| Pamela Anne Quiroz | |
| Birth Date: | 28 March 1960 |
| Fields: | Sociology |
| Workplaces: | University of Houston, University of Illinois-Chicago |
| Education: | Missouri Western State University, Iowa State University, University of Chicago |
| Thesis Title: | A study of decision-making in the educational process of Latino high school students |
| Thesis Url: | https://search.proquest.com/docview/304068980/B6498ACAD0640BFPQ |
| Thesis Year: | 1993 |
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| Known For: | Educational sociology |
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Pamela Anne Quiroz (born March 28, 1960)[1] is an American sociologist. She is executive director of Inter University Program on Latino Research[2] and director of Center for Mexican American Studies and professor of sociology, University of Houston.[3]
Quiroz earned her BS in Sociology/Biology at Missouri Western State University, her MA in Sociology at Iowa State University and PhD at the University of Chicago in 1993.
She has been a professor of sociology at the University of Houston, and director of the Center for Mexican American Studies there, since the fall of 2015. Previously, she was a professor of sociology and educational policy studies at the University of Illinois-Chicago.[4] [5] She served as the editor-in-chief of Social Problems.[6]
Her research interests focus on children, youth and family including: race and inequality; education; identity; and qualitative methods for academic appointments[7] with special emphasis on the development of individual identities among school students.