George Mason University

Debra Lattanzi Shutika

Associate Professor; Undergraduate Director

Debra Lattanzi Shutika is a folklorist specializing in transnational migration, Space, Place and Locality studies, and Latino folklore. She received a Ph.D and M.A. in Folklore and Folklife from the University of Pennsylvania in 2001 and 1999 respectively, and an M.A. in American Literature from GMU in 1993. She teaches courses on ethnicity and migration, American and Latino folklore, sense of place, bodylore and Appalachian folklore. She is author of Beyond the Borderlands: Mexican Migration and the Transformation of American Locality (forthcoming, University of California Press). Her current research is an ethnographic study of immigrant-citizen relations in Manassas, Virginia. Professor Lattanzi Shutika is the director of the Mason Project on Immigration.

Email: dshutika@gmu.edu
Phone: 703.993.1178
Office: Robinson Hall A 421

Department Affiliations: Honors Program, Latin American Studies

Website(s):
Home Page
Folklore@GMU
Mason Project on Immigration