
Ricardo Romo Ph.D. Endowed Professorship
Christina Sue, Ph.D.
Ricardo Romo Ph.D. Endowed Professorship
Professor, Sociology and Demography
Christina Sue joined the UTSA faculty in 2023. Her research interests include comparative race and ethnicity, Latin America, immigration, and ethnographic and qualitative methodology.
Sue’s work appears in multiple refereed journals including Gender & Society, American Journal of Sociology, Annual Review of Sociology, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, and Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies. She has also presented at over 50 academic talks and conferences in multiple countries and served on the editorial board for Contemporary Sociology.
She authored the book Land of the Cosmic Race: Race Mixture, Racism, and Blackness in Mexico (Oxford University Press, 2013) and co-authored Durable Ethnicity: Mexican Americans and the Ethnic Core (Oxford University Press, 2019). She was a contributing author for the book Pigmentocracies: Ethnicity, Race, and Color in Latin America (UNC Press, 2014).
Before joining the UTSA faculty as a full professor, Sue was a visiting fellow at the Center for U.S.–Mexican Studies at the University of California, San Diego. Prior to her fellowship, she was an associate professor of sociology at the University of Colorado-Boulder, where she also served as associate chair of undergraduate studies and director of the university’s Honors Residential Academic Program.
Sue earned her Ph.D. and M.A. in Sociology from the University of California, Los Angeles.