Maxine L. Margolis

Professor Emerita of Anthropology, University of Florida; Adjunct Senior Research Scholar, Institute of Latin American Studies, Columbia University. Anthropologist and immigration studies scholar also known for research on gender roles in the United States. Her most recent work on transnational migration, especially Brazilians in the United States,  examines the effects of post 9/11 enforcement measures on Brazilians and other immigrants. Her 2013 book, Goodbye Brazil: Emigrés from the Land of Soccer and Samba describes and analyzes Brazilian emigration worldwide. More recently (2020) she published Women in Fundamentalism: Modesty, Marriage and Motherhood which examines the striking similarities in three extreme fundamentalist communities in their views about and treatment of women.