Brittany Romanello

I am Brittany "Bri" Romanello, an Anthropology Ph.D. candidate in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University. I am trained in cultural anthropology and qualitative sociology, and my general research interests are Latin@ migrations, gender, race, US religions, and ethnography.

I grew up a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormonism) and attended English and Spanish-speaking congregations and activities for most of my life. My current ethnographic project involved interviewing almost Latina Mormon immigrants to elucidate better how Latina Mormon mothers experience immigration processes, ethnoreligious identity formation, marriage, and parenting in American Southwest society and the Church body. I use various gendered migration and immigrant mothering theoretical frameworks to understand better incorporation, identity, courtship, family parenting practices, and personal power in faith-based communities.