About
William A. Calvo-Quirós is an associate professor and the director of Latinx Studies in the Department of American Culture at the University of Michigan. He earned a Ph.D. in Chicana/o Studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara (2014) and in Architecture and Environmental Design from Arizona State University (2011).
His book, Undocumented Saints: The Politics of Migrating Devotions (Oxford University Press, 2022), received the Frank S. and Elizabeth D. Brewer Prize (2023) from the American Society of Church History, as well as the Best First Book in the History of Religions (2023) from the American Academy of Religion. The book explores the migration of Catholic vernacular devotions, racial tensions in popular religiosity, and the politics of surveillance affecting Latino religiosity. His ongoing research focuses on the intersection of faith, online religiosity, and affectivity, alongside interests in Latinx aesthetics, Chicana feminist methodologies, and the role of love and empathy in shaping racial and gender discourses.
