Pamela Anne Quiroz

Pamela Anne Quiroz (born March 28, 1960) is an American sociologist. She is executive director of Inter University Program on Latino Research and former director of Center for Mexican American Studies and professor of sociology, University of Houston.

Life and work Quiroz earned her BS in Sociology/Biology at Missouri Western State University, her MA in sociology at Iowa State University and PhD at the University of Chicago in 1993. She served as the editor-in-chief of Social Problems.

Her research interests focus on children, youth and family including: race and inequality; education; identity; and qualitative methods for academic appointments with special emphasis on the development of individual identities among school students.