Ana Villarreal

Faculty Associate
Faculty Research Fellow (2018-2021)
Assistant Professor of Sociology
anav@bu.edu

Education

BA Universidad de Monterrey, Mexico; MA Université de Provence, France; PhD University of California, Berkeley

Expertise

Urban inequality, violence, drugs

Biography

Ana Villarreal is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Boston University affiliated with the Latin American Studies Program at the Pardee School of Global Studies. She is an ethnographer broadly interested in urban inequality, drugs, violence, the sociology of emotions, work and Latin America. She teaches social theory and social problems with an emphasis on drugs at Boston University.