About

Ana Lourdes Suárez is a sociology professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina, where she is a coordinator of the interdisciplinary “Living Conditions and Religion” program. She is also a researcher at the Argentine government’s National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET). 

She specializes in poverty, religion and social stratification, religious orders, research methods, and gender. Suárez is currently studying female Catholic orders and congregations in Argentina, with a focus on Catholic nuns living in the country’s poor urban margins. In particular, she is researching the process that led them from educating upper and middle class girls to inserting themselves into marginal communities.

Suárez holds a PhD in sociology from the University of California, San Diego, and a PhD in anthropology from the University of Buenos Aires.

Her visit to University of Notre Dame is being funded by the Joseph H. Fichter Research Grant and CONICET, and will be hosted by the Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism.