
Fatima Suarez, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Biography
Fatima Suarez is an Assistant Professor of Sociology. She earned her doctorate in sociology from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her areas of expertise are gender, masculinities, family, intersectionalities, and Latina/o/e sociology. Her first book, Latino Fathers: What Shapes and Sustains their Parenting, will be released in fall 2025 by NYU Press. Suarez's research has been supported by a Postdoctoral Fellowship at The Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University and an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship in Latino Studies at the School for Advanced Research in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She has also received recognition from the American Sociological Association and the Ford Foundation. Her public sociology contributions appear in The Clayman Institute's monthly newsletter, Gender News, and The New York Times. Suarez teaches undergraduate courses on Latinas/Latinos/Latines in the United States, men and masculinities, marriage and family, and Introduction to Sociology, as well as graduate courses on intersectionality and marriage and family.