Miguel Montalva Barba

Miguel Montalva Barba, Ph.D. is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Formerly, he was the Latinx student success faculty fellow at the Center for Justice and Liberation at Salem State University. Dr. Montalva Barba's background as an undocumented and queer immigration rights activist informs his teaching, research, and engagement, within and outside the academy. His work aims to rattle sociology's foundations from its White supremacist core to address...See more

Miguel Montalva Barba, Ph.D. is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Formerly, he was the Latinx student success faculty fellow at the Center for Justice and Liberation at Salem State University. Dr. Montalva Barba's background as an undocumented and queer immigration rights activist informs his teaching, research, and engagement, within and outside the academy. His work aims to rattle sociology's foundations from its White supremacist core to address social issues. His professional and research interests including include critical race theory, sociology of race and ethnicity, urban sociology, Latinx sociology, intersectionality, and qualitative methods. See less