminar
Move Over, Mona Lisa. Move Over, Jane Eyre.
February 27, 2023
Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen – Monthly Lecture Series
Peggy Levitt 