Fatima Suarez is an Assistant Professor of Sociology. Dr. Suarez earned her doctorate degree in sociology from the University of California, Santa Barbara. She specializes in the areas of gender, intersectionality, families, and Latina/o/x sociology. Her current book project centers on Latino fathers and the social forces that shape, sustain, and undermine their involved fathering. Dr. 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. Dr. Suarez teaches undergraduate courses on Latinas/Latinos/Latines in the United States, men and masculinities, marriage and family, and introduction to sociology and a graduate course on intersectionality.